Kentucky's top education official resigns over anti-LGBTQ+ law

Kentucky Education Commissioner Jason Glass says he’d rather leave his job than be charged with implementing new restrictions on transgender students under Senate Bill 150.

Glass announced his resignation Monday. In a conversation with reporters Tuesday, Glass explained his decision.

“Of course my decision to leave was influenced by the political situation that we find ourselves in in Kentucky, but also in many other places across the nation,” Glass said.

“I do not wish to be part of implementing the dangerous and unconstitutional anti-LGBTQI law that the Legislature passed this last session. So it is time for me to move on.”

Glass was referring to Senate Bill 150, which requires local school districts to prohibit transgender students from using bathrooms that match their gender. It also restricts classroom speech on sex education, gender identity and sexual orientation, and allows school staff to intentionally misgender students.