California school board member who called ‘transgenderism’ a ‘social contagion’ faces recall

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A group of parents in the Woodland Joint Unified High School District say they have collected enough signatures for a measure on the March 5 ballot to recall school board trustee Emily MacDonald for “prejudicial” comments she made about “transgenderism” at a meeting last summer. Laura Brubaker and Karen Bayne organized the recall effort after MacDonald spoke about the “social contagion” of “transgender identification” at a June 15 board discussion of the district’s PRIDE Month resolution. “While I share with everyone here tremendous respect for the achievements and contrib...