![]() It would appear that biological sex in California only continues to exist when it comes to commercial surrogacy. This means that community colleges and public universities are prohibited from using the original name of transgender and nonbinary students on their diplomas and academic records. ![]() Last year, Newsom signed a Bill outlawing what is known as ‘deadnaming’ in the California Community College (CCC) system. Your son would be sent to school in female attire, and, because this is California, with its laws allowing for self-identification, teachers would of course affirm him as the opposite sex. You could, fearful of the law, find yourself compelled to begin calling him ‘her‘ – alongside whatever girl’s name he chose. Perhaps he is on the autistic spectrum, traumatised due to something that has happened at school of which you are unaware, or going through a mental health crisis of some kind. Imagine you have an eight-year-old son who claims to be a girl, and it becomes obsessive. Failing to go along with the fantasy could mean losing custody, so that – rather than helping these kids work through the terrible pain and turmoil they are undoubtedly suffering, by finding an appropriate psychologist or counsellor – parents could feel compelled to march them down to the gender clinic and start them on puberty blockers. ![]() If that weren’t bad enough, California’s proposed Assembly Bill 957 would brand as ‘abusive’ parents who refuse to ‘affirm’ the identity of their child who claims to be the opposite sex. In other words, those that do allow it are in favour of taking a surgeon’s knife to what is undoubtedly quite often a psychological and social problem, namely that of children presenting as gender dysphoric. Some states have introduced bills making it a felony for medical professionals to perform medical interventions on those under the age of 19, while others like California allow it. In September 2022 the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, signed a bill that would make the state a ‘sanctuary’ for parents moving from any of the states that outlaw surgery and hormonal intervention on trans identified minors. Well, let me disabuse you of your fantasy. When you think about California, you probably envisage vast blue skies and ocean, white sand and hippies, lolling around smoking homegrown marijuana. A new raft of legislation currently under consideration seeks to both criminalise parents who wish to protect their children from harmful medical interventions, and further entrench the notion that it is possible to change sex. Are there still women in California? They seem to have ceased to exist – at least as far as the state’s laws are concerned.
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