California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation into law on Monday banning school districts from notifying parents about changes in pronoun usage or gender identity by their children at school, making the state the first in the nation to do so, per the Daily Wire.
Assembly Bill 1955, also known as the “Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act or SAFETY Act,” states that “Choosing when to ‘come out’ by disclosing an LGBTQ+ identity, and to whom, are deeply personal decisions, impacting health and safety as well as critical relationships, that every LGBTQ+ person has the right to make for themselves.”
“Parents and families have an important role to play in the lives of young people. Studies confirm that LGBTQ+ youth thrive when they have parental support and feel safe sharing their full identities with them, but it can be harmful to force young people to share their full…
