California illegally hid K–12 students’ “gender transitions” from parents, the US Department of Education revealed in a bombshell decision Wednesday.
In a huge victory for parental rights in the Golden State, the DOE found that school officials were pressured by the state’s education department to “withhold information about students’ so-called ‘gender transitions’ from their parents.”
“Children do not belong to the State — they belong to families,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.
Mom Aurora Regino unsuccessfully sued the Chico Unified School District for “socially transitioning” her child after she found out that her then-11-year-old daughter quietly transitioned from female to male with the help of her school.
“What the Department of Education has now confirmed is deeply disturbing but, sadly, not surprising. I know this firsthand,” Regino said in a statement Wednesday.
“My daughter’s school socially transitioned my daughter, without telling me what it was doing, and when I found out, they claimed they were legally prohibited from being honest with me about what they had done.
“No parent should ever be treated as the enemy. What happened to my family is now confirmed to be part of a broader, illegal pattern and parents deserve accountability.”
Some parents brought class-action lawsuits claiming they were kept in the dark about their child’s transition — including one mom who said her daughter was instructed by school officials to not inform her that kid switched her gender identity to trans.
School officials also showed the girl how to make chest binders, the feds said. School administrators later told the mother they didn’t need to tell her because of a parental secrecy policy.
DOE’s Student Privacy Policy Office added that the Golden State enforced the practice statewide, citing just one example.
Regino’s case was thrown out by a federal judge in Sacramento earlier this month, Courthouse News reported.
Various lawsuits from around California involve similar disturbing allegations that Regino had levied. --->READ MORE HERE
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The U.S. Department of Education found the California Department of Education (CDE) in violation of federal family rights law on Wednesday for facilitating the gender “transition” of children and hiding it from their parents.
California pressured school districts across the state to violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a student privacy and parental rights law, by forcing them to conceal student records from parents about their child’s so-called “gender transition,” according to a senior department official detailing the results of an investigation Wednesday.
“FERPA requires that schools provide access to all education records upon a parent’s request. Schools do not get to choose which records they feel like providing to parents and which ones they don’t,” the official said. “As Secretary McMahon stated last year, this is not only patently unlawful, but morally reprehensible. Children do not belong to the state. They belong to their parents. Parents must know about the most sensitive information pertaining to their child’s health and well-being.”
A Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) investigation found that at least 300 students in California were put on “‘gender support plans,’ many without parental consent or knowledge.” At CDE’s direction, school officials placed the “support plans” in “separate filing systems” to keep parents in the dark about the plans.
As The Federalist reported, school personnel are often some of the first and most influential people a student interacts with regarding confusion about sex and “gender,” and many push children toward “social transition” like name and pronoun changes, which often leads to destructive medical interventions.
The Department of Education stated that one mother sued her daughter’s California school after staff groomed her daughter into believing she was “transgender.” Telling the student to hide her supposed “transition” from her mother, school officials also helped the girl utilize chest binders — a compression cloth used to flatten a female’s breasts so she can attempt to appear more masculine. --->READ MORE HERE
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