Parental rights movement scores another victory in Ohio school pronoun case

Published November 7, 2025 5:58pm ET



A federal appeals court ordered a local Ohio school district to dismantle a policy banning the use of biological sex pronouns to refer to transgender students in a ruling on Friday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sided 10-7 in an en banc ruling with Defending Education, a parental rights movement group that works to “fight indoctrination in classrooms,” per their mission statement.

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