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A California mother is suing her local school district alleging school officials withheld information from her about her daughter's decision to change genders.
the mail is probably held up. you know, there has been a lot of flooding in the area. assure our community that chico unified does not have a parental secrecy policy nor do we ever try to define a student s identity. the student will review and investigate any claims in the lawsuit once it has been received. aurora ravine know is that mom and joined by attorney mark trammell. so, first of all, aurora, how is your daughter doing? she s doing well now. she doesn t identify as a male. she identifies as a female now i m appalled of the actions the school district has taken. jesse: how long was she identifying as a male and you didn t even know about it. for a few months. she had opened up to a guidance counselor. the guidance counselor the day she opened up and said she felt
defensive and told me this is the law. jesse: i don t know if that s true. mark, you re the lawyer here. and you re involved in this litigation. is this the law? it s not the law, jesse. the school district might argue that it is. there has been a guidance issued by the california department of education. but this guidance so clearly violates the due process clause of the 14th amendment. that s why we filed this lawsuit. parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. it s really hard for parents to exercise that right when school districts are keeping secrets from them. especially on matters like this that are of such significant importance to a child is the school district arguing they have the legal authority to bring a young woman or man into a different identity realm behind that child s parents