California Faces Wave of Lawsuits Over Gender Identity Notification in Schools

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A motherโ€™s tears of worry and frustration over her 17-year-old daughterโ€™s secret social gender transition at school tell the story of what many parents are facing in California schools.

โ€œI cry every day, not only for my daughter but for the parents that are now contacting me about their kids,โ€ one Los Angeles County mom told The Epoch Times on the condition of anonymity to protect her daughterโ€™s identity.

Under the pseudonym, Lena, she said her daughter, Hannahโ€”also a pseudonymโ€”suffered from gender dysphoria and was secretly socially transitioned at school.

Lena is one of several parents representing nine families that joined a lawsuit filed by the City of Huntington Beach against state officials over a new law that bans parental notification policies, effectively prohibiting school staff from revealing social gender transitions of students to their parents without the childโ€™s consent.

California is the only state to enact such a law.

Unbeknown to her parents, Hannah began secretly identifying as โ€œtransโ€ in 2020, when she was 13, after spending a lot of time on social media platforms.

She was homeschooled until the ninth grade when she attended public high school and is now in her senior year.

In 2021, as Lena was cleaning her daughterโ€™s bedroom, she was shocked to find a sketchbook that contained Hannahโ€™s drawings depicting self-mutilation, suicide ideation, and the bloody aftermath of gender transition surgeries.

โ€œIโ€™m going through her books, and I see very disturbing pictures of her bloody body cut up, saying, โ€˜I need to come out. I need to pick a name, and I need to tell my parents Iโ€™m trans. I want to be on testosterone. I want top surgery,โ€™โ€ Lena said.

She knew something was seriously wrong, and wanted to talk with Hannah but said it took a few weeks to find the right words and broach the sensitive subject.

โ€œI told her what I found and that we love her, and we donโ€™t care what sexual orientation she is as she grows into herself, but sheโ€™s not trans,โ€ Lena said.

Byย Brad Jones

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