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Abigail Shrier: California’s New Law Lets Schools Keep Secrets from Parents
Protests at a Chino Valley Board of Education meeting on gender policy on July 20, 2023, in Chino, California. (Photo by David McNew via Getty Images)
Gavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school.
By Abigail Shrier
07.18.24 — U.S. Politics
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Child predators follow a common playbook: target the victim, gain their trust, fill a need, and, crucially, isolate the child from her parents. For several years, this has also been standard California state protocol with regard to schoolchildren questioning their gender identities. On Monday, this scheme became law.

The “SAFETY Act,” AB 1955, signed by …

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Abigail Shrier
Abigail Shrier is a journalist and author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, named a “best book” by The Economist and The Times of London. She is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a recipient of the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Journalism, and a graduate of Yale Law School.
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