University officials face personal liability for dumping professor who questioned gender medicine

https://justthenews.com ^ | September 16, 2024 | Greg Piper

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Three and a half years after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prohibited a public university from retaliating against a professor for refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns, the Cincinnati-based court went even further by stripping qualified immunity in a similar case.

University of Louisville officials can be held personally liable for allegedly retaliating against a psychiatry professor through a "hostile, humiliating work environment" designed to chill his speech and not renewing his contract after he questioned so-called gender-affirming care at a Heritage Foundation event in 2017, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled.

President Biden nominee Judge Andre Mathis, who dissented from blocking the former's entire Title IX rewrite but not the gender-identity provisions, wrote the opinion, joined by judges Ronald Lee Gilman and Richard Allen Griffin, nominated by presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.

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This is powerful and long overdue. A medical expert with differing views on treating gender dysphoria involving children was harassed and ultimately his contract was not renewed. The court looked at this and said that college officials are not eligible for qualified immunity and that they are going to be personally liable for damages.

The leftists loved "academic freedom" until now. It applies to conservatives too, and it's going to be financially painful for ignoring it.

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