The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis blocked an Iowa School District from enacting a policy that threatens to suspend students for not respecting gender pronouns of their fellow classmates.
The Federal Court ruled in favor of Parents Defending Education and wrote in their decision “A school district cannot avoid the strictures of the First Amendment simply by defining certain speech as ‘bullying’ or ‘harassment.’”
The Judges also ruled that the policy was too vague and not clear.
After the judges sided with Parents Defending Education the organization stated “We are gratified that the 8th Circuit upheld the rights of families and students in Linn-Mar.”
Schools cannot ban 'merely offensive' speech on gender identity, appeals court rules | Just The News https://t.co/zcsbPpyl7z
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) October 5, 2023
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8th Circuit rules schools can’t force students to use pronouns
issued preliminary injunction against an Iowa school district policy https://t.co/oEAbbZY4Q8— EMPIntelligenceNet© (@Megavolts001) October 5, 2023
Here’s what Just The News reported:
Fifty-six years after it exempted antiwar teenagers from First Amendment protections while on campus, a federal appeals court in America’s heartland affirmed students’ speech rights in public schools on an equally contentious subject today.
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary injunction Monday against an Iowa school district policy that threatens suspension and expulsion for “intentional and/or persistent refusal … to respect” a peer’s gender identity, finding it’s likely too vague to survive legal scrutiny.”
A school district cannot avoid the strictures of the First Amendment simply by defining certain speech as ‘bullying’ or ‘harassment'” as did the Linn-Mar Community School District, the three-judge panel ruled in a case that drew friend-of-the-court briefs by dozens of conservative and religious groups and 18 Republican-led states in favor of the plaintiffs.A similar group of court watchers is asking the Boston-based 1st Circuit – which oversees Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island – to also overturn a lower court’s ruling that students do not have the right to assert the existence of the sexual binary while on school grounds.
Appeals Court Strikes Down Forced 'Respect' of Gender Pronouns in Schools: 1A Not Undone By 'Defining Speech as Bullying'https://t.co/wCUMxCcG6C
— Winston (@19Goldstein84) October 6, 2023
The Western Journal covered the decision too:
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 and issued an injunction in favor of a group that sued to protect students from indoctrination, Just the News reported.
The nonprofit group Parents Defending Education challenged a policy enacted by the Linn-Mar Community School District in Linn County, Iowa, last year.
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