We are officially in Bizarro World!
According to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of parents, Parents Defending Education (PDE), a school district in Columbus, Ohio is punishing students if they "misgender" transgender students by referring to them as their actual sex. The school has gone as far as to punish these students for what they say inside their own homes.
HELLO! FIRST AMENDMENT ANYONE?
TimCast news has the story:
The lawsuit alleges that "District policies violate students' First Amendment rights by chilling students' speech rights, compelling students to affirm beliefs about sex and gender that are contrary to their own deeply held beliefs, and violating parents' Fourteenth Amendment rights through the district's efforts to restrict speech off school grounds and in families' homes."
Jordan Peterson was SO right when he first came onto the scene to protest Canada's similar compelled-speech laws.
Few were willing to stand alongside him, and now we even have schools in the US threatening kids with consequences if they disagree with the state's position on sexuality and gender.
Here's more of the statement from PDE:
"The District's other actions send a clear message to students that only one view about gender identity is acceptable: it has pushed parents out of critical gender-identity decisions of their children through its use of ‘Gender Identity Support Plans' for students whose biological gender does not align with their gender identity, which the District uses without the consent of their parents," PDE said in a statement. "OLSD has also issued ‘Transgender Guidelines' that instruct teachers and other District officials to hide the student's gender identity and "preferred pronouns" from the student's parents, unless the minor student gives permission otherwise."
This is Trump country. This is Ohio.
Not only do they prevent kids from saying the truthful gender of an individual, they socially transition kids behind their parents' backs.
They celebrate all the gay religious holidays like "pronouns day" and "Trans Day of Visibility." They hang the banner of today's secular religion in the classrooms and hallways: The rainbow flag..
The lawsuit asks the court to declare that "Olentangy's ‘harassment' provisions violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as to enjoin the District from enforcing the ‘harassment' provisions, from punishing speech about gender identity or compelling speech to affirm another person's gender identity, and from punishing students for speech occurring off school grounds that is not for or during a school-sponsored activity."
This is your public school system, Ohio.
Just a reminder of what's so obviously coming:
