Hidden in Plain Sight: Teachers Under Fire for Objecting to School Gender Secrecy Policies

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this week's episode of Case in Point, host Sarah Parshall Perry is joined by Kate Anderson, Senior Counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, and Director of their Center for Parental Rights.

They talk religious freedom, free speech, state v. federal claims, and whether objecting teachers who won't toe the line on gender identity are protected by law.

Plus, the Supreme Court Justices have been busy, so Sarah covers legal news, oral arguments, and more on this week's episode of Case in Point.

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0:00.0	Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.
0:08.5	Welcome to this week's edition of Case and Point for Thursday, February 27th, 2025.
0:15.4	I am your host, Senior Legal Fellow here at the Heritage Foundation, Sarah Partial Perry, and this is the legal show for regular people.
0:23.7	No Washington, double speak, no high-faluting Latin. We make it easy, we make it accessible, and we make it
0:30.9	understandable. And boy, do we have a lot of legal news to cover today before I get to my guest,
0:36.5	who writes and speaks and advocates and is in court
0:39.9	talking about particular issues that I think many of us are concerned about right now.
0:45.2	So first, I am back. You will notice we had a hiatus last week. I am back from lecturing at
0:51.2	the University of Nebraska School of Law on the Title Line and women's sports and sex-based rights in public education.
0:58.8	And speaking of which, on Monday, we're going to see Senator Tommy Tuberville and Majority Leader, Senator Thune, Advance SB9.
1:08.3	And that's a bill designed to specifically codify the definition of biological female and male
1:14.8	into the text of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Yes, that law that keeps women's and
1:23.8	men's facilities, private spaces, and athletics separate. So we will follow up with you next week
1:30.2	on what exactly results after that vote. Also, SCOTUS has handed Trump a win on the USAID funding freeze.
1:39.6	Now, remember, that is a function of Doge's insight to all of the federal funding and the waste-frauded
1:45.9	abuse at the federal government, one of those particular directives was to stop the funding of
1:52.4	overseas programs that were not only mission-aligned, but were entirely wasteful to taxpayer
1:59.1	dollars. Among those were, for example, half a million
2:02.1	dollars for transgender surgeries in Guatemala, a DEI musical in Ireland, and those types of
2:09.8	mission aim. So Chief Justice John Roberts actually halted the lower court's order for Donald Trump
2:15.7	to release USAID funding, And he issued the stay Wednesday night
2:20.2	ahead of a midnight deadline, talk about the last minute, to disperse $2 billion in aid through USAID.
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