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A judge struck down California's law which kept grooming a secret from a child's parents.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/judge-rules-california-trans-child-secrecy-law-unconstitutional/
Federal judge slaps down California’s trans child secrecy law
A federal judge in San Diego ruled that California’s policies allowing schools to hide students’ gender transitions from their parents is unconstitutional, issuing a permanent injunction on the controversial practice.
Teachers Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori West, both Christians, brought the lawsuit in response to California Department of Education policies that required them to conceal children’s gender transitions — including adopting a new name and pronouns — from their families, absent explicit permission from the child.
Mirabelli and West were placed in the “impossible” position, attorneys argued, of lying in violation of their Christian faith and personal ethics.
US District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez agreed, writing in a decision issued Monday that California parents are “left in the dark” about something as significant as their child’s gender identity.
“Even if the State Defendants could demonstrate that excluding parents was good policy on some level, such a policy cannot be implemented at the expense of parents’ constitutional rights,” Benitez wrote.
Advocates of the gender secrecy law, who included Attorney General Rob Bonta and state lawmakers, argued the policy was necessary to protect children from a “forced outing” that could cause bullying and harassment at home.
Bonta went so far as to sue Chino Valley Unified School District in 2023 for a policy that required sharing students’ transitions with parents if they adopted new names of pronouns or requested access to facilities like bathrooms not aligned with their biological sex.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/judge-rules-california-trans-child-secrecy-law-unconstitutional/
Federal judge slaps down California’s trans child secrecy law
A federal judge in San Diego ruled that California’s policies allowing schools to hide students’ gender transitions from their parents is unconstitutional, issuing a permanent injunction on the controversial practice.
Teachers Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori West, both Christians, brought the lawsuit in response to California Department of Education policies that required them to conceal children’s gender transitions — including adopting a new name and pronouns — from their families, absent explicit permission from the child.
Mirabelli and West were placed in the “impossible” position, attorneys argued, of lying in violation of their Christian faith and personal ethics.
US District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez agreed, writing in a decision issued Monday that California parents are “left in the dark” about something as significant as their child’s gender identity.
“Even if the State Defendants could demonstrate that excluding parents was good policy on some level, such a policy cannot be implemented at the expense of parents’ constitutional rights,” Benitez wrote.
Advocates of the gender secrecy law, who included Attorney General Rob Bonta and state lawmakers, argued the policy was necessary to protect children from a “forced outing” that could cause bullying and harassment at home.
Bonta went so far as to sue Chino Valley Unified School District in 2023 for a policy that required sharing students’ transitions with parents if they adopted new names of pronouns or requested access to facilities like bathrooms not aligned with their biological sex.
