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Teachers challenge Florida law that bans transgender educators' personal pronouns, titles

Three teachers are fighting a law that bars school employees from providing personal pronouns or titles to students if those pronouns or titles do not correspond to the employee's sex at birth.

  • By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida
  • | 4:45 p.m. December 15, 2023
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Three teachers on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit alleging a new state law restricting titles and pronouns at schools unconstitutionally discriminates against transgender and nonbinary educators.

The lawsuit is the latest challenge to a series of measures, championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, that have targeted transgender children and adults and other LGBTQ people.

The case focuses on a part of a 2023 law that says a school employee “may not provide to a student his or her preferred personal title or pronouns if such preferred personal title or pronouns do not correspond to his or her sex.”

 

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