California Logic

the red queen smiles

The California Senate has just passed AB 957, a bill that will require judges to consider a parent’s affirmation of a child’s gender identity when making decisions, during divorce proceedings, about child custody. The bill now returns to the Assembly for a vote on the current amended form of the thing, but the lower house already passed an earlier version of this bill by a comfortable margin. Unless Gavin Newsom vetoes it — you can guess for yourself how likely that is — it will become law. As a parent, you must affirm your transgender child’s gender identity, or you lose your child.

But parents’ rights activist Jonathan Zachreson catches the problem:

California’s attorney general is currently in court — as I’ve just been telling you — to argue that parents must not know their child’s gender identity, because trans children are in danger if their parents know:

The attorney general was in court today — the very same day the Senate passed AB 957 — to argue that schools must hide a student’s gender identity from parents. The judge agreed, and blocked a school district policy requiring parental notification regarding a student’s transgender identity. So this is now the logic of California family policy:

1. As a parent, you must affirm your child’s gender identity, or you will lose custody of your child.

2. Also, as a parent, you must not know your child’s gender identity, which is extremely secret.

Our only real hope, at this point, is for a giant sinkhole to swallow Sacramento, and soon.