Missouri House Bill 2885 will make teachers register as "sex offenders" If they accept trans kids' pronouns

HB2885's sponsor

I thought at first this was hyperbole, but then I read the description of the bill on the Missouri House of Representatives website. Missouri HB 2885 "establishes the offense of contributing to social transition and requires a person to be placed on the sexual offender registry if guilty of the offense of contributing to social transition." If this bill passes, a teacher could be placed on the registry as a Tier 1 & be banned from residing near schools. 

https://documents.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills241/hlrbillspdf/5874H.01I.pdf

Adds new subsection 566.400. 

1. A person commits the offense of contributing to social transition if the person is acting in his or her official capacity as a teacher or school counselor and the person provides support, regardless of whether the support is material, information, or other resources to a child regarding social transition.

2. The offense of contributing to social transition is a class E felony.

3. As used in this section, the following terms mean:

(1) "Child", a person under eighteen years of age;

(2) "Social transition", the process by which an individual adopts the name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing or haircuts, that match the individual's gender identity and not the gender assumed by the individual's sex at birth;

(3) "Teacher", as that term is defined in subdivisions (4), (5), and (7) of section 168.104.

589.414., subsection 5. Tier I sexual offenders, in addition to the requirements of subsections 1 to 4 of this section, shall report in person to the chief law enforcement official annually in the month of their birth to verify the information contained in their statement made pursuant to section 589.407. Tier I sexual offenders include...

(p) Contributing to social transition under section 566.400;