Transgender Teacher Gets $60K Because Co-Workers Wouldn’t Call Her ‘They’

by Pardes Seleh

An Oregon elementary school teacher who identifies as “transmasculine” and “genderqueer” has recently been awarded $60,000 by her school district as compensation for the suffering she’d endured on the job after coworkers referred to her by the wrong pronoun.

Leo Soell, a female fifth grade teacher at Hall Elementary School in Portland, was compensated by the Gresham-Barlow School District after she complained to school officials that her coworkers kept calling her “she,” “lady,” or “Miss Soell.” Soell said she does not identify as male or female and would like to be referred to as “they” instead of “he” …read more