Two California middle school teachers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against school district administrators and the California State Board of Education over policies they allege required them to deceive parents about their children’s gender identity.
Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, both of whom taught for decades at Rincon Middle School in Escondido, claim the school’s policies regarding transgender or “gender diverse” students effectively forced them to validate a child’s gender identity regardless of parental consent, according to their lawsuit filed against Rincon Middle School, the Escondido Union School District (EUSD) and the California State Board of Education.
The teachers claim they were mandated under the K-8 school district’s policies to accept a child’s transgender or gender diverse identity without hesitation and to hide it from families. They said they were instructed to use students’ preferred names and pronouns in school, but to revert to their biological pronouns and given names when speaking with their parents.
When encountering “a suspicious parent,” teachers were instructed to reply that they were allowed only to discuss “information regarding the student’s behavior as it relates to school, class rules, assignments, etc.,” according to the suit.
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According to a transcript of a Feb. 3 presentation to EUSD staff about the “rights of gender diverse students” obtained by Fox News Digital, teachers were told that schools in the district were required to “accept the student’s assertion of their gender identity and begin to treat the student immediately, consistently with that gender identity.”
“The student’s assertion is enough,” the transcript of the presentation said. “There is no need for a formal declaration. There’s no requirement for parent or caretaker agreement or even for knowledge for us to begin treating that…
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