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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMississippi proposes 'license to harass' for transphobic teachers
It's the first bill of its kind in the country.
ZACK FORD
JAN 31, 2019, 11:21 AM
Mississippi lawmakers have proposed new legislation that would ensure teachers cannot be disciplined if they refuse to respect a transgender students gender identity. This license to harass is the first bill of its kind in the country.
HB 1176 would update state law determining how school employees may be disciplined, adding specific language prohibiting their dismissal or suspension for referring to any individual students immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.
School employees would be barred from being disciplined despite the students preference to identify as the opposite gender after undergoing stages of transition as a pansexual, transsexual or transgender, whether through sex reassignment, gender identity transitioning, hormonal therapy treatment or other philosophical processes.
The proposed measure also clarifies that schools cannot force an employee to comply with a directive to respect a students identity if it violates that employees sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction.
https://thinkprogress.org/mississippi-proposes-license-to-harass-for-transphobic-teachers-70fdf6085b2c/
Unbelievable..........................bigots, that have nothing else better to do, but harass people, children.............
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)"It's intolerant of you to not accept my intolerance! Therefore, I will pass my intolerance into law and shove it down your throat!"
underpants
(182,829 posts)I was just about to post this.
The irony is thick here. The right who say everyone is soft and everyone should just buck up and stop JCC it up NOW its all about your feelings. Oh Im sorry, does this offend you?
Its like a participation trophy for being human.
Mississippi- not a surprise
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Alabama, too. I've been in both states, but long ago, way back in 1965, and vowed never to cross their borders again.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)I know "license to harass" is not the formal name, but consistently referring to it by a name that describes what it actually does is a start.
When Issue 1 passed in Ohio banning my marriage by constitutional amendment, I referred to exclusively as the Marriage Discrimniation Amendment.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)Are students going to have to start providing genetic tests?
God these people are obsessed with kids' genitals.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Mr. Quackers
(443 posts)sad.
Initech
(100,080 posts)Fuck religious fundamentalists.