State Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond was told to leave a school district meeting in Southern California after expressing his opposition to a policy that requires administrators to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender.
Thurmond was escorted out of the meeting held by the Chino Valley Unified School District when he exceeded his allotted one-minute speaking time by a second or two.
He used his time to voice concerns about the policy, stating that it would violate the privacy rights of students.
Despite Thurmond’s objections, the Chino School Board ultimately voted to approve the policy, which mandates schools to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender, seeks a name or pronoun change, or requests access to gender-based facilities that do not correspond with their assigned gender at birth….
“They should find a more balanced way to show their respect for private rights that doesn’t trample on the safety and the rights of our students,” Thurmond said.
Afterward, Thurmond took to Twitter to describe how he felt “verbally attacked” by the school board president, who told police to remove him.
“I don’t mind being thrown out of a board meeting by extremists,” he wrote. “I can take the heat — it’s part of the job. What I can’t accept is the mistreatment of vulnerable students whose privacy is being taken away.”
School Board President Sonja Shaw said she kicked him about because he spoke more than the allotted time. During the meeting, she repeatedly told Thurmond to “sit down!” and it wasn’t his meeting.
Shaw added: “We think he is a danger to our students. He continues to push things that pervert children, and he continues to push out parents and bring in policies that create division between families.”
The crowd chanted. Police came up to this podium. Thurmond exited to both boos and claps. He described being “forcibly removed” from the public meeting.
Others, like Jonathan Zachreson, who is running for a school board seat in Roseville, Calif., also noted that Thurmond wasn’t kicked out; he was asked to leave….
Glad to see Chino is acting well
Children belong to parents, so they should know everything that their child does. A family that prays together stays together.
Is that the city with the party college?
I think that you are referring to Chico State.
How in the world does Kalifornia seemingly elect mentally ill people to almost every state level position. I keep waiting for our Sodom and Gomorrah moment!
James: Your Sodom and Gomorrah moment isn’t too far away!
Tony Thurmond, just another groomer out to mutilate the children so they can spend a lifetime having one mutilating surgery after another that solves nothing. I suggest he listen to all the young adults who were mutilated as children with hormones and surgery who are trying to retransition back into what God made them in the first place and often finding it impossible.
Makes me and many other parents sick to our stomachs, and thus he got rightfully kicked out of the meeting. LEAVE OUR CHILDREN ALONE!
The audacity of parents to think they’re expert enough to raise their children! Child rearing must be left to government bureaucrats who are experts (in everything).
Today in the news, it was reported that transgender activists are violently threatening to kill the Chino School Board president and their family, even their pets. These violent activists are criminals, and should be locked up in jail.
It’s not crime and it’s not wrong if a Democrat does it, especially not in California or Washington, D.C. Violence and murder in service of advancing Democrat policies is a virtue on the left.
It is not known that the threats – one by phone, others by email-were from transgender activists.
link please, or at least give us the place it was reported
May God do to them what they wickedly seek to do to others. This is not about corrective surgery for children born with genital defects or by accidents but about evilly mutilating normally developing children.