The U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would give the Trump administration broad leverage to strip federal funding from schools that “teach or advance concepts” related to transgender people. It would codify anti-trans definitions from Executive Order 14168 into federal law. The bill would also require public schools to forcibly disclose transgender students to their parents before using pronouns or chosen names. The most consequential change amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act by adding “concepts related to gender ideology” to prohibited uses of funds, effectively inserting an anti-trans funding restriction into the core K-12 federal education framework.
"The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that "teaches or advances concepts" related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump's executive order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism." It would also require public schools to forcibly out transgender students to their parents before using their pronouns or chosen names."
"But what made Tuesday's vote especially notable was the eight Democrats who joined every Republican to pass it - the largest Democratic defection on any standalone anti-trans bill of this Congress."
"The bill's most consequential clause is its second section, which amends the federal education code's existing list of "prohibited uses of funds" to add: "to teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology, as defined in section 2 of Executive Order 14168 (90 Fed. 8615; relating to defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the Federal Government).""
"That single sentence slots an anti-trans line item into Section 8526 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the foundational federal law governing K-12 education in the United States. Adding "concepts related to gender ideology" to that list places the existence of"
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