Texas State Senator Konni Burton, a Tea Party Republican, recently filed SB 242, which would require schools to disclose transgender students' gender identities to their parents, for whatever reason.

The bill took shape, according to Logo, "after her native Fort Worth adopted new school guidelines, which barred faculty from disclosing a transgender student’s identity to parents without their express permission."

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ultimately put the kibosh on the Fort Worth ISD's provisions.

Per a statement on her website's blog:

Because of this, our office reviewed the provisions in state law which guarantee parents access to information in a public school. We found these provisions in desperate need of clarity and expansion. That is why I am planning to file a bill that rewrites these provisions to make it unequivocally clear that a parent has a right to full and total information on their child’s academic performance, physical, mental and emotional health, and more. Further, my legislation will make it expressly against state law for a district to adopt policies designed to undermine a parent’s right to know. No parent in Texas should ever have to fight for the basic right to matter in their child’s life again.

As Jezebel's Rachel Vorona Cote explained better than I can: