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This week, the Arkansas House passed two bills seemingly designed to make it incredibly unpleasant for kids who are not Bible-banging bigots to attend school. Why? Well, because they re assholes. There s not really a better or deeper answer than that.
On Wednesday, the House passed a bill allowing teachers to teach creationism. Yes, we re actually doing this again. Apparently now that Trump is gone, conservatives feel much more free to go back to their more theocratic tendencies. Despite the claims of many prophets that Trump was practically the Second Coming, the actual practice of supporting a crass, twice-divorced casino owner who was obviously only feigning to be super into Jesus seemed to make many Christians chill on the whole the earth is 6,000 years old! thing. Quite frankly, I think they didn t want to run the risk of anyone a
Sponsor of cruel Arkansas anti-trans bill claims kids are identifying as cats
Mary Bentley believes children in Arkansas schools are now identifying as cats (Facebook/Getty)
The Republican sponsor of a cruel anti-trans bill in Arkansas has made the unfathomable claim that children are now identifying as cats.
Mary Bentley is pushing House Bill 1749, a law that would bar public schools, state colleges and universities from requiring that teachers use students’ preferred names and pronouns if they differ from the student’s “biological sex”.
The bill is now awaiting Senate action after it passed the state’s House of Representatives on Thursday (8 April).
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. â Another piece of legislation that impacts transgender Arkansans passed the House of Representatives. This bill would provide safeguards for teachers who refuse to call a student by their name or their preferred pronouns.
There was still a brief debate on both sides before the vote. The sponsor of HB 1749, Representative Mary Bentley, says the idea behind the bill came from teachers who are scared to be taken to court if they choose against calling a transgender student by their preferred name. It s not compelling anyone s speech, it s not prohibiting anyone s speech, she said. It s helping those professors and teachers in our schools that do not want to be used for not using a certain person s pronoun.
By Reid Wilson - 04/09/21 01:36 PM EDT
The Arkansas state House has passed a measure that would allow teachers to ignore a transgender student’s preferred name or gender pronouns, the latest in a series of bills targeting the rights of trans children.
The measure, House Bill 1749, would bar public schools from requiring teachers or staff to address a student by their preferred pronouns or even a preferred name that does not conform to the student’s biological gender.
School employees who are required to use a pronoun, title or word to address a student would be protected under the state’s Civil Rights Act under the bill.
Fort Smith Times Record
A bill passed by the Arkansas House of Representatives on Thursday would change the rules for public school employees when referring to a student whose identity is inconsistent with the student s biological sex.
House Bill 1749, which has been referred to the Senate Education Committee, is the latest in a round of bills focused on transgender youth in Arkansas. Others in recent weeks have made it illegal for transgender girls from playing women s sports in the state and ban gender reassignment surgeries and hormone prescriptions for anyone under 18 in the state.
House Bill 1570, the ban on gender reassignment for anyone under 18, was vetoed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson after it passed the Senate. The General Assembly voted to override the veto. The new law affects about 200 transgender youths under 18 in the state, Hutchinson pointed out in a news conference.