Preferred pronouns required for alleged rapist, not for students? Legal cases diverge nationwide | Just The News

Teachers get big settlements for compelled speech as full federal appeals court considers protecting student speech, but prosecutors, victims and witnesses may not get leeway to call a man a man. - Greg Piper  

• Ohio teacher Vivian Geraghty received a $450,000 settlement to drop her two-year-old First Amendment lawsuit against the Jackson Local School District for forcing her to resign shortly after Geraghty expressed "reservations" about participation in the "social transition" of gender-confused students...

It's not clear whether lawyers will be granted the same leeway when arguing cases for their clients or the state, even when gender identity itself is key to the litigation.

• A California judge ordered a prosecutor to refer to Tremaine Carroll with female pronouns in the male inmate's upcoming felony trial for rape and "dissuading a witness" while housed at the Central California Women's Facility...