{"id":2255364,"date":"2024-05-29T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-transgender-parental-notification-policy-fails-to-make-it-onto-ballot\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T23:06:09","slug":"california-transgender-parental-notification-policy-fails-to-make-it-onto-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-transgender-parental-notification-policy-fails-to-make-it-onto-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Transgender Parental Notification Policy Struggles to Reach Ballot"},"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\">18<\/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-transgender-parental-notification-policy-fails-to-make-it-onto-ballot%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=2255364&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 proposed California policy mandating parental notification on \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-say-massachusetts-middle-school-carried-out-secret-gender-transitions-on-children\/\" title=\"Parents Say Massachusetts Middle School Carried Out Secret Gender Transitions on Children\">student gender identity<\/a> changes failed to secure enough signatures for the November ballot. Protect Kids California, the group behind the measure,\u2064 fell short of the\u200d required 546,651 signatures, managing\u2062 to \u200bcollect about\u200d 400,000. Despite the setback, they acknowledged the widespread support received from across the state. The initiative aimed to ban certain\u2062 medical procedures on minors, revoke existing laws, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-gus-bilirakis-stays-true-to-conservative-america\/\" title=\"Rep. Gus Bilirakis stays true to conservative America\">ensure parental involvement<\/a> \u200bin gender \u2062identity matters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A proposed policy that would have required <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a> public schools to inform parents if their children change their gender identity has failed to get enough signatures to appear on November\u2019s ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Protect Kids California, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-would-make-california-a-sanctuary-for-child-sex-changes\/\" title=\"Bill Would Make California A Sanctuary For Child Sex Changes\">parental rights group<\/a> that launched the ballot measure, announced Tuesday that they had failed to collect enough signatures. The group collected about 400,000 of the 546,651 signatures required to appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to submit the signatures to election officials was Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We want to thank our tens of thousands of supporters and volunteers for this truly historic effort!<\/p>\n<p>Together, we collected over 400,000 signatures \u2013 an unprecedented achievement for a 100% grassroots effort. You really are amazing! \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>While it is unfortunate we did not have\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DdRJinW2uY\">pic.twitter.com\/DdRJinW2uY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Protect Kids CA (@ProtectKidsCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProtectKidsCA\/status\/1795604056767123851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are disappointed we didn\u2019t meet the threshold to qualify for the ballot, we are encouraged by the amount of support from every sector of the state,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/californias-proposed-parental-notification-policy-gender-identity-changes-fails-qualify-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> campaign organizer Jonathan Zachreson, one of the group\u2019s co-founders, as well as a Roseville school board member.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the signatures came from the Los Angeles area, Zachreson said.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot initiative essentially had three parts.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative would have banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries on minors and disciplined any violating doctor. It would also have repealed the California law that allows biological males to compete in girls\u2019 sports and use girls\u2019 bathrooms and locker rooms. Finally, the initiative would have prohibited schools from keeping a child\u2019s new gender identity secret from their parents.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1716990157394000&#038;usg=AOvVaw33qQydjIo8bet419amChif\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The group said they had faced \u201csevere headwinds\u201d from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, Protect Kids California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/parent-group-sues-california-dem-ag-over-how-he-described-their-transgender-ballot-initiative\">filed<\/a> a lawsuit against Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, over his characterization of the ballot initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Bonta had slammed the measure and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/administration\/news-releases-and-advisories\/2023-news-releases-and-advisories\/proposed-initiative-enters-circulation-23-0027#:~:text=RESTRICTS%20RIGHTS%20OF%20TRANSGENDER%20YOUTH.,-INITIATIVE%20STATUTE.&#038;text=Requires%20public%20and%20private%20schools,from%20participating%20in%20female%20sports\">dubbed<\/a> it the \u201cRestricts Rights of Transgender Youth\u201d initiative in his office\u2019s official summary, which appeared on the petition supporters had to sign to get it on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>This confused supporters and hampered the parental rights group\u2019s effort to gather signatures, Zachreson said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the feedback is \u2018Why did you write the initiative this way?\u2019 and they\u2019re focused on the title and summary and we\u2019re like \u2018Well, we didn\u2019t write it. That was Attorney General Rob Bonta,&#8217;\u201d Zachreson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we do feel like it\u2019s going well, it definitely has an interfering effect on the process as well as from a donor perspective as well as for the signature gathering effort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a judge denied the parental rights group\u2019s motion. The group still plans to appeal that decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we had a little more time or a little more money, we would have easily qualified for the ballot,\u201d the group <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ProtectKidsCA\/status\/1795604056767123851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California policy mandating parental notification for student gender identity changes failed to secure sufficient signatures for the November ballot. 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