Students asked to role play being LGBTQ+ and indoctrinated with “Gender Unicorn”
Vista, CA—The National Center for Law & Policy (NCLP) submitted a detailed legal memorandum to the Vista Unified School District (VUSD) exposing its widespread and covert promotion of controversial sexuality ideologies. NCLP clients demand full transparency and accountability after learning that minor students are being conscripted to role play being LGBTQ+ and are aggressively indoctrinated in controversial gender ideologies, both in and outside of district comprehensive sexual education (CSE) classes.
You can read the NCLP demand letter here.
Dean Broyles, President of the National Center for Law & Policy said, “Parents have the right to know exactly what their children are being taught in school about human sexuality, especially when that teaching contradicts their family’s sincerely held and constitutionally protected religious beliefs. The district has blatantly violated the mandatory parental notice and consent safeguards provided by the California Health Youth Act (CHYA) and is also attempting to skirt CHYA’s family protections by not allowing parents to opt their children out of extreme CSE content when teaching the very same sexuality material in other contexts.” Broyles, continued, “VUSD is out of touch with reality and is working very hard to attempt to indoctrinate young minds by pushing an extreme and failed DEI agenda throughout its curriculum to a young captive audience. The district is foolishly continuing to bang its head against this broken wall at the very moment when corporate America is waking up and appropriately turning against these divisive ideologies, famously labeled the “woke mind virus” by Elon Musk. On Monday, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order stating that the official policy of the U.S. Government is that there are “only two sexes, male and female” and that “federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology.”
In November 2024, a teacher at Rancho Buena Vista High School (RBVHS) attempted to have all students in the Freshman Seminar course role play that they were LGBTQ+ and “coming out” to family, friends and the community. Approximately six students were not comfortable with the exercise and walked out. VUSD failed to notify parents that controversial and sensitive sexual ideologies would be taught, failed to give parents the opportunity to inspect the curriculum, and failed to inform parents of their legal right to opt their child out of the class. The NCLP’s investigation also exposed that RBVHS is promoting the “Gender Unicorn” in its AVID class. NCLP client and parent James Murphy’s grave concerns about his daughter’s experience at RBVHS went viral late last year on social media.
“I send my daughter to school to be educated, not sexually indoctrinated,” stated James Murphy. “The district should stick to teaching essential subjects for my daughter to succeed in life and stop wasting so much time on woke indoctrination. How can I trust a school district that overreaches by secretly imposing sexual ideologies on my daughter that conflict with our religious faith and also fails to protect her from being bullied by other students?” stated Murphy.
In the demand letter, NCLP attorneys state, “By denying parents their legal right for advance notice and opt-outs from CSE gender ideology instruction that violates their Christian faith, and simultaneously insisting that religious students participate in identical unregulated instruction outside of CSE classes, also without any parent notice and consent, VUSD is willfully disregarding and violating parents’ right to direct the religious upbringing of their children.”
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For further inquiries, comments, or to schedule interviews, please contact Dean Broyles at The National Center for Law & Policy at 760-747-4529 or dbroyles@nclplaw.org.