Court upholds teacher termination for not using transgender students' preferred names.

A federal appeals court has upheld a prior ruling that an Indiana school district did not violate a former music teacher's rights by pushing him to resign after he refused to use transgender students' names and gender pronouns. The court found that the district tried to accommodate the teacher's religious objection but realized that letting him use last names "resulted in students feeling disrespected, targeted, and dehumanized, and in disruptions to the learning environment." The court ruled that the teacher's refusal created an undue hardship on the district, which is responsible for educating all of its students.