California Republican lawmakers introduced a bill that would require school districts to alert parents if their child is trans-identifying or “non-binary” after a state high school fired one of its teachers for violating a state anti-discrimination law that prohibits such interactions.

Last week, Assemblymembers Bill Essayli (R-Riverside) and James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) unveiled AB-1314, otherwise known as the “Gender identity: parental notification” bill, which would require school district officials to notify parents within three days in writing if their children identify contrary to their biological sex documented on their official records or birth certificate.

“Parents play a critical role in nurturing and supporting children and they cannot be removed from the equation,” Essayli said during a Monday news conference, The Los Angeles Times reported.

“Concealing information from parents is not only wrong — it’s dangerous and harmful to the emotional and physical safety of trans minors,” Essayli added, according to ABC7.

Essayli held the press conference outside Jurupa Valley High School with former teacher Jessica Tapia, who was fired after refusing to follow the current state law that stops educators from discussing their children’s gender without consent from the student.

“I said, ‘Are you asking me to lie?’ And they said, ‘Yes. It’s the law, and it’s for the student’s privacy,’” Tapia said. “I can’t understand how the school system seems to think that we ought to act as though we are the parent.”

According to the California Department of Education, the current law protects trans-identifying students because disclosing their gender identity to their parents could increase their “vulnerability to harassment and may violate the student’s right to privacy.”

“We are talking about minors,” Tapia said. “Their brain is not fully developed. The decision-making portal in that brain is not fully developed, and they need their parents at this time for everything.”

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“Everything they’re going through — mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually — you name it,” she added.

Tapia said she plans on suing the school district for wrongful termination.

Jurupa Unified School District officials told ABC7 in a statement that “all students and staff enjoy the right to privacy under the Constitutions of the United States and California.”

“While individuals may elect to disclose their personal information to the public, the District is prohibited from doing so,” the statement said. “The District’s actions related to Ms. Tapia were based on its obligations under current state and federal law, which protects student privacy and requires the District to provide a discrimination-free learning environment to students.”

Assemblymember Essayli said that if the new law passes, it will reset an appropriate relationship between educators and parents — reaffirming children belong to their parents and not the government.

Officials from the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus released a statement reported by The Los Angeles Times that says the new bill would put transgender and nonbinary students in “potentially life threatening danger, subjecting them to trauma and violence.”

“Teachers should not be forced into the inappropriate position of revealing a student’s personal information about their gender identity with anyone,” the statement reads.

California parent Peggy Bigby Lamberth argued that parents should be involved with their children’s decisions.

“Parents should absolutely be involved in all the decisions that their kids make,” Lamberth told ABC7. “Right now, kids are influenced by the media, by their friends, by just a lot of mixed messages.”

Last January, another California school district came under fire after The Center for American Liberty filed a lawsuit against the Chico Unified School District superintendent and school board for allegedly transitioning a female child “behind her mother’s back.”

A senior executive at Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse who claims to be “nonbinary” and “gender fluid” spent much of the past several years campaigning for LGBTQ inclusion in the global financial system as performance at the company declined.

The financial institution named several “material weaknesses” with respect to risk assessment strategy in a recently published annual report. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and the Swiss National Bank provided the company with $54 billion in liquidity on Thursday in order to prevent the collapse of the “systemically important” institution.

Jordan Schachtel, an independent journalist at The Dossier, noted on social media that Bunce has accumulated many honors from LGBTQ activist entities and prominent organizations in the financial sector. The executive’s LinkedIn account lists “She/Her/They” pronouns; half of the profile picture featured on the account shows Bunce in a suit and tie, while the other half shows Bunce wearing makeup, a blonde wig, a red dress, and what appear to be fake breasts.

Bunce has worked at Credit Suisse for nearly two decades, including more than eight years as the firm’s head of global markets core engineering integration components.

The Bank of London featured Bunce as recently as this week in its Rainbow Honours initiative. “It warms my heart to see so much work done to progress our world to being a more open and inclusive space for all and where everyone can live free from the fear of prejudice, discrimination and hatred,” Bunce wrote on LinkedIn. “I am also so very proud of all my colleagues here at Credit Suisse and the many other firms and organisations I work with as each and every LGBTQI+ Ally really is a super hero.”

Bunce has also been listed as one of the “champions of women in business” by Financial Times. The executive defined intersectionality as not conforming to “a nice, single one box” last year at an LGBTQ conference hosted by consulting firm McKinsey & Company. “I’m nonbinary, I’m genderfluid, I’m trans, I’m many different things,” Bunce remarked. “We all have so many different amazing attributes. To me, we’re all the same, but uniquely different.”

McKinsey interviewed Bunce in 2021 and called the executive “Mx. Pips Bunce” in a social media video.

Credit Suisse boasts on its website that more than 6,000 employees were “active LGBTQ+ allies” as of two years ago and offers “ally networks” for members of senior management.

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The recent financial instability at Credit Suisse has been developing for years, but intensified days after Silicon Valley Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, collapsed after depositors rushed to withdraw their funds. Silicon Valley Bank announced a share sale after the company suffered heavy losses from the liquidation of a $21 billion bond portfolio, raising concerns among clients about the safety of their assets. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation now directs holdings maintained by Silicon Valley Bank.

The company faced backlash in the wake of its collapse for an intense emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Silicon Valley Bank neglected to fill its senior risk management role for most of last year while Jay Ersapah, the executive in charge of risk management in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, described herself as a “queer person of color from a working-class background” and organized LGBTQ initiatives such as a month-long pride campaign.