Radio host Charlamagne Tha God slammed a new California law recently signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), which blocks school districts from informing parents about changes to their child’s gender identity .
"Teacher, you better tell me so I know what the hell is going on," Charlamagne said on The Breakfast Club radio show on Tuesday.
He added that it's a problem that "as a society" that "we're not a village when it comes to our kids."
"We're supposed to work as one unit but what I don't see as a parent, you may see as teacher. What you don't know about my child as a teacher, I may have information as a parent that can help you. We gotta work in concert with each other," the radio host said.
Newsom's spokesperson Brandon Richards said that the law "helps keep children safe while protecting the critical role of parents."
“It protects the child-parent relationship by preventing politicians and school staff from inappropriately intervening in family matters and attempting to control if, when, and how families have deeply personal conversations,” Richards said in a statement.
Charlamagne called the statement by Richards "a bunch of malarkey."
"To me, you're doing the opposite. If my child comes out at school but doesn't come out to me yet then maybe my child is dealing with a whole lot of backlash and a whole lot of hate and prejudice that their young mind can't navigate through," he said on his show, adding. "And I would like to be there to help you do that."
He noted that if his child had killed himself because they were bullied over gender identity and he had no idea, he wonders how a "teacher could sleep at night" because they hid that information from the parent.
"I feel like if you do want to come out, it should be to your parents first," he said.
The radio host went on to say that "the secrets we keep as a society" do nothing but "hurt us."
He said that his child is only the teacher's responsibility "part-time" and for only a brief amount of time, meanwhile, his child is his "responsibility forever."
"You better tell me everything you know about my child. Tell me everything you learn about my child. Because why? Because that's my child," the Breakfast Club host said.
The radio host is not the only one speaking up about the new gender-identity law in California.
Space X CEO Elon Musk vowed on Tuesday to move his rocket company's headquarters and social media platform X out California in response to Newsom signing the transgender student privacy law.
"This is the final straw," Musk said on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
"Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas," the tech billionaire said .
Musk added another social media post.
"I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children," he said.
Musk had previously moved Tesla's headquarters from California to Texas in 2021 while keeping its engineering hub in the Golden State. The billionaire also moved the incorporation of SpaceX from Delaware to Texas after a legal battle over Musk's compensation package.
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The tech billionaire had his own personal experience with the transgender issue. As a father, he was "pained" by his oldest child, born as Xavier Alexander Musk, who adopted the transgender identity of Vivian Jenna Wilson, and embraced "full on communism" which led to dropping the Musk last name and cutting off communication with the billionaire.
California resident and detransitioner Chloe Cole thanked Musk for taking a stand. "Thank you, Mr. Musk," she said on X. "California is still worth fighting for but we don’t need to be giving millions to the government so they can turn around and mutilate vulnerable kids in the foster care system and lie to parents at schools."
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