California School Policy on Gender Transition Sparks Legal Battle Over Parental Rights

Joe diGenova, former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and Victoria Toensing, a former senior official at the Department of Justice, said they agree with a federal judge’s ruling against a California policy that blocked schools from informing parents when students asked to use different pronouns or gender identities.

A federal judge ruled in favor of parents and educators who challenged a California public school policy that prohibited staff from notifying parents about a student’s gender transition.

“Parental involvement is essential to the healthy maturation of schoolchildren,” Judge Roger Benitez wrote.

“California’s public school system parental exclusion policies place a communication barrier between parents and teachers,” he added.

“The state defendants are, in essence, asking this court to limit, and restrict a common-sense and legally sound description by the United States Supreme Court of parental rights. That, this court will not do,” Benitez continued.

On a recent show, Toensing stated that California’s law revealed the left’s desire to erode the nuclear family.

“The Supreme Court has said that children are not a creature of the state,” Toensing said.

“How about that? To go right against California’s position?”

“The government of California based this on the right to privacy, which is in the California Constitution,” she added. “And they said the child had the right to privacy.”

“No, the Supreme Court says parents have a right to know about their children, and that’s why it failed,” Toensing explained.

Benitez will issue a separate order imposing a permanent injunction to stop the policy from being repeated or enforced and prohibit similar measures that keep parents out of the loop.