Divided appeals court backs Florida ban on preferred pronouns in school classrooms
FLORIDA, JUL 4 – The ruling allows Florida to enforce a law that restricts transgender teachers from using preferred pronouns in class, overturning a preliminary injunction that protected free speech rights.
- A divided federal appeals court supported a 2023 Florida law that requires teachers to use pronouns matching their sex assigned at birth, rejecting claims of First Amendment violations by a transgender teacher.
- The majority opinion stated that the transgender teacher could not prove she was speaking as a private citizen in class.
- Judge Adalberto Jordan dissented, warning about the ruling's potentially far-reaching implications.
- The law prevents teachers from using preferred pronouns that differ from their assigned sex at birth, reflecting broader state attempts at speech control.
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Ruling Backs Teacher Pronoun Restrictions
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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…
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