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Gavin Newsom Is Many Things. 'Pro-Family' Is Not One of Them.

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  March 05, 2026 8:57 PM

I've seen politicians tell some whoppers in my time, but none of them hold a candle to Gavin Newsom, and the lackeys who run the Governor Newsom Press Office account on X. There was a time when I dreamt of moving to California — sun, beaches, beautiful landscapes, Hollywood — until Newsom and his fellow Democrats turned the state into the nation's laughingstock, an economic and social disaster that proves Newsom is unfit for higher office.

Of course, Newsom is one of the big names being floated for 2028, and we all should have a vested interest in making sure he doesn't make it past the Iowa primaries, because his policies on a national scale would spell utter disaster for America — economically, geopolitically, and socially.

It would be especially hard on parents and families, as Newsom's California is one of, if not the most, least friendly states when it comes to parental rights, children, and the family. Even if the delusionists at Governor Newsom Press Office think the exact opposite is true.

California was just smacked down in a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court, which found the state's policy that forced schools to keep a student's "gender transition" secret from his or her parents was unconstitutional. 

"Gender dysphoria is a condition that has an important bearing on a child's mental health, but when a child exhibits symptoms of gender dysphoria at school, California's polices conceal that information from parents and facilitate a degree of gender transitioning during school hours. These policies likely violate parents' rights to direct the upbringing and education of their children," the ruling read. In court, California argued that students "have a right to privacy about their gender expression" and sought to "strike a balance" with parents' rights.

By removing parents from the equation entirely, of course.

California is also the state that will send CPS after parents who don't "affirm" their child's gender transition.

Once those children are removed from their parents' custody, the state can "transition" them without parental consent.

These policies also drove at least one girl to commit suicide.

Listen to that mother and tell me there's anything "pro parent, pro kid, pro family" in Newsom's policies.

California also made the decision to bar Christians from the state's foster parent program, and for the same reasons. If those parents refuse to "affirm" the gender of a "trans kid" in foster care, they are barred from the program. That means California now has a massive child sex-trafficking problem, as the foster system was already overwhelmed before the short-sighted activists in Sacramento removed Christians from foster home consideration. California also passed legislation to decriminalize sex work, meaning girls are trapped in a cycle of sexual abuse and exploitation so Democrats like Newsom and state Senator Scott Weiner can feel good about preventing "discriminatory arrests" and "harassment" of teenage girls. You can read all about that dystopian nightmare here.

Newsom also lost his mind when Louisiana filed suit against a California-based doctors who mailed abortion drugs to Louisiana, where abortions are illegal. Newsom, keeping it classy as always, told Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill to "go f*** yourself." That's not exactly pro-child, either. And it's not pro-woman, as the mail-order abortion drugs are often given to unwilling women, as was the case with the Louisiana lawsuit Newsom is so offended by. 

Last fall, we learned that actor George Clooney relocated his family to rural France, rather than raise them in Newsom's California. If an insanely wealthy celebrity can't stomach living in California, how do other families manage? How is that "pro-family" if people are fleeing the state?

The cherry on top of this is that the "maternity leave" program Newsom's Press Office touts isn't all that spectacular, either. It's eight weeks of the state's disability program and eight weeks of paid family leave, capped at $1765 a week or a max of 90 percent of someone's salary.

Can this guy, or his staff, ever tell the truth about anything?

It doesn't seem so.

If this is Gavin Newsom’s definition of “pro parent," "pro kid" and “pro family,” then those phrases are devoid of all meaning. A government that hides critical information about a child from parents, threatens families who refuse to comply with ideological mandates, and sidelines religious foster parents isn’t empowering families — it’s replacing them with the state. That, of course, is what Democrats and their base want. But they'll meet some fierce opposition to it. After all, the Supreme Court just reminded Newsom that parents, not bureaucrats, have the primary responsibility for raising their children. But judging by the rhetoric coming out of Sacramento, Newsom and his staff still haven’t gotten the message.

And that matters far beyond California. Newsom may dream of taking his brand of politics national in 2028, but voters across the country should take a long look at the record he’s already built. The same politicians who insist their policies are “pro-family” while stripping parents of their rights are the ones asking Americans to trust them with even more power. If Gavin Newsom’s California is the model, the rest of the country would be wise to soundly reject it, and him.