North Dakota bill aims to ban accommodations for students who identify as trans or animal species

A legislative effort in North Dakota aimed at prohibiting schools from providing separate accommodations for trans-identified students is raising eyebrows over a subsection of the bill that suggests the same limits for students who identify as any species “other than human.”

Introduced Tuesday in the North Dakota Assembly, House Bill 1522 is sponsored by six Republican state lawmakers as an “emergency measure” to prohibit any public or private schools from adopting a policy that “caters to a student’s perceived or expressed gender, including a preferred gender pronoun, if the perceived or expressed gender is inconsistent with the student’s sex.”

In addition to requiring students to use correct pronouns based on their sex instead of chosen pronouns that can change daily based on their self-identification, the two-page bill would prohibit schools from providing students with any facility, such as restrooms, school program, or other accommodation, including pronouns, if the “perceived or expressed gender” does not correlate with their biological sex… (Excerpt from The Christian Post)