{"id":1979935,"date":"2023-07-21T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-state-official-escorted-out-of-heated-school-board-meeting-on-gender-policy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T19:30:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:30:45","slug":"california-state-official-escorted-out-of-heated-school-board-meeting-on-gender-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-state-official-escorted-out-of-heated-school-board-meeting-on-gender-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"California state official removed from tense school board meeting over gender policy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-state-official-escorted-out-of-heated-school-board-meeting-on-gender-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California\u2019s<\/a> superintendent of public instruction made quite\u200b the entrance \u2063at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/loudoun-county-is-forcing-parents-to-sign-form-promising-not-to-show-anyone-their-crt-based-curriculum\/\" title=\"Loudoun County Is Forcing Parents to Sign Form Promising Not to Show Anyone Their CRT-Based Curriculum\">heated school board meeting<\/a> \u200con Thursday. Tony Thurmond was escorted out after passionately arguing against a new policy that requires schools to inform parents about student gender transitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Chino Valley Unified School District, located just east of Los Angeles, approved the controversial gender policy after hours of intense debate.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, teachers are now required to notify parents if their children start using names and pronouns that \u2064differ from those on their birth certificate. Additionally, if a student requests to use\u200d the school bathroom of\u2063 the opposite gender, parents must be informed.<\/p>\n<p>Thurmond,\u2063 the California State \u200cSuperintendent of Public Instruction, showed up at the packed meeting and addressed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/loudoun-county-update-family-of-alleged-rape-victim-to-sue-school-district\/\" title=\"Loudoun County Update: Family Of Alleged Rape Victim To Sue School District\">school board directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">State Superintendent \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyThurmond?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TonyThurmond<\/a> removed from last night&#8217;s Chino Valley Unified School Board meeting after speaking out against &#8220;radical new policy&#8221; that requires teachers to notify parents if their children are\u2063 identifying as transgender. The policy ultimately passed. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pv3S1swt1X\">pic.twitter.com\/Pv3S1swt1X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Cota-Robles (@abc7marccr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abc7marccr\/status\/1682355748645240832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI ask you to consider this, that nearly half of students who identify as being LGBTQ+ are considering suicide,\u201d Thurmond passionately pleaded. \u201cI ask \u200byou to consider this, that the policy that \u2062you consider tonight not only may fall outside of the laws that respect privacy and safety for our students, but may put our students at\u200d risk because they may\u200b not be in homes where they can be\u2063 safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u2062 his time running out and his microphone being cut, Thurmond continued to speak for several seconds, determined to make his point.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chino Valley school board president Sonja Shaw responded to Thurmond&#8217;s criticism, pushing back against his claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTony Thurmond,\u200b I appreciate you being here tremendously, but here\u2019s the problem. We\u2019re here because of people like you. You\u2019re in \u200bSacramento proposing things that pervert children,\u201d Shaw boldly stated, causing the crowd in the room to erupt into cheers.<\/p>\n<p>Thurmond, not one to back down, returned to the\u2062 podium and requested to be allowed to respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, this \u200bis not your meeting.\u200c You may have a seat, because if I did that to you in\u200b Sacramento you would not accept it. Please sit.\u201d Shaw firmly replied. \u201cYou will not bully us here\u200b in \u200dChino.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As tensions rose, four security officers approached Thurmond and motioned for him to leave. However, Thurmond initially \u200brefused to \u200bcomply. Eventually, one of the security \u200dofficers took him by the arm, and Thurmond reluctantly left the room\u200b amidst shouts, chants,\u200b and clapping from the\u200d crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was\u2063 packed with members of the community, many\u200d of whom held signs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-state-official-escorted-out-of-heated-school-board-meeting-on-gender-policy\/\" title=\"California state official removed from tense school board meeting over gender policy.\">wore shirts expressing<\/a> their stance on \u200bthe \u2062gender transition\u200c policy.<\/p>\n<p>While some\u2062 held signs expressing \u2064their disapproval, one of which read, \u201cQueer Nation,\u201d many others showed \u2063support for the policy. A group of men\u200b even brought in two large American flags, and attendees donned shirts that read, \u201cLeave\u200c Our Kids Alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone\u2062 who wants to hide things from \u2062me about my little\u200c kids, you\u2019re no friend of mine,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PE6cH15Goy0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> one passionate dad who addressed the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to \u200dapologize to Sonja,\u201d one mother told the board president. \u201cI just thank you so much for your bravery. You are in your position because we the parents, \u2063like we the people, have had enough of the garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s obvious that\u2063 we\u2019re looking at a spiritual\u2064 battle right now,\u201d the mom added. \u201cThese demons are\u200b after our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thurmond \u200chad previously \u2064announced a partnership between California\u2019s Education Department and the Los Angeles Office of Education. The collaboration aims to provide\u2064 teachers with &#8220;cultural competency training&#8221; \u200dand resources\u2062 to support\u200b LGBTQ youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s superintendent of public instruction was removed from a heated school board meeting for opposing a new policy mandating schools to inform parents about student gender transitions. The Chino Valley Unified School District, located east of Los Angeles, passed the gender policy after lengthy deliberations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1979936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}