Parents and teachers who oppose the state policies sued, claiming their parental, free speech and religious rights were violated.
The Supreme Court on Monday barred California from enforcing state rules that restrict when schools can notify parents about students who come out as transgender and requires teachers to use children’s preferred pronouns.
The court, on a 6-3 vote on ideological lines, allowed a federal judge’s ruling in favor of parents who oppose the policy on religious grounds to go into effect. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had put the judge’s decision on hold pending further litigation.
The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Parents generally have the right to know important facts about their children.
If your kid talks to someone else about something major and important to their lives BEFORE you, you have already fucked up as a parent and probably betrayed trust a number of times already.
Either way, if a kid is old enough to talk about mature subjects about themselves with anyone, they’re also old enough to decide who they feel safe enough to talk to.
This society broadly is riding a really weird line between if we’re protecting our kids to the point of treating them like they have no agency at all.
If they aren’t telling their parents, there is probably a very good reason.
What do you think that reason is?
Many times, fear of:
So on.
I saw this firsthand with friends in my high school days, and plenty of hard right repubs treat their kids the same way today.
So, IMO, very good reasons to be fearful.
You’ll often see in supportive spaces that many will recommend not coming out if they dont know what the parents response will be, or how severe it will be, due to these risks.
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Or it can result in the kid having the piss beaten out of them, like for one poor sod in my middle school class when his father found out he was gay do to a snitch of a teacher. Don’t worry though retribution was had.
Kids are inexperienced. And It is the job of the parent to protect them. I don’t know why this comment is so downvoted. It’s pretty rational.
Yeh some parents are arseholes but for the most parents do need awareness so they can have conversations and help their child.
Most 9-11 year olds are getting their world from TicTok. Is that the better alternative to a parent who wants to help?
Not all parents are bad.
Why do children not get any right to privacy at all, like they’re just pets or something? There are some who would be put in danger if the parents found out, and they’re smart enough to know this, otherwise they’d trust their own parents enough to just tell them instead of a third party.
Parents have a right to know what their child trusts them to know. If a kid is withholding information about their identity from their parent, it’s because they fear their parents reaction. Parents do not have a right to know any piece of information at any time, nor should it be the responsibility of the school to report it to them.
Lol.
Lol go fuck yourself
That’s true but if it results in danger or harm to the child, then the parents forfeit that right.
Yeah, I don’t see the issue here.
Having a law that forbids schools from sharing information about students with their parents is bonkers.
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Ah yes, “medical condition”. As if being trans is like having a cold or a busted knee or whatever.
It, uh.
That’s not how it works.
It’s how most of the cis world still thinks. Me choosing to wear a skirt instead of pants and choosing to paint my nails and go by “she” is a “medical condition” instead of just me being me. Because to an average cis male person, that would feel very uncomfortable, so they think there’s something “wrong” with us.
If a child isn’t telling their parents that they’re trans, it’s likely because their parents have shown that it isn’t safe for them to know. This ruling will put vulnerable children at higher risk of violence from their families, and remove school as a place they can get support safely when their parents are not safe. This ruling will kill trans kids, be it from violence or from suicide.
Absolutely. Parents can’t parent from the dark. It is imperative they are aware of medical and mental issues their children are grappling with so proper care can be taken.