PHOENIX — State lawmakers are once again wading into the area of the rights of transgender minors.
A new proposal by Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, would bar school employees from knowingly referring to a student by a pronoun “that differs from the pronoun that aligns with the student’s biological sex” regardless of the student’s preferences. Only if the adult first gets parental permission would that be permissible.
And Kavanagh, whose district includes much of Scottsdale, already is planning to expand what has been introduced as Senate Bill 1001 to close what he sees as a possible loophole where teachers could avoid pronouns and instead address a student by the first name he or she prefers.
