A transgender professor is suing K-State for more than $300,000 because he says the university discriminated against him because of his gender identity and sex. A United States District Court judge ordered on Feb. 25 that the case partially move forward.
In a complaint filed April in federal court, Harlan Weaver, a professor in K-State’s Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, alleges discrimination and retaliation on the basis of sex. He said the university and two faculty members now in other departments treated him disparately because of his sex and gender identity.
Judge Daniel Crabtree ordered the dismissal of any of Weaver’s claims about allegations occuring before June 7, 2023, as they were more than 300 days before he filed his charge of discrimination.
