This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, October 6th, I'm Tyler O'Neil.

I sat down with Emily Ray, who is the Senior Counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, which

is a public interest nonprofit law firm that represents people pro bono, and in this particular

case, she is representing Chino Valley Unified School District, which if you've been following

any of the news around parental rights in California, should immediately make your ears per

cup.

Because this is the school district that has a policy requiring parental notification

in cases where a child is actually facing difficult situations, and this is not just

if they claim to identify as a gender opposite their biological sex and want to change their

name and pronouns and all that jazz.

It also applies to other situations like if the child is considering self-harm or if the

child says that they're being bullied.

This policy says parents must be in the know.

Well, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said that this policy violates the California

Constitution, particularly the privacy rights of students, and he says that a student has

a privacy right to keep parents out of the know if that student wants to identify as a

gender opposite their biological sex at school.

So if they want to go, you know, and this is going publicly with a name and pronouns that

conflict with their biology, that he says that should be hidden from parents, and that

if a school district has a policy saying parents need to be in the know, because this is a

big psychological intervention.

That's what psychologists have told me, and even people who actually supported the transgender

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