Virginia Beach Students Push Back Against Glenn Youngkin's Anti-Trans Policies
The students have been attending every school board meeting for the past year to speak out.
September 20, 2023
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The students have been attending every school board meeting for the past year to speak out.
The bills deal with issues such as foster care, name and pronoun recognition, and restroom access.
Missouri's House Bill 2885 would send teachers who use students' chosen names and pronouns to prison for up to five years.
The bills, restricting trans health care, trans sports participation, and LGBTQ+ content in schools, now become law immediately.
In response to restrictive state laws, districts including Leon County are adopting guidelines to support LGBTQ+ students.
The 2017 law prohibited employees at care facilities from using anything other than a resident's self-identifying gender and pronouns.
Advocates criticized the breathtaking hypocrisy of Cruz’s Safeguarding Honest Speech Act for its potential harm to the LGBTQ+ community and pointed out the irony in his own name choice.
The nonbinary creator, who identifies with a new name, had an enlightening conversation about pronouns.
A Kansas court ruled that a school must pay a teacher $95,000 after she was suspended for refusing to call a student by their preferred pronouns and name.
Legislation and public opinion clash over student pronoun recognition.
The court has apparently set a kind of precedent.
The version of Ron DeSantis’s “anti-woke” Florida seems to include restrictions on some people’s speech.
It's more than PC culture or "identity politics" -- the new "holiday" will help transgender people feel more confident and empowered.
A federal appeals court ruled that a school district didn’t violate the teacher’s rights by forcing him out over his refusal to acknowledge trans students’ names and pronouns.
The other bills deal with sports, name changes, and pronouns.
Students in Lee County who want to be identified by their preferred name and pronouns will have to have a form signed by their parents.
Rep. Mary Bentley's bill would let teachers ignore students' preferred names and pronouns, and she says the state should do more in case a youth identifies "as a cat, as a furry."
A bill in Arkansas would allow lawsuits against people who use trans kids' preferred names or give them gender nonconforming haircuts.
"Referring to people by the pronouns they determine for themselves is basic to human dignity," says a co-creator of the observance.
Kansas math teacher Pamela Ricard sued the school district, claiming that the policy of using students' preferred pronouns violated her "religious freedom."