Kansas teacher says she'll continue using students' preferred pronouns as district faces federal investigation

A Kansas teacher says she will continue using students' preferred names and pronouns despite an ongoing federal investigation into her school district's gender identity policies, drawing renewed attention to the district's approach to parental notification and student records. "I am a teacher in USD 500," Courtney Richardson, a teacher at Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, wrote in a Friday post on Facebook. "I am a PROUD 🌈 ally in all of the spaces that I am in. If your child was born Nicole,