Medical professionals, suicide prevention groups, and law professors filed amicus curiae briefs May 14 asking the entire 6th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge panel's decision that the First Amendment allows university professors to refer to transgender students by the honorifics of a gender with which they do not identify.
On March 26, the circuit court — which handles federal cases arising out of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee — handed down its decision in Meriwether v.
Shawnee State University. Shawnee State University is a public school in Portsmouth, Ohio. In January 2018, Shawnee State philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether did not refer to a trans woman (referred to in the lawsuit as Jane Doe) with