Speaking at a Pride event in San Francisco, California Democratic state Senator Scott Wiener declared that children who exhibit gender confusion or homosexual urges do not belong to the foster parents who have taken them in. Rather, those kids belong to the LGBT community. He maintained that such persons who wish to maintain parental rights are “nasty people.”
A homosexual himself, Wiener has co-authored bill AB 1955, which would, among other things, prohibit schools from implementing policies requiring parental notification of their child’s gender identity or gender expression unless the student consents.
“We are always there for these kids. These are our kids,” Wiener claimed. “And we need to make sure that we are lifting them up and giving them a path to success.”
“Success” at what exactly? Simply being a homosexual or a transgendered person?
Wiener denounced what he referred to as the “forced outing” policies of certain school districts.
“That’s our decision and no one else’s damn business. We are going to make that clear in the law in the state of California.” Wiener declared.
Wiener attacked school boards “in very conservative areas,” and implied that the idea of parents’ rights and their inclusion in their children’s lives is tantamount to “hate.”
“We know that so much of the hate directed at our community is happening in other states. Unfortunately it’s here in California too,” the senator said.
Referencing AB 1955, Wiener said, “We introduced legislation to ban these forced outing policies [that] some school boards are starting to adopt.… As we fight all the nasty people out there who are trying to harm us … we’re going to beat them and we’re going to win.”
The California Family Council (CFC) stood in opposition to Wiener’s accusations, and accused him of “blatantly lying” because “there are no school board policies that force the outing of students.”
As for AB 1955, CFC claims, “This bill assumes parents are more of a threat to a child’s mental health and well-being than any other teacher or student at school.”
In a May 29 hearing about the bill, Chico Unified School District parent Aurora Regino shared her experience about what’s currently happening in California schools.
“My daughter was influenced by her school to believe that her sadness was because she was really a boy…. Without contacting me … the school cemented and encouraged this male identity for my daughter behind my back,” Regino said.
Dr. Arthur de Lorimier, a clinical professor of pediatrics at UC Davis, said that parents are integral in any discussions of gender dysphoria regarding their children.
“Parents must be involved in their gender dysphoric [children’s lives] at the inception of any new identity. Schools should not conduct psychological interventions without parental consent. … Gender dysphoric youth are at greater risk of suicide than their peers from the distress of dysphoria, not from being unaffirmed,” de Lorimier said.
AB 1955 is attempting to wrest control from parents and, essentially, give it to the state via the school system when it comes to gender identity and sexuality of children. The proposed law appears to be a direct violation of Supreme Court precedent (Washington v. Glucksberg), never mind a violation of common sense.
The California school system’s attempts to remove children from the influence of parents brings to mind a quote from communist leader Vladimir Lenin, who once said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
Wiener’s support of AB 1955 may be rooted in his own homosexuality and the LGBT movement, but it has all the hallmarks of a state takeover of the rights of parents.
