Appeals Court Strikes Down Forced ‘Respect’ of Gender Pronouns in Schools: 1A Not Undone By ‘Defining Speech as Bullying’

A federal appeals court has blocked an Iowa school district from enforcing a policy that threatens to punish students with expulsion if they failed to “respect” the gender pronouns of their classmates. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the policy was at odds with the First Amendment...