Republican lawmakers in Kentucky advanced a bill Thursday to allow teachers to misgender their transgender students, plunging into a culture war issue despite pleas to resist doing so from a Senate colleague whose transgender son died recently.
The GOP-dominated Senate Education Committee heard impassioned pleas from transgender advocates warning that the measure would put transgender youths at greater risk of harm. The bill won overwhelming approval from the committee to advance to the full Senate.
The measure won committee approval a day after being introduced by Republican Sen. Max Wise, the running mate for GOP gubernatorial Kelly Craft. Craft, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is among a dozen Republicans seeking their party's nomination in Kentucky's May primary. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is seeking a second term in the GOP-trending Bluegrass State.
Craft has railed against the state's education department in campaign speeches, accusing top education leaders of "pushing woke agendas in our schools." Another key provision in the bill would prevent policies compelling school staff to use pronouns that don't conform to a student's biological sex. The bill would require that parents get two weeks' notice and an opportunity to review materials before human sexuality instruction begins at their children's school. An alternate assignment would have to be made available for students whose parents disapprove of the instruction.
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