{"id":7984,"date":"2025-05-24T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2025-05-24T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:44:08","slug":"liberty-university-set-to-appeal-lawsuit-from-fired-transgender-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7984","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University set to appeal lawsuit from fired transgender employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University was granted permission to appeal a lawsuit filed against the school by a former employee who said she was fired for being transgender.<\/p>\n<p>The case dates back to 2023, when Ellenor Zinski says the school fired her after she told the HR Department she identifies as a transgender woman.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the ACLU filed the lawsuit against Liberty, which argues that Zinski violated the university&#8217;s doctrinal statement and policies regarding the biblical understanding of gender.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Court of Appeals on Friday granted Liberty permission to appeal the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QCxMOBiv_n8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/liberty-university-set-to-appeal-lawsuit-from-employee-fired-for-being-transgender-ellenor-zinski-may-2025\" target=\"_blank\">WSET reports &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University was granted permission to appeal a lawsuit filed against the school by a former employee who said she was fired for being&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7984\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University set to appeal lawsuit from fired transgender employee<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-set-to-appeal-lawsuit-from-fired-transgender-employee","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-24M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions\/7985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}