On Thursday, board members of the Chino Valley Unified School District in California voted for a policy that requires school officials to inform parents if their child identifies as “transgender.”
The decision passed the Chino Valley board 4-1. They said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond spoke at the meeting CBS.
“I support parents’ rights,” he said, before adding that he supports student safety and that “what I saw here today was simply pandering to a mob mentality that disregards the safety of many of our students who are vulnerable and in difficult situations.” . risk.”
One teacher reportedly said that the board “is clearly more focused on pushing its political and religious agendas.”
On the other hand, many parents support board members’ efforts to protect parental rights.
“You are creating a ripple effect and you should be proud of what you are doing,” said one parent.
In 2014, California passed the test AB 1266, which does not allow schools to inform parents about their children’s gender identity without first asking the student. Earlier this year, a teacher at Jurupa Valley High School in a neighboring school district said she was fired for failing to hide her students’ gender transitions from parents. Teacher Jessica Tapia talked about it ABC7 that the district encouraged her to lie to her parents.
“And I said, ‘Are you asking me to lie to my parents?’ And they said, ‘Yes,'” Tapia said at the news conference.
“We are talking about minors. Their brain is not fully developed. The decision-making portal in this brain is not fully developed and at this point they need their parents for everything,” she added. “Everything they go through, mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, you name it.”
“Hiding information from parents is not only wrong, but also dangerous and harmful to the emotional and physical safety of trans minors,” California state Assemblyman Bill Essayli said at a news conference. Introduces provisions protecting parents’ rights in education. “The law will reset the appropriate relationship between educators and parents and confirm that children are the domain of parents, not the government.”
As Townhall reports, school districts in Colorado, Virginia, Kansas and California have been exposed for concealing students’ “gender transitions” from parents. As a result, Republican Senator Tim Scott (SC) has introduced legislation that would prevent schools from concealing information about a student’s gender identity from parents.
In May, an Ohio school district was exposed for instructing teachers to report child abuse to protective services if the parents of a “transgender” student did not support the student’s gender identity. In New York, guidelines issued by the state Department of Education instructed school officials to conceal a student’s gender change from parents if the student did not consent to the school informing them.
Late last month, the Daily Mail discovered that several dozen Midwest teachers gathered on a Zoom call to discuss helping students who identify as “transgender” keep it a secret from their parents.
