

It would have also prohibited government agencies from requiring employees to acknowledge the pronouns a transgender colleagues uses. The bill would have prohibited public school teachers and employees from acknowledging the personal pronouns a transgender student uses, unless they received permission from the student’s parents as well as a school administrator. Doug Burgum’s office announced the veto and the Senate overrode it. House lawmakers fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to block the veto, days after Republican Gov. Teachers in North Dakota can still refer to transgender students by the personal pronouns they use, after lawmakers on Monday failed to override the governor’s veto of a controversial bill to place restrictions on educators.
