Two members of the Orange Unified School District board have been removed by parents who opposed a policy requiring school staff to out transgender kids.

Two members of the Orange Unified School District board have been removed by parents who opposed a policy requiring school staff to out transgender kids.

Parents in Southern California have voted to remove two conservative school board members after they spearheaded a policy that forcibly outs transgender students to their guardians.

Members of the Orange Unified School District board voted 4-0 to enact the policy in September. It was passed at 11:30 p.m., after the three opposed members walked out and withheld their votes.

The policy states that parents must be notified when a student seeks “to be identified as a gender other than the student’s biological sex or gender listed on the student’s birth certificate or any other official records.” This includes names, nicknames, and pronouns, and applies even if the student hasn’t taken action but has discussed the matter with a counselor.

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At the initial meeting in September, the board was overwhelmed by crowds who showed up to either protest or support the policy. However, the majority of the attendees voicing support did not have children in the district’s schools, and most were not residents of the area, according to the Times.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
    214·
    8 months ago

    I never disagreed with any mandates or agreed with them in any shape or fashion. I disagreed with blaming parents for their kids not wanting to tell the parents.

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      So all of the parents who emotionally and physically abuse their their queer children are faultless, and abused children should unconditionally trust their abusers because they’re their parents and must know what’s best?

      And now you’ve spent the last 8 hours angrily arguing this in a thread about queerphobic educational mandates, because you have absolutely no opinion about the mandares of which we are all discussing?

      C’mon man… You don’t have to die on this very stupid hill. You don’t even have to admit that you are wrong. You can just stop digging this hole.

      • GladiusB@lemmy.world
        19·
        8 months ago

        I’m not defending anyone that abused anyone. Read the fucking writing. I’m saying that MOST parents aren’t given a chance to even know about every kid. Kids build up these gigantic pillars of fear and don’t even give their parents a chance to respond.

        Am I talking about the dicks that bully their kids? No. I’m talking about every day parents that love their kids and are kept out of the dark for the kid’s choice. It happens all the time. Then they grow up and realize all their fears were their own doing.

        I have seen it soooooooo many times.

        Are there shitty parents that are crappy? Yes. But that is not who I was talking about at all. Read what the fuck I wrote.

        • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          Going out on limb here, but you sound like you’re venting about your relationship with your own kids. Given your belief that kids don’t deserve privacy, such a lack of trust in you would be entirely deserved.

          If this isn’t the situation, it will be someday, if you ever raise a kid without dropping the helicopter parent routine.