Judge strikes California’s ‘gender secrecy’ school policy down
In a victory for California parents, a federal judge struck down the policy in California’s public schools that allowed gender secrecy. This policy allowed teachers to not inform the parents about their children’s “gender confusion.” Educators were able to go as far as using preferred pronouns and names without the parent’s knowledge or consent.
From Fox News:
In the suit, filed in April 2023, the middle school teachers named several district officials and claimed that the district’s policies violated their constitutional and religious rights.
The California state officials named in the suit included State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, Attorney General Rob Bonta and the State Board of Education.
The judgment handed down by Benitez applies to all California public schools, not just the district the suit was filed in. The judge wrote in his order granting summary judgment that the California public school system placed a “communication barrier between parents and teachers.”
“Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence,” Benitez wrote. “Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence.”
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor this summer was referenced by Benitez in his ruling. The Supreme Court’s decision granted public school parents the right to opt out of materials and discussions that are at odds with their religious beliefs.
As reported by EdSource, while Benitez’s ruling referenced guidance that the California Department of Education shared with school districts, he stated that this case is not focused on California Assembly Bill 1955, which prohibited forcing teachers from disclosing the gender identity of their students.
In response to more than a dozen California school boards adopting parental notification policies that required school staff to inform parents if a student asked to be referred to by a name or gender different from that assigned at birth, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth — known as the SAFETY Act – in 2024.
Additional Reading:
Tamasco, M. (2025, December 24). Federal judge strikes down ‘gender secrecy’ policies in California public schools. Fox News. Link.
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Hallelujah, common sense prevails, but they need to be watched, because like time and time again in the past, liberals will refuse to follow Court Orders they don’t like.
Like a broken record , i keep saying that When I attended school I was taught reedin rytin and rythmatic which were the 3 R’s in teachin students how to make it in life when growing up. I’m sure a couple of commenters around my age can attest to that.
“I was taught reedin rytin and rythmatic”
And it shows in the eloquence of your comments even if
they don’t add up.
Merry Christmas brother.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Beans.
Yes, very true. I went to Caf-lick school, so I had Nuns and later Xavierian Brothers in high school, but we did have lay teachers too and as I recall, a few of the female teachers were lookers. Us boys all wanted to marry our 4th grade teacher Mrs. Garrett. We even had one nun who was so pretty, even in the 5th grade we could not figure out why she was a nun. Anyway, not one of them, none of them mind you, concerned themselves with us as persons except to teach us reedin, rytin and rif-ma-tic. That’s that way it was and that’s the way it still should be. Anything else is just plain creepy and should be a huge red warning light to “normal” parents.
Those teachers should be identified and parents notified of their proclivities to pervert and thwart childhood development.
Seriousy, people who concoct such depravities against children have no reason to have unfettered access to them.
“No reason to have unfettered access” =
Hanging around a tall tree with a short rope
OR “where’d Ms Jones disappear to? I haven’t seen her since her last PTA altercation?”
That or take them far out into the woods, then kneecap them with a ball peen hammer and abandon the scumbags out there, vultures and worms need to eat, too!
“She went to shit and the hogs got her”.
I still gotta go with hanging them up by the teabags. That’s assuming they still have em.
It’s not raining in California… it is just Commisar’s tears.
Judge Benitez is the federal judge in LA who has struck down most of the insane gun/ammo laws of Commiefornia.