{"id":34067,"date":"2024-11-25T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=34067"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:00:53","slug":"teacher-wins-legal-battle-after-suspension-for-declining-to-use-preferred-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=34067","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Wins Legal Battle After Suspension for Declining>>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1864.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34068\" style=\"width:714px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1864.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1864-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pamela Richard, a Kansas teacher, recently made headlines after winning a legal case following her suspension for refusing to use a student&#8217;s preferred pronouns. Richard, who worked at Geary County Schools, was suspended for three days after calling a student by their legal last name instead of using the student\u2019s chosen first name and gender identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversy began when Richard, adhering to her Christian beliefs, declined to refer to a biologically female student by a new gender and name. Instead, she opted for \u201cMiss [legal last name]\u201d as a compromise. However, this did not satisfy the school\u2019s policy, which mandated that staff use the names and pronouns requested by students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard filed a lawsuit, arguing that the policy conflicted with her personal religious beliefs. In May, she won $95,000 in federal court. The court ruled that the school&#8217;s policy was unconstitutional. Although the school has not commented on the lawsuit, Richard&#8217;s victory allows her to continue her teaching duties while staying true to her beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=34064\">also read&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Richard, a Kansas teacher, recently made headlines after winning a legal case following her suspension for refusing to use a student&#8217;s preferred pronouns. Richard, who worked&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48312,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34067\/revisions\/48312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}