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Bill banning transgender notification policies in California schools clears first hurdle

California lawmakers in a key committee on Wednesday approved a measure to prohibit public school districts across the state from setting policies requiring parents to be notified if their child identifies as transgender.

The Senate Education Committee approved the bill on a party-line vote 4-2 following a nearly two-hour hearing.

"Students and their families cannot survive another year without this being resolved by the state," said Kristi Hirst with the nonprofit Our Schools USA in support of the proposal. "The extremists will not stop wasting public money on their political crusade."

The proposal comes almost a year after several school districts across the state began implementing the policies. The first school district to do so, Chino Valley Unified School District, has its policy on hold by the courts after Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the district last summer.

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Parental Alert: California Senate Passes Bill Banning School Districts From Mandating Parental Notification of Student Pronouns​


As the battle over parental rights continues to intensify, California politicians are attempting to ban school districts from mandating teachers notify parents if kids start using new pronouns at school.

The California Senate approved AB 1955 Thursday, paving the way for it to be considered in Assembly committees and on the full Assembly floor. If passed there, the controversial legislation would then head to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to be potentially signed into law.

The proposal would cement a ban on school districts creating policies that require kids’ gender identities and sexual orientations be shared with parents. Under the law, such information wouldn’t generally be able to be shared without the child’s permission, CBS News reported.

“This bill would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools, and a member of the governing board or body of those educational entities, from enacting or enforcing any policy, rule, or administrative regulation that requires an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent unless otherwise required by law, as provided,” an explanation of the legislation reads.

The text goes on to say that AB 1955 would also prohibit districts from “retaliating or taking adverse action against” an employee who has “supported a pupil in the exercise of specified rights, work activities, or providing certain instruction, as provided.”

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