Legal battle on the horizon for Rocklin Unified’s transgender notification policy
Student rights versus parents’ rights? Many Rocklin students we talked to fear the change.
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Student rights versus parents’ rights? Many Rocklin students we talked to fear the change.
The district's board of trustees voted 4-1 in favor of the policy, which requires teachers or school staff to notify parents if their children request to be identified as a gender other than the child's biological sex or gender, use pronouns that do not align with the student's biological gender, or request access to bathrooms that don't align with their gender.
The Rocklin Unified School District has voted to approve a policy requiring teachers and school staff to notify parents if their children request to be identified as anything other than their biological sex.
The Rocklin School Board voted to approve a policy requiring staff to notify parents if students request to be identified as a gender other than the child's biological sex or access sex-segregated school programs, bathrooms, or changing facilities. The school board chambers were packed Wednesday, with some showing the emotions of the decision on their faces and some with signs. Some of the board members in favor said this is not a political or religious agenda and that the policy did not break state or federal law. But opponents said it would put teachers, other school employees, and students at risk.
The new policy would require teachers or school staff to notify parents if their children requested to be identified as a gender other than the child's biological sex.
The Rocklin Unified School District is meeting on Wednesday night to vote on a controversial policy that would require parents to be notified if their child wants to identify as transgender.
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