Marina H.S. Homecoming Queen Cassidy Campbell and her supporters have reason to applaud, as the “Prop 8”-style referendum intended to freeze and then repeal AB 1266 seems likely to go down in flames.
From yesterday’s edition of Scott Lay’s Around the Capitol:
As the referendum against AB 1266 proceeds to random sample, proponents would need 92.1% validity to qualify the measure for the November 2014 ballot, which is very unlikely. Those counties that submitted a full validation (small counties) had 72.49% validity.
That link is to a letter from the Secretary of State to the proponent of the petition effort for a referendum to overturn the transgender student rights bill, which would be expected to grant rights to a tiny number of students statewide who have verifiable and lasting gender identity mismatch issues. The second page showed that the petitions have a whole lot of bad signatures — enough to make ballot qualification unlikely.
Many people have been talking about how this referendum would get “conservative values” voters out to the polls in enormous numbers, endangering incumbents including Sharon Quirk-Silva. If that prospect was boosting her opponents’ chances before yesterday, then this new development pushes them back down.
No we’re looking not only at “No Prop H8” — but at no repeat of Prop H8 next year!
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More importantly, GOP– if you run a candidate that uses this issue as the central pillar of her campaign, she will get CRUSHED.
Many of these voters will still vote to repeal AB 1266 and still vote for Democrats, its not a panacea for the Republicans. Many people in our state are economic progressives, but not all of the state are socially inclusive. Just as how Prop 8 won, and people still voted for Obama.
i am confused, does this mean that i can hang out in the woman’s restroom
Yes, but will require not only your being an elementary school student, but also a firm commitment to trade in your male genitalia for female. Ready?
academically, i do not think that i will cut the mustard, as to my male genitalia, my ex wife already has that, along with the houses, the stock portfolio and two of the three cars
Greg,
I’m all for equal rights, as you know, but this one and some of the “gay history lessons” have me a little uneasy. One of the major issues in this deal is how one protects the rights of the majority of minors as well. (full disclosure, I have no dog in this fight, my daughter is in college, so she’s pretty much unaffected)
I’m personally confused on this one to be sure, if I place myself into the shoes of a school administrator, trying to comply with the law and protect minors at the same time, it gets very twisted up. My mind can create so many scenarios that are just plain ugly and expensive, both in monetary terms and in possible physiological issues, in trying to administer the law and it’s consequences.
Minors occupy a special legal universe when it comes to sexual matters. Their lack of ability to consent, damages, special circumstances and all. Trying to figure out who is or isn’t qualified or correctly fit for “gender equality” could be a big problem.
If I’m wrong, please explain it to me or point me in the right direction to clarity…
I certainly don’t know how to “fix” the problem. I want every kid to grow up feeling good about who and what they are, being and feeling loved for who you are is very important to development.
I don’t know how it is to grow up, having a view of your self that isn’t reflected in the mirror, so I don’t really understand that part well. That perspective would be interesting in this discussion for sure.
Understanding those points and trying come to a workable solution is going to be very difficult I think, if one tries to make everyone happy.
Add to this one, common core or not to cc, as I guess they decided now in CA, I am very glad I’m not a school board member!
Los Angeles has a 10-year track record of implementing this policy. They’ve had either virtually no or actually no (I forget whether there was even a single small exception) problems with it. Very few children are prepared and committed enough to do this; it is not something that they do on a lark. Trying to figure out who is “qualified” is a long and involved procedure for which teachers turn out to be pretty (and unsurprisingly) competent. If you’re not familiar with their track record, you should be.
I do appreciate your thoughtful approach to disagreeing (or at least reserving agreement) here. It is very unlike that of Young Kim.