According to this from The Daily Signal, parents don’t but teachers do. Imagine that, parents are legally responsible for their children while they are minors but the teachers wish to continue splitting up the relationship between those children and their parents.
A long abstract below, reformatted with emphasis mine, but I think necessary to present and then emphasis what is so absolutely wrong:
California Teachers Union Wants Kids to Pursue Gender Transition Without Parental Consent
Even in California, you have to be 18 to get a tattoo, 16 to drive a car, 21 to buy a gun, alcohol, or pot. But if you want to change your gender? Well, then, you just have to be 12. And your public school will be more than happy to help. Need an abortion? Tell your teacher. Want to refill your birth control? Go to the school clinic. Thinking about starting hormone treatments? Your parents will never find out. At least, not under the policy the California Teachers Association is pushing.
That’s the amazing revelation from last month’s union meeting. On Jan. 26, the California Teachers Association decided to go big on the LGBT agenda—adding “transgender and binary youth” to the students who can leave class for medical reasons without their parents’ permission.
Concerned teachers leaked the new language to The Epoch Times, worried that no one in the state knew: “CTA believes comprehensive school-based health care clinics are needed to bring caring and responsive services to young people. The clinics shall provide cisgender, transgender, and non-binary youth equal and confidential access to decision-making rights for students and their families.”
Translation: A student can secretly pursue that transition at school without parents ever finding out.
And although the policy doesn’t expressly say “hormone therapy” is a part of that “access,” the California Teachers Association committee made it clear: “That’s the final goal.” As far as the union is concerned, the current law is an outrage, since “it does not allow trans students to begin … hormone therapy without the consent of both legal guardians.” Kids, it argues, should be free to take those drugs without the “barrier of parental permission.”
Just like they’re free to get “excused absence” abortions without calling home, or pop birth control pills from the clinic’s nurse. In a country where millions of parents entrust their kids to public schools, it’s time for everyone to realize: Education has become the least of concerns for these school districts.
What’s happening in Wisconsin schools—where kids can assume a completely different identity without parents knowing—has gone on in California since 2013. Michigan since 2016. New Jersey since 2018. If this hasn’t made it to your state, trust me. It’s coming. The other side is moving as fast as it can to get its hands on your sons and daughters. And in so many horrifying cases, it’s too late for anyone to stop them. How many stories start out like this mom’s? “I only found out after the fact,” she says:
I went to the school counselor and asked why they would let this happen. Why weren’t her parents contacted to see ‘what issues’ she may be going through [before she ‘came out’ as a boy]? The school counselor relayed to me: ‘We’re following the guidance passed in Michigan 2016, that parents are not to be notified if a child self-identifies as a transgender.
Her daughter was 12 years old. There are literally hundreds of parents experiencing the same trauma—or worse. In California, where sixth-graders will probably be able to start hormone therapies without permission, how many children will come home completely and radically altered? Healthy, normal teenagers like Sydney Wright, who cried when she saw what she’d become on hormones.
…And the other side is doing everything it can to accelerate the process before you find out–locking more kids into a lifetime of agony that can’t be reversed. Increasingly, over the past several decades, many government schools have become indoctrination centers for the left, but the aggressiveness of their efforts in the last few years is staggering.
And as many before me have said, who has given them permission to do this? As part of Government, where is the statute, at least here in NH, that would give them this particular power? Sure, there is a bit of in loco parentis in play here but if parental permission is needed in order for a school to even give kids an aspirin, allergy meds, or even an Epi-pen. Heck, in order to take them on a field trip, permission slips are mandatory. Abortion? Body and Life-altering surgery and hormone therapy? The Left is always yammering about “Profit over people”.
This is “Teachers over Parents”.
Remember, the Teachers Unions are the unions of Government Unions (almost always). Thus, this is the slide of Government taking control of your kids. They know better than you do what is best for THEIR children – no longer yours. That IS the message, like it or not. While individual teachers are great (as we are finding out via Remote Learning for the Grandson), corporately, they are getting more and more dangerous.
Parents no longer hold the permission but they will have to live with the aftermath. The teachers and School District Staff don’t – they get off scot-free. No worries for them if things go sideways – no responsibilities and no bills to pay.
Perhaps that’s what’s needed for this unofficial and unspoken “qualified immunity” for stuff like this. If School Districts cause the pain, make them pay. If they continue to spend taxpayer monies on lawsuits, taxpayers will finally get the message in their wallets. Hopefully then changes to this trend of teachers believing they are more important than parents will stop.
So, what’s the policy in YOUR School District? I know that in mine, the policy is the same as what is described above.
Also, if you are a teacher and your District is doing this, please let me know.
