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Kansas teacher wins federal case, will not be forced to use students' preferred pronouns

Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:31 am
Posted by WPBTiger
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Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:31 am
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After a months long battle, Pamela Ricard has won her battle against transgender-accommodating policies being implemented in public schools across the nation.

Ricard was reprimanded in April of 2021 for failure to use a student's preferred pronouns, despite the school not having an official policy on preferred pronoun use at the time. The school later implemented various policies on the issue after Ricard was reprimanded.


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Ricard sued the school after she was reprimanded, citing that her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights had been violated. In May of 2022, Ricard received a ruling by a federal court that her termination for failing to use students' preferred pronouns was unconstitutional.

The decision rendered the termination unconstitutional because her refusal to use the pronouns was based on her religious beliefs, specifically Christianity. This she cited as the reason she could not be compelled to adhere to the school’s demand, which was to call students by names or pronouns that were inconsistent with their biological sex.
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
61510 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:32 am to
Thank God.

Can you imagine if a schizophrenic student demanded that the teachers/staff acknowledged the voices in their heads?

Or if an anorexic kid wanted everyone to address them as "fatass"?
Posted by Big Gorilla
Bossier City
Member since Oct 2020
5486 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:36 am to
My son had a friend that wanted us to use they/them as her pronouns. I quickly responded "no chance". To me, that's just bad English. She finally agreed.

I will call you by whatever name you choose. But I am not using crazy pronouns.
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58381 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:38 am to
AMEN!!
Posted by HailToTheChiz
Back in Auburn
Member since Aug 2010
49183 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:38 am to
Huge
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
78754 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:39 am to
quote:

she could not be compelled to adhere to the school’s demand, which was to call students by names or pronouns that were inconsistent with their biological sex.


BOOM MOTHERfrickERS
Posted by Yaboylsu63
Member since Mar 2014
1539 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:42 am to
This sets an important precedent, does it not?

PT lawyers, can you elaborate on if this will have bigger effects than just this woman getting some justice?
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
51095 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:42 am to
Praise God.
Posted by Lsudx256
DFW
Member since Mar 2016
2911 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:46 am to
Did SCOTUS ever put out a ruling about the teacher fired for doing a voluntary prayer after football game?
Posted by AggieHank86
Texas
Member since Sep 2013
42941 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:47 am to
It was a pretty simple 1st Amendment case. Result was never in doubt.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
25933 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:48 am to
Huzzah!!
Posted by Stingray
Shreveport
Member since Sep 2007
12421 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:51 am to
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that were inconsistent with their biological sex.


There is no such thing as biological science. There is just sex. Sex is based on biology, saying biological sex is redundant meaningless and playing into the hands of the crazy liberals.
Posted by MMauler
Member since Jun 2013
19216 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:28 am to
Where ever someone implements one of these insane policies that I will be forced to follow, my preferred pronoun will be --

My f*cking king and daddy

Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
67497 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:37 am to
The SCOTUS has already ruled that the First Amendment only applies to public employees when they act as private citizens and not when they’re in course and scope
of their employment.

Now that was on speech ground not religious, but I honestly Don’t see that being enough of a distinction.

And that was Alito, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Kennedy ruling that way.
This post was edited on 5/17/22 at 9:41 am
Posted by WhaddupDawg
In your heart
Member since Apr 2022
3833 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:53 am to
Kansas once again proves that it is a picture of real America.

More than Missouri will ever be.
Posted by Wildcat1996
Lexington, KY
Member since Jul 2020
6228 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:55 am to
Substitute Teacher

Seems like this belongs here...

Posted by lsursb
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
11656 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 11:00 am to
quote:

Ricard was reprimanded in April of 2021 for failure to use a student's preferred pronouns, despite the school not having an official policy on preferred pronoun use at the time. The school later implemented various policies on the issue after Ricard was reprimanded.


So, did she prevail because the school had no "official policy" at the time she was fired? If the "policy" would have been in effect, would she have had no recourse other than to go work at a school that did not have a pronoun policy?
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
29784 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 12:08 pm to
Will the fools in Wisconsin that are illegally harassing middle school boys now so the right thing?

The right thing is to back off AND apologize to those fine young men…
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
111797 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 1:12 pm to
I’m glad she won this case.

Someone is going to lose a similar case sometime soon.

The Marxists will not sleep until our nation has been destroyed.
Posted by GaryGator
The Swamp
Member since Jun 2017
6383 posts
Posted on 5/17/22 at 3:46 pm to
frick all these people who insist on this inane nonsense.
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