CA Lawmakers Seek To Reverse Law That Prohibits Teachers From Disclosing Student Gender Identities, Transitions With Parents
California Republican legislators introduced a bill that would require schools to notify parents if their child is transidentifying or otherwise. “non-binary” After a teacher at a state high school was fired for violating an anti-discrimination state law, the state suspended such interactions.
Last week, Assemblymembers Bill Essayli, R-Riverside, and James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, unveiled AB-1314. Also known as the “Theatrical Bill Essayli” “Gender identity: parental notification” The bill would require school districts to notify parents within three working days if their children have sex not shown on their official records.
“Parents play a critical role in nurturing and supporting children and they cannot be removed from the equation,” The Los Angeles Times reported that Essayli stated this during a Monday news conference.
“Concealing information from parents is not only wrong — it’s dangerous and harmful to the emotional and physical safety of trans minors,” ABC7 reports that Essayli has been added.
Essayli and Jessica Tapia, a former teacher at Jurupa Valley High School, held a press conference. Jessica Tapia was fired for refusing to comply with the state law which prohibits educators from discussing children’s gender without student consent.
“I said, ‘Are you asking me to lie?’ And they said, ‘Yes. It’s the law, and it’s for the student’s privacy,'” Tapia stated. “I can’t understand how the school system seems to think that we ought to act as though we are the parent.”
California Department of Education says that the current law protects trans students as disclosing their gender identity could increase their chances of being identified by their parents. “vulnerability to harassment and may violate the student’s right to privacy.”
“We are talking about minors,” Tapia stated. “Their brain is not fully developed. The decision-making portal in that brain is not fully developed, and they need their parents at this time for everything.”
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“Everything they’re going through — mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually — you name it,” She continued.
Tapia stated that she will sue the school district for wrongful termination.
In a statement, Jurupa Unified Schools District officials stated that they had told ABC7 that “all students and staff enjoy the right to privacy under the Constitutions of the United States and California.”
“While individuals may elect to disclose their personal information to the public, the District is prohibited from doing so,” According to the statement. “The District’s actions related to Ms. Tapia were based on its obligations under current state and federal law, which protects student privacy and requires the District to provide a discrimination-free learning environment to students.”
Assemblymember Essayli said that if the new law passes, it will reset an appropriate relationship between educators and parents — reaffirming children belong to their parents and not the government.
The Los Angeles Times reported that officials from California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus issued a statement saying the new bill would allow transgender and other-binary students to enroll in the state’s new legislation. “potentially life threatening danger, subjecting them to trauma and violence.”
“Teachers should not be forced into the inappropriate position of revealing a student’s personal information about their gender identity with anyone,” The statement is as follows:
Peggy Bigby Lamberth from California argued that parents should have input into their children’s decisions.
“Parents should absolutely be involved in all the decisions that their kids make,” Lamberth spoke to ABC7. “Right now, kids are influenced by the media, by their friends, by just a lot of mixed messages.”
Another California school district was under fire last January when The Center for American Liberty filed suit against Chico Unified school District superintendent and school board for allegedly transferring a female child. “behind her mother’s back.”
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