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Proposed Florida law would restrict transgender government employees from using pronouns that don't accord with their birth sex

Employees or contractors would be barred from providing their employer with any pronouns or personal titles at odds with their birth sex. Violations would constitute cause for dismissal.

  • By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida
  • | 7:20 p.m. November 21, 2023
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In what could fuel a new round of legislative battles about gender identity, a House Republican on Tuesday filed a bill that would place restrictions on government agencies in the use of personal pronouns.

The bill (HB 599, viewable HERE), filed by Rep. Ryan Chamberlin, R-Belleview, for the 2024 legislative session, also would restrict workplace training about issues involving sexual orientation and gender identity.

Mirroring parts of a law that the Republican-controlled Legislature passed this spring about gender-identity issues in the education system, the bill says it is “the policy of the state that a person's sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person's sex.”

 

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