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An Ohio teacher who resigned after refusing to use students’ preferred pronouns and names will receive a $450,000 settlement from her school district.Vivian Geraghty sued the Jackson Local School District in 2022, and the settlement was reached last month, the New York Post reported over the weekend. She was aided in her suit by Alliance Defending Freedom, which released a statement to NBC4 late last week.“The school tried to force Vivian to accept and repeat the school’s viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students,” said Logan Spena, legal counsel for ADF. “The First Amendment prohibits that abuse of power, and Jackson Local School District officials have learned that comes at a steep cost.”Geraghty said in her lawsuit that she was told to resign from the district’s middle school language arts position. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled in August that being forced to use preferred pronouns and names or face disciplinary action amounted to “compelled speech.” The court also found that the school’s “pronoun practice was not neutral.”In its own statement, Jackson Local Schools told NBC4 that it “remains dedicated to navigating complex and changing legal environments in a manner that prioritizes student safety and well-being.”