A federal lawsuit aims to repeal a South Carolina law that makes it illegal for teachers to talk about queer relationships, unless it's about STIs. 'No student should have to be told by their health teacher that they can't talk about their identity.'
"This lawsuit would seek to remove the gag rule," Peter Renn, counsel at Lambda Legal told NPR during a phone interview."Removing the law would enable local school districts to include LGBTQ students in the curriculum, but it wouldn't create any sort of affirmative obligation," he said.
South Carolina is one of a handful of states that restricts how teachers speak about queer relationships in class. Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas also havelaws on the books, many of which were filed in the late '80s and early '90s, at the peak of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a lawsuit over a similar law in Arizona, which resulted in the state repealing the law in 2019. Utah also repealed a similar law in 2017 following a lawsuit filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
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