Protect Women’s Rights

Recent California legislation has raised serious concerns about fairness in women’s sports, privacy protections, and the role of parents in decisions affecting minors. This page outlines the legislative changes cited in the California Family Council report and presents a plan to restore protections for girls and women.


Source: California Family Council — “CA’s War on Children: Newsom Signs Bills That Silence Parents and Endanger Youth” (October 20, 2025), as cited in Platform Detail v.2 Women’s Rights 2.26.26.pdf

Fairness.
Privacy.
Protection.

Parents vs. Minors

As if parenting weren’t hard enough, these new laws, explained below, will drive a wedge between mothers, fathers, and their own children. Minors need their parents’ love and guidance, especially when they’re struggling with questions about identity or sexuality. Disagreement within a family is natural, and when real abuse occurs, Child Protective Services is there to step in. However, parents must still have the right to set rules and oversee the upbringing of their children, without government interference.

AB 1084, authored by Assemblyman Rick Zbur (D-Beverly Hills), violates this principle by authorizing minors to change their sex and name on their birth certificate without full parental consent. This law requires state officials to issue new identity documents within six weeks, erasing biological truth and replacing it with self-declared identity. If only one parent signs, the court notifies the other, but if a parent will not sign because they do not believe their child’s proposed gender identity aligns with their biological sex, the court will not consider their objection.

AB 1084 promotes the false idea that sex is fluid and treats parents as obstacles rather than protectors. It grants the state alarming power to redefine reality while sidelining mothers and fathers from their rightful role.

Safety of Minors and Women Threatened

SB 59, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), also puts the safety of minors and women at risk by sealing all court records related to sex and name changes, and criminalizes the public disclosure of a person’s true identity. The bill states a transgender identified person’s true sex is “intimate personal information entitled to protection under the right to privacy.” In practice, anyone who discloses the truth about a person’s biological identity can now face lawsuits and penalties. This will make it much harder to complain about a male being in a female bathroom or playing on a female sports team.

In practice, this bill criminalizes honesty, protecting ideology over reality. It ensures that when a child makes life-altering decisions, the public is kept in the dark.

How Will I Fight To Protect Women’s Rights?

The first thing that must happen: California voters unite to elect a Republican Governor and break the Democrat veto-proof supermajorities in the State Legislature.

There are currently 60 Democrat and 20 Republican members of the State Assembly. To break the supermajority we need to increase the number of Republicans to at least 27. In the State Senate the split is the same: 30 Democrats and 10 Republicans. We need to elect at least 14 Republican Senators. Numerically it’s less challenging, but as State Senators serve 4 instead of 2 year terms, only half will be running for reelection this year.

Breaking the supermajorities will allow us to stop any new legislation like AB1084 and SB59 from passing. It will prevent a greater loss of Women’s rights being driven by the powerful, radical LGTBQ and 2TGI elements in the Democrat Party.

I will work to promote a much greater awareness of the insanity of some of the recent legislation. As this happens, it will provide the momentum for me to work with other Republicans and the more reasonable Democrats in the State Assembly to pass legislation that restores the right of all girls and women to solely compete in women’s sports, and to receive all of the academic scholarships resulting from their athletic achievements. In addition, I will work with Republicans and Democrats to restore girl’s and women’s right to privacy in biological women-only restrooms and locker rooms.

Restoring Fairness & Privacy

Girls and women deserve fair competition, equal opportunity, and private spaces that respect biological reality.

Public policy must protect both minors and women without sidelining parents or criminalizing basic truths.

Restoring clarity in law is essential to restoring trust in government.

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