How Schools Keep Gender Identity Secret From Parents

by Brenda Lebsack

Source “Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities”

As battles rage between local school districts in California and the state Attorney General Rob Bonta regarding whether or not schools should notify parents if their child identifies as transgender or nonbinary at school, I think it’s strange—as a California public teacher—that no one is clarifying the definitions of transgender and nonbinary.

In Santa Barbara, California, a 20-year veteran teacher, Christy Lozano was part of a film called Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities that describes, in detail, the secret nature by which the schools are keeping these gender identity secrets from parents. Viewership of this movie has already surpassed 3.4 million.  “This is a movie that absolutely every parent should see,'' says Ms. Lozano. 

“There is so much intentional hiding from parents”, continues Christy. She brought to light this issue of ‘hiding’ gender curriculum content from parents in January 2022, when she made a YouTube video Christy Lozano: Password-Protected Portal: Culturally Responsive Curriculum – What Parents Should Know.  Christy walked parents through the password protected curriculum, only accessible to teachers, to show a variety of content, including gender identity, on the Santa Barbara Unified School Board’s website and its curriculum content for ages 4-18.  

According to the California Department of Education’s Health Education Framework adopted in 2019 (p. 353), gender identity is defined as ever-changing and ever-expanding. People assume transgender means a girl identifying as a boy or a boy identifying as a girl. However, according to 2023 trainings on sexual harassment used as part of state-mandated training for teachers and other employees, it’s much broader than this.

Our training program said, “Gender Identity is a person’s identification as male, female, non-binary, or other. Transgender involves identifying differently from a person’s sex at birth or something else.” After the training, I asked my employer, “What does the word ‘other’ or ‘something else’ encompass? It’s so open-ended, it could mean anything and everything.” No one could give me an answer, so I researched it myself.

In my quest, I found authoritative sources telling Americans to throw rational thinking out the window in order to embrace radical group think.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines gender nonbinary in part as “gender creative.” This means kids can create or make up their own gender(s).

The California Department of Education defines non-binary with these descriptive labels:  transgender, intersex, gender-neutral, agender, genderqueer, gender fluid, two spirit, bigender, pangender, gender nonconforming, or gender variant.

This long list of identities parallel the survey given Americans in crisis, of all ages, who call the 988 National Suicide Hotline. Callers are asked how they identify and are given 11+ genders to choose from. They are: agender, boy/man, genderfluid, genderqueer, girl/woman, intersex, non-binary, trans, trans-masculine, trans-feminine, two spirit, other. The hotline is funded by the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, which was signed into law October 2020. It also has other potential funding sources as mentioned in the recent Surgeon General’s Call to Action (p. 55–56) to implement a national strategy for suicide prevention.

Planned Parenthood’s definition of gender is significant because they partner with many wellness centers in schools and offer “gender-affirming care” such as hormone therapy.  Planned Parenthood normalizes gender fluidity, saying a person’s gender can vary weekly, daily, or moment-to-moment. It seems to me this is the normalization of split personalities or schizophrenia.  On top of this, Planned Parenthood says gender identities (of which there are many) can begin at age two.

Unlimited identities are now being taught to kindergartners through books in California elementary schools. The book, “What Are Your Words?,” advises, “My pronouns are like the weather, they change depending on how I feel.” The book provides many pronouns like ey, em, ze, zir, they, them, xe, xir, and hir. Another book is, “It Feels Good To Be Yourself.” This book says, “You might feel like a boy, you might feel like a girl, you might feel like both boy and girl—or like neither. You might feel like your gender changes from day to day or from year to year.” These books cause children to question their gender, and once a child questions, they are considered LGBTQ because the Q means Queer or Questioning.

After state schools intentionally confuse children, they want school personnel to hide the child’s “gender dysphoria” so counselors or mental health workers can affirm them while they decide on a gender that best suits them. The state portrays parents who do not affirm all these identities as dangerous. However, I think the harm is coming from the state and partnering agencies who are imposing extremist gender doctrines on impressionable children.

According to Santa Barbara’s Christy Lozano, “The schools have continually told parents that they are not hiding secrets.

“This is not true.

“Their actions ( of hiding information)  speak louder than their words.  And we must look at their actions.”

This article first appeared in the Epoch Times as ”Should California Schools Keep a Child’s Gender Identity Secret From Parents? and is published in expanded form here with permission.