She has been vindicated for her stand.

The Daily Wire learned that an Ohio school district is paying nearly half a milllion dollars to a teacher forced to quit after she refused to use the new pronouns and names of transgender students because she was a Christian.

Her legal team announced on Wednesday that Vivian Geraghty (26), a 26-year-old English teacher, had won a settlement of $450,000 from the Jackson School District. She will no longer be working for the school district.

Geraghty, a teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School, was fired without ceremony two years ago after two students requested that Geraghty use names aligned with “their new gender identities” rather than their legal name. One student also asked that teachers use preferred pronouns that did not reflect her biological sex.

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According to the lawsuit, Geraghty approached the principal to try to find a solution. However, both the principal and the director of curriculum instruction and assessment told her that “she was required to put aside her beliefs as a public employee.” The lawsuit claims that she was accused of insubordination, and told to stop teaching without taking part in students’ gender changes.

Her lawsuit stated that she was told to resign immediately if she did not want to participate.

Geraghty claimed that she tried to explain to the principal that forcing her resign would be a violation to her right to freedom of speech. However, the principal insisted that she “set aside [her] religious beliefs” or resign as a public employee. The lawsuit claimed that the principal’s supervisor then gave her a laptop, and instructed her to immediately draft a letter of resignation.

In a press statement, her legal team, Alliance Defending Freedom, said that Geraghty was forced to convey messages to a student she believed were untrue.

Geraghty’s legal team and she celebrated the settlement on Wednesday.

Logan Spena, Alliance Defending Freedom’s Legal Counsel, said that no school official could force a teacher into putting her religious beliefs to the side in order to maintain her job.

Spena stated that the school had ordered Vivian to take part in her students’ social transition. This was done to make her accept the school’s view on fundamental issues of morality and identity such as what makes us female or male.

The First Amendment prohibits this abuse of power and Jackson Local School district officials have learned the hard way that it comes with a high price. Vivian refused to comply with this unconstitutional request and explained that she was unable to take part in the social transition of her students because of her Christian faith. She has been vindicated for her stand.

The $450,000 settlement includes attorney’s fees and damages.

Geraghty was not the only teacher fired for using pronouns. Peter Vlaming, a high school French teacher in Virginia, won a settlement of $575,000 from the West Point Board School Board. Vlaming was fired because he refused to use pronouns when referring to a transgender student. The school district changed its policies.