11th Circuit Majority Reverses Transgender Teacher’s Florida Pronoun Law Win

( July 15, 2025, 11:35 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Bucking a Florida federal judge’s “thunderous ‘no’” in response to whether the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution permits the state to unlimitedly dictate how public school teachers refer to themselves in communication with students, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority found that a transgender woman teacher “hasn’t shown a substantial likelihood that” a state law that prohibits her from using female gendered pronouns in exchanges with students “infringes her free-speech rights” in vacating and remanding the judge’s preliminary injunction ruling....