Texas weighs fines for schools if teachers use students’ preferred pronouns or help them change hairstyles to ‘socially transition’

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Texas weighs fines for schools if teachers use students’ preferred pronouns or help them change hairstyles to ‘socially transition’

Texas public schools could face fines if teachers use preferred pronouns for students, or “assist” with “social transitioning” their gender, if a new bill in the legislature passes.The bill would force school districts to ban teachers from helping students to change their pronouns, clothing or hairstyles to deviate from their biological sex, according to a draft of the proposed legislation.Republican state Rep. Nathan Schatzline, who is spearheading the bill, said during a Texas House Public Education Committee hearing Tuesday that the measure would prevent children from going down a path that he believes leads to “irreversible harm.”“We must make it ..