Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 11/09

[SVPete]

School Cannot Force Students to Use Trans Pronouns, Federal Court Rules

https://www.westernjournal.com/school-cannot-force-students-use-trans-pronouns-federal-court-rules/

A federal appeals court in Ohio ruled Thursday that students cannot be forced to use preferred pronouns in school.

Defending Education filed the suit against Olentangy Local School District in 2023, arguing the district’s anti-harassment policy that requires students to use the “preferred pronouns” of others violates students’ First Amendment rights by “compelling students to affirm beliefs about sex and gender that are contrary to their own deeply held beliefs.”

Although a lower court attempted to shoot down the challenge, the appeals court ruled in a 10-7 decision that the school cannot “wield their authority to compel speech or demand silence from citizens who disagree with the regulators’ politically controversial preferred new form of grammar.”