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School District Officials Deny Secret Social Gender Transitions; Board Members Request Investigation

School District Officials Deny Secret Social Gender Transitions; Board Members Request Investigation
Newport Mesa Unified School District in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Sept. 21, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Brad Jones
Brad Jones
3/31/2023|Updated: 4/7/2023

Two assistant superintendents at a California school district accused of secretly socially transitioning the gender identities of students without informed parental consent have denied the allegations, while three school board members have requested an investigation.

The controversy stems from a public records act request initiated by parental rights advocates that yielded hundreds of pages of emails and revealed that 23 students in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District—eight of them elementary school age—began social gender transitioning without informed parental consent from January 2020 to October 2022.
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