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Appeals court sides with parent group in fight over Ohio school district’s pronoun policy

The Sixth Circuit ruled 10-7 that punishing students for using birth pronouns violates First Amendment rights and issued a preliminary injunction against such enforcement.

  • A divided federal appeals court in Ohio ruled against the Olentangy Local School District's gender pronoun policies, siding with Parents Defending Education, which argued that the policies were unconstitutional.
  • The court found that the school district had not met the standard to restrict students' use of language, stating it does not "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities.
  • The ruling requires U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley to issue a preliminary injunction against enforcing the district's pronoun policies.
  • The organization argued that the district's policies violated students' rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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Public universities in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee have been warned for four years that they cannot force teachers to use the pronouns preferred by students and can pay a heavy fine if they try. Last week, the K-12 schools in those states received the same message applied to the students' speech.Read more]]>

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