An Ohio teacher is suing her former school after she was forced to quit her job for not using students’ new gender identity pronouns, she says.

Vivian Geraghty, 24, a former English teacher, has filed a lawsuit against Jackson Memorial Middle School south of Columbus. She says district officials forced her out even though her Christian religious beliefs prevent her from using students’ preferred pronouns.

The teacher’s lawsuit, filed last week in federal court, accuses the school of retaliating against her for exercising her right to free speech as well as violating her right to practice her Christian religion. The suit also names the education board and two school district employees.

Geraghty quit her teaching position about a week later on August 26, according to her lawsuit.

The problem started when two students asked Geraghty to use new names that align “with their new gender identities rather than their legal names.” One of the students also requested that teachers use a preferred pronoun, the lawsuit alleges.

Geraghty went to the principal in hopes of reaching a solution, but the principal and his superior, the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, told her “she would be required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant,” according to the lawsuit. She was allegedly accused of insubordination and told that continuing to teach without participating with the students’ gender transitions would “not work in a district like Jackson.”

She was informed that if she would not participate, she must resign immediately, the lawsuit claims.

Geraghty says she attempted to tell the principal that forcing her to resign was a violation of her free speech, but the principal repeated that as a public servant she must “set [her] religious convictions aside” or resign. The principal’s superior then handed her a laptop and told her to draft her letter of resignation immediately, the lawsuit says.

Geraghty is represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which filed the lawsuit on her behalf.

“No school official can force a teacher to set her religious beliefs aside in order to keep her job,” said ADF attorney Logan Spena. “The school tried to force Vivian to recite as true the school’s viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students. The First Amendment prohibits that abuse of power.”

Geraghty is not the first teacher to be disciplined over refusing to affirm a student’s new gender identity.

In March, a veteran teacher in Kansas, also a Christian, sued her school after she was suspended under the district’s bullying and diversity and inclusion policies. That teacher was also denied the religious exemption she requested for the district’s new policy that teachers must use students’ preferred names.

Back in 2018, a Christian teacher in Indiana lost his job after the school district decided to stop letting him refer to all students by their last names so he would not have to affirm “transgenderism.”

A comic book centered on a vigilante tracking down fentanyl dealers at the southern border went looking for public funds to support it, only to get banned on Twitter, then reportedly get shadow-banned on Indiegogo. Then the comic book was banned by Kickstarter after leftists complained the book featured “racist propaganda.”

The Left-wing Daily Kos described “The Private American,” whose protagonist is a Cuban-American and ex-Green Beret who suffered tragedy at the hands of drug cartels before seeking them out, as “racist propaganda and stochastic terrorism disguised as a funny book.”

“It’s a classic vigilante story in the American mode,” Mike Baron, the book’s author, stated. “I used to write ‘Punisher’ for Marvel, and this is the same type of character. In fact, this book came about when I asked myself, ‘What would the punisher be doing today?’ He’d be down on the southern border trying to stop the flow of fentanyl into the country.”

“There’s nothing against the immigrants who are trying to cross over just to get a better life; in fact, he’s there to save them, and that’s when we first meet him. He’s saving a young girl from being raped,” he added.

The Indiegogo page described the comic book thus:

The US border with Mexico has been overrun with lawless coyotes flowing across the Rio Grande, bringing in weapons, smuggling illegal drugs, and trafficking sex slaves across the country! Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed and seemingly powerless, while the U.S. government refuses to help. In fact, the administration seems to actively support open borders …

But when the violence reaches his doorstep, one man takes matters into his own hands …

“Private American permanently suspended on Twitter, shadow-banned on Indiegogo … suspended indefinitely on Kickstarter,” Fox News’ Todd Piro pointed out. “How are you going to make money now?”

“A number of us who produce comics that don’t fit into the rigid left-wing mode, we are exploring new crowd-funding possibilities,” Baron stated.

“Just how woke has the comic book industry become?” Piro asked.

“It’s pretty woke, as you know, and the sales are falling,” Baron replied. “There’s some question whether Marvel and DC will continue to publish comics in the future because sales are so low. Meanwhile, there’s a whole bunch of us; we call ourselves ComicsGate, that produce comics outside the normal realm, and we crowd-fund our comics, and they’re highly entertaining, and many of the comics are far more entertaining than better illustrated than those that are being produced by the big two.”