
Brian MelleyThe Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) – A mother who claims teachers secretly manipulated her 11-year-old daughter into changing her gender identity and name has filed a legal case against a tiny California school district.Spreckels Union School District was responsible for “extreme and outrageous conduct” that led the student on a path toward transitioning as a boy and drove a wedge between mother and child, according to the claim filed Wednesday by a conservative legal group.Jessica Konen said two middle school teachers who ran the school’s Equality Club, later known as UBU (You Be You), planted the seed that her daughter was bisexual in sixth grade and then introduced the idea she was transgender.The legal claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, follows a