student rights

A referendum to overturn California's bill that guarantees equal rights for transgender students has failed to acquire sufficient signatures for placement on the ballot this November. However, the fight to keep AB 1266 as the common sense, decent law of the land is far from over. There's big industry in hate- and fear-mongering.

There is a lot of misinformation going around about California State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's transgender student equality law. Since Gov. Brown signed it last week, the right-wingers have been stirring themselves into a frenzy online. A few of the usual suspects are motivating offline, too, as Republican lawmakers and rabble-rousers are gathering forces to put the issue to ballot.