Students may respectfully share their views without being punished. School administrators were wrong to punish students for expressing their views on something patently obvious. Schools cannot force students to lie about objective reality
CINCINNATI, OH – A sixth-grade male student (“John Doe”) was punished by an assistant principal in an Ohio school district for using the male pronoun “he” in reference to a male student (“Boy A”) and for respectfully stating his opinion that “he is a boy, not a girl,” based on Boy A’s biological sex. The assistant principal told “John” that there would be “consequences” for his statements and she removed him from PE class for the day as part of his punishment.
