The president of Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education Sonja Shaw has been threatened by left-wing activists.
The threats follow the board’s passing of a policy that requires schools to notify parents if a child identifies as a gender “other than the student’s biological sex,” is using different pronouns, or names, or uses restrooms not corresponding with their sex.
An anonymous caller then called the district and threatened to kill and “dismember” Shaw, she said on “Washington Watch With Tony Perkins.”
Shaw’s email inbox also contained threatening messages, such as, “You’re going to die” and “Your children are going to die, and your animals are going to die.”
“I also got a notification that people who identify as being in the terrorist organization Antifa posted on their website, ‘We declare war on Sonja Shaw,’” the official said to Perkins.
While she admitted she was “shaking” and “hesitant” to share the situation, Shaw noted, “God reminded me that these are the people that are after our children.”
Shaw became president of the district’s school board after she learned of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s education policy, explaining that “God opened the doors” for her to become involved.
Reporting from The Daily Signal:
The district’s newly enacted policy has won the support of parental rights advocates and education experts nationwide. “The school board in Chino Valley is making parental involvement and inclusion a priority. State level officials interested in a healthy school system should follow their lead,” Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for education studies at the Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand. But the policy drew instant backlash from the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, which announced its members are already “actively working on new approaches” to override the democratically enacted resolution. The liberal caucus added that parents who represented the near-unanimous consensus of the Chino Valley school board “will not stop us.”
