Georgia legislature advances Don’t Say Trans bill while silencing opponents

The bill bans “queer theory” from being taught in grade schools and requires teachers to out trans kids.

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A Georgia bill to ban the discussion of some LGBTQ+ topics in schools advanced out of a state senate committee in a hearing where anti-LGBTQ+ advocates – including the rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Gays Against Groomers – were allowed to speak, but pro-LGBTQ+ advocates were not.

The Georgia Senate Committee on Education and Youth voted 6-3 along party lines to advance S.B. 88, a bill that bans both public and private schools in the state from teaching “gender identity, queer theory, gender ideology, or gender transition.”

Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged from academic literary critics in the 1990s that generally challenges the idea that only heterosexual desire is normal. It is not taught in K-12 schools. The bill bizarrely defines “queer theory” as the idea that transgender and nonbinary people can exist.

Democrats called out the Republican leadership in the committee for banning..

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