Governor Gavin Newsom defended California’s radical transgender policies—including a law prohibiting schools from requiring teachers to notify parents if their child identifies as a gender inconsistent with their biological sex—when confronted by late-night host Bill Maher.
Click Here to Subscribe to the California Political Review
In a Friday night appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Newsom described his own party as “toxic” and “judgmental” and urged Democrats to “mature” beyond cancel culture on hot issues, suggesting they need to adapt if they want to beat Republicans in future elections.
Maher asked pointedly, “What do you say to people who say, ‘Well, this all sounds very good. But governor, you were the poster boy for a lot of this [woke] stuff’?”
“I see today the Trump administration . . . talked about the fact that California had a rule that schools cannot be required to notify parents if their kids in school have changed their gender, their pronouns,” the late night host said. “That’s the kind of thing — even though it doesn’t affect a lot of people — that makes a lot of people go, ‘Well, you know what? That’s the party without common sense.’”
Newsom disputed that characterization.
“I just disagree with that. I mean, the law was you would be fired, a teacher would be fired if a teacher did not report or snitch on a kid talking about their gender identity,” he explained. “I just think that was wrong. I think teachers should teach. I don’t think they should be required to turn in kids.”
Maher challenged his guest’s description of teachers turning in or snitching on children to their parents, before the Democratic politician continued in his explanation.
“What is the job of a teacher? It’s to teach. If Johnny’s talking about some identity issue or some issue about liking someone of the same sex, is it the teacher’s job to then report that?” Newsom asked rhetorically. “In this law, the teacher can still do that. But they can’t be fired if that’s not what they do. I just think that was fair. I don’t think that’s inappropriate.”
In July, Newsom signed the first-of-its-kind transgender parental-notification policy into law. The legislation, which went into effect on January 1, has since faced legal challenges and drawn the ire of the Trump administration.
What the Slick is now talking out of both sides of his face?
One day he states it is not fair for boys in dresses to compete against girls and then states it is only fair?
Fair for whom? The girls that are being crushed in competition?
GEEZ get a grip D’s.
Wonder how many of the female origin have decided they are male so they can compete against the guys?