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Senate Bill 150, sponsored by Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, was approved by the full Senate in a 29 to 6 vote.

A controversial bill dealing with LGBTQ+ issues in Kentucky schools passed in the Senate on Thursday.

Senate Bill 150 passed through the full Senate with a vote of 29-6 Thursday afternoon, but opponents fought it until the final hour.

FRANKFORT — Despite pleas by the few Democrats in the Kentucky Senate to protect “vulnerable, marginalized children,” the supermajority of Republicans passed a controversial bill around parental rights and gender

The Kentucky Senate has passed a bill that lets teachers to misgender their transgender students. The proposal was intended to protect the First Amendment freedoms of staff and students

Sen. Karen Berg, who lost her trans son to suicide, urged her GOP colleagues not to pass an anti-trans measure. They did anyway.

Despite Democrats' pleas to protect “vulnerable, marginalized children,” Kentucky Senate's Republican supermajority passed a bill around gender identity policies for students.

Senate Bill 150 would allow teachers to identify students by using pronouns with a student's biological sex even if the student doesn't identify with them.

Students say the bills would make schools less safe and welcoming places for LGBTQ kids to learn.

It doesn't say teachers and students can't use a student's preferred pronouns, but it does allow them to use the pronouns assigned to a student at birth instead.