LGBTQ+ advocates say these bills would deal a devastating blow to some of California’s most vulnerable students.
The battle over transgender rights is heating up in California, where the state sued a Southern California school district on Monday while conservatives launched an effort for a statewide ballot measure.
The proposed initiatives, which are backed by a conservative coalition called Protect Kids California, would block transgender girls from competing in female sports programs; prevent transgender children from accessing gender-affirming medical treatment; and force schools to notify parents if their child is using a different name or set of pronouns at school.
Today, just one third of trans and non-binary youth say their home is a gender-affirming place, according to data from The Trevor Project. Forced outing bills, experts say, would make things even more difficult for a group of students with already-high levels of mental health challenges. The organization’s data also found that one in three LGBTQ+ young people said their mental health was poor because of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
Essayli was in Sacramento to promote the beginning of the initiatives’ ballot push — a political avenue that sidesteps the support of California’s Democratic governor and legislature. An effort to gather signatures will begin after the measures’ drafts are submitted to the attorney general, who has until Oct. 26 to prepare a title and summary for each measure. Each will need 546,651 signatures to qualify for the ballot.
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