260 students at the SAUSD have opted to change their gender catetories without informing their parents, according to the Interfaith Statewide Coalition, based on a Public Records Request.
A bus billboard went up on 17th & Bristol in Santa Ana on Thurs, Jan 23rd, sponsored by the Interfaith Statewide Coalition, announcing that schools can change a child’s gender category without parent knowledge. The billboard is in Spanish and English and directs people to their website for more information.
The website informs parents that CHOC has a gender clinic and is partnering with many Orange County School Districts.
The State of California bans school from notifying parents of kids’ pronoun change The law, which is the first in the nation, bans school rules requiring school staff to disclose a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation to any other person without the child’s permission.
What is pushing so many of our local kids to question their gender? The SAUSD School Board and the California Teachers Union is pushing primary books that teach children that their gender can change from day to day or year to year and their pronouns can change like the weather based on their feelings, according to the Interfaith Statewide Coalition. Local parents were never notified these books came into our Santa Ana elementary schools.
However, according to specialists in this matter, children do not generally get brainwashed into transitioning their gender; instead, they may be experiencing gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is a feeling of distress that children associate with the gender they were assigned at birth. Children who question their gender are usually trying to understand and relieve that distress.
Trying to change a child’s gender identity can be harmful and cause permanent damage to their mental health.
“Reparative” or “conversion” therapies are psychologically harmful and have been condemned by the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Association.
Treatment for gender dysphoria can include:
- Exploring the reasons for the child’s discomfort
- Considering alternative ways forward, such as living in their birth-assigned gender or transitioning
- Starting treatment with puberty blockers, then cross-sex hormones, and finally gender reassignment surgery
Many people are opposed to such treatment as kids can change their minds down the road but by then their bodies have been transformed, sometimes permanently.
According to 2022 statistics however, only around 3% of trans people experience some form of regret, but may not opt to detransition. But those 3% are out of luck if they already altered their bodies in a permanent fashion…
For the 3% statistic: take it with a grain of salt. A good statistician [read: marketing guy] can be hired by an organization to cook up legitimate statists that support whatever idea they are pushing. Always question the stats.
If you are in that 3% it sucks pretty bad…
Indeed. I would assume it’s much higher than 3% regret.
I have dysphoria for articles that should be reassigned to the Huntington beach gazette.
LOL