Florida Republicans have introduced a bill to ban public school employees from calling students by pronouns that differ from those given to them at birth — even with parental consent.
School employees would also be forbidden to "provide to students his or her preferred personal title or pronouns" unless they correspond to sex assigned at birth.Studies show using gender-affirming language, like preferred pronouns, is associated with reduced depression and suicide risk among transgender youth, according to theRepublican House Speaker Paul Renner, of Palm Harbor, considers gender and sexual identity to be "cultural issues" that distract from coursework.
"We have global competition, and frankly global adversaries, and so we need to make sure all of our time, all of our attention is really focused on education excellence and not some left-wing wish list of what kids should learn in school — or right-wing wish list," Renner told reporters last week, per thewho's leading the charge to eliminate talk of gender and sexuality from schools, hasn't said whether he backs the bill.
"We're sitting here legislating pronouns but we're not legislating on how we're going to get our fourth-grade level students to read by the time they get to the fifth grade," Jones said.
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