California Lawmakers Want to Mandate Teachers to Affirm LGBTQ Identities

California Lawmakers Want to Mandate Teachers to Affirm LGBTQ Identities
The Capitol building in Sacramento, Calif. on April 29, 2019. Daniel Holl/The Epoch Times
Cynthia Cai
Cynthia Cai
Reporter
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SACRAMENTO—California Assemblymember Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) recently introduced a new bill that would require teachers to support and affirm the LGBTQ identities of their students.

Introduced in February, Assembly Bill 493 seeks to mandate that all teachers of pupils in grades 7 to 12 to go through annual training to learn how to better serve their LGBTQ students.
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