House Bill 246, or as we refer to it, “Don’t Say Gay Jr.”, duplicates and expands on the misgendering requirement in HB244, requiring a permission slip for a teacher to even use a nickname to refer to a student. Furthermore, despite its authors dubbing this the "Free to Speak Act," a single sentence spoken by a teacher (addressing a student using the name the student requested) makes the employee eligible for punitive action and could even open up their employer to significant legal liability.