Voters toss school board members who forced outing of students

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Voters toss school board members who forced outing of students

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Story by Bil Browning (19 March 2024)

Voters in Orange, California, voted to oust two school board members who championed a policy that forced teachers and councilors to out transgender students to their parents.

Madison Miner and Rick Ledesma, the former board president, both lost recall elections that were directly tied to their culture war priorities and opposition to LGBTQ+ rights.

The school board passed a measure last year that required school staff to notify parents of "any request by the student to use a name that differs from their legal name" or to use pronouns different from those on their original school records. Miner and Ledesma both led the effort.

Other conservative California cities passed similar measures. The California attorney general has filed lawsuits against the school boards to nullify the efforts.