This bill would require all elementary and secondary schools receiving federal funding to obtain explicit parental consent before accommodating or facilitating any aspect of a student's gender transition, including social changes like name or pronoun use. The legislation also prohibits school employees from encouraging students to withhold information from parents about gender identity concerns and requires schools to disclose such matters to parents rather than keep them confidential. Schools must provide written policies detailing their compliance procedures and post them publicly on their websites as a condition of receiving federal funds. The bill allows parents and the federal Attorney General to sue schools for violations, with prevailing parents entitled to recover attorney's fees and costs for any therapeutic treatments needed to address harm from gender transition pursuit. The legislation would affect all schools that accept federal education funding and significantly restricts the autonomy schools currently have in supporting transgender or gender-nonconforming students without parental involvement.
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