The California State Superintendent, Tony Thurmond, was kicked out of a school board meeting Friday and escorted by police while protesting a policy to inform parents about a child’s desire to change genders.
The Chino Valley Unified School District policy, which ultimately passed, stipulated that parents must be informed if their child expresses a desire to be identified or treated as a gender different from their biological sex, intends to use the bathroom and athletic facilities of the opposite sex, seeks a pronoun or name change, or if there are mental health concerns with the child.
Thurmond objected to the policy, warning it “may fall outside of the laws that respect privacy and safety for our students, but may put our students at risk because they may not be in homes where they can be seen.”
School board president Sonja Shaw responded to Thurmond, accusing him of supporting an agenda that would “pervert children.”
“I appreciate you being here tremendously. But here’s the problem. We’re here because of people like you. You’re in Sacramento proposing things that pervert children.”
When Thurmond returned to the mic and asked for a “point of order to respond,” he was told, “This is not your meeting.”
“You may have a seat,” said Shaw. “You’re not going to blackmail us. You already sent us a blackmailing letter on the previous point of order. You’ll not bully us here in Chino.”
Thurmond then was escorted out by security, after he refused to leave the public comment section after his time had expired.
The superintendent responded to being kicked out in a statement, claiming he was “verbally attacked” and “thrown out by extremists.”
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