This week, the North Carolina Senate passed a multifaceted, pro-family bill that now returns to the State House for concurrence. HB 805—Prevent Sexual Exploitation/Women and Minors began in the House as a bill to prevent the unlawful publishing of pornographic content on the Internet,

and now it also contains provisions that would:

• Define “male” and “female” based on biological sex in state statute, administrative rules, and state regulations;
• Prohibit the use of state taxpayer funds to pay for puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or surgical gender transition procedures for prisoners incarcerated in the state prison system;
• Extend the statute of limitations to ten years for a malpractice action arising out of injury associated with a gender transition procedure;
• Direct local boards of education to adopt policies to allow a student or the student’s parent to request that the student be excused from classroom activities or instruction that would impose a substantial burden on the student’s religious beliefs; and
• Direct local boards of education to adopt policies to provide online access to a catalog of all library books available at a school, and to allow parents the opportunity to prohibit their child from borrowing any books from the library that the parent’s deem objectionable. 

Please take action now and urge your State House member to “concur” with pro-family HB 805—Prevent Sexual Exploitation/Women and Minors!