California sues school district over policy ‘outing’ trans students to parentsBy Priscilla DeGregory
August 29, 2023
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing to block a local school district’s policy to inform parents if their child expresses they may be transgender.
The Chino Valley Unified School District policy, which went into effect in July, forces employees to notify parents if their children ask to use a different name or pronoun or seek to use bathrooms and programs that don’t align with their birth gender while at school.
School staff must alert parents in such cases — even if they don’t have the student’s permission to make the disclosure.
The AG argues the policy violates anti-discrimination and privacy laws and threatens students mental well being, according to the suit filed in San Bernardino Superior Court on Monday — three weeks after classes started in the district on Aug. 7.
The policy places transgender and non-binary students “in danger of imminent, irreparable harm form the consequences of forced disclosures,” as the students will be forced to choose between walking back their constitutional right to gender identity and expression “or face the risk of emotional, physical and psychological harm from non-affirming or unaccepting parents or guardians,” the suit charges.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/california-sues-schools-over-policy-outing-trans-students/
