When the bill was introduced, the focus of HB 8 was on “sexually explicit” content. But an amendment introduced last week changed “sexually explicit” to “sexuality” content – and added “gender ideology” to the definition of sexuality content.
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The bill also contains a statement saying, “The General Assembly maintains that a parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent’s child.” Cynthia Peeples, the founding director for Honesty in Ohio Education, a coalition of teachers’ unions, the NAACP and other groups that are fighting conservative ideologies in public schools, noted that the vast majority of people who testified on the bill opposed it.
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