Georgia senators again push conservative aims for schools

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Georgia senators again push conservative aims for schools

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Story by JEFF AMY (26 March 2024)

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state's public schools, passing a bill Tuesday that would ban transgender girls from playing high school sports with other girls... and require a system for notifying parents of every item a child obtained in a school library.

The Senate voted 33-21 along party lines for House Bill 1104, a measure that originally dealt with suicide prevention, but was radically overhauled in Senate committee by adding a number of other bills that had earlier failed to pass the Senate.

The measure would ban transgender girls from competing in girls' high school sports. It does not ban transgender males from competing against other males...

It would also ban transgender boys and girls playing sports from using multi-occupancy restrooms or locker rooms of the gender with which they identify.

A third portion of the bill would let parents choose to receive an email any time their child obtains library material.

Rep. Omari Crawford, the Decatur Democrat who sponsored the original part of the bill dealing with suicide prevention among high school athletes, said he's now working against its passage.

"The language that was added is probably going to exacerbate suicide rates," Crawford said. "So I don't think it's going to prevent suicide."