A federal judge has ruled that schools cannot hide children’s gender transitions from their parents, but California is now forcing one school district to do just that.

From CBN. Even though a federal court ruled last September that a southern California school district should not keep students’ gender confusion a secret from parents, the California Department of Education (CDE) has told the Rocklin Unified School District (RUSD) it must not implement its parent notification policy.

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As CBN News reported last September, the RUSD voted in favor of a policy that will require teachers to notify parents if their child changes their gender identification. The school board voted 4-1 on a regulation that orders schools to contact parents within three school days if their child requests to use a name, pronouns, or sex-segregated facilities “that do not align with the child’s biological sex.” …

However, the CDE released a report on Feb. 1 claiming the district’s notification policy violated the state education code against discrimination.

According to the CDE, if the district doesn’t take corrective action, the state will take action under Cal. Code Regs., tit. 5 § 4670, which permits “the withholding of all or part of the local agency’s relevant state or federal support.” In addition, the report instructs the district superintendent to notify all of the school personnel and students that the policy will not be implemented.

The CDE issued its report despite a federal judge ruling against the CDE lawyers’ discrimination and student privacy arguments last September. The state tried to convince the court that forcing teachers in a San Diego County school district to lie to parents was legal, according to the California Family Council. The court disagreed.

In that case, Mirabelli v. Olson, a federal court issued a groundbreaking 36-page order blocking the Escondido Union School District and CDE officials from enforcing gender secrecy policies for the “trifecta of harm” it causes to teachers, children, and their parents. …

Dean Broyles, president of the National Center for Law & Policy, called out the CDE’s “sham secret ‘investigation'” of RUSD.

“The California Department of Education is far out on a legal limb that is being rapidly sawed off,” Broyles said. He criticized State Superintendent Tony Thurmond for conducting what he called a “sham secret ‘investigation'” of RUSD and threatening to defund the district. …

RUSD is one of at least six California districts to pass a parental notification policy last year. As CBN News reported, the first school district to approve the practice, the Chino Valley Unified School District, was sued by the state’s attorney general in August.

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(Excerpt from CBN. Photo Credit: Taylor Wilcox on Unsplash)