CV NEWS FEED // A county court judge in California issued a temporary restraining order on a California school district’s new policy requiring staff not to secretly facilitate child “gender transitions” without informing parents.
On the day of the ruling, Brandon Drey of The Daily Wire wrote that “San Bernardino Superior Court Judge Tom Garza granted the temporary order amid an ongoing civil rights lawsuit filed last month by California Attorney General Rob Bonta,” a Democrat.
As CatholicVote previously reported:
The Chino Valley Unified School District implemented a mandatory gender identity disclosure policy in July, requiring schools to inform parents in writing within three days if their child “identifies” as a different gender at school. The notification policy also applies to children who request teachers to use their “preferred pronouns,” and parents will also be informed if their child requests to use a bathroom that does not match the child’s biological sex.
Chino Valley is a large public school district that serves about 27,000 students. It is located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, 35 miles east of Los Angeles.
Sonja Shaw, the president of Chino Valley’s board of education and a parental rights advocate, told the Associated Press that this week’s decision disappointed her.
“I don’t understand why they are so gung ho on this issue,” she said. “But everything else we have to inform the parents about. There is obviously an issue and parents are concerned.”
Bonta commended the judge’s decision. “San Bernardino Superior Court’s decision to issue a temporary restraining order rightfully upholds the state rights of our LGBTQ+ student community and protects kids from harm by immediately halting the board’s forced outing policy,” he said in a statement.
“While this fight is far from over, today’s ruling takes a significant step towards ensuring the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of transgender and gender-nonconforming students,” Bonta continued:
As we continue challenging the policy in court, my office will continue providing our unwavering support to ensure every student has the right to learn and thrive in a school environment that promotes safety, privacy, and inclusivity.
Last week, Bonta sued the school district “to immediately halt the enforcement of the” policy in question. “Every student has the right to learn and thrive in a school environment that promotes safety, privacy, and inclusivity – regardless of their gender identity,” he stated at the time.
The Attorney General called the pro-parent measure a “forced outing policy” that “wrongfully and unconstitutionally discriminat[es] against and violat[es] the privacy rights of LGBTQ+ students.” He claimed that it “wrongfully endangers the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of non-conforming students who lack an accepting environment in the classroom and at home.”
However, Bonta’s lawsuit did not stop other school districts in different parts of the state from going forward with implementing parental rights policies similar to the one being challenged.
CatholicVote also reported last week:
Jonathan Zachreson, who serves on the Roseville City School Board, said in an interview with The Daily Signal that “Every school district in our area is considering such a policy.”
The Signal’s Tyler O’Neil wrote that according to Zachreson, “Bonta’s legal action will not discourage school boards from upholding parental rights.”
Zachreson called Bonta’s beliefs on the matter “unpopular,” and told the Signal that in challenging Chino Valley’s policy the attorney general is “basically saying that parents are a danger to their kid.”
Read more on the fight for parents’ rights in California:
Victory: CA School Awards Settlement to Mom After ‘Transitioning’ Daughter
CA School Districts Not Giving Up on Pro-Parent Policies Despite Dem AG’s Lawsuit
California AG Files Lawsuit Against Pro-Parent Policy
