The South Dakota House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban public schools from teaching about gender dysphoria through the seventh grade.
The measure passed the House by a vote of 39-30 and now heads to the state Senate, according to the Associated Press.
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Tom Pischke (R) told, the AP the goal of the legislation is to assure that public schools aren’t “teaching and confusing our young children to be more susceptible to this dysphoria.”
Gender dysphoria is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a conflict between a person’s physical gender or gender assigned at birth and the gender with which the individual identifies as.
Gender dysphoria became a medically recognized as it is currently understood in 2013, when it was reclassified from its previous label of gender identity disorder.
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The measure was modified by a House panel last week after it originally intended to ban teaching about gender identity or expression altogether.
Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch said he supports the bill because he doesn’t want his grandchildren “going to kindergarten and being confused if they’re a boy or a girl.”
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GOP-led South Dakota House approves restrictions on schools teaching about gender dysphoria https://t.co/J8yKwpcaku pic.twitter.com/RdpjzSH8yd
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