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Appeals court sides with parent group in fight over Ohio school district’s pronoun policy
The 6th Circuit ruled 10-7 that Ohio's Olentangy School District cannot punish students for using biological pronouns, citing First Amendment protections and overturning prior rulings.
- On Nov 06, 2025, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en banc issued a 10-7 decision granting a preliminary injunction blocking Olentangy Local School District in suburban Ohio from punishing students for using biological pronouns.
- Defending Education sued the Olentangy Local School District, arguing the district's pronoun policies compelled speech and violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments, while parents and students said they self-censored to uphold scientific or religious beliefs.
- Judge Eric Murphy wrote that the district discriminated by requiring competing speech and was wrong to treat biological pronouns like abusive invective, while the court examined Policy 5517's harassment definitions.
- The decision leaves intact other anti-harassment rules, noting it bars punishment for biological pronouns but allows Olentangy Local School District to enforce other anti-harassment policies protecting transgender and nonbinary students.
- The case drew national attention as Alliance Defending Freedom, Defending Education, the American Civil Liberties Union and various faith groups weighed in amid recent pronoun and parental-rights measures in states like Idaho and Tennessee.
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