Anyone who has ever called a stuffed animal or cartoon "he" or "she" hasn't been hewing to a strict biologically based definition of sex before using these pronouns.https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1071130864212414464 …
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It's different because this arrangement does more than prevent a teacher from saying certain things. It compels speech that the teacher reasonably believes to be false.
Teaching by definition includes compelled speech. If a teacher believes the moon landing was faked they’ll still be expected to teach a science and history curriculum that includes the development of rockets and Neil Armstrong landing on the moon.
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3/ Mandatory illusions, no matter how comforting, are not worth the cost to society.
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2/ We don't want to create an Orwellian society where boys declare themselves to be girls, invade girls' locker rooms, and no one dares to state what is plainly obvious. Losing the right to state the obvious is one of the last milestones on the road to totalitarianism.
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1/ But you are going a step further and demanding that teachers state things they know of their own knowledge not to be true. Can a teacher be compelled to tell a student with an IQ of 80 that the student is a genius because doing so would make the student feel good?
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4/ Also, an interesting First Amendment case would be whether a teacher CAN be compelled to state things that are extremely doubtful. Suppose that the school curriculum stated that the settler invasion of North America was an unalloyed blessing and the teacher knew better?
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Or that God existed.
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