California teachers, counselors, and other school employees would be required to promptly inform parents of children who identify as transgender at school under proposed parental rights legislation.
Assembly Bill (AB) 1314, introduced by Assemblymen Bill Essayli (R-Riverside) and James Gallagher (R-Yuba City), would give school staff three days to notify parents in writing if they find a student is identifying as a gender other than what is stated on their birth certificate.
The legislation would mean an end to the current controversial policy of keeping the gender transition of some students secret, depending on whether the child wants to tell his or her parents….