GENDER PRONOUN

North Dakota House fails to override personal pronouns veto

BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s House lawmakers on Monday failed to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would have restricted teachers and staff from referring to transgender students by the personal pronouns they use. House lawmakers fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto. This happened days after Republican Gov. Doug Burgum’s office announced the…

North Dakota Senate rejects gender pronoun bill

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR-Prairie Public) – The State Senate has rejected a measure that its sponsor says would limit pronouns used to reference a person’s sex or gender identity to a person’s determined sex at birth. The measure carried a $1500 fine for misusing the pronoun. It failed on a vote of 39-8. West Fargo Republican Sen. David Clemens was the…