We recently highlighted a story about a school system in Chino Valley, California, which has adopted a new policy that requires parents to be notified if their child starts identifying as a different gender.
The meeting where this was decided got a little heated, with one state official being removed from the proceedings.
Now the president of the school board is allegedly getting death threats. This is how important this issue is to the left.
FOX News reports:
Activists allegedly threaten to ‘dismember’ school board president, kill her kids over trans student policyThe Chino Valley (California) Unified School District (CVUSD) Board of Education’s new parental notification policy on transgender students is getting backlash from some community members who have reportedly launched death threats against the board president.The policy adopted with a 4-1 decision last week requires the “principal/designee, certified staff, and school counselors” to, within three days of becoming aware of the preference, notify parents of a student’s decision to identify with a gender that does not directly correspond with their biological sex, use different pronouns or a different name or use locker rooms and/or restrooms that do not correspond with their biological gender.Days later, CVUSD President Sonja Shaw told “Washington Watch With Tony Perkins” that a death threat against her came through on an anonymous phone call the day after the decision.”The next morning, our district got a phone call. A lot of things were said, but one thing was very clear — this person was going to kill me, and they said they were going to dismember my body parts, my limbs more specifically,” Shaw told the show on Monday…”[Things like] ‘you’re going to die’ with other inappropriate words, ‘your children are going to die,’ and ‘your animals are going to die…'” Shaw continued, telling the show that those behind the threats noted the types of animals she has. Members of Antifa also “declare[d] war” on her, she said.
This opinion piece from the Sacramento Bee shows what these parents and board members are up against:
Chino chose cruelty against transgender students. California can’t allow it to happen“Dear Parent,” begins the notice from the school district. “Student (insert name here) is transgender.”With this new notification policy from the Chino Valley Unified School District, parents and the board of education there have succeeded in teaching their children a lesson — a lesson on how to vilify their peers, violate equal protection rights, ignore basic human autonomy and disrespect authority.The school board’s recent decision to notify all parents of the presence of a transgender child is a grievous abuse of a school notification system that is intended to inform parents of pep rallies and school lunches. It is an unsurprising and uninspired tactic from a right-wing school board with numerous ties to Christian fundamentalism, inside a conservative county that attempted to secede from the state last year.
The left is making it clear that this is a hill they are willing to die on.
They just might in 2024.
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