GOP bill seeks to fire teachers who affirm trans students even if parents are ok

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

GOP bill seeks to fire teachers who affirm trans students even if parents are okay with it

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/gop-bill-seeks-to-fire-teachers-who-affirm-trans-students-even-if-parents-are-okay-with-it/ 🔗

Daniel Villarreal (4 Dec 2025)

Missouri State Sen. Joe Nicola (R) introduced a bill that would ban "social transition" in schools and forcibly out any transgender and nonbinary students to their potentially unsupportive parents if the students ask a school staff member to address them by a name or gender identity different from the sex assigned to them at birth.

The bill would also allow teachers to be fired and banned from teaching, as well as schools to be sued for affirming trans and nonbinary students' gender identities, even if a parent approves of their child socially transitioning.

S.B. 1085, one of 21 anti-LGBTQ+ bills recently introduced by Missouri State Republicans, requires school staff members to inform the principal or a designee within 24 hours if any student asks them to "participate in or support" their social transition by having them address them by a name or gender identity that differs from those they were assigned at birth. The principal or designee would then have 72 hours to inform the student's parents.

The bill would forbid school staffers and counselors from affirming a student's trans or nonbinary gender identity or teaching about such identities. School districts would also be forced to fire teachers who violate the law and begin proceedings to revoke those teachers' teaching licenses. Parents and the state attorney general may also pursue a civil lawsuit against any school or school district that violates the law.

[KathyLauren]

There are possibilities for civil disobedience.  Imagine if every teacher in a school were to address a trans student by their proper name.  Imagine if every teacher in an entire school district were to do so.  What are they going to do, fire them all?  Think of the logistics of trying to hire hundreds of new teachers at a moment's notice.

I know this is not practical.  For one thing, too many teachers would be on board with this legislation.  But civil disobedience needs to be at the front of people's thoughts these days, especially audacious civil disobedience.