Courts around the country are grappling with claims by teachers, professors, businesses, and more, which assert that their right to free speech protects them from consequences for calling transgender students, customers, and employees by names and pronouns inconsistent with the gender they live every day.
The U.S. Supreme Court may have provided the answer to this legal question more than 50 years ago, when it overturned a Black activist's conviction for criminal contempt after she insisted on being referred to as Miss.
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