Professor who took school to court over pronoun usage speaks out on 'Tucker'

biology has been effectively eliminated from american universities colleges are teaching students that the subject is subjective which means not real there's no absolute if someone identifies as a woman that person is a woman that person says his or her pronoun is they or z you got to call them they or z and if you disagree if you believe in biology if you have some attachment to english grammar you are punished and that's what happened to nicholas merriweather he's professor at shawnee state university in ohio and the school reprimanded him in 2016 to referring to a student as mr instead of miss administrators also forced maritha to use made up pronouns like z and xe we're not sure how to pronounce that or tur he was told to avoid gendered terms like mother and father well like a lot of people in this country nicholas merriweather was bullied by lunatics but he rarely decided to fight back he filed a first amendment lawsuit and he just won his case in the sixth circuit court of appeals we're happy to have nicholas mayor with her join us tonight along with kristen wagoner who's the senior legal counsel at alliance defending freedom thank you both so much for coming on um so first first to you professor that's um it's amazing that you won i never think of people as fighting back against this what made you decide to take them to court well basically if i had not i would have been fired i would have been terminated that was one reason it wasn't the only reason the other reason was as you say as it just said i think we need to stand up against it and i did i do think that we are losing our academic freedom we're losing our freedom to disagree and unless and until people stand up to it i think it's just going to get much much worse much much faster kristen tell us what the legal what the the the legal precedent that you've set in this case is that others can use to win well we won on both free speech and free exercise grounds and the sixth circuit court of appeals said very clearly that the use of titles and pronouns is a part of a debate that this nation is engaging in right now and that those terms are infused with great meaning that it's not the government's role to set the terms of that debate or to weigh in on one side or the other in fact the court's decision actually referenced what would happen if the government demanded ideological purity it used examples like the government could then force a pacifist for example to have to support war it could force a civil rights icon to criticize the freedom riders or it could even force a christian to deny the existence of god those are examples that the sixth circuit itself recognized and it basically said if the government has that kind of power it can essentially do almost anything it wants that power is unlimited well the to the truth always the truth always does have i just can't tell you how pleased i am to hear this and how grateful i am to both of you for fighting it thank you i think you did all the service congratulations

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Length: 3min 9sec (189 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021