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Parents and LGBTQ advocates spoke out this week at the Ohio Statehouse against a bill that would force educators to out a student’s sexuality to their parents and notify parents on “sexuality” content. “Forcing schools to out kids, regardless of their home situation, will lead to unconscionable cruelty against LGBTQ kids,” Maria Bruno, Equality Ohio’s […] The post LGBTQ advocates speak out against forced-outing bill during Ohio Senate education co...

House Bill 8 would require educators to notify parents of “any request by a student to identify as a gender that does not align with the student’s biological sex.”

Heated exchanges occurred solely between witnesses and Chair Andrew Brenner (R-Delaware), who repeatedly asserted that the bill would not do what opponents said the bill would do.

Nick Zingarelli attended a town hall about Ohio's soon-to-be-enacted gender-affirming care ban to show support for his trans daughter and others like her.