Effort behind Calif. ballot measure to limit transgender youth’s rights fails
The effort by the anti-LGBTQ conservative group Protect Kids California, headed by Roseville school board member Jonathan Zachreson, to collect some 550,000 valid signatures to place a transphobic transgender youth proposal on the Nov.
5 ballot has failed. In a press release on Tuesday, the deadline set by the California secretary of state, the group claimed it had gathered more than 400,000 signatures, falling short of the requisite threshold number for inclusion on the ballot.
Protect Kids California submitted the proposed ballot initiative — presented as the “Protect Kids of California Act of 2024,” last September.
The proposed ballot initiative would have: Forced outing of transgender youth to their parents, ensuring that trans kids cannot have safety or privacy in schools if they are not ready to come out to family.
