POLITICAL: I was always addressed by my last name until I got to employment

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5064235-ohio-first-amendment-lgbtq-case-settlement-450k/?tbref=hp&ICID=ref_fark

$450,000 settlement for Ohio teacher who refused to use students’ pronouns
by David Rees – 01/03/25 8:40 AM ET

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MASSILLON, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio school district will pay $450,000 to a middle school teacher who resigned for refusing to address two transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns.

Jackson Local School District reached a settlement in December with the teacher, Vivian Geraghty, after she claimed in a 2022 lawsuit that her First Amendment rights were violated when she was told to resign from a middle school language arts position.

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Interesting.

In my time in Catholic schools, I don’t think I was ever addressed with a pronoun.  It was always last name.

Correction, when I got to Catholic College, I became Mister.

Further correction, I was called “Mister Lastname” when I thought I was going to be expelled.

Ditto for my time in the Air Force, when the Mister was dropped.

Wonder why that form of address was ever dropped?

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