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The bipartisan sponsors of a new bill to target chronic absenteeism want to model a piece of advice from novelist Jean Shepherd: “In God we trust, all others pay cash.”

Ohio's latest "bathroom bill" wasn’t voted out of a House committee, but there was still a lot of debate over the purpose of the bill.

A Republican-backed bill that says K-12 and higher education institutions in Ohio must require students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender listed on their birth certificates got some slight changes Wednesday but is still in committee.

The Ohio state representative quoted Scripture and compared transgender people to animals while justifying her anti-trans bill.

State Rep. Beth Lear made the comment while talking about her bathroom ban bill during Wednesday’s House Higher Education Committee meeting

Ohio Republican state Rep. Beth Lear made the comment while talking about her bathroom ban bill during Wednesday’s House Higher Education Committee meeting

State rep. Beth Lear made the comment while talking about her bathroom ban bill during Wednesday’s House Higher Education Committee meeting.

State Rep. Beth Lear also compared gender dysphoria to delusions of being an animal, proposing a child might want to “explore being a bird” by jumping off a five-story building.

House Bill 183, also known as the 'Bathroom Bill,' is being discuseed

House Bill 183, also known as the 'Bathroom Bill,' is being discuseed