Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the suburban D.C. district's practice of forcing teachers to use students' preferred names and pronouns and gagging teachers from telling parents about their children's gender confusion without the students' permission, firing substitute Kimberly Polk when she resisted. The lead plaintiffs in that case, teachers Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, filed a joint brief in Polk's case. With more than 1,200 school districts allegedly maintaining policies that allow or compel teachers to hide students' gender confusion from parents, this is an ideal case for the justices, 11 GOP attorneys general led by West Virginia's John McCuskey wrote. Nearly half have been asked to use students' preferred names and pronouns, doubling in the past six years. Applying Janus, the educators said teachers are "paid to teach subjects, not to be spokespersons 'mouth[ing] a message on [the government’s] behalf.'"