California school board boots state official from meeting and bans secret gender transitions
Jeremiah Poff
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The top California education official was booted from a Southern California school board meeting right before the school board voted to require school staff to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender.
Tony Thurmond, the state superintendent of public instruction, arrived at the school board meeting for Chino Valley Unified School District in Southern California to oppose a measure that would require schools to inform parents if children tell school staff they are transgender.
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Thurmond spoke during the community engagement portion and, according to board President Sonja Shaw, was removed from the meeting after he exceeded the allotted one-minute speaking time. The state official said he was “forcibly removed” in a tweet following the meeting.
“Tonight I went to a school board meeting to stand up for LGBTQ+ students who invited me to join them as they spoke out against a radical new policy that threatens their safety,” he tweeted. “When done speaking, the board president verbally attacked me an instructed the police to remove me. I don’t mind being thrown out of a board meeting by extremists. I can take the heat — it’s part of the job. What I can’t accept is the mistreatment of vulnerable students whose privacy is being taken away.”
https://twitter.com/TonyThurmond/status/1682240421899153408?s=20
Shaw, the president of the school board, blasted Thurmond and called him “a danger to our students,” according to KTVU.
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“He continues to push things that pervert children, and he continues to push out parents and bring in policies that create division between families,” she said.
The school board approved the new policy by a 4-1 vote.