Changes to Existing Law
HB1177 — Require an employee of a school district, the Board of Regents, or the South Dakota Board of Technical Education to receive permission of a parent or guardian of an unemancipated minor student before addressing the student with a name other than the student's legal name and to prohibit the compulsory use of gendered language inconsistent with sex.
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§ 13-1
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No employee of a school district or an institution under the control of the Board of Regents or the South Dakota Board of Technical Education, regardless of the scope of the employee's official duties, may without the written permission of the student's parent or guardian knowingly and intentionally address an unemancipated minor student by: (1) A name other than the student's legal name or a derivative thereof; or (2) A student's preferred personal title or pronoun that is inconsistent with the student's sex. For the purposes of this section and sections 2 and 3 of this Act, the term "sex" means the classification of a person as either female or male based on the organization of the body for a specific reproductive role, as indicated by an individual's sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and internal and external genitalia present at birth.