(June 24, 2026): Daily Signal covers Southeastern Legal Foundation’s (SLF) free speech lawsuit against the University of Minnesota over policies that compel students to conform to woke gender ideology. Representing Young America’s Foundation (YAF), SLF is challenging four policies related to sexual harassment, discrimination, gender identity, and pronoun usage, all of which operate to silence students who dissent from the liberal norm.

“We live in fear of being disciplined and having our future ruined if we even accidentally use a pronoun someone doesn’t like,” one YAF member who attends the university says. “In the last two years, there have been nearly 20 complaints filed with the university that students violated these policies. . . These policies are there to silence students who believe that sex cannot be changed.”

SLF President Kimberly Hermann warns, ““School policies that compel pronoun usage violating a person’s belief in biological sex violate the First Amendment.”

She adds, “A win declaring the University of Minnesota’s policies unconstitutional could have huge precedential effects, not only in the courtroom but also serving as a warning to all schools—K-12 and college—that students and parents have had enough. They are no longer afraid to stand up and file lawsuits to stop radical gender ideology from being forced on them daily.”

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