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    A federal judge upheld the firing of a former Indiana high school music teacher who refused to use transgender students' preferred names and pronouns, citing religious beliefs. The teacher, John Kluge, opted to address transgender students by their last names instead. Some students said this made them uncomfortable and singled them out. After the school told Kluge he would be fired if he did not comply with the name and pronoun policy, he resigned in 2018 and later sued alleging religious discrimination, but a federal judge sided with the school district. In an opinion, the writer says that while understanding students want to be called the right pronouns, not everyone thinks the same way as the teacher may have been raised differently, and that the

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    A federal judge upheld the firing of a former Indiana high school music teacher who refused to use transgender students' preferred names and pronouns, citing religious beliefs. The teacher, John Kluge, opted to address transgender students by their last names instead. Some students said this made them uncomfortable and singled them out. After the school told Kluge he would be fired if he did not comply with the name and pronoun policy, he resigned in 2018 and later sued alleging religious discrimination, but a federal judge sided with the school district. In an opinion, the writer says that while understanding students want to be called the right pronouns, not everyone thinks the same way as the teacher may have been raised differently, and that the

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    Journal 6

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    A federal judge upheld the firing of a former Indiana high school music teacher who refused to use transgender students' preferred names and pronouns, citing religious beliefs. The teacher, John Kluge, opted to address transgender students by their last names instead. Some students said this made them uncomfortable and singled them out. After the school told Kluge he would be fired if he did not comply with the name and pronoun policy, he resigned in 2018 and later sued alleging religious discrimination, but a federal judge sided with the school district. In an opinion, the writer says that while understanding students want to be called the right pronouns, not everyone thinks the same way as the teacher may have been raised differently, and that the

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    English Level VI
    Journal 6
    Mr. Oscar Flores Lima

    Name: Dafne Danae Torres Jiménez

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    News:

    “Federal judge backs firing of Indiana teacher who refused to use

    transgender students' names, pronouns”

    An Indiana music theory teacher pushed out of his job for refusing to call
    transgender students their preferred names and pronouns took a hit from a federal
    judge Friday who upheld a lower court's ruling that the school district did not violate
    his rights.
    Former Brownsburg High School teacher John Kluge sued the school district
    alleging religious discrimination after he cited his personal religious convictions for
    refusing to abide by the name and pronoun policy, opting to address transgender
    students by their last names instead.

    The school district, after enacting the policy in 2017, initially agreed to let Kluge
    use last names to address the students instead, according to The Associated
    Press.

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    Some students alleged the move created an uncomfortable classroom experience


    and singled out students who identified as transgender and reported their
    concerns.

    Kluge said he later resigned in 2018 after the school reevaluated the last name
    policy and told him he would be fired if he did not comply with the preferred name
    and pronoun rule on the books.

    He sued with the help of conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom a


    year later, alleging workplace discrimination while requesting his job back and
    unspecified money damages, AP reported.

    Opinion:

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    Well I think the world has a fast evolution, I really understand the (transgender)
    students who wants all the people to use the correct pronoun and it is acceptable,
    but not all the people know the situation and not all the people think like the
    students (transgender), that is, perhaps the teacher in this case were raised
    differently and in another era, so this teacher is a religious person, I think he never
    offends anyone, and he try to talk them in a respectful way. What happens now if a
    teacher forgets someone's pronouns? For example, first time a warning, second
    gets a suspension, and third strike is out of a job? I think it's crazy that the school
    cares more about pronouns than other more important things (I'm not saying this
    isn't important) but we can't change everyone's opinion.

    Link:
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/federal-judge-firing-indiana-teacher-refused-
    transgender-student-names-pronouns

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