; Whereas States have passed or attempted to pass legislation that erases or censors LGBTQI+ individuals, history, and contributions from classroom literature and curricula, including— (1) in Florida, where in March 2022, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House bill 1557 into law censoring instruction related to LGBTQI+ people, commonly referred to as the Don’t Say LGBTQ+ law; (2) in the 6 additional States that enacted laws between 2022 and 2024 censoring instruction related to LGBTQI+ people; (3) in Arizona, where in May 2021, Governor Doug Ducey signed House bill 2035, which requires parental consent for a child to learn about topics such as the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015), that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples; and (4) in Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and Tennessee, which each enacted laws in 2021 that treat instruction related to LGBTQI+ individuals in history, science, the arts, or any academic class as a sensitive topic that requires parental notification and allows parents to opt their child out of such instruction; Whereas these laws harm students and force families to consider leaving their homes, as demonstrated in a Williams Institute report, which found that 56 percent of LGBTQI+ parents of students in Florida considered moving out of Florida, and 16.5 percent have taken steps to move out of Florida because of House bill 1557; Whereas States have gone farther by specifically targeting transgender students and their families with policies that attack mental health counseling and gender-affirming care for transgender students, including— (1) in Texas, where in 2022, Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive to the Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the parents of young people seeking gender-affirming care for child abuse, which purported to require school professionals to report parents who are supportive of their transgender child for investigation