After passionate opposition, Ky. lawmakers advance anti-trans pronouns legislation
Sen. Karen Berg, who lost her trans son to suicide, urged her GOP colleagues not to pass an anti-trans measure. They did anyway.
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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.