A computer-science teacher at Brooke High School in Mattapan today filed a federal civil-liberties suit against the charter school, charging it violated her religious freedom rights by firing her after she refused to use a former student's name and preferred pronouns in a recommendation letter because that would go against her Christian beliefs.

In her suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, Jabree Ellis's attorney writes:

The plaintiff had and has a sincerely held religious belief that God makes no mistakes when it comes to sex and gender and that calling transgender students by a name or pronouns at odds with their biological sex would cause the Plaintiff to affirm that God made a mistake in creating a transgender person as a male or female. In the Plaintiff's religious view, affir

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