The Brown Act, which governs public meetings of local agencies, states in part: “The legislative body of a local agency shall not prohibit public criticism of the policies, procedures, programs, or services of the agency, or of the acts or omissions of the legislative body.”

No child is capable of understanding the consequences of gender mutilation, because they are children. And no parent, no matter how sympathetic to their children’s plight, is capable of understanding the full ramifications of the procedures. Once hormonal manipulation is begun there is no turning back.

The evening's five-member panel included three teens in various stages of female to male transition, one student as non-binary, and the Ghidotti student who described himself as gay/pan sexual.