Irvine Unified School District touts a whole host of procedures for transing students, which include offering kids opportunities to “change” their name and gender according to their wishes without their parents’ knowledge or consent, according to documents uncovered by the Center for American Liberty and shared with The Federalist.
IUSD’s “Gender Support Plan Procedures & Best Practice Guidelines” demands that school staff, after hosting a meeting with the student in question, offer “affirmed pronouns and name,” “access facilities” of the opposite sex, “support” if the student is “misgendered” in class, and “communication with family.” The instructions, however, stop staff short of noting the student’s social transition in his or her “cumulative file.”
The self-proclaimed “inclusive” district repeatedly notes that any name or other change motivated by radical gender ideology made within the school system is not a legal one and requires reversion on all official records such as transcripts.
CEO of the Center for American Liberty Mark Trammell told The Federalist in an emailed statement that caveat signals the IUSD’s awareness about the legal tenuity of transitioning kids behind parents’ backs.
“The evidence is overwhelming, the Irvine Unified School District socially transitions vulnerable kids, in clear violation of federal law, by changing kids’ names, pronouns, and restroom access without parental notification or consent. These practices violate parental rights and undermine the essential trust between families and schools,” he said. “This is not inclusion or support; it is secrecy that isolates parents from critical decisions impacting their children’s well-being.”
Yet, that hasn’t stopped IUSD from pushing radical gender ideology on students with or without the rubber stamp from their parents or guardians.
One IUSD document deemed for “internal use only” not only tells school staff they “may not share a student’s gender identity with the student’s parents,” but also coaches them on “diffusing” parents and teachers who are dubbed “challenging.”
“School may be the ONLY place a transgender youth feels safe to be themselves,” the flyer claims.
The IUSD “Gender Affirming School Culture” guide also warns staff against sharing “a student’s gender identity with the student’s parents, other students or members of the public.”
“You must not reveal any information about the student that could be seen as a violation of the child’s privacy rights,” the document claims.
Another document titled “Gender Support Advocate Considerations” goes even further to assert that keeping information about a student’s “transition” counts as a child’s “constitutional right to privacy in California.”
“That right preempts a parent’s right to educational records, if the disclosure of such a record would result in outing the student without the student’s consent,” the document states.
IUSD technically encourages “collaboration” with parents of gender-confused children, but claims it isn’t necessary if there are “safety concerns.”
The newly uncovered documents should come as no surprise considering the district’s public commitment to boosting LGBT activism. The IUSD website not only advertises various LGBT parent and student groups, but also features a dictionary that claims to differentiate between sex and gender and uses inaccurate euphemisms such as “gender affirming care” to describe the chemical castration and mutilation associated with radical transgender ideology.
An LGBT “Student Rights” flyer plastered on the same page vows to let students infiltrate spaces that belong to the opposite sex, support the formation of LGBT-related clubs, and infuse the sexually charged ideology into educational subjects such as social studies and history.
IUSD did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.