Divided appeals court backs Florida ban on preferred pronouns in school classrooms

Ruling Backs Teacher Pronoun Restrictions

By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A divided federal appeals court Wednesday backed a 2023 Florida law that requires teachers to use pronouns that align with their sex assigned at birth, rejecting arguments that the law violated First Amendment rights of a transgender teacher in Hillsborough County. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, overturned a preliminary injunction that U.S. District…

Trans teacher must misgender herself in classroom, court rules

An Appeals Court has ruled a trans teacher must misgender herself while teaching in public Florida classrooms.

Divided appeals court backs Florida ban on preferred pronouns in school classrooms

A federal appeals court ruled against a transgender public school teacher who wanted to tell students her preferred pronouns.

Federal Appeals Court Endorses Florida Ban on Teachers' Preferred Pronouns in Public Schools

A federal appeals court has ruled against a Florida teacher who challenged a state law forbidding transgender teachers from using their preferred pronouns during their official duties in the classroom. The case involves Katie Wood, a math teacher in Hillsborough County who is transgender. She sued the state after a 2023 law passed saying that employees of public schools may not identify to their students with pronouns not consistent with their b…

Florida Teachers Have No First Amendment Right To Indicate Their Preferred Pronouns And Honorifics In Class

So an Eleventh Circuit panel held today, by a 2-1 vote.

Florida Can Forbid Transgender High School Math Teacher From Using Feminine Pronouns to Refer to Herself in Class, 11th Circuit Says

In a case of first impression, a split panel of the Eleventh Circuit decided today that a transgender high school teacher's speech rights were not violated when the state of Florida required her not to refer to herself in class by her preferred feminine pronouns ("she," "her," "hers") or honorifics ("Ms.," "Mrs.," "Miss") (See also Eugene's post about the decision below.) From the majority opinion, here is the background: Katie Wood teaches alge…