HB1177DeadEducation
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.
School employees must now get written permission from a parent or guardian before using a student's chosen name or pronouns that differ from the student's legal name and biological sex. The bill also prohibits schools from punishing employees who refuse to use a student's preferred name or pronouns that don't match the student's sex assigned at birth.