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A highly contested California bill signed into law last week by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has stoked ire among parents and politicians, who slammed the gender identity law as a usurpation of parents’ rights.
The first in the nation bill bans schools in the state from being forced to notify parents if their child uses pronouns or a gender identity opposite their biological sex.
AB1955 prevents school districts from notifying parents if their child starts using different pronouns or identifies as a different gender than what’s on their school record and prohibits school districts from “retaliating or taking adverse action against an employee” who affirms a student’s gender identity.
“This bill would prohibit school districts … from enacting or enforcing any policy, rule, or administrative regulation that requires an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent,” the law states.
The law also “prohibit[s] employees or contractors of those educational entities from being required to make such a disclosure unless otherwise required by law, as provided.”
Erin Friday, California attorney and co-lead at Our Duty, a group that helps parents protect their children from trans ideology, told Fox News Digital that the law cements secrecy in California’s public schools.
“We are the first state to really mandate that teachers must lie to parents about their child’s gender identity,” she said.
Friday’s own daughter struggled with gender dysphoria before she and her husband intervened. Her daughter no longer identifies as transgender.
“You take that opportunity away once you have adults elsewhere concretizing the false identity of these kids and these kids are in school with these teachers … 6 or 7 hours a day [and are] being affirmed,” Friday said. “The parents don’t have a chance to pull these kids out. These kids are now stuck in this gender identity and the social contagion continues.” Continue reading…
