As advocates have noted, even when these laws don’t pass, they effect trans people’s mental health and serve to shift public opinion on trans people — largely for the worse.
, introduced the same day, would go so far as to ban mentions of LGBTQ+ people in classrooms up to the 12th grade level. The bill would also bar schools from establishing policies that would prevent parents from accessing their students’ records, and policies that would ban teachers from informing parents about their students’ “social emotional, behavioral, mental, or physical health.
Katie Blair, the director of Advocacy and Public Policy at the ACLU of Indiana, told the education publicationthat HB 1608 and SB 354 “represent a coordinated, hate-driven campaign to push trans people out of public life.” The ACLU of Indiana has also referred to these particular bills as the “slate of hate," per Chalkbeat.
“LGBTQ people belong everywhere, including in our state and we will not stand for these attack bills,” Blair said.
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