Members of Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee advanced two anti-trans bills on Wednesday. One covered the second grade in which public elementary and middle school students were forced out of parents, and critics instilled the “no trans” bill.
More specifically, under the Protect Kids Act, changing to “priority names for sex markers, pronouns, or sex-based accommodations that include locker rooms and bathrooms for minors” was not done without parental consent, but no to indoctrination cannot prohibit the education or advice of “gender assistance” for Donald Trump’s missionary extension order. Restore biological truths to the federal government.
Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), who was appointed national teacher the year before the election to Congress, rose to oppose the bill to concentrate the committee on Wednesday.
“The curriculum doesn’t include teaching students to be anything else. The curriculum doesn’t include inculcating students who identify them as gay or LGBTQ, etc. But federal law requires that all students have civil rights protections,” she said.
The lawmaker continued: “The members of this committee really don’t understand what is going to happen in school, but my question is, what do we do with these kids? The kids you’re talking about are not present on this committee, children who struggle with their identity often look to teachers for support and help with confidence.”
“What we’re doing on this committee is, at the point in their lives where they struggle, it may feel like a lot of the schools, for many people, is the only safe place or the only place they can get help, or the only place where they can talk to a counselor,” Hayes said.
“And as a teacher, I don’t care if it’s one student who had to reassure them that they were important, that they were important and that they belonged here,” she said. “I’m going to do that, and anyone who has dedicated their life to this profession will do the same. So the idea that you feel that arbitrarily is ok to disappear, destroy people, or make people think they don’t exist, have a place in school, or include the curriculum, should not be included.
“So I don’t support this law. I will definitely use all my students, using my agency, my energy, my advocacy,” Hayes said.
The lawmaker said, “You are in the classroom and a teacher, and the door is closed, the student falls into your arms, I’m struggling, and I can’t go home with this information, and I need help, you have a moral responsibility to help that child.
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The Congressional Equality Caucus condemned the bill in a statement emailed to the chairman. Speaker Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif) said “Donald Trump is trying to illegally dismantle the billionaire Department of Education.”
“Extreme Republicans in Congress are trying to deflect Americans by advancing cruel and anti-trans laws,” the gay lawmaker said. “School districts, teachers and staff have the best understanding of how parents can draft an age-appropriate curriculum and craft policies that respect the key role in their child’s education and the importance of student safety.”
“Even so, Republicans don’t say that transact cuts important school funding if teachers teach lessons or include materials that acknowledge the reality of the existence of trans people,” Takano added. “The Republican forced outing bill would put children at risk by requiring that children be forced to be released from parents by requiring schools that want to take certain steps to assert the identity of transgender students.
The Caucus also denounced the bill in a series of X’s posts.
Bad BillsAlert🚨
Today, the GOP-controlled school boards are voting for two anti-trans bills. One is the “not say trance” bill to force teachers to oust trans students if they want to take certain steps to verify their student identity.This is why we are against it: 🧵
– Congressional Equality Caucus (@equalitycaucus) April 9, 2025
The Human Rights Campaign also issued a statement Wednesday by the organization’s communications director Laurel Powell.
“Instead of restraining our dangerous president and tackling the free fall of the US economy, House Republicans have shown where their priorities lie.
“Requiring trans young people to “go out” and ignore trans students sitting in school, rather than supporting teachers to come out in their families is an attempt to fear distracting people from financial disasters by slandering children.
“Even if we fire people who make sure the schools have the resources they need, the Trump administration and Congressional allies are attacking vulnerable young people and continuing to score points on the far right.”
Source: Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News – www.washingtonblade.com
