374:(2022), Judge Teeter held that a public school teacher had a First Amendment right to disclose the "preferred pronouns" of a student to that student's parents without the student's permission, notwithstanding district policy which purported to forbid such involuntary disclosures. Judge Teeter concluded that the district's policy constituted religious discrimination against the teacher, and interfered with "parents' exercise of a constitutional right to raise their children as they see fit."
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