Teachers Can’t Misgender Trans Students for Religious Reasons, Appeals Court Says

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Walgreens had said in January that it would offer mifepristone, one of the medications used to induce an abortion. The Food and Drug Administration changed its rules to allow pharmacies in states that still allow abortion to dispense the drug. Pharmacies would need to get certified to do so because the FDA currently classifies mifepristone as a high-risk drug, despite the fact that there is no data backing that decision up.

Walgreens and CVS, two of the biggest U.S. pharmacy chains, said they would seek certification. But in March, following intense pressure from Republican attorneys general in 20 states, Walgreens announced it wouldn’t dispense mifepristone in those states—and threw Kansas in there for good measure, too.

The chain has said it will dispense mifepristone “in any jurisdiction where it is legally permissible to do so.” Abortion is still legal in more than half of the states where Walgreens will no longer offer the drug, but the company said in a statement to TNR that some of those states don’t allow pharmacists to dispense mifepristone. “Failure to follow these state laws could result in individual pharmacists facing very real and serious legal risk, including criminal charges that could lead to jail time, steep fines and the loss of their license by state boards of pharmacy,” the company said.

Luke95gamer on April 9th, 2023 at 00:38 UTC »

The right has been using this tactic to destroy social rights ever since the civil rights era. They argued that they had a right to bar black people business based on their religious beliefs during the 60s.

anon_tonya on April 8th, 2023 at 23:29 UTC »

Imagine if I refused to call a teacher by her married name. And then, imagine I let it be known it was because I felt her interracial marriage was against the tenets of my religion.

It's really not that hard to be kind.

fairoaks2 on April 8th, 2023 at 23:00 UTC »

I thought we had a separation of church and state. You shouldn’t use your religion as an excuse to sue a school district. Move on, plenty of private schools will accommodate your religious beliefs. You probably won’t want to teach at a Jewish private school so you should be able to sue them too? Insanity