This article, authored by Melissa O’Rourke is republished under the Creative Commons “CC BY-NC-ND” license with permission from The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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California law already required public and private schools to print a general suicide prevention hotline on all student IDs. However, under AB 727, which was signed into law by Newsom on Friday, schools must now include the number for the Trevor Project, which has been criticized for connecting minors with trans activists for so-called “gender affirming” counseling. The mandate applies to public school students as young as middle school.
The move comes just months after the Trump administration terminated a federal suicide hotline for so-called LGBTQ youth that subcontracted to the Trevor Project and other organizations.
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Parents Defending Education has raised concerns that the Trevor Project’s online chat allows children to discuss gender and sexuality with unrelated adults. The website includes a “quick exit” feature that instantly closes the window and clears browser history to hide conversations from parents.
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The organization also opposes parental notification policies for name or pronoun changes at school, supports allowing men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, and promotes puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as “medically necessary” for transgender-identifying youth.
Democrat Assemblyman Mark González, who introduced the bill, indicated it was brought forward as a direct response to the Trump administration’s move.
“When Donald Trump and the federal government turn their backs on LGBTQ+ youth, California steps up,” González said in a statement. “With the signing of AB 727, we’re sending a clear message: our LGBTQ+ youth are seen, valued, and never alone. AB 727 is not just a piece of legislation; it is a lifeline for our queer youth.”
Earlier this year, Newsom appeared to moderate his stances on transgender youth, including by calling men competing in women’s sports “deeply unfair,” and expressing hesitancy about medically transitioning children.
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“If MAGA is more upset about a crisis hotline saving LGBTQ kids than about those kids dying by suicide, I think we’ve found the real problem — and it’s not the bill,” a spokesperson for Newsom told the Daily Caller News Foundation in defense of the law.
Neither González nor the Trevor Project responded to the DCNF
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