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Teacher Fired For Refusing To Say Transgender Student’s Name

Paul Bois

A teacher at an Indiana high school claims administrators forced him to resign over his refusal to call a transgender student by the student’s desired name.

According to ABC News, Brownsburg High School in Indiana has a policy requiring teachers to call transgender students their desired names over their birth names. When the orchestra teacher John Kluge refused to comply in the name of free speech, opting instead to simply use the student’s last name, administrators came down hard on him, he alleges.

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