4th Circuit rules for school that nixed child s essay on acceptance of transgender people
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A federal appeals court has ruled for an elementary school that removed a 10-year-old girl s essay on acceptance of transgender people from an essay collection placed in the classroom and distributed to parents.
In a March 2 opinion, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia, said the South Carolina school and its principal had properly exercised their authority to regulate school-sponsored student speech.
The girl had written: “I don’t know if you know this but peoples view on tran’s genders is an issue. People think that men should not drees like a women, and saying mean things. They think that they are choosing the wrong thing in life. In the world people can choose who they want to be not being told that their diction is wrong. I hope people understand that people can hurt themselves from others hurting their feelings. People need
Anderson Mill Elementary principal Elizabeth Foster (Facebook: Andersonmillelementary)
Schools are within their right to demoralise children who support trans rights, according to a terrifying court ruling about a school in South Carolina.
A principal at an elementary school in Moore, South Carolina was in the right when she banned a student’s pro-trans essay from a school booklet, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The child, named in court documents only as RRS, was 10 years old when she was assigned to write an “essay to society” in 2019. The court heard her maternal grandfather is part of the LGBT+ community, and RRS is a “proud advocate of LGBTQ rights”.
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RICHMOND, Va. (CN) The Fourth Circuit sided with a South Carolina elementary school Tuesday afternoon in a dispute involving a student’s transgender-affirming essay. While the student argued her principal’s removal of her essay as part of a classroom assignment amounted to a First Amendment violation, the unanimous panel found the move was within the school’s authority.
“Principal Foster’s initial refusal to include [the student’s] essay in the fourth grade class’s essay booklet was actuated at least in part by her concern that the essay’s topic was ‘not age appropriate’ for fourth graders,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanie Thacker, a Barack Obama-appointee. The judge cited 1988’s
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