Gender Indoctrination Wars: The Courts Strike Back

Originally published by the Washington Examiner 

A few short years ago, as the Biden administration pushed to redefine Title IX on the (spurious) premise that the word “sex” meant “gender identity.” There was significant reason to fear that gender ideology indoctrination would become a permanent feature of American public education. However, as 2026 begins, the grip of gender ideology in schools is more tenuous than ever; not only because of the Trump administration’s actions, but also because the courts have caught up to the constitutional violations inherent in such indoctrination.

Gender ideology indoctrination in schools is a three-legged stool: (1) teachers directly instruct students in the tenets of gender ideology; (2) schools force students to use “preferred pronouns” when their peers identify as the other sex; (3) schools prohibit staff from telling parents when they socially gender transition their children.

Three major court decisions this year have taken an axe, respectively, to each of those three legs.

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