The 6th Circuit explained that if “professors lacked free-speech protections when teaching, a university would wield alarming power to compel ideological conformity. A university president could require a pacifist to declare that war is just, a civil rights icon to condemn the Freedom Riders, a believer to deny the existence of God, or a Soviet émigré to address his students as ‘comrades.’ That cannot be.”

Honestly surprised the ruling went this way, given the direction things have been going, but a very encouraging decision none the less.

Honestly, if you look at someone and they don't appear to be the gender that they're claiming to be, that's not the fault of the viewer. Five bucks says some trans rights group gets wind of this and tries to take it to a higher court, though.

reposted this to kia2 on ruqqus: https://ruqqus.com/+kotakuinaction2/post/91vc/6th-circuit-court-rules-against-pronoun