“_6160500” by Terry Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0 The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has officially ruled that public schools cannot force students to use “preferred pronouns.” The full en banc decision in Defending Education v. Olentangy Local School District Board of Education declared that compelling students to use gender-identity pronouns violates the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause and that there is “no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law.” Judge Eric Murphy, writing for the majority, ruled that the Olentangy School District’s policies, which banned the use of “biological pronouns,” were unconstitutional and represented viewpoint discrimination. The court made clear that schools may not compel students to affirm beliefs they do not hold or…
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