FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A California school district spent $300,000 to partner with an LGBTQ center that provides “affirming programs, resources, and community care” to minors ages 12 and up.
Pomona Unified School District in Pomona, California, signed a memorandum of understanding for the 2024-2025 school year for a “mentoring program” with Pomona Valley Pride.
Under the memorandum obtained by The Daily Signal, the pride center was to provide “academic support, mentoring, and tutoring services to all students in middle and high school who identify themselves LGBTQ+ and their families to address their unique needs and challenges.”
“Students participating in the program will be provided social-emotional support, health and wellness activities, events, and engaging programs with a youth engagement specialist,” the document continued.
The Center for American Liberty, a conservative California think tank, uncovered the partnership through a California Public Records Act request. While the school district provided some documents to the Center for American Liberty, it allegedly left the records request partially unfulfilled, so the think tank filed a lawsuit last spring.
Mark Trammell, CEO of the Center for American Liberty, said California parents would be “horrified” to see what the organization uncovered.
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“In Pomona Unified School District, officials handed $300,000 in taxpayer money to Pomona Pride Center, Inc. to push LGBTQ programming on children and families,” he told The Daily Signal. “At the same time, schools are using ‘gender support plans’ that treat parents as obstacles, including sections specifically targeting so-called ‘unsupportive parents.’ These plans direct schools to funnel children into secret counseling services that California politicians require schools to hide from parents once a child turns 12 and the minor does not consent.”
“This isn’t education — it’s ideological indoctrination funded by taxpayers and carried out behind parents’ backs,” he said. “California schools have become laboratories for progressive social activism, and they’re counting on parents never seeing the documents.”
“The Center for American Liberty is dragging these records into the light because parents deserve to know exactly what activists embedded in public schools are teaching their children,” he added.
The Pomona Valley Pride Center’s website features events for minors such as “Beyond the Binary,” a “social group for gender-expansive folks centering joy, identity and collective care”; “Gaymer Night, a “queer and trans centered game night”; and “Youth Advocacy Lavender Leadership,” which involves “empowering youth ages 12-17 with leadership, networking, and skills to grow as future leaders and activists.”
The center also offers minors free counseling and access to the “Gender Neutral Closet,” which is “completely free and helps you affirm your gender.”
“Our gender neutral closet aims to provide garments that every child can enjoy regardless of their gender, and rejects the idea that pink is for females and blue is for male,” a description on the website reads. “From hoodies to jeans to everyday accessories, these stylish and comfortable gender-neutral clothes fit into everyone’s wardrobe regardless of their gender.”
Neither Pomona Unified School District nor Pomona Valley Pride Center responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment.
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