Transgender Kent State Prof Loses First Amendment + Discrimination Claim Related to "Weeks-Long, Profanity-Laden Twitter Tirade Insulting Colleagues and the University"

Transgender Kent State Prof Loses First Amendment + Discrimination Claim Related to "Weeks-Long, Profanity-Laden Twitter Tirade Insulting Colleagues and the University"

A short excerpt from the long decision in Patterson v. Kent State Univ., decided Friday by Judge John Nalbandian, joined by Judges Danny Boggs and Richard Allen Griffin: GPat Patterson, a transgender professor at Kent State University, sued the university on several discrimination and retaliation claims. The claims arise out of Kent State's response to Patterson's weeks-long, profanity-laden Twitter tirade insulting colleagues and the university…