The governor of Idaho just signed a bill that will prohibit schools from forcing teachers and students to use the pronoun of a transgender pretender student that conflicts with their biological sex.
The law takes affect in July.
Here’s more via The Hill:
Idaho schools will soon be unable to require staff and students to use a transgender student’s name and pronouns under legislation signed this week by the state’s Republican Gov. Brad Little.
Idaho House Bill 538, which passed the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature by wide margins last month, prevents K-12 educators and college professors from “knowingly and intentionally” addressing a minor by a name or pronoun that does not align with their sex assigned at birth without written consent from their parents.
The bill also shields school staff from adverse employment action “for declining to address a student using a name other than the student’s legal name, a derivative thereof, or by a preferred pronoun.” State government employees are similarly not required to use a transgender person’s name or pronoun if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.
Little quietly signed the measure into law on Monday. It will take effect July 1.
I’m sure this law will be challenged by some activist in the state, but hopefully this won’t have to go to the Supreme Court to be upheld.