California can’t hide students’ gender identity in ‘historic’ legal win for parental rights

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A federal judge ruled that California schools can’t conceal students’ different-sex gender identities from their families, delivering a smackdown of the hotly contested state policy in a landmark victory for parental-rights advocates.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez permanently blocked policies backed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and other state officials requiring schools to keep parents out of the loop on their children’s gender transitions.

The judge also ruled that schools don’t need student authorization to disclose different-sex names and pronouns.

Supporters of parental rights hailed the judge’s decision as a “precedent-setting victory” and “stunning rebuke” to California’s political establishment, which has long fought against right-tilting school districts on transgender rights issues.

California can’t hide students’ gender identity in ‘historic’ legal win for parental rights

A federal judge ruled that California schools can’t conceal students’ different-sex gender identities from their families, delivering a smackdown of the hotly contested state policy in a landmark victory for parental-rights advocates.

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California often portrays itself as leading the nation on important liberal policy issues, from authorizing same-sex marriage over the will of voters to utilizing its massive population to set de facto national environmental standards that are stricter than federal policies.

Now it's getting dragged into teeing up a national standard for public schools' obligations to employees and parents when it comes to students expressing "gender incongruence" on campus, thanks to a two-and-a-half-year-old class action lawsuit and petitions to the Supreme Court to review similar policies in Massachusetts, Florida and just this week Maine.

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, repeatedly slurred by name by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for other rulings, granted summary judgment to parents and teachers against the state's so-called gender secrecy policies, which allegedly conceal from parents their children's gender identity at odds with sex, including by muzzling employees.

Judge orders California to stop hiding gender transitions from parents, disclose parental rights

President George W. Bush nominee questions Democratic attorney general's competence as a lawyer, given his arguments. SCOTUS considering petitions from Florida to Maine to review school districts' parental exclusion policies.

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