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Fact check: California lawmaker statements about parents of transgender children are wrongRead the Full ArticleSan Francisco Bee - ANDREW SHEELER
UPDATED MAY 24, 2024 2:06 PM
A California Republican lawmaker made a series of false statements Wednesday, in response to a Democratic bill that would stop school districts from forcing school staff to inform parents that their child is transgender.
"Let's be clear. There are no 'forced outing' policies in California. This is a false narrative manufactured to prey on people's emotions," Essayli wrote in the lengthy post.
Essayli has frequently taken exception to describing the practice of forcibly revealing a student's gender to their parents against their will as "forced outing," though that is in fact what districts across California have been doing since the first such policy was enacted last summer.
School districts from Chino Valley to Rocklin have passed policies requiring teachers to notify parents if their child uses different pronouns or a different name at school, regardless of whether that notification would place the child in danger of abuse.
Which leads to Essayli's second falsehood.
"There is no evidence that parents are rejecting children who are experiencing gender dysphoria," Essayli wrote, referring to the medical diagnosis for the psychological distress resulting from the conflict between one's sex assigned at birth and one's gender identity.
This is incorrect.-----------------
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