Frankly, I don’t believe this “story”.
Please read the bill:
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_777_bill_20070223_introduced.html
They're almost as bad as Weekly World News or the infamous Debka File.
This sounds like horsesh!t, even for California.
I am soooooooooo with you. I would bet good money that not much in this story is true.
I didn't believe it either, until I realized that this crap is already being done. So it's not hot-headed hyperbolic interpretation: it's reportage.
To understand the full ramifications of this radical legislation, one needs only look at Los Angeles Unified School District's policy concerning transgender and "gender nonconforming" students. In this policy, teachers are instructed to keep a student's transgender status private, including from the student's parents. Teachers are told to consult the student first, before talking with parents, "to determine an appropriate way to reference the student's gender identity." This is an appalling school policy, treating parents as the enemy, at the expense of the student's relationship with family.
Even more alarming, the LAUSD policy instructs school to provided access to restroom and locker room facilities that "corresponds to the gender identity that the student consistently asserts at school." If a male student "consistently asserts" himself as a female at school, he will be granted access to female restrooms and locker rooms.
As teachers and school officials grow accustomed to seeing boys entering female-only areas, they will be less likely to intervene for fear of offending a transgender student. Those with evil intentions will then gain access to innocent girls in otherwise safe environments. This poses a serious danger to the safety of young female students.
SB 777 will implement statewide the shocking policies LAUSD already enforces. And the enforcement will be done by lawyers working for the Cal. Dept. of Education, which means they have the power to make SB 777 "mean" whatever they want it to "mean" by the threat of lawsuit.
I think something smells too. Didn’t he veto the bill allowing for same-sex marriage?