The case brought before the appellate court on Wednesday centers on whether Brownsburg High School teacher John Kluge was wrongfully fired for refusing to use pronouns for students that did not align with their biological sex.
Kluge taught at the school in Brownsburg, Indiana for four years, during which time the school changed its policy to require teachers to refer to transgender-identifying students with their preferred pronouns.
Before the change, Kluge was granted a religious accommodation under federal employment discrimination law to refer to all of his students using their last names, thus omitting the use of pronouns for all students. That continued for a year.
