AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Ninth Circuit upholds firing of Oregon educator who displayed children's books on biological sex
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its […] The post Ninth Circuit upholds firing of Oregon educator who displayed children's books on biological sex appeared first on American Almanac .
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its split ruling on July 21 in the case of Roderick Theis, a licensed clinical social worker employed by the InterMountain Education Service District in rural Oregon. Theis kept three children's books in his office: Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh, and He Is He and She Is She by Ryan and Bethany Bomberger. All three books present sex as binary and immutable. IMESD characterized the display as a "hostile…Open