[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 10 (Thursday, January 18, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H230-H231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PARENTAL SECRECY POLICY AT CHICO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, almost 1 year ago today, Aurora Regino of

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Chico, California, sued the Chico Unified School District for trying to 
secretly socially transition her young daughter, alleging that a school 
counselor pressured her child to change her name and pronouns, 
dismissing the child's desire to inform her parents of the change.
  Regino alleged that a parental secrecy policy is in place at Chico 
Unified and stipulated that the school district not disclose what was 
happening while her daughter was at school.
  At first Chico Unified denied the existence of a parental secrecy 
policy, but later the school board actually voted 3-2 to publicly 
uphold it.
  If that weren't bad enough, last week California Attorney General Rob 
Bonta led 16 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. 
Court of Appeals in support of Chico Unified's parental secrecy policy
  Shame on every single one of them for advocating for this horrible 
practice.
  The child at the center of this case was subject to bullying by other 
children during her transition process. The counselor informed the 
child's teachers and peers of what was going on, but would not let the 
girl confer with her own parents while this was happening before 
announcing her new status to all the other kids.
  She has since gone back and identified with her biological sex.

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