Amendment #857 to H3400

An Amendment to Clarify Educational Guidelines

Representatives Lyons of Andover and Lombardo of Billerica move to amend the bill by adding at the end thereof the following new section:

SECTION XXXX.  Section 7 of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following clause:-

Fifty-ninth, The meaning of “gender identity” shall be distinct from that of “sex” and “sexual orientation.”  Access to lawfully sex-segregated facilities, accommodations, resorts, and amusements, as well as educational, athletic, and therapeutic activities and programs, shall be controlled by an individual’s anatomical sex of male or female, regardless of that individual’s gender identity.  The Secretary of Education and anyone under his purview shall issue no guideline that contradicts this language, and shall retroactively revoke any such contradictory guideline already issued.