CV NEWS FEED // Multiple school districts in the area surrounding Sacramento, CA, have resolved to adopt policies supporting parental rights despite a lawsuit the state Attorney General filed against a similar policy.
CatholicVote reported Tuesday that the Chino Valley Unified School District in the Inland Empire region of Southern California implemented a policy last month that
requires schools to inform parents in writing within three days if their child “identifies” as a different gender at school. The notification policy also applies to children who request teachers to use their “preferred pronouns,” and parents will also be informed if their child requests to use a bathroom that does not match the child’s biological sex.
Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday announced a lawsuit to “immediately halt the enforcement” of the policy, which he called “mandatory gender identity disclosure.”
As CatholicVote reported, Bonta claims
the policy violates the California Constitution’s equal protection clause and state civil rights laws, which he says protect a child’s right to privacy. Bonta also argued that the policy discriminates against students on the basis of gender identity, violating California’s Education and Government Code.
Bonta said the policy has already caused mental, emotional, psychological, and physical damage to LGBTQ students.
The several public school districts in the northern part of the state are not deterred by the Democrat’s impending lawsuit and are going full-speed-ahead with considering parental notification policies of their own.
Jonathan Zachreson, who serves on the Roseville City School Board, said in an interview with The Daily Signal that “Every school district in our area is considering such a policy.”
The Signal’s Tyler O’Neil wrote that according to Zachreson, “Bonta’s legal action will not discourage school boards from upholding parental rights.”
Zachreson called Bonta’s beliefs on the matter “unpopular,” and told the Signal that in challenging Chino Valley’s policy the attorney general is “basically saying that parents are a danger to their kid.”
“Transgender” kids “are bullied at school,” Zachreson argued, “yet we’re going to keep that secret from parents? No one cares more about their kids than parents do.”
“They’re acting like parents are the enemy. It’s scary that that’s their state of mind.”
