Three teachers in Florida on Wednesday sued the state over its law prohibiting transgender and nonbinary teachers from using their preferred pronouns in school, saying it violates their constitutional rights.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/teache ... 023-12-13/
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida's capital, Tallahassee, says the state law is designed "to stigmatize and demonize transgender and nonbinary people" and deprives them of the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
The state law, which took effect in July, says school employees cannot tell students to call the employees by their preferred titles or pronouns, if the preference does not correspond to the sex assigned at birth.
Several other states have passed laws saying teachers and classmates do not have to refer to students by their preferred pronouns.
Florida is now the battleground of a new war being waged against teachers in the US by republicans conservatives. From 2022 draconian laws invoking old laws about teaching communism have forced teachers from presenting students with accurate information about US history.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... n-desantis
In a move that echoes the Nazi book burning, Florida’s new law restricting “inappropriate” books in schools – removed one-third of the books on his classroom shelves. Teachers have already been sacked in Florida and other states for daring to use "banned curriculum" which is deemed to show white people in a bad light.
A most bizarre case is a teacher sacked for sharing a book published in.,.....Australia
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/paren ... f2be27a8ae
It would seem the lessons from Germany in the 1930s hasn't quite tricked down to people in the US
14 Dec 2023, 11:45 pm
