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A California school district being sued for allegedly violating parental rights by transitioning an 11-year-old’s gender in secret is facing the wrath of local parents, who this week demanded transparency and for school officials not to keep them in the dark on matters of importance to their children’s’ lives.
Seats were full at this week’s Board of Education meeting of the Chico Unified School District in northern California, where a major point of debate was what critics have named the district’s so-called “Parental Secret Policy.”
Under the policy, which is based on guidance from the California Department of Education, the district’s 23 schools only inform parents of their child pursuing or considering a gender transition with the student’s prior written consent, except for extraordinary situations. Proponents argue the policy is meant to protect students’ privacy.
Last month, local mother Aurora Regino filed a lawsuit against the district — specifically Superintendent Kelly Staley and the Board of Education’s five members — alleging her daughter’s school was helping the young student transition her gender in secret without parental consent during the 2021-2022 school year.
“They were talking to my daughter about different support groups in town to help her with her transition and then discussed breast binding with my daughter that I had no knowledge of,” Regino told Fox News’ Claudia Cowan on “America’s Newsroom” last week. “I just want them to stop — stop keeping parents in the dark.”
The alleged clandestine transitioning began after the daughter, a fifth-grader at the time, told a school counselor that she “felt like a boy,” according to the complaint filed by Regino’s attorneys. Regino has said her daughter, who now again identifies as a female, was given a boy name and identity by the counselor without her knowledge.
At Wednesday’s meeting, parents echoed Region’s anger in what was at times a testy gathering.
“I’m here speaking on behalf of parental…
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