Judge upholds compelled speech of professor who refused to call male student ‘Miss’
Greg Piper - Associate Editor •February 20, 2020
Calling a man a woman ‘is to participate in a specific political and social activity’
One paragraph.
That’s all it took for U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott (right) to tell Nicholas Meriwether he had to violate his conscience in order to placate his students at Shawnee State University.
In a three-page order last week that mostly recited the background of the professor’s First Amendment lawsuit against the taxpayer-funded institution’s compelled-speech policy, the jurist conclusorily alleged that “the manner by which he addressed†a transgender student was not protected speech:
https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-upholds-compelled-speech-of-professor-who-refused-to-call-male-student-miss/