Debate Surrounding Gender Identity Parental Notification Continues to Spread Across California

‘There is a lack of clarity between the federal laws and state laws. It’s putting school systems across the state of California in a very challenging place’

About 200 parental rights demonstrators marched through downtown Los Angeles to protest secret gender transitions in California public schools on Aug. 22, 2023. Courtesy of Hasmik Bezirdshyan

The latest district to debate whether parents or guardians should be notified about their child’s wish to identity as a different gender is the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, California.

At a school board meeting last month, community members and advocates for the LGBT community spoke against a form the district currently uses to gauge students’ needs for access to bathrooms and locker rooms.