Rep. Kevin Kiley on Parental Rights and School Policies Regarding Gender Identity

Parental Consent for Student Pronoun Changes

• 🏛️ Representative Kevin Kiley co-sponsors a bill addressing districts that have interposed themselves between students and their parents regarding gender identity.
• ⚠️ In California, documented cases show schools encouraging children to adopt new gender identities without parental knowledge or consent, and even lying to parents about it.
• 🤥 Schools have allegedly fabricated documents and changed children's names on assignments to conceal a student's chosen name and gender identity from their parents.

State Response and Legal Challenges

• ⚖️ When responsible districts implemented policies to inform parents, the California Attorney General and Governor sued these districts.
• 📜 A state law was passed and signed, prohibiting districts from informing parents about these matters, which Kiley deems an attempt to force districts to lie to parents.
• 🚫 Fortunately, courts are rejecting many of these lawsuits, and the Trump administration has launched an investigation into the state law for potentially violating the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Suicide Risk and Parental Knowledge

• ⚠️ Kiley emphasizes that hiding information from parents is particularly egregious when children with gender dysphoria are at an increased risk of suicide.
• 💔 He argues it is