A campaign to recall a school board trustee in Woodland, California—about 15 miles northwest of Sacramento—over her controversial comments about the LGBT community says they have gathered enough signatures to trigger a recall election in March of next year.
Now, the Yolo County Election Office has 30 days to verify the signatures.
Ms. MacDonald said the amount of youth identifying as transgender has “more than doubled” in recent years, indicating that the rapid increase in transgender identification could be a social trend among teens.
“Transgender identification has more than doubled in five years, particularly among teenage girls, who were one of the least likely demographics to identify as transgender until the last few years when it became the largest demographic to do so by a large margin,” Ms. MacDonald said. “The increase has been so massive that it defies any reasonable explanation at least some degree of social contagion.”
She went on, “We must act with great caution in order to protect the increasing numbers of children who are experiencing transgender procedures as a result of social contagion without sacrificing the tiny number of individuals who would identify as transgender even without social contagion, education campaigns, and the social cache attached to a transgender identity in the present.”
“The school district and school board has repeatedly affirmed their commitment to create a ‘safe, supportive, and inclusive environment’ for all of Woodland’s students. Trustee MacDonald’s divisive comments undermined this critical function of the school board. These statements about transgender persons were ignorant, dehumanizing, and created a greater risk of physical danger for Woodland’s LGBTQIA+ students,” the campaign stated in their notice of intent to recall.
The group needed to gather 1,078 signatures from the district’s Trustee Area 2 by Nov. 4 to trigger a recall election.
Ms. MacDonald was not immediately available for comment on the matter.
