The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled, for the first time, that parents have a constitutional right to know when a school is facilitating their child’s gender transition.
Three years ago, Governor Gavin Newsom called policies providing parental notification an “assault on the trans community.” Now,according to The California Post, he has responded to the Supreme Court decision by claiming that teachers will be “forced to be gender cops.”
I have spent three years as Special Counsel at Thomas More Society litigatingMirabelli v. Bontaall the way to the highest court in the land. The governor’s response tells you everything about why this case had to go all the way.
In the most absurd, circular definition imaginable, California defined gender identity to mean an “individual’s stated gender identity, … without regard to any contrary statement by any other person, including a family member.”
Thus, under policies and legal directives enforced by the State of California under Newsom’s watch, California teachers were required to “unhesitatingly accept” a student’s assertion of his or her gender identity, and only disclose the gender identity to the parents if the student consented.
Teachers throughout the State of California were being ordered to deceive parents about the most fundamental aspects of their children: their gender identity at school.
California’s own experts acknowledged, as they must, that it’s not in a child’s best interest to have an identity at school that differs from their identity at home.
In fact, it doesn’t take an expert to know that children do best when their parents are informed about their struggles and concerns, and can provide them with the guidance and help they need.
The governor chooses to call parental involvement “policing.” Most people just call that “parenting.”
The governor also claimed the ruling “undermines student privacy.” He’s certainly staying on message: The Newsom administration took the concept of “student privacy” and turned it into a legal framework for keeping parents out.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
