North Dakota lawmakers unable to pass controversial personal pronouns bill.

North Dakota lawmakers failed to override the governor's veto of a bill that 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. The bill would have also prohibited government agencies from requiring employees to acknowledge the pronouns a transgender colleague uses. The governor said the teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police.