Truly awful stuff:
A bill filed in our state legislature this week (SB514) would require that teachers report in writing to a student’s parents if they’ve “exhibited symptoms of gender nonconformity.”
So, the length of their hair? The colors they're wearing?
Read for yourself:
A bill filed in our state legislature this week (SB514) would require that teachers report in writing to a student’s parents if they’ve “exhibited symptoms of gender nonconformity.”
So, the length of their hair? The colors they're wearing?
Read for yourself:
Can you imagine the chaos this would create in high schools across our state if it became law, the constant discussion among students and teachers about which student’s dress and behavior crossed the legal line into the mandatory reporting of "gender nonconformity"?
Imagine the leverage this would give high school bullies, how they could use this law to threaten to out certain students to their teachers.
Imagine a student who confides in a guidance counselor, only to learn that the counselor is now legally obligated to write a summary of the conversation and hand it to both of the student’s parents.
Let’s not pretend for a minute that this is anything other than using a legislative perch to act like a bully in order to engage their political base.
For some reason, these folks think this is a political win for them. That’s the only reason they’re doing it.
For some reason, these folks think this is a political win for them. That’s the only reason they’re doing it.
After the historic debacle of HB2, you’d think these folks would have learned:
When you act like a bully, the whole country notices.
And our whole state suffers as a result.
When you act like a bully, the whole country notices.
And our whole state suffers as a result.
From the editorial:
“The cruelest effect of such legislation, were it to pass, would be to force teachers, guidance counselors and other adults, whom children ought to be able to trust, to out trans and gender nonconforming young people to their parents.”
“The cruelest effect of such legislation, were it to pass, would be to force teachers, guidance counselors and other adults, whom children ought to be able to trust, to out trans and gender nonconforming young people to their parents.”
And hidden within the bill is a provision that immunizes anyone who provides so-called conversion therapy - instead of ending that practice, which is what we should do.
We’ll stop this bill from becoming law.
But legislation like this is going to keep coming in a number of states.
That’s why we must pass the Equality Act in the US Senate.
It’s how we stand up to bullies in state legislatures all across the country.
But legislation like this is going to keep coming in a number of states.
That’s why we must pass the Equality Act in the US Senate.
It’s how we stand up to bullies in state legislatures all across the country.
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