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Gov. Gavin Newsom issues first vetoes since legislative session ended
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312347833.htmlNewsom dismissed Assembly Bill 86, a technical bill that would have tweaked language about health education standards for kindergarten through 8th grade. Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-Santee, sent Newsom a letter last week decrying the bill for “introduc(ing) the theory that reproductive anatomy does not necessarily determine a person’s gender.”
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Republicans and parental rights advocates have seized upon anxieties about public school instruction to argue that teachers acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people is akin to sexually “grooming” students and removes parents’ wishes from what their children learn in school. In a signing message, Newsom said he was vetoing the legislation because he thought the bill should be considered after a state study scrutinizing health curricula was completed.
Newsom’s relationship with the LGBTQ community has been under scrutiny since March, when he told the late MAGA pundit Charlie Kirk during a podcast interview that it was “unfair” for transgender athletes to compete with cisgender ones.
Critics slammed his remarks as an about-face from Newsom’s mayoral days in San Francisco when he legalized gay marriage, and the debacle exposed a simmering conflict between his office and the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus. Republicans, including Kirk, claimed victory that they had swayed a West Coast liberal politician on the issue of transgender rights.
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Republicans and parental rights advocates have seized upon anxieties about public school instruction to argue that teachers acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people is akin to sexually “grooming” students and removes parents’ wishes from what their children learn in school. In a signing message, Newsom said he was vetoing the legislation because he thought the bill should be considered after a state study scrutinizing health curricula was completed.
Newsom’s relationship with the LGBTQ community has been under scrutiny since March, when he told the late MAGA pundit Charlie Kirk during a podcast interview that it was “unfair” for transgender athletes to compete with cisgender ones.
Critics slammed his remarks as an about-face from Newsom’s mayoral days in San Francisco when he legalized gay marriage, and the debacle exposed a simmering conflict between his office and the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus. Republicans, including Kirk, claimed victory that they had swayed a West Coast liberal politician on the issue of transgender rights.