SACRAMENTO, CA – California has become the first state in the nation to enact a gender secrecy law that will force teachers and staff to lie to parents and to hide from them critical information they have a right to know about their children. The new law (AB 1955) comes after more than a dozen school boards and at least one school district in the state have enacted policies to tell parents if students showed signs of gender confusion, such as asking to use names or pronouns inconsistent with their biological sex in school records.