Post by icemandios on Apr 30, 2023 14:55:15 GMT
California Teachers Sue School District Over Transgender Policy Allegedly Forcing Them To Lie To Parents
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by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Apr 29, 2023 - 09:00 PM
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The California Department of Education in Sacramento, on April 18, 2022. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
The lawsuit happens to come after President Joe Bidenâs remarks earlier this month in support of the nationâs teacher of the year angered parents by suggesting government knows best when it comes to the raising of children.
Biden quoted the teacher when he said, âThereâs no such thing as someone elseâs child.â The president then said, âOur nationâs children are all our children.â
The legal complaint (pdf) in the new case, Mirabelli v. Olson, was filed April 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The teachers involved in the lawsuit are devout Christians.
The defendants are officials with the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), which is in San Diego County, and officials with the California State Board of Education.
The lawsuit was prompted by the K-8 school districtâs recent policies affecting transgender or gender-diverse students.
The policies require teachers to assist in a studentâs transgender âsocial transitionâ by accepting a childâs assertion of a transgender or gender-diverse identity and using during school hours any pronouns or a gender-specific name requested by a student.
At the same time, the policies also require teachers to revert to biological pronouns and legal names when speaking with parents in order to cover up information about a childâs purported gender identity from the childâs parents, according to the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit public interest law firm that filed the lawsuit.
âAll of this is to be done without parent or guardian agreement or knowledge,â said Paul Jonna, Thomas More Society special counsel and a partner at LiMandri and Jonna.
âSchools routinely send notes home to parents about trivial matters, like missing homework, so it is unfathomable that Escondido Union School District has a policy that forces teachers to withhold from parents some of the most fundamental and basic information about their children,â Jonna said.
EUSD requires all elementary and middle school teachers to âunhesitatingly accept a childâs assertion of a transgender or gender diverse identity, and ⊠[to] âbegin to treat the student immediatelyâ according to their asserted gender identity,â according to the legal complaint.
âThere is absolutely no room for discussion, polite disagreement, or even questioning whether the child is sincere or acting on a whim,â the complaint continues. âOnce a childâs social transitioning has begun, EUSD elementary and middle school teachers must ensure that parents do not find out.â
âEUSDâs policies state that ârevealing a studentâs transgender status to individuals who do not have a legitimate need for the information, without the studentâs consentâ is prohibited, and âparents or caretakersâ are, according to EUSD, individuals who âdo not have a legitimate need for the information,â irrespective of the age of the student or the specific facts of the situation.â
Tyler Durden's Photo
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Apr 29, 2023 - 09:00 PM
Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Teachers from a California middle school are suing officials in their school district in federal court over policies that they say force them to conceal the transgender status of young students from parents.
The lawsuit happens to come after President Joe Bidenâs remarks earlier this month in support of the nationâs teacher of the year angered parents by suggesting government knows best when it comes to the raising of children.
Biden quoted the teacher when he said, âThereâs no such thing as someone elseâs child.â The president then said, âOur nationâs children are all our children.â
The legal complaint (pdf) in the new case, Mirabelli v. Olson, was filed April 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The teachers involved in the lawsuit are devout Christians.
The defendants are officials with the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), which is in San Diego County, and officials with the California State Board of Education.
The lawsuit was prompted by the K-8 school districtâs recent policies affecting transgender or gender-diverse students.
The policies require teachers to assist in a studentâs transgender âsocial transitionâ by accepting a childâs assertion of a transgender or gender-diverse identity and using during school hours any pronouns or a gender-specific name requested by a student.
At the same time, the policies also require teachers to revert to biological pronouns and legal names when speaking with parents in order to cover up information about a childâs purported gender identity from the childâs parents, according to the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit public interest law firm that filed the lawsuit.
âAll of this is to be done without parent or guardian agreement or knowledge,â said Paul Jonna, Thomas More Society special counsel and a partner at LiMandri and Jonna.
âSchools routinely send notes home to parents about trivial matters, like missing homework, so it is unfathomable that Escondido Union School District has a policy that forces teachers to withhold from parents some of the most fundamental and basic information about their children,â Jonna said.
EUSD requires all elementary and middle school teachers to âunhesitatingly accept a childâs assertion of a transgender or gender diverse identity, and ⊠[to] âbegin to treat the student immediatelyâ according to their asserted gender identity,â according to the legal complaint.
âThere is absolutely no room for discussion, polite disagreement, or even questioning whether the child is sincere or acting on a whim,â the complaint continues. âOnce a childâs social transitioning has begun, EUSD elementary and middle school teachers must ensure that parents do not find out.â
âEUSDâs policies state that ârevealing a studentâs transgender status to individuals who do not have a legitimate need for the information, without the studentâs consentâ is prohibited, and âparents or caretakersâ are, according to EUSD, individuals who âdo not have a legitimate need for the information,â irrespective of the age of the student or the specific facts of the situation.â