Wisconsin Middle School Called to Dismiss Sexual Harassment Charges Against Students Accused of ‘Misgendering’

A constitutional-rights law firm has given middle school officials in Kiel, Wisconsin, until May 23 to respond to its call to drop a sexual harassment complaint and investigation against three students who misgendered a female student who identifies as nonbinary.

Luke Berg, an attorney with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty—a nonprofit law firm that represents clients whose civil rights have been challenged—told The Epoch Times that the firm had initially given the school until May 20 to dismiss the complaint, but the deadline was extended over the weekend after a discussion with the school district’s attorney.

Under Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sex-based discrimination in federally-funded schools is prohibited. However, Berg said using the unpreferred gender pronoun for someone doesn’t constitute sexual harassment.

“Nothing that’s been alleged comes even remotely close,” Berg said.

A Kiel Area School District official notified the parents of the three eighth-graders at Kiel Middle School in April that they had been charged with sexual harassment without specifying the circumstances surrounding the allegation.

Parent Rose Rabidoux and her son Braden went on Fox News with Berg to discuss the incident…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)