Kyle is a fat balding imbecile.
This a very simple case. The teacher is speaking on behalf of the government. Troon status does not give the teacher the right to substitute their own speech for the government's speech.
"How much control can the state of Florida have over how a trans teacher refers to themselves? Are a teacher’s honorific and pronouns actually part of the job of being a teacher? Certainly those things are used constantly within a classroom, but are they essential to the job of teaching?
Block notes that other conservative-leaning courts have begun ruling that teachers have an inalienable free speech right to misgender their trans students, because conservatives have claimed that being required to respect a student’s pronouns would essentially be the state’s forcing teachers to express a political and/or religious belief that they do not hold.
But the same should be the case for a trans teacher referring to themselves. If a conservative teacher is allowed to misgender their students as a matter of political speech, so, too, should a trans teacher be allowed to gender herself correctly. But conservatives do not really care about legal consistency — they want to have their cake and eat it, too.
In order to preserve your own free speech, you ought to be defending the rights of trans people.
American conservatives seem to think they have won the cultural battle over trans rights in the wake of United States v. Skrmetti, which upheld state laws banning gender-affirming care for minors. As a trans journalist who covers trans issues for a living, it looks to me as though many conservatives now see very few obstacles on their path toward the utter destruction of public trans life, enforced through government action.
At the core of their agenda is denying the identities of trans people; that is why a number of Republican-dominated states have taken steps to restrict changing genders on legal documents and the Trump administration hurried to stop trans people from changing the gender marker on U.S. passports.
The next step is stopping trans teachers from gendering themselves correctly through Florida-style “Don’t Say Gay” laws. Further restrictions on trans people seem highly likely to follow. They are trying to use the government to force a cultural conversion on trans rights on the American public, the Constitution be damned. And if they succeed, if they can deny our right to call ourselves things we feel deeply within our souls as trans people, then they can come for your speech next in any way they see fit.
This is why Americans who are not of the progressive left — or particularly concerned about trans rights — need to understand that this kind of government reach can and will come for you next. In order to preserve your own free speech, you ought to be defending the rights of trans people to call themselves who they are. "
The legal attack on trans teachers’ free speech is a much broader warning