A controversial bill in the Ohio Statehouse would force educators to out students to their parents and require public schools to give parental notification before teaching “sexuality content.”
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“What the most recent amendment did was specifically identify that school districts need to essentially give families an opt-out from sexuality content,” said Cynthia Peoples, director of Honesty for Ohio Education. “It also specifically identified that districts must out any student that identifies as transgender, gender diverse or non-binary, which we know can cause so much harm and danger to the child.
Committee chair State Rep. Adam Bird, R-New Richmond, responded by saying he talked to the bill’s sponsors and said it’s not trying to prohibit that kind of instruction. The term “biological sex” as it relates to gender identity is rejected by the LGBTQ+ community as politicized and inaccurate, with the term “gender assigned at birth” being the preferred construction.
Nearly 1 in 5 transgender and nonbinary young people attempted suicide in the past year, according to the Trevor Project’s 2023 survey of mental health of LGBTQ youth.
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