Sen. Scott Wiener Calls Parents ‘Nasty’ for Opposing Secret School Gender Policies

Senator Wiener and the California Democrats have grossly underestimated the public’s overwhelmingly strong opposition to secrecy in schools.

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On June 3, 2024, California senator Scott Wiener, the Golden State’s most prolific anti-family, anti-parent, and pro-gender-transition-of-kids lawmaker, held a press conference in San Francisco to kick off Pride Month (the month formerly known as June). During the event, Wiener gleefully announced the introduction of Assembly Bill 1955 (AB1955), a bill he supported along with the 12 members of the LGBTQ Caucus. This bill requires schools to keep secrets from parents about their gender dysphoric children. Wiener likened a child’s announcement of being gender dysphoric—experiencing acute distress with his or her sex traits—to a child’s “coming out” as gay or lesbian. But this is an inaccurate comparison. On the contrary, a child’s statement that he or she is “transgender” is nothing but a cry for help. And if AB1955 succeeds, that help might never come.

“These are our kids!” declared Wiener, a man with no children, taking a page out of President Biden’s book.

Sen. Wiener also criticized parents who demand transparency from schools regarding their children’s use of new names and pronouns that do not correspond to their sex. He labeled such parents as “nasty people” for insisting on honesty and opposing secretive interactions between educators and students.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Remember Donald Trump’s “nasty woman” comment? Has Wiener just issued “a viral call for solidarity” against AB1955 and himself? I can already envision the t-shirts:

• “I’m a nasty parent because I oppose schools that lie.” 

• “I’m a nasty teacher because I refuse to lie to children or parents.” 

• “I’m a nasty school board member because I trust parents to care for and love their children.”

Senator Wiener and the California Democrats have grossly underestimated the public’s overwhelmingly strong opposition to secrecy in schools. According to Rasmussen Reports, 84 percent of California parents want to be informed by schools if their child shows a major change in mental health, with only 12 percent opposing such parental notifications. Additionally, a poll conducted in the liberal strongholds of the Bay Area and Los Angeles by the radical-feminist group Women’s Liberation Front found that 73 percent of Californians support policies requiring schools to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender on campus.

On May 29, 2024, California made history with the Senate Education Committee’s passage of AB1955, the first bill ever to mandate schools’ deception of parents as a state requirement. The LGBTQ Caucus studiously applied the principles learned from California Attorney General Bonta when concocting the title of the bill: the S.A.F.E.T.Y. Act (Support Academic Futures & Educators for Today’s Youth). However, a more accurate name for this proposed law would be the School Secrets Act.

AB1955 emerged as a direct, panicked response to several California school boards, starting with the Chino Valley Unified School District, enacting “parental notification policies.” These policies require school administration to alert parents if their child is asking the school to participate in their “social transition.” This includes changing their legal name to one chosen by the child, using pronouns that differ from their sex, allowing the child to use facilities of the opposite sex, and amending school records to reflect their new chosen identity. Importantly, none of the enacted Parental Notification Policies require parents to be informed if their child has come out as gay at school. However, the bill intentionally tethers the “L”, “G,” and “B” with the “TQ,” to ensure that anyone who opposes it can be labeled homophobic. There is a vast difference between being gay and choosing an identity of the opposite sex, or a new sex class that defies human biology entirely.

A “social transition” dramatically influences whether a child will ultimately pursue medical treatments or return to feeling comfortable in their unaltered body. AB1955 will deprive parents of the opportunity to become aware of their child’s distress and help their child learn to love and accept his or her natural body before the school cements their body-hatred. Democrats support AB1955 becoming state law to solidify the pathway from school to medicalization, which channels funds into transgender nonprofits and profitable gender clinics.

Under AB1955, local school boards would lose their autonomy and would be unable to implement parental notification policies to inform parents if a child requests the school’s support in their social transition. Teachers would be required to modify their language for a student—adjusting the use of names and pronouns—depending on the audience. Essentially, teachers will be compelled to lie and deceive. Schools, rather than parents, would decide whether to affirm a child’s self-loathing and the delusion that they can change their sex. (Query for the Caucus: If AB1955 requires a teacher to deceive parents about a child’s gender identity, are the child’s classmates also expected to maintain this deception, for instance when a parent volunteers in the classroom or chaperones a field trip?)

California Democrats are keeping secrets from parents even as they insist that trans-identifying children have a heightened risk of suicide. In Attorney General Rob Bonta’s lawsuit against Chino Valley Unified over its parent notification policy, Bonta declares that 87 percent of all “trans-identified youth have contemplated suicide,” and yet he opposes informing parents about potential suicidal tendencies in their children. Bonta is the primary supporter listed in the Senate analysis of AB1955.

An excerpt from Rob Bonta’s lawsuit against Chino Valley Unified School District.

AB1955 will not only push parents out and remove any remaining trust in California public schools, but it will safeguard those intent on grooming our children, like the two female teachers in Spreckels Union School District who snooped on middle schoolers’ iPads to recruit troubled and vulnerable students for their transgender club. The bill will also protect teachers like the one in Elk Grove who has been inviting 3^rd graders to join his club to talk about sex and gender, and it will prevent schools from suspending an Encinitas Unified School District teacher who is using 5^th graders to indoctrinate kindergarteners by reading them books on gender identity. AB1955 will also shield practices like those in the Roseville Joint Union School District, where teachers are covertly rating parents on a scale of 0-10 for whether they are affirming their children’s gender identity.

Furthermore, AB1955 will protect the Chico Unified counselor who told an 11-year-old to lie to her mother. It will protect schools that maintain undisclosed records of a child’s chosen name and gender identity. It will protect the teachers who distribute breast binders, penis packers, trans tape, and information on where and how to access body-altering and irreversible cross-sex hormones. 

Moreover, AB1955 will protect the teachers who circumvent parental oversight by holding LGBTQ club sessions during lunch, the only time in the academic day when parents needn’t be informed.

In the works for months, AB1955 has been the meticulously planned brainchild of the LGBTQ Caucus, strategically waiting for the perfect moment to make its move. The Caucus is nothing if not patient and strategic. Democrat Gov. Newsom has been undoubtedly holding this bill at bay, observing the outcomes of lawsuits related to schools’ policies on secret social transitions. Unfortunately for Newsom and the caucus, federal judges in California have consistently upheld constitutional precedents, ruling that parents have paramount rights over the upbringing of their children, that children do not have privacy rights against their parents, that teachers cannot be forced to deceive parents, and that policies requiring parental notification are not discriminatory.

AB1955 is this session’s Frankenstein’s monster, hastily cobbled together courtesy of a slimy tactic known as “gut and amend.” In this process, Democrats sacrifice an existing bill that has already started its journey through committee meetings in its house of origin, replacing its content and title with wholly new content and title. This legal yet unsavory maneuver greatly undermines both public discourse and public trust.

The first hearing was on May 29, 2024, where I exposed false statements made by the author and witnesses. A group of Democrat lesbians traveled to Sacramento to line up at the lectern for 10 seconds to voice their opposition. Of course, the Democrats in office do not take kindly to other California Democrats opposing their agenda; opposition from their own team makes it much more difficult for them to label us as bigots, LGBTQ-haters, and “nasty.” As a result, after the shellacking they took in Senate Education on Wednesday, they pulled one more stunt: they canceled the hearing scheduled for the Senate Health committee, thus dodging another public airing of opposition to AB1955. 

Given the supermajority of Democrat lawmakers and the backing of well-funded transgender advocacy groups, AB1955 is expected to easily pass both houses. With financial support from groups such as Equality California, which has revenues of $2.7 million, GLSEN with $8 million, and Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California with $40 million, the bill has major funding. Therefore, the only real opportunity to block this first-in-the-nation law will be at the Governor’s desk.

Until now, the Governor has avoided addressing whether schools should deceive parents about their child’s gender identity. However, with AB1955 placed directly before him, he will be forced to decide: In Newsom’s California, do “nasty” parents lose their parental rights at the schoolhouse door?

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