GOP bill would fine people $1500 for using the correct pronouns for trans people

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A North Dakota Republican has introduced a bill that would fine organizations that receive state funding if those involved use pronouns that align with people’s genders rather than the sex they were assigned at birth.

This means that public schools – or even teachers themselves – would be fined $1,500 for respecting trans students’ gender identities, and the bill isn’t just restricted to students.

S.B. 2199 seeks to legally change the definition of gender, stating that “Words used to reference an individual’s sex, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, mean the individual’s determined sex at birth, male or female.”

“Say they’re a boy, but they come to school and say they’re a girl. As far as that school is concerned in this bill, that person is still a boy,” said the bill’s sponsor, Republican state Sen. David Clemens, when testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the bill. “If it becomes contested, the burden will be on the girl, the so-called girl, or the boy, to prove that he is a girl.”

He also said that the bill “does not..

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