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The National Education Association will spend more than $500,000 countering new legislation and developing resources for its members.

Proposals in several states would allow or require schools to deadname transgender students or out them to their parents without consent.

Proposals in several states would allow or require schools to deadname transgender students or out them to their parents without consent

Several “parental rights " proposals, which aim to give parents greater control over their children’s education, would allow or require schools to deadname trans students or out them to their parents without consent.

As hundreds of bills nationwide take aim at nearly every facet of transgender existence, from health care to athletics to bathroom access, trans kids and their families say certain proposals could eliminate one of the last remaining safe havens to explore their identities: K-12 public schools.

Proposals in several states would allow or require schools to deadname transgender students or out them to their parents without consent. Transgender kids and their families say the proposals could