A U.S. District Court judge in San Diego struck down a policy that prevents schools from letting parents know that their children want to change genders.
“A parent’s right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, control and medical care of their children is one of the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests that Americans enjoy,” U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez wrote in his Sept. 14 ruling.
He said that when a school learns that a student has questioned his or her birth gender, or identified as transgender, school officials must notify the parents, even if the student objects. He sees the notification duty the same as when the school would be required to notify parents or guardians if a student had a concussion during soccer practice or was the victim of sexual assault, or has suicidal thoughts.
The ruling comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom has begun taking actions against school districts that pass pro-family parental notification policies. The governor and the state’s attorney general sued the Chino Valley Unified School District last month for a similar parental notification policy.
In July, a U.S. District Court judge in Sacramento threw out a lawsuit against the Chico Unified School District for a similar policy that prevented parents from knowing if their children were going through gender transition. That judge said the venue of the federal court was improper, and the matter should be taken to the state legislature.
The case this month in San Diego involved an Escondido Unified School District policy that says a teacher may not disclose to a parent the fact that a student identifies as a new gender, or wants to be addressed by a new name or new pronouns during the school day – names, genders, or pronouns that are different from the birth name and birth gender of the student. Under the policy at issue, accurate communication with parents is permitted only if the child first gives its consent to the school. A teacher who knowingly fails to comply is considered to have engaged in discriminatory harassment and is subject to adverse employment actions, according to the policy.
That Escondido policy is similar to the one that exists in the Anchorage School District, which limits what parents may know about their children, once those children are under the control of the public school system.
Good. But watch them ignore the ruling.
No doubt about it, that’s what they always do.
Good!
This judge (in California even!) must have kids… and a little common sense.
We at least there are some sane judges left now will the state government follow the law.
Well, there goes their shiny new legislative effort.
Must be infuriating for the Left when they cannot win every case. This puppy would be reviewed the Ninth Circuit, which the Left would love but then it would go to that darn US Supreme Court. The Left will count on the Ninth Circuit to issue a stay of Judge Benitez’ ruling and then hope the Court slow-rolls the case to oblivion. It might turn out that all or many of the plaintiffs “disappear” or lose their jobs. Unexplained random accidents. Who knows. Stuff happens. It’s all about winning.
A momentary flicker of light in the dark night of insanity. The leftist will not stop. They will not sleep. They will keep coming until this nonsense becomes the rule of law. And if you don’t care, you will be MADE to care.
““A parent’s right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, control and medical care of their children is one of the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests that Americans enjoy,” U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez wrote in his Sept. 14 ruling.” Hopefully, this sensible finding will be applied to the legislative idiot’s move to make criminals out of parent’s that make such decisions to NOT support or allow chemical/surgical/mental terrorism to occur to their own child’s body/mind…
Nice to see a common sense law instead of a power grab law. California politicians can go pound sand.
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