As the culture war over pronouns plays out in statehouses across the country, Republican lawmakers in the Louisiana House chamber advanced a bill Monday to the Senate that would require teachers to use a student’s name and pronouns that align with their sex assigned at birth.
Republican Rep. Raymond Crews authored and pitched the bill as a “parental rights” piece of legislation, noting that a student can receive parental permission to use pronouns that do not correlate with their sex assigned at birth. However, teachers can reject the parent’s choice if it is contrary to the educator’s “religious or moral convictions.”
