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Supreme Court declines fired teacher’s free speech challenge over anti-transgender TikToks

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30.06.2025

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Massachusetts teacher’s First Amendment challenge concerning her termination for making and reposting anti-transgender TikToks.

Former Hanover Public Schools teacher Kari MacRae stressed the TikToks were made before she applied to the job and urged the court to take up her case to protect public employees’ free speech rights.

One post condemned Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking transgender official in the Biden administration. Another boasted a panda bear photo alongside text that read, "Dude, racism is stupid. I am black, white, and Asian. But everyone loves me."

“I feel bad for parents nowadays,” another post read. “You have to be able to explain the birds & the bees . . . The bees & the bees . . . The birds & the birds . . . The birds........

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