California continues to become the land of the woke.
Teachers constantly come under fire for teaching gender ideology in the classroom, but one person wants to make it illegal to criticize them.
According to The Post Millennial, SB 596, authored by Senator Anthony J. Portantino, seeks to address the issue of teachers facing harassment and aims to provide a safe and inclusive environment for all students and teachers. But a closer look at how harassment is defined in the bill has some people concerned.
The legislation says that anyone who subjects a teacher to harassment or threatens them regarding their course of duties, including while they are away from the school site, will be subject to a fine of $500-1000 and can face a prison sentence up to a year.
The scary part is what harassment is defined as. Per The Post Millennial, Harassment is defined as unlawful violence, a credible threat of violence, or a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, or harasses the person, and that serves no legitimate purpose.
The conduct has to be something that would cause any reasonable person distress and has to have caused someone distress.
The bill points out incidences where teachers have received emails, death threats, and harassing phone calls for what the bill declares is merely them doing their job.
However, parents continue to push to end the gender ideology lessons and secrecy laws that allow schools to keep a students preferred pronouns and gender identity a secret. Parents disagree that teachers secretly help children transition without telling the parents and that pornographic books are allowed in school libraries under the guise of LGBTQ+ rights.
For example, take the case of a Glendale teacher that The Post Millennial previously reported on. The teacher gave a training session detailing the illegal means she and her husband used to create a Gay Alliance Club. Her husband was the school counselor, which helped them find children to join the club. They bribed children into attending.
The bill calls those that oppose gender ideology being taught in schools radical extremists. It says that they are intolerant and full of hate. I have to disagree with that. Im afraid I have to disagree with teaching young children gender ideology in the classroom. I dont want my elementary-age daughter to view books with graphic sexual images. I dont have any hatred in my heart for anyone that is not straight, and I dont particularly care what gender someone identifies as.
However, when it comes to children, they tend to repeat everything, especially when it comes from someone they trust. If an eight-year-old is told they are a different gender, they may believe it even if they have no clue what that person is talking about. This can easily lead to gender-correcting surgery. And what happens years from now when it turns out many of those children never even had gender dysphoria? No one knows their children better than parents, and teachers must stop overreaching.
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