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Of important note, Brownsburg Community School Corp is a public school district.
Refusing to call people what they want to be called is willful disrespect, in the case on the basis of the person's gender identity. I have the perfect solution: Call this teacher, "Joni" John Kluge, by names and pronouns she doesn't want to be called by.
That's not entirely accurate, though. You can easily imagine trolls demanding absurd nicknames. I'm not accusing anyone in this case of doing that, but it's unreasonable to let children get any label they ask for. They may ask for genuinely horrific shit.
Given that Kluge is asking to call these students the same thing any news article would, their self-professed last name, and that they want to do it without singling out anyone on any basis, gender identity or otherwise, I would be inclined to agree with the courts that this case has more nuance to it than these cases usually do.
Usually by little shitheads with MAGA parents. I occasionally inspect the containment instances and have seen more than a few people with neopronouns made out of slurs. People who underestimate the depravity of children are in for a rude awakening when a chinless doughball with a name like Brantlee Klansmyn Tyler insists he's transracial and must be called "nigself" or his mom will sue the school board.