Ironically coinciding with the Nashville’s 4th annual Advancing Equality Day, Tennessee’s House K-12 Subcommittee will begin discussion of a bill that would bar “instruction or materials discussing sexual orientation other than heterosexuality” in public elementary and middle schools.
"I think the schools should stick to the basics: reading, writing, and arithmetic. And maybe some civics," says bill sponsor Rep. Stacey Campfield. "But teaching transgenderism to middle school students ... I don't think that's the road we should go down."
According to Campfield, the bill was written in response to a National Education Association resolution suggesting that schools provide information on a diversity of sexual orientations and gender identifications in sex-ed classes.
Campfield's bill will take control away from school boards that currently mandate the sex ed curriculum in their districts. Memphis City Schools are currently considering a new curriculum that would address gender identity and homosexuality.
You can read the bill here.
Fun Fact: Campfield once sponsored a bill requiring the state to issue death certificates for aborted fetuses. You can read about him in his own words here.
Update: The proposal was overturned. Good.
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