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Appeals court bans punishing students for using 'biological' pronouns: not disruptive, harassing
Just the News ^ | November 10, 2025 | Greg Piper

Posted on 11/11/2025 9:52:10 AM PST by Twotone

Public universities in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee have been on notice for four years that they cannot force faculty to use students' preferred pronouns and may pay a steep penalty if they try. Last week, those states' K-12 schools got the same message as applied to student speech.

The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a lower court to issue an "appropriately tailored preliminary injunction" that bans Ohio's Olentangy Local School District "from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns," as distinct from "the abuse of transgender students" in violation of harassment policies.

Half of the 10-judge majority also issued concurring opinions, while seven judges dissented on the core issue in the case: whether using correct pronouns for students who do not identify with their sex will likely disrupt the educational environment.

The Supreme Court makes clear that a "district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would 'materially and substantially disrupt' school activities or infringe the legal 'rights of others' in the school community," Judge Eric Murphy, nominated by President Trump, wrote for the majority, quoting the 1969 precedent Tinker.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 6thcircuit; judgewatch; k12; ohio; pronouns; stoogewatch; students
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1 posted on 11/11/2025 9:52:10 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

I agree with the ruling as it should work both ways...

Of course i’ve come across a few people the past five years who announced their preferred pronouns, and how they should be addressed. My reply?

“I understand- i identify as religious royalty see please address me as “Your Holiness” moving forward- thank you”

The look on their faces after i made my request was worth $1 billion....


2 posted on 11/11/2025 9:57:54 AM PST by God luvs America
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To: Twotone

Similar to this - what if someone has a given name of Bob or Mary, but I insist on calling them by something completely different, such as “Pat?”

Or they prefer to use a nickname “Rusty” or “Skip” - but I insist on calling them by their given name?

Are these considered punishable offenses? Leftists are again wading deep in “stupid” territory.


3 posted on 11/11/2025 9:58:21 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I know a guy whose given name is Rusty...


4 posted on 11/11/2025 9:59:36 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: God luvs America

I tell them that I don’t go to their church. They ask what do you mean? I say, you need a lot more faith to believe a woman is a man than in God.


5 posted on 11/11/2025 10:00:45 AM PST by struggle
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To: kosciusko51

“Y’ever notice there aren’t any Chinese guys named ‘Rusty’?” - George Carlin


6 posted on 11/11/2025 10:00:59 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: kosciusko51

Was he flaky?


7 posted on 11/11/2025 10:02:05 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Twotone

No Country For Old Men, or Twilight of the Cavemen
I passed a young guy in the halls of the university ad building—he was in a dress, makeup, painted nails ... shoulders like a linebacker, 5 o’clock shadow, even a musky pole cat odor..
I knew it was too early for Halloween. I may have microaggressed him—’raped him with my eyes’ for staring a little too long.
I wouldn’t be able to call him ‘Miss’. Physically incapable. It was all I could do to not start laughing.
But this is a serious issue because where the left wields power, they penalize those who refuse to play along.
It’s time to stop this cross dressing bull**** where the rest of us are expected to go along with their delusions.


8 posted on 11/11/2025 10:18:01 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice

See my tagline.


9 posted on 11/11/2025 10:28:50 AM PST by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: Twotone

Of course it’s not disruptive to tell the truth. Glad sanity is returning.


10 posted on 11/11/2025 10:29:19 AM PST by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: Twotone

The case was sent back to U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley in the Southern District of Ohio at Columbus


11 posted on 11/11/2025 10:30:05 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Twotone

No Gibberish


12 posted on 11/11/2025 10:30:59 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Twotone

Don’t force others to go along with the delusions of the mentally ill.


13 posted on 11/11/2025 10:32:33 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Twotone

The three stooge [two stooges and a sane judge] panel:

U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanie Davis, a Joe Biden appointee, joined [Insane Jane] Stranch in the majority opinion. U.S. Circuit Judge Alice Batchelder, a George H.W. Bush appointee, penned her own 30-page dissent in which she argued cisgender students ought to be able to use “biological pronouns” when referring to their transgender peers. She likened being transgender to a political viewpoint, one which she found the school district’s policies enforced.


14 posted on 11/11/2025 10:36:30 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: FormerFRLurker

The banality of evil” is the idea that great evil can be perpetrated by ordinary, thoughtless people who follow orders and conform to a system, rather than by monstrous sadists.
This “transgender” stuff started just recently. Who is responsible for pushing it?
We can say ‘globohomo’ but that’s an ideology.
I’m pretty sure it is the same people pushing kultursmog drek on streaming TV, unbridled “immigration” into first world countries by 3rd worlders, and many other objectionable things.
G7? OK. Who is giving those countries and their leaders their marching orders?


15 posted on 11/11/2025 10:38:33 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Twotone

To hear the troons tell it, a “wrong” pronoun could drive them to suicide.


16 posted on 11/11/2025 10:47:12 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: PGR88

I am under no obligation to call someone a fake pronoun.

I was at the Casino in Arkansas and one of these “its” came over to deal blackjack. Greasy looking thin hair going halfway down to their shoulders, overweight, over 40 and not remotely looking female. I got up and moved to another table.

30 minutes later “it” got shuffled to my new table, so I left for the night. I am under no obligation to play nice with these creatures. We used to help the mentally ill. Now we reward and encourage it.


17 posted on 11/11/2025 10:53:59 AM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Twotone

Great news...my pronouns are Great American Trump Supporter. 😀


18 posted on 11/11/2025 11:11:29 AM PST by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: Twotone

Indefinite pronouns: Refer to an unspecified person or thing, such as somebody, anyone, none, few, each, and on.

Like I have no idia what I am duh.


19 posted on 11/11/2025 11:35:41 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Twotone; CFW

scorecard:

district level:
Algenon Marbley [Clinton stooge - Southern District of Ohio] - ruled for the Democrat view

appeals level - 3 stooge panel, 6th circuit
2 to 1, Democrat stooges FTW
Stephanie Davis [Joe Biden stooge]
[Insane Jane] Stranch [Benedict Obama stooge]
Alice Batchelder [Grabby Poppy judge]

appeals level - en banc - entire 6th circuit
10 to 7, Trump judges FTW.
https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0307p-06.pdf
Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; BATCHELDER, MOORE, CLAY, GRIFFIN, KETHLEDGE,
STRANCH, THAPAR, BUSH, LARSEN, NALBANDIAN, READLER, MURPHY, DAVIS,
MATHIS, BLOOMEKATZ, and RITZ, Circuit Judges.*

MURPHY, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which, SUTTON, C.J., and
BATCHELDER, GRIFFIN, KETHLEDGE, THAPAR, BUSH, LARSEN, NALBANDIAN, and
READLER, JJ., concurred. BATCHELDER, J. (pp. 36–38), KETHLEDGE, J. (pp. 39–45),
THAPAR and NALBANDIAN, JJ. (pp. 46–57), and BUSH, J. (pp. 58–83), delivered separate
concurring opinions.

STRANCH, J. (pp. 84–112), delivered a separate dissenting opinion in which
MOORE, CLAY, DAVIS, MATHIS, BLOOMEKATZ, and RITZ, JJ., concurred.

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Eric E. Murphy [Trump judge]
Jeffrey Sutton [Dubya judge]
Alice M. Batchelder [Grabby Poppy judge]
Richard Allen Griffin [Dubya judge]
Raymond Kethledge [Dubya judge]
Amul Thapar [Trump judge]
John K. Bush [Trump judge]
Josn Larsen [Trump judge]
John Nalbandian [Trump judge]
Chad Readler [Trump judge]

(7)
Jane Stranch [Obamas stooge]
Karen Nelson Moore [Clinton stooge]
Eric L. Clay [Clinton stooge]
Stephanie D. Davis [Biden stooge]
Andre Mathis [Biden stooge]
Rachel Bloomekatz [Biden stooge]
Kevin G. Ritz [Biden stooge]


20 posted on 11/11/2025 11:47:29 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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