Schools barred from requiring staff to use students' preferred pronouns
Enacted5/10
North Dakota · North Dakota HB 1522 · Signed May 8, 2023
Impact 5/10
Prohibits public school boards and teachers from adopting any policy that requires or prohibits the use of a transgender student's preferred pronoun, effectively letting school staff decline to use them. A stricter version that would have mandated pronouns matching sex assigned at birth (SB 2231) was vetoed by the governor in March 2023 and the veto override failed in the House.
LGBTQ+EducationWork & wagesChildrenTransgender / nonbinaryParents / caregiversStudents
Sources
- Source ↗
- ACLU of North Dakota: Gov. Burgum signs House Bill 1522 ↗
- Washington Post: North Dakota bans schools from requiring use of transgender students’ pronouns ↗
✓ Verified against primary sources 2026-08-16