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.
What do you have to do to come out as trans in school? Medical treatment or just ask for new pronouns? If it’s just pronouns, maybe everyone can switch a few times per semester and it won’t really tell the parents anything since almost all the notifications will be meaningless.
That only works for kids with accepting parents that aren’t the issue anyway. If you are cis and have hyper conservative parents, telling the school to change your pronouns to provide a smoke screen for actual trans students is going to cause you a LOT of trouble at home.
“Why are you trying to hide and protect Trans kids!?”