South Carolina's attorney general is leading a legal fight over gender pronoun rules in public school districts in the United States.
AG 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 appellate courts. Now, Ohio and South Carolina lead 23 states in a legal battle, Allegation of action “Reflects the extraordinarily egregious government action here” and “The First Amendment prohibits school officials from coercing students to express messages inconsistent with a student’s values.”
Wilson, who is co-leading the legal battle, said local school districts across the country, such as those in Ohio, are forcing students to “lie to violate their personal views.”
“This is something we cannot commit to in Ohio or South Carolina or any state in this country,” he said. “Yes, the lawsuit was overturned, or we lost in district court and the court of appeals, but this is one of those cases that I think would be better off going to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
Wilson He pointed out That in 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that teachers and students do not give up their constitutional rights to free speech or expression at the school gate, but it says that the school district in Ohio is trying to force all students to say many things that I may not believe.
“Parental rights groups are doing what I think groups across the country are all doing, which is trying to protect their children from being forced to not only have their First Amendment rights violated within the school, but this policy, the one in Ohio in particular, will It's the same outside of school.”
“If you're at the mall on a Saturday or you're texting a friend or you put something on X or Twitter or whatever, you could be penalized when you go to school on Monday morning for using the wrong pronoun that someone found offensive.” He added.
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