A Republican lawmaker in North Dakota has introduced legislation that would bar organizations that receive state funds or grants from using the correct pronouns to refer to their transgender employees or clients.
, utilizing anti-trans language. “As far as that school is concerned in this bill, that person is still a boy.”
Clemens said that a person could feasibly challenge the enforcement of the law, but that “the burden” of proving the appropriate pronouns were used would be on that individual — meaning that students in K-12 schools throughout the state would have that burden placed on them.. Clemens was the only person to speak in favor of the proposal. Although the committee voted to recommend that the bill be blocked, it now goes to the full state Senate floor for final consideration and a vote.
Although the bill is unlikely to pass, Republicans in the state legislature have introduced a slew of other anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ proposals for this year’s legislative session that have a real chance at becoming law., North Dakota Republicans have introduced at least seven anti-trans bills in total, a number that could increase in the coming days.
Clemens’s bill and others like it increase “the general atmosphere of hostility and hatred towards the transgender community,”The anti-trans bills send “a dangerous message that we’re not welcome here,” Koesterman added. As a result of the legislative attacks against transgender people in North Dakota, some residents are planning to flee not just the state but the country. “Everyone is really scared right now,” Zara Crystal, a trans North Dakota resident and organizer for TRANSport, a group that helps transgender people leave the U.S. for more inclusive countries,
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