Rick Allen Asks Superintendent: Is Misgendering A Student 'Morally Equivalent With Assault?'

[00:00:00]from Georgia.

[00:00:01]Mr. Allen.

[00:00:03]>> Uh thank you, Chairman, and uh thank you for holding this important hearing. It It is difficult uh to um to understand this, but uh uh I will bring up and I I need to know if you you folks are aware of this, but in January, a Westchester County, New York, jury awarded 2 million to Fox variant in a landmark medical malpractice lawsuit.

[00:00:33]The plaintiff, who de-transitioned, successfully sued her former psychologist and plastic surgeon for failing failing to meet professional care standards when they authorized and performed a double mastectomy when she was 16 years old.

[00:00:51]Do you understand the legal ramifications of what you're dealing with here and when these children get you know, we we we do understand that as children get over this uh euphoria uh when they reach age 25, that uh many regret uh those things that were imposed on them when they were children.

[00:01:18]And you Are you aware of the legal I mean, that's 2 million.

[00:01:22]Uh I'm sure the trial attorneys are going to jump all over this.

[00:01:27]And you're going to be liable.

[00:01:33]So, Ms. uh Dr. Sue, your guidance on trans students list refusing to address a student by their chosen pronoun pronoun on an equal plane with egregious abuses such as physical assault motivated by hostility toward the student. Do you think that not using a student's preferred pronoun is morally equivalent equivalent with assault?

[00:01:59]>> Thank you for the question. In San Francisco, we welcome all of our students as they are.

[00:02:04]We believe firmly that when we allow students to come in and truly be themselves, we are able to teach our students and support our students to be thriving adults.

[00:02:20]>> So, when those students grow older and are then understand that maybe things are different, then you said, "Well, that's okay."

[00:02:35]Do you understand the legal consequences that you've where you've misled that student by just saying, "Well, you know, that's okay."

[00:02:45]And and then they learn later on, "This isn't the way it works. This is This is not This won't work in my life."

[00:02:53]Or because of emotional ills or whatever, they get maybe professional advice that's different. But you're going to be you're going to be held responsible legally for what you're perpetrating on young people. Dr. King, uh in fact, all of your districts actively help students change their names, pronouns, and locker rooms if they want to transition genders. But this isn't always the best for the child. We've seen a wave of stories about students regretting their gender transition, detransitioning, and wishing the adults in their lives gave them better advice and guidance.

[00:03:30]To protect these children, under what circumstances will your district advise against a social transition and deal with the legal implications of this lawsuit that is now precedent in law, which has required all of these hospitals and physicians I mean, these doctors are telling these parents, "If my child doesn't transition, if your child does not transition, they're going to commit suicide.

[00:03:59]And then performing the operation, and now look what we have. We have a legal precedent. It It You know, and and guess what? All these hospitals and physicians are going to be sued for malpractice.

[00:04:13]Are you Are you you willing to deal with that in your school system and the multitudes of dollars that you're going to be sued for for the for allowing children to believe whatever they want to believe and not raising them up in the way that they should go?

[00:04:32]Can you answer that question, Dr. King?

[00:04:34]Or what How are you going to deal with the legal implications of this? I mean, you better get back and get with your school board and y'all your lawyers and better figure out how to deal with it because this is going to be rampant throughout this nation. And like I said, the trial lawyers are going to be all over it.

[00:04:51]So, I have 11 seconds.

[00:04:53]>> I know.

[00:04:54]I cannot opine on the laws. I can answer to the policies that and operations for for Chicago public schools.

[00:05:03]>> Okay. Well, you probably better do that.

[00:05:04]I yield back, Mr. Chairman.

[00:05:05]>> Gentleman yields. I now recognize