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South Carolina’s attorney general is leading a legal battle over gender pronoun rules in America’s public school districts.
Attorney General Alan Wilson appeared on “The Faulkner Focus” on Friday to explain how some gender pronoun rules in school districts threaten free speech.
The case began with a school district outside Columbus, Ohio, that adopted policies requiring everyone to use a student’s preferred pronouns, which parental rights groups challenged and lost in both district and state courts. of appeals. Now, Ohio and South Carolina lead 23 states in a legal battle. claiming action “reflects the unusually egregious government action here” and “The First Amendment prohibits school officials from compelling students to express messages inconsistent with the student’s values.”
Wilson, who is co-leading the legal fight, said local school districts across the country, like the one in Ohio, are forcing students “to lie to violate their own personal views.”
“That’s something we can’t tolerate in Ohio, South Carolina or any state in this country,” he said. “Yes, the lawsuit has been thrown out, or we have lost in district court and in the court of appeals, but this is one of those cases that I think is best resolved by going to the United States Supreme Court.”
wilson pointed out that in 1969, the United States Supreme Court ruled that teachers and students do not give up their constitutional rights to free speech at the school gate, but argues that the Ohio school district is trying to force all students to say things that many may not believe in
“Parents’ rights groups are doing what I think all groups across the country are doing, and that is trying to protect their children from being forced to not only violate their First Amendment rights within school, but also this policy, Ohio’s in particular, would do the same thing outside of school,” he said.
“If you were at the mall on a Saturday or texting a friend or posting something on X or Twitter or whatever, you could be penalized when you showed up to school on Monday morning for using the wrong pronoun that someone found offensive.” he added.
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