Professor Harassed Over Pronoun Madness Wins $400k

Nicholas Merriweather has officially won the legal battle against the university

 on&nbsp15th April 2022 @ 6.00pm

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Meriwether will also now not be forced to use anyone’s preferred pronouns

In 2018, Professor Nicholas Meriwether at Shawnee State University responded to a male student’s question by saying, “yes, sir,” and a “woke” meltdown ensued.

The student informed Meriwether that he was transgender and wanted to be referred to as a woman.

But Meriwether disagreed, and the student complained to the university.

From The Alliance For Defending Freedom:

The student then filed a complaint with the university, which launched a formal investigation.

Meriwether offered to call the student by first or last name, but the student insisted that Meriwether use pronouns and titles consistent with the student’s gender identity.

University officials ultimately rejected any compromise that would allow Meriwether to speak according to his conscience and sincerely held religious beliefs.

Instead, they formally charged him, saying “he effectively created a hostile environment” for the student simply by declining to use the feminine pronouns demanded by the student.

Later, they placed a written warning in his personnel file and threatened “further corrective actions” unless he articulated the university’s ideological message.

the student informed meriwether that he was transgender and wanted to be referred to him as a woman

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The student informed Meriwether that he was transgender and wanted to be referred to him as a woman.

Merriweather has officially won the legal battle against the university.

The university must now pay Meriwether $400,000 to settle the lawsuit.

Meriwether will also now not be forced to use anyone’s preferred pronouns.

The Epoch Times reported:

A public university in Ohio has agreed to pay $400,000 to end a three-year legal battle in its failed attempt to force a philosophy professor to call students by their preferred pronouns.

As part of the agreement (pdf) announced Thursday, Shawnee State University will pay $400,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to settle the federal lawsuit with Nicholas Meriwether, a professor at its humanities department.

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Shawnee State University will pay $400,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to settle the federal lawsuit

In addition, the university acknowledges Meriwether’s right to choose when to use, or avoid using, titles or pronouns when referring to or addressing students, and pledges to never force him to use anyone’s preferred pronouns, including when a student requests pronouns that don’t align with his or her biological sex.

As Neon Nettle reported last year:

Meriwether told Fox News host Tucker Carlson why he sued the university after he was told he created a “hostile environment” by not calling a transgender student by the preferred pronoun.

“Well, basically, if I had not [sued], I would have been fired, I would have been terminated,” Meriwether said.

“That was one reason. It wasn’t the only reason.”

“The other was as you say, as you just said, I think we need to stand up against it, and I do think that we are losing our academic freedom.”

“We are losing our freedom to disagree, and until people stand up to it, I think it’s just going to get much, much worse, much, much faster.”

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