Florida Teachers File Federal Lawsuit Challenging State’s Anti-Grooming Law

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Should public school teachers who make their living off of taxpayer money be allowed to teach children that feelings are more important than truth?

Three teachers in Florida seem to think so.

On Dec. 13th, they filed federal lawsuit claiming a new Florida state law that restricts the use of titles and pronouns at schools is unconstitutional because it discriminates against nonbinary and transgender teachers, according to the News Service of Florida.

A section of the 2023 law states that 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.”

According to USA Today, the Florida law equates sex with a person’s reproductive organs at birth.

The three plaintiffs are two transgender teachers in Hillsborough and Lee counties along with a nonbinary teacher who was terminated in October by Florida Virtual School for refusing to drop the title “Mx.” and the pronouns “they/them,” according to the News Service of Florida.

The crux of the matter, then, is whether feeling trumps reality in Florida’s public school system. If the three teachers filing suit have their way, their feelings take precedence over the fact of their biological sex.

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