US professor wins $400,000 payout after refusing to call trans student a woman

Shawnee State University in Ohio had reprimanded Nicholas Meriwether, who then sued on first amendment grounds

A public university in Ohio has agreed to pay $400,000 to one of its professors after it rebuked him for refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns.

In 2018, Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio, addressed a transgender student as sir" when she raised her hand in class.