A former California kindergarten school teacher who cited religious beliefs for her refusal to refer to a 5-year-old transgender student by a preferred pronoun is continuing her fight against the school district by filing a lead to amend in U.S. District Court.
Mirella Ramirez, a Catholic, sued the Oakland Unified School District in 2024 claiming it violated her First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and free exercise of religion.
In May, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California dismissed Ramirez’s lawsuit in a 16-page decision. She said teacher’s speech was “not protected,” Courthouse News Service reported.
Although We The Patriots USA, a 501©(3) nonprofit that funded Ramirez’s lawsuit, initially said it would appeal Beeler’s ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the group was permitted to file a lead to amend, which it did Tuesday.
“We filed a lead to amend to add in her Title VIII claims because those are religious discrimination in the workplace claims,” We The Patriots co-founder and Vice President Brian Festa told Newsmax on Wednesday.
“Those were never in the original complaint because we had not obtained the right to sue letter from EEOC [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]. … We finally obtained that.
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