It is great to see sane people in blue states standing up for equality for people in the US. Republican led states ignore medical science, instead they prefer to trust tradition and religion as the basis of their laws. If the rest of the country did this we would still have slavery and be using prayer for medical treatments. Instead of banning progress in understanding they should welcome new advancements. But every day shows they are further out of touch, their religious views wrong, and their desire to return to a past where they were comfortable, in charge, and understood the world / society they lived in. LGBTQIA people exist including also kids. Yes young kids know and have sexual feelings and gender identity. Cis straight people want to deny that yet they can never point to the time they choose either. Hugs
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measures a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by LGBTQ advocates.
Gavin Newsom during the San Francisco Pride parade in 2017.AFP via Getty Images file
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Saturday aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates.
The new laws include legislation that focuses on support for LGBTQ youth. One law sets timelines for required cultural competency training for public school teachers and staff, while another creates an advisory task force to determine the needs of LGBTQ students and help advance supportive initiatives. A third requires families to show that they can and are willing to meet the needs of a child in foster care regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
“California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and supporting our LGBTQ+ community, and we’re committed to the ongoing work to create safer, more inclusive spaces for all Californians,” Newsom said in a statement. “These measures will help protect vulnerable youth, promote acceptance, and create more supportive environments in our schools and communities.”
The governor also signed legislation that requires schools serving first through 12th grade to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom available for students by 2026.
The law was spurred by a Southern California school district that instituted a policy requiring schools to tell parents when their children change their pronouns or use a bathroom of a gender other than the one listed on their official paperwork. A judge halted the policy after California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School District. The lawsuit is ongoing.
The governor’s bill-signings came after Newsom vetoed a bill on Friday that would have required judges to consider whether a parent affirms their child’s gender identity when making custody and visitation decisions.
Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Democrat who introduced the bill and has an adult son who came out as transgender when he was a teenager, was among the LGBTQ advocates who criticized the governor’s decision.
“I’ve been disheartened over the last few years as I watched the rising hate and heard the vitriol toward the trans community. My intent with this bill was to give them a voice, particularly in the family court system where a non-affirming parent could have a detrimental impact on the mental health and well-being of a child,” Wilson said in a statement.
Newsom said existing laws already require courts to consider health, safety and welfare when determining the best interests of a child in custody cases, including the parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity.
The veto comes amid intense political battles across the country over transgender rights, including efforts to impose bans on gender-affirming care, bar trans athletes from girls and women’s sports, and require schools to notify parents if their children ask to use different pronouns or changes their gender identity.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs three new bills into law to strengthen the state’s protections for LGBTQ people. Newsom: “California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and supporting our LGBTQ community, and we’re… pic.twitter.com/TLuJM7tMdB
We can’t wait for our Florida house to sell so we can move California. What a wonderful change it will be. I expect we will actually need some time to de-stress and de-traumatize from trying to live here.
I left Florida and moved to Massachusetts. The first time walking around near Harvard and MIT and hearing someone performing Shakespeare on the street and having two people in a cafe almost come to blows over a mathematical theorem instead of over drugs, the first time passing an open field and seeing someone with an easel painting the landscape instead of circling on a quad tearing it up…
It’s a whole different world when you escape to someplace more blue.
Last year I left SW FL for SW GA. Stable blue congressional district and 2 Dem Senators. I grew up in the South so no adaptation problems. I am glad I got out of the toxic swamp FL has become.
Assuming we have a country in another 5 years, that is when he will make a run. Pete will also make a run as well and he will have the federal seasoning he lacked that last time. We have some young and very good people coming up over the next few years. Katie Porter is another one they are scared shitless of. Eric Swalwell, Ted Lieu, and AOC are all very capable and message well. There are of course a slew of others from across the country but all of the above are young and well regarded in general and absolutely hated by the right (that is a good thing).
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Hello Ali. I read the article. It made me angry. First, sorry that a republican single party advocates think tank hit your state, but I wonder if the republicans in your state did not ask them to cause trouble. But the real issue is these right wing bastards don’t think poor people should have the right to vote. That is the key point that came out of the article. The issues are the negotiated deal to bring the state into compliance with federal law required the state to reach out to poorer underserved voters. Those voters registered by these efforts the republicans called illegal voters! Just because they might vote democrat, which is not certain. Any votes not for republicans are illegal to these people. This think tank is sending people around the country looking for ways to stop people from voting.
But what was worse is what they are claiming is a total lie. They claim a secret deal was made they couldn’t find out. But during the lunch break the news agencies asked several state departments and got the entire deal sent to them right away via email. All the republicans needed to do was ask! But instead they wanted the spectacle of a scandal, something they hope the right wing media will run with to cause harassment and ruin the democratic governor. It is a sad political game that the right seems to really enjoy as seen at the federal level right now. Smear and insinuate, hoping that the people just reading headlines will vote against the democrats. Facts be damned!
They already knew what the deal was for, to come into compliance with the federal law. But because it might cause more democratic voters to be registered the republicans had to make a scandal and something evil out of it. Hugs. Scottie
Oh, indeed, I wouldn’t put it past the huge-majority Republican legislature to have invited them, and even if they weren’t invited, but lobbied to get on the agenda, they were welcomed by the aforementioned legislature, and no doubt wildly feted by them after hours, also on our tax dollar, of course. I mainly wanted to bring attention to the fact that these people are touring states and stirring up trouble that doesn’t exist, and it costs states money for this group to do that. Thanks, Scottie!
(I will add that both the leg. and AG Kobach were already fully aware of the voting adjustments, having investigated them thoroughly-for Republicans-before the adjustments were fully in place. This group doing this is nothing but a boondoggle to destroy citizen confidence in US elections. There oughta be a law…)
Also, the Wichita news is reporting that the Marion police chief who coordinated the newspaper raid has been suspended. Not much else, but there is that. I said I’d update as things happen.
Hello Ali. Thank you for that. I really want to see fascist authoritarian police and political people in power get held accountable for their over the top illegal actions. Hugs. Scottie
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Meanwhile, there is a Florida (sorry, Scottie!) think tank running round to states with Democratic governors, taking up state time and dollars asking questions about who gets to vote, and demanding release of records that have been in the public since they were generated: https://kansasreflector.com/2023/09/28/think-tank-demands-release-of-secret-kansas-voter-registration-deal-it-was-readily-available/ .
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Hello Ali. I read the article. It made me angry. First, sorry that a republican single party advocates think tank hit your state, but I wonder if the republicans in your state did not ask them to cause trouble. But the real issue is these right wing bastards don’t think poor people should have the right to vote. That is the key point that came out of the article. The issues are the negotiated deal to bring the state into compliance with federal law required the state to reach out to poorer underserved voters. Those voters registered by these efforts the republicans called illegal voters! Just because they might vote democrat, which is not certain. Any votes not for republicans are illegal to these people. This think tank is sending people around the country looking for ways to stop people from voting.
But what was worse is what they are claiming is a total lie. They claim a secret deal was made they couldn’t find out. But during the lunch break the news agencies asked several state departments and got the entire deal sent to them right away via email. All the republicans needed to do was ask! But instead they wanted the spectacle of a scandal, something they hope the right wing media will run with to cause harassment and ruin the democratic governor. It is a sad political game that the right seems to really enjoy as seen at the federal level right now. Smear and insinuate, hoping that the people just reading headlines will vote against the democrats. Facts be damned!
They already knew what the deal was for, to come into compliance with the federal law. But because it might cause more democratic voters to be registered the republicans had to make a scandal and something evil out of it. Hugs. Scottie
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Oh, indeed, I wouldn’t put it past the huge-majority Republican legislature to have invited them, and even if they weren’t invited, but lobbied to get on the agenda, they were welcomed by the aforementioned legislature, and no doubt wildly feted by them after hours, also on our tax dollar, of course. I mainly wanted to bring attention to the fact that these people are touring states and stirring up trouble that doesn’t exist, and it costs states money for this group to do that. Thanks, Scottie!
(I will add that both the leg. and AG Kobach were already fully aware of the voting adjustments, having investigated them thoroughly-for Republicans-before the adjustments were fully in place. This group doing this is nothing but a boondoggle to destroy citizen confidence in US elections. There oughta be a law…)
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Well, here is a bit you’ll get a good giggle from: https://personnelente.wordpress.com/2023/09/29/rating-for-misinformation/ .
Also, the Wichita news is reporting that the Marion police chief who coordinated the newspaper raid has been suspended. Not much else, but there is that. I said I’d update as things happen.
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Hello Ali. Thank you for that. I really want to see fascist authoritarian police and political people in power get held accountable for their over the top illegal actions. Hugs. Scottie
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