{"id":7110,"date":"2022-12-29T14:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=7110"},"modified":"2022-12-29T14:29:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T14:29:25","slug":"hicks-hudson-condemns-anti-transgender-and-education-department-overhaul-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/29\/hicks-hudson-condemns-anti-transgender-and-education-department-overhaul-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hicks-Hudson Condemns Anti-Transgender and Education Department Overhaul Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4700\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4700\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/State-Rep.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/State-Rep.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson.jpg 261w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/State-Rep.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/State-Rep.-Paula-Hicks-Hudson-179x250.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. Paula Hicks-Hudson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo) issued the following statement regarding the Senate\u2019s passage of House Bill 151, which was amended at the last minute to incorporate the entirety of Senate Bill 178. As amended and passed by the Senate, H.B. 151 prohibits transgender girls from playing on girls\u2019 school sports teams, overhauls the responsibilities of the State Board of Education and Department of Education, and makes related changes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely disappointed that the Senate passed this unnecessary and discriminatory legislation. I have no doubt House Bill 151 will have unintended consequences. The chair of the committee even conceded, \u2018there\u2019s a lot of things\u2026that will need to be clarified,\u2019\u201d Hicks-Hudson said.<\/p>\n<p>During House Bill 151\u2019s final hearing in the Senate Primary and Secondary Education Committee, Senator Vernon Sykes offered an amendment that would have codified the Ohio High School Athletic Association\u2019s policy regarding transgender athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis amendment would have been a fair and thoughtful compromise. Instead, the committee chair stated they would \u2018be taking a look at this down the road.\u2019 Senator Sykes\u2019 amendment was tabled, and our fellow committee members decided to move ahead with the flawed version that more than 90 Ohioans expressed opposition to through in-person and written testimony. House Bill 151 targets women\u2019s sports as a whole. Children in Ohio already have enough stress in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The amended version of the bill will transfer most of the powers and duties of the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the newly created Department of Education and Workforce, under the direction of a gubernatorial appointee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the amended version of H.B. 151 was deplorable on its own, the fact it was further amended on the floor to include more careless and unpopular legislation demonstrates to an even greater extent this legislature\u2019s indifference to the people we serve. Senate Bill 178 was criticized by Ohioans from both parties. Sprinting these bills across the finish line is fundamentally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 151 now returns to the House for a concurrence vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson (D-Toledo) issued the following statement regarding the Senate\u2019s passage of House Bill 151, which was amended at the last minute to incorporate the entirety of Senate Bill 178. As amended and passed by the Senate, H.B. 151 prohibits transgender girls from playing on girls\u2019 school sports teams, overhauls the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[154],"class_list":["post-7110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7111,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions\/7111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7110"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}