Schools Brace For New Law Prohibiting Notifying Parents of Students Pronoun Change

Assembly Bill 1955, by Assemblyman Chris Ward (D-San Diego), prohibits school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools, and a member of the governing board or body of those educational entities, from enacting or enforcing any policy or rule that requires an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent unless otherwise required by law. The law, also known as the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY Act), also prohibits employees or contractors of those educational entities from being required to make such a disclosure unless otherwise required by law.