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Jilly_in_VA

(10,877 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2023, 10:49 AM Jan 2023

A New GOP Bill Could Fine You $1,500 For Not Misgendering Trans People

A Republican lawmaker in North Dakota introduced a bill that would fine people $1,500 if they refer to trans people using their correct pronouns, rather than the pronouns they were assigned at birth.

The rule would apply to organizations that receive state funding—which includes public schools. That means schools and teachers could be fined for using their trans colleagues’ or students’ pronouns.

‘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,” states Senate Bill 2199. “Any person that violates this section must be assessed a fee of one thousand five hundred dollars.”

Republican state Sen. David Clemens introduced the bill, which has received basically zero support, according to local news station KFYR. In fact, the state’s senate judiciary committee recommended the bill shouldn’t pass, in part because it was poorly written and would be difficult to enforce. Still, the bill will move to the senate floor, and is a sign of just how emboldened many conservative lawmakers are getting in their crusades against trans and nonbinary people. In 2023, state governments have already tried to introduce some of the most draconian anti-trans bills yet, including an Oklahoma bill that would ban gender-affirming care for people under 26.

North Dakota is already the site of many proposed anti-trans bills, including bans on gender-affirming care and trans sports participation. SB 2199 is the latest example in a string of related proposed policies.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyjbq/north-dakota-pronoun-republican-anti-trans-bill

You should look at this guy's picture on the article. The epitome of dumbass.

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A New GOP Bill Could Fine You $1,500 For Not Misgendering Trans People (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jan 2023 OP
He looks like Will Ferrell portraying Captain Kangaroo Glorfindel Jan 2023 #1
So you're a middle school teacher, and a new kid shows up in your class. Ocelot II Jan 2023 #2
Damn this leave me alone crowd sure likes to get up everyone's ass. bullimiami Jan 2023 #3
But they sure do love their small government, don't they? Ocelot II Jan 2023 #5
The GOP is always into someones genitalia. The GOP is really a strange bunch. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2023 #6
Damn demented politicians. n/t RKP5637 Jan 2023 #4
It is all about Freedom! Chainfire Jan 2023 #7
How is this not a violation of the First Amendment? LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 #8
Thank goodness it died in the senate. eom Dr. Shepper Jan 2023 #9

Ocelot II

(120,813 posts)
2. So you're a middle school teacher, and a new kid shows up in your class.
Sat Jan 21, 2023, 10:55 AM
Jan 2023

The kid is dressed as a typical middle school girl and she says her name is Jane. Are you going to check out Jane's private parts to determine whether she's biologically female so you don't get fined for using "she/her" if it turns out she isn't? Are the schools supposed to check a new kid's privates to find out whether the kid is trans so they can make their life miserable as the state GOP assholes intend?

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