Northern California school board approves anti-trans ‘Outing’ policy
A third California school district board has now voted to implement a mandatory gender identity disclosure policy which requires school administrators and faculty to notify parents if “their child wants to be identified as a gender other than their biological sex.” The Rocklin Unified School District School Board passed the policy after an hours long contentious meeting Wednesday.
Board members voted 4-1 to approve the policy just before 12:40 a.m. Thursday. Board trustees Julie Hupp, Tiffany Saathoff, Rachelle Price and Dereck Counter voted in favor of the policy amendment.
Michelle Sutherland was the lone member to vote against it, Sacramento NBC affiliate KCRA 3 reported. Similar to other forced outing policies recently enacted by certain school districts, the policy requires schools to inform parents, with minimal exceptions, whenever a student requests to use a name or pronoun different from that on their birth certificate or official records, even without the student’s permission.
The policy also requires notification if a student requests to use facilities or participates in programs that don’t align with their sex on official records.
