Mansfield school district trustees approved a policy that requires parents to be notified if students ask to use a pronoun or restroom that doesn’t correspond to the sex on their birth certificates. The 4-2 vote to approve the policy Tuesday night came after public comments from most people in the audience pushed back, saying such […]
A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes. Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw […]
A California school district has settled a lawsuit with a teacher who says she was fired over her religious beliefs after she refused to use students’ preferred pronouns, attorneys say. The Jurupa Unified School District in Riverside County agreed to pay $360,000 to Jessica Tapia, her attorneys at Advocates for Faith & Freedom said in […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers spent much of an unexpectedly long and sometimes contentious legislative session focusing on bills targeting LGBTQ+ residents by limiting health care and reading materials and installing protections for teachers who don’t use the pronouns transgender students use. They also passed a bill that allows the state to spend $2 […]
Florida cannot prohibit a 10th grade math teacher from asking her students to call her by her preferred pronouns, a federal judge has ruled. The decision from Mark Walker, the US district judge, is a blow to an anti-LGBTQ law championed by Ron DeSantis, the state’s governor, which prohibits discussion of sexuality in public schools. […]
ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — Two parents have filed a lawsuit against Rockford Public School District for using male pronouns for their child without their knowledge. According to court documents, Dan and Jennifer Mead’s child, who is biologically female and identifies as male, attended the school district starting in kindergarten. In middle school, the student started […]