Posted on 09/20/2023 4:24:37 AM PDT by CFW
First Amendment experts, radical feminists and doctors are pushing back against a court ruling that held two educators responsible for their own firing because their opposition to a proposed gender identity policy sparked student protests and community complaints to Oregon's Grants Pass School District.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke botched Supreme Court precedents on the speech rights of public employees and qualified immunity from personal liability, upheld restrictions that disproportionately target women and adopted pseudoscientific language, according to ideologically diverse friend-of-the-court briefs filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Clarke's dismissal of the educators' lawsuit "effectively endorses a heckler’s veto" by holding Rachel Sager and Katie Medart responsible for "community backlash" to their speech as private citizens, according to the brief by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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The court docket shows that ADF has posted all the outside briefs that have been filed as of Tuesday, all in favor of Medart and Sager. Conspicuously absent: the American Civil Liberties Union or the group's state affiliates in the 9th Circuit's jurisdiction, including Oregon's. Neither national nor Oregon affiliate responded to queries.
North Middle School science teacher Medart and assistant principal Sager, who began the litigation as Rachel Damiano, got reinstated to "inferior positions" after a school district board member flipped his vote, according to ADF's brief.
Medart was relegated to "online school" despite an in-person science opening, which "drastically limited her interactions with students," while Sager quit after administrators found her "deficient" across the board in "equity" and told her to "agree to a plan of assistance."
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iatrogenic harm...That’s a new one to me.
I hope they win. The madness has to stop before it rots everything.
Grants Pass area used to be very conservative.
Not sure now.
“...while Sager quit after administrators found her “deficient” across the board in “equity”...”
It’s getting to the point though that if a doctor were to take the stand and declare only 2 sexes, that they risk their jobs for doing so. Fewer and fewer doctors will be willing to risk their careers- we are seeing the medical establishment coming out and supporting “special rights” for LGbtq with posters plastered all over health centers and warning posters about “Intolerance” to lgbtq etc (I’ve never seen lgbtq people discriminated agaisnt in the medical profession by being denied service, but by golly the medical community feels the need to lecture us about discrimination anyways)
How long before it becomes illegal to oppose lgbtq in any way?
The Gibberish Generation
Transgenderism is a fiction against science. If the American people would see the photos of the surgeries doctors are doing to change the sexual organs on a young person, they would be sickened. The sister of a friend has been trying to become a man and she almost died of sepsis from her penis surgery. BUT she is trying again!! She has become a recluse and doesn’t want to go anywhere because of her mental state She has already had her breast removed. This is what is really happening behind the scenes of transgenderism.
Chuck in a few biologists while yer at it.
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