Teachers in North Dakota can still refer to transgender students by the personal pronouns they use after lawmakers on Monday failed to override the governor’s veto of the bill.
veto against a bill that would prohibit pronoun use in the classroom remained despite lawmakers’ efforts on Monday to override it.House lawmakers failedThe bill would have prohibited public school teachers and employees from acknowledging the personal pronouns of a transgender student unless they received permission from the student’s parents and a school administrator.
The bill also included language that prohibited government agencies from requiring employees to acknowledge the pronouns a transgender colleague uses.is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police," Burgum had said in a letter to state lawmakers announcing his veto.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, speaks while unveiling the Arkansas LEARNS education bill at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Brad Little, Governor of Idaho speaks on the 2nd day of the CPAC Washington, DC conference at Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention.and Reynolds last week signed a similar bill into law that bars transgender people from using school facilities consistent with their gender identity.
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