Indiana schools may soon be required to notify parents if their children request a name or pronoun change at school.
, after the state Senate on Monday advanced a House bill that some worry could out transgender kids to their families.
Like Indiana, Republican-led legislatures around the country have been seeking to curb LGBTQ+ rights, especially in targeting transgender individuals’ everyday life — including sports,Under the Indiana bill, which the House first sent to the Senate in February, a school would have to provide written notification to a child's parent or guardian within five business days of the child asking to be called a different “pronoun, title, or word.
Protesters against the legislation, which originally resembled Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law enacted last year, often filled the Statehouse hallways this session with thunderous cheers of “No hate in our state” and “Kill the bill.” The parental notification bill would also bar schools from from teaching “human sexuality” in pre-K through third grade. One of the bill's authors, Republican state Rep. Michelle Davis, said this would put parents in control of “introducing sensitive topics to their children.”
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