A court just ruled that no student in the University of California (UC) system will be forced to lie about someone’s pronouns or be punished for “dead-naming.”
Defending Education filed a lawsuit against UC over a policy that violates students’ First Amendment rights. A judge recently issued a preliminary injunction against the ridiculous so-called sexual harassment policy.
UC can’t force students or anyone else to suppress speech that certain people don’t like. The school is barred from doing so while the case moves through the courts.
“We are gratified by today’s district court decision enjoining the University of California system’s coercive speech policy against our members,” said Nicole Neily, president of Defending Ed. “It is unconstitutional for public universities to compel student speech, and we will continue to defend this principle in California and other schools across the country as needed.”
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Who would ever have believed that freedom of speech and out first amendment could actually win the day?