A California mother is suing her local school board over a policy of “parental secrecy” under which the school refuses to inform the parents of children who decide to become transgender about their ongoing transition.
Aurora Regino is suing the superintendent and five school board members of the Chico Unified School District in Chico, after her 11-year-old daughter began a gender transition at school and she was not told. She is being represented by Harmeet Dhillon of the Center for American Liberty.
The Daily Wire reported Thursday:
“Under the Parental Secrecy Policy, schools in the District are prompting students to question their sexuality and gender, facilitating their social transition to a new gender identity, and integrating this new person into the school ecosystem, all without informing or receiving consent from their parents,” the lawsuit alleges.
Regino’s daughter, referred to as A.S. in the complaint, was a fifth-grade student at an elementary school in the district during the school year of 2021-2022, where she was allegedly influenced by a school counselor to adopt a transgender identity and hide it from her mother.
AB 1266, the legislation in question, provides only that California public schools allow students to participate in sports and use the bathroom “consistent with his or her gender identity.” The California Department of Education created an FAQ on AB 1266, recommending that school personnel keep students’ chosen trans-identities private at their request, but this guidance does not claim to have the force of law, according to the complaint….
This month, California became the nation’s first “sanctuary state” for children seeking gender transitions, including through irreversible surgery and drug treatments.
Full story at Breitbart.
A few questions:
Where is the father/husband? Is he in the picture?
Does the mom take her daughter to religious services every weekend?
Is it a religious family?
Does she vote for Democrats?
Are there other children in her household?
At what age did she begin to permit her daughter to have a cellphone and unfettered access to the internet?
Those are not necessarily good questions. None of the answers justify or rationalize a school district abusing a child and covering it up.
Should not children with only one parent (through no fault of their own), agnostic children or those with cellular telephones be protected?
The issue is child abuse and cover up.
Yes, children are safer and healthier when raised by both parents, raised in a Christian home and don’t have unfettered access to the internet. But, all children deserve to be protected.
According to this website, your questions are micro-aggressions. .
I have been been a teacher in California for over 35 years. The best advice that I can give to parents today, “If at all possible, homeschool your children.” There are few public school educators that I would trust with my children. I see the truth every day.
I want to make an addition to my previous comment. My other best advice to parents today, “Do not give a smart phone to your children until they turn 18.”
Your child will have no social life.
No social life existed before widespread use of smartphones?
Actually, people had face-to-face contact, conversations, real (not virtual, online) relationships and children played together, sometimes even outside, especially easy here in California. Do you really not remember any of that?
I’m not a Luddite. Just sayin’.
If they drive, though, make sure they have a dumb phone.
“…where she was allegedly influenced by a school counselor to adopt a transgender identity and hide it from her mother..” This is child abuse of enormous proportion. If sanity prevailed, the counselor would be locked up and the Board members fired. Bravo Aurora Regino for defending your daughter from these wolves in our educational system. This is evil run amuck, and I am glad you are fighting it. You have my prayers!
As a retired elementary school teacher in the Chico Unified School District, I’d like to point out there is much more to this story than is contained in this article. Check the district’s website, there is no Parental Secrecy Policy and saying so is a lie! Article 1, Section 1 of the California Constitution provides minors with the right to privacy. Disclosure of personal student information is also prohibited by the federal law known as the Family Educational and Rights to Privacy Act (aka: FERPA) which was proposed by the former conservative U S Senator from New York, James L Buckley. There are law firms on both the right and the left which seek out cases like this one to promote a political agenda. I suspect this is the case in this instance.