8 House Dems Vote With Republicans To Approve ‘Forced Outing’ At Schools

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would force public school teachers to out transgender students to their parents.

All 208 Republicans present – plus 8 Democrats – approved the bill in a 217-198 vote.

The bill requires educators to get parental consent for changing a student’s pronouns or preferred names on any school forms. It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all. https://t.co/4eeYXWd1eC

— HuffPost Queer Voices (@huffpostqueer) May 21, 2026

From HuffPost:

The Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act requires elementary and middle schools to get parental consent before changing a student’s pronouns or preferred names on any school forms, or for making gender-based accommodations for things like locker rooms or bathrooms.

It also bars teachers from talking about transgender people or issues in the classroom, which means books that include transgender characters or that address the existence of transgender people would be banned. It would also ban LGBTQ+ school groups.

Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Donald Davis (N.C.), Cleo Fields (La.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) and Eugene Vindman (Va.) all voted for this bill.

What’s more, three of those Democrats — Gillen, Gluesenkamp Perez and Vindman — are members of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which advocates for LGBTQ+ rights.

Rep. Vindman justified his vote to HuffPost saying, “As a dad to two public school kids, I believe parents must be included in their children’s decisions in school.”

The problem here is some kids may be in the “figuring things out” phase and not out to their families because they feel they don’t have a supportive environment at home.

I’m pretty sure the bill will be dead in the Senate where it would take 60 votes to pass.

The House voted 217-198 to pass the Orwellianly-titled student safety-harming forced outing bill “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act” (HR2616) that requires federally funded public schools to forcibly out trans students to their parents w/out consent of the student.

— Justin Gibson (@JGibsonDem) May 21, 2026