New Hampshire Republicans want to force teachers to police students’ gender expression

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New Hampshire’s state senate just passed H.B. 431, a bill that would force teachers to out LGBTQ students to the parents, potentially endangering children’s welfare.

Billed as a parents’ rights bill, H.B. 431 could be used to prevent discussions of LGBTQ topics in the classroom. However, what makes New Hampshire’s Don’t Say Gay distinct is that it would force teachers to report trans and gender-expansive students to their parents.

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According to Erin Reed, the bill would require teachers to notify parents about changes in a students gender expression or identity.

Subsection (g) of H.B. 431 states this in terms:

The right to be notified promptly when any school board, school district, school administrative unit, school administrator, or other school employee initiates, investigates, or finds the need for any action by school authorities relating to the student pursuant to school policies governing student conduct, truancy, dress code violations, sexual harassment, bullying, hazing, behavior management and intervention, substance use, suicide prevention, gender expression or identity, disability accommodation, and special meal prescription.

The language of the bill essentially forces teachers and school officials to out trans and non-binary students to their parents, even if such an act might endanger the child’s welfare or pose a risk to the child’s well-being.

Moreover, the law’s vague terms have…

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