Law amending WA ‘parents bill of rights’ goes into effect immediately
Republicans introduced several unsuccessful amendments to prevent transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports and entering girls’ locker rooms.
The law also adds ethnicity, homelessness, immigration or citizenship status, and neurodivergence as protected classes and clarifies protections for sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity.
The law contains an emergency clause. This allows it to take effect immediately, and it eliminates the possibility of a referendum that would give voters a chance to weigh in on the law. Democratic lawmakers have said the emergency clause would help provide schools more clarity right away. Republicans criticize it as a ploy to block any referendum effort.
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