According to images a student sent to Young America's Foundation, the University of California San Diego is subjecting students to mandatory training that teaches "dead naming," or refusing to call a "transgender" student by his or her preferred name, is "prohibited conduct," that requiring their peers to use bathrooms that align with their biological sex may be "sexual harassment," and that disagreeing with transgender ideology creates a "hostile environment."
The College Fix notes that Assembly Bill No. 2683 requires all California state community colleges and public universities to conduct trainings on sexual violence and harassment.
"Our representatives are mandating to college students that they believe one way about sexuality and gender," says Greg Burt of the California Family Council. "They are now requiring students to take a test every year saying that they will not sexually harass anyone, and that includes that they will not complain that males are in females' bathrooms."
At UC San Diego, students who do not complete the training and score 100% on the quiz that follows will be placed on academic hold that prevents them from registering for future courses.
Burt says it boils down to students are required to say things they do not believe.
"It's compelled speech, and compelled speech by the government is a violation of free speech," he tells AFN. "The government cannot require us to say the things they want us to say on any topic in particular."
He predicts lawsuits will be filed, and as this kind of thing is happening elsewhere and in other professions, Burt encourages anyone who encounters something like this to resist, to "commit themselves not to go along to get along."
People of faith should insist that the First Amendment applies to them and ask for a religious accommodation, and the institution requiring training like UC's "Sexual Violence and Harassment, Anti-Discrimination, Prevention and Education" should be willing to provide it.
"The only way this is going to stop is people have to resist," Burt reiterates.
