When asked about transgender books in elementary schools, Novato Unified school board candidate Tief Gibbs Jensen said trans kids are 'seriously mental, they have mental problems.'
"The Republican party in Marin County, I think, has a registration of about 18% so we're a pretty blue county and so it's often that Republicans don't even run," she said. "So that fact is, it is unusual that we have this many candidates running."
"We've had a lot of parents pull their kids out of school here and put them into the private schools during the lockdown," Bourret said. "And part of that has to do with curriculum." But those are the issues that are firing up school boards across the country, particularly issues around LGBTQ+ students. Across the U.S., school boards and states have been enacting legislation to restrict students from talking about LGBTQ+ issues - removing protections for transgender students - even closing student newspapers for publishing "PRIDE" issues.