Tennessee Lawmakers Put a Stop to ‘Preferred’ Name and Pronoun Nonsense in Government Schools

Tennessee residents won’t have to deal with their government retaliating against them for refusing to use incorrect names and pronouns.

The legislature knows that the “transgender” industry likes to mock the truth, among other things. That’s why lawmakers passed HB 1270 to bar government entities from forcing students, teachers, professors, and other public employees from lying about pronouns and names in violation of their religious or moral beliefs.

Governor Bill Lee recently signed the bill into law. An excerpt (PDF):

Protecting the right to free speech for students, teachers, employees, and contractors of public schools and LEAs promotes important state interests; (3) The use of names and pronouns by students, teachers, employees, and contractors of public schools and LEAs in an educational setting is a matter of free speech or expression…

Lawmakers in Tennessee said that students, teachers, etc., should never be compelled to affirm a belief with which they disagree. No more nonsense about “preferred” names and pronouns in government schools.

“No one should lose their job or face punishment at school or work for declining to say something they believe is false,” said Matt Sharp, a lawyer at Alliance Defending Freedom. “In no world is it acceptable for the government to discipline students or force good educators or other public servants out of a job all for the sake of promoting gender ideology.”