Washington Free Beacon
For years, Rick Chavez Zbur led a radical group that worked to make California a haven for kids who wanted to get sex change operations without parental consent. Now he’s pushing those same policies from inside the statehouse.
Zbur, who from 2014 through 2021 led the LGBTQ rights group Equality California, was elected to the California state assembly in November. A month later, he introduced the “Safe and Supportive Schools Act,” a bill that would mandate schools subject teachers to taxpayer-funded “LGBTQ+ cultural competency” training, which Equality California lobbied to have included in the 2021 state budget. Course materials instruct teachers to hang pride flags in their classrooms and hide students’ “gender identities” and plans to “transition” from parents, unless informed otherwise by a pupil. The legislature has also said the training should instruct teachers on how to connect students with doctors who can “support” their transition.
Equality California, which under Zbur’s leadership grew into one of the state’s most powerful lobbying groups, is one of the driving forces behind California laws aimed at boosting LGBTQ “equity” in schools. State Democrats are forcing schools to embrace progressive views on sex and race even as students languish academically. In 2022, only 7 percent of black eighth-graders met academic proficiency, according to the latest NAEP report card.
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