California is suing to stop schools from outing trans kids to their parents
State Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit Monday to stop a Southern California school district from outing transgender students to their parents, arguing that the policy violates students’ civil and constitutional rights and could cause them “mental emotional, psychological, and potential physical harm.”
Bonta’s suit against the Chino Valley Unified School District is the latest attempt by Democratic state officials to combat the recent adoption of such policies by conservative school boards. The outcome of the case could have bearing on other districts that have enacted similar rules in the last two months, including Murrieta Valley, Temecula and Anderson Union High School.
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The policy passed last month by the Chino Valley Unified School Board requires schools to inform parents whenever a student asks to use a different name or pronoun than what’s in their official record, or if a student requests to use facilities or participate in programs that don’t align with their assigned sex. A similar statewide proposal, introduced by Republican Assemblymember Bill Essayli, stalled and has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic supermajority Legislature.
What exactly does that mean? Which school activities are gendered? Are they going to report male students that want to take home ec to their parents?
Clearly talking about gender-segregated sports. And the first half of that same quotation totally clarifies they will do it even if a student merely changes gender/pronounts on their official records.
This was a radical right, antitrans school board passing a policy specifically designed to antagonize and endanger trans students.
My school had gendered health classes in sixth grade.
https://daily.jstor.org/gender-incommensurability-in-sports/ An interesting take on gender separation in sports.
Seen this before. It is a great read I recommend for people.
The simple truth is, if being a trans woman were such an immense competitive advantage in sports, we would've seen a lot of them performing at the top levels. We should see AT LEAST the same sample representation of trans women athletes as the greater population of trans women, and indeed should see far more than that.
We don't.
Professional sports is such an insanely elite field that we should expect any microscopic physical advantage would get multiplied into a dominating force.
Again, we don't see this happening with trans women.
No one was even looking out for it. It could've slipped completely under the radar. But those elite, successful trans women athletes? They are a severely, severely underrepresented minority. Not only are they not winning left right and center -- they're barely present at all.
That's not even facing the much more fundamental questions like "does sportsmanship really override someone's autonomy of body and genuine identity" or "since when did we start caring about women's sports so much that it was worth passing insane laws about it" and all the like. And also the scientific and medical fact that gender and sex are a spectrum, not a binary. A bimodal distribution for sure, but a spectrum nevertheless.