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ORLANDO, Fla. - A federal judge in Florida has ruled that the state’s law requiring teachers to use pronouns that match a student’s sex at birth amounts to discrimination, conflicting with federal protections against employment discrimination based on sex.

Law championed by Gov. DeSantis

What we know:

A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s 2023 law restricting pronouns transgender teachers can use in classrooms violates federal civil-rights law. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker sided with two teachers — Katie Wood of Hillsborough County and a Lee County teacher identified as Jane Doe — finding that the law discriminates under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sex.

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