California News:
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Stephen Acquisto, appointed by former Gov. Jerry Brown, tentatively upheld California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s renaming of the proposed ballot initiative “the “Protect Kids of California Act of 2024,” to “Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth.”
The purpose of the initiative is to require staff members at California schools to notify parents if their child asks to change gender identification at schools, as well as protecting girl’s/women’s sports from transgender persons, as well as girl’s/women’s bathrooms.
From the “Protect Kids of California Act of 2024” initiative:
The initiative will
- add a new Education Code provision requiring schools to notify parents when a pupil requests to be treated as a gender different from the gender on the pupil’s record, i.e. the biological sex, and to obtain consent before providing accommodations on such request;
- repeal an existing Education Code provision providing that a student must be permitted to participate in sex-segregated activities and use facilities consistent with the student’s gender identity;
- add new Education Code provisions prohibiting schools from allowing biological male students to participate in programs or activities designated for female students and to use facilities designated for female students; and
- add new Business and Professions Code provisions prohibiting health care providers from providing “sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures” to minors.
In short, the initiative will:
- repeal the California law that permits students to compete in female’s sports and students to be in females’ locker rooms and bathrooms;
- prohibit schools from deceiving parents about their student’s gender identity crisis and stop them from secretly transitioning a child; and
- stop sex change operations and chemical castrations on minors.
LifeSite News reports:
Originally submitted as the “Protect Kids of California Act of 2024,” the initiative requires public and private schools and colleges to limit use of sex-specific restrooms and lockers to actual members of their designated sex and exclude males from female-specific athletic programs for grades seven and up, as well as requires parental notification if an underage student requests to be treated as a different gender and forbids surgical or chemical “transitioning” of gender-confused minors.
The initiative needs 500,000+ signatures to make the November ballot. However, AG Bonta has made their task more difficult by forcing them to circulate it under the name “Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth,” along with summary language framing the proposed changes in a negative light, such as that the parental notification requirement comes “without exception for student safety” and that even so-called “medically recommended” underage “transitions” are prohibited, LifeSite News reported.
But Judge Acquisto said the attorney general’s description of the proposal is accurate, AP reported:
“Under current law, minor students have express statutory rights with respect to their gender identity,” Acquisto wrote in his tentative ruling. “A substantial portion of the proposed measure is dedicated to eliminating or restricting these statutory rights.”
From the lawsuit:
On November 29, 2023, the Attorney General issued the following circulating title and
summary for the proposed measure under Elections Code section 9004:
RESTRICTS RIGHTS OF TRANSGENDER YOUTH. INITIATIVE STATUTE.
• Requires public and private schools and colleges to: restrict gender-segregated
facilities like bathrooms to persons assigned that gender at birth; prohibit
transgender female students (grades 7+) from participating in female sports.
Repeals law allowing students to participate in activities and use facilities
consistent with their gender identity.
• Requires schools to notify parents whenever a student under 18 asks to be
treated as a gender differing from school records without exception for student
safety.
• Prohibits gender-mutilation health care for transgender patients under 18, even if
parents consent or treatment is medically recommended.
What kind of upside-down world do we live in when an Attorney General and Judge think it is okay to allow boys in girls bathrooms if they identify as girls, allow boys to play girls sports, allow boys in girls bathrooms if they identify as girls, and allow school officials to keep a child’s changing/transitioning gender identity from parents under the guise of “student safety.”
Here is the initiative and instructions for signing and gathering signatures.
Here is the lawsuit:
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Author: Katy Grimes
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