School districts in California have contracted with outside agencies focused on mental health, tutoring, suicide prevention, and many other topics to provide schools with sex and gender education services, said Brenda Lebsack, a teacher of 30 years and a former board member for the Orange Unified School District.
“A lot of it comes from Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools [program] that teaches kids: You can choose your gender. When you’re born, parents or doctors just make a guess at your gender by looking at your body parts, but that doesn’t determine who you really are. And you can be both genders, neither gender, gender fluid, or change as you go depending on your feelings.”
