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  • The legal attack on trans teachers’ free speech is a much broader warning

    07/08/2025 3:10:45 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 61 replies
    MSNBC ^ | Jul 7, 2025 | Katelyn Burns
    The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that a trans teacher in Florida has no right to refer to herself with the gendered honorific “Ms.” or ask to be referred to with the pronouns she/her under what critics have called Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. The trans algebra teacher, Katie Wood, sued her employer, the Hillsborough County School Board, in 2023 soon after Florida’s anti-LGBTQ law was enacted. A lower court found that the law likely infringes on her First Amendment free speech rights and granted a preliminary injunction. However, the conservative-leaning appeals court overruled the lower...
  • LGBTQ Reporter: Castro, Dems Not Woke Enough on Abortion Rights for ‘Trans Men’

    07/06/2019 9:28:45 AM PDT · by rickmichaels · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | July 5, 2019 | Tony Lee
    A transgender reporter this week said that presidential candidate Julian Castro and other Democrats running for president are not woke enough on abortion rights for “trans men,” pointing out that Castro bungled his first few attempts at declaring that transgender individuals deserve abortion rights. LGBTQ reporter Katelyn Burns wrote in Politico (“I’m Trans. The 2020 Candidates Don’t Know How to Pander to Me.”) that Castro initially botched his attempt to express support for abortion rights for transgender Americans. “For most of my life as a trans woman, trans people and our issues have been a source of derision. … So...