A new legislation that prevents schools from forcing parents to be informed of their children’s gender confusion is the subject of a lawsuit against California.
California Assembly Bill 1955, which Governor Gavin Newsom approved into law on Monday, is being challenged in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the Liberty Justice Center for the sake of the Chino Valley Unified School District and several worried parents of students enrolled in public schools in California. Parents and legislators opposed the bill right away, believing it violated parents’ rights and might be damaging to children.
A new rule was eventually sparked by the legal challenges to some California school policies that mandated that administrators inform parents if their kids asked to change their gender identity or pronouns during 2023.
“The teenage students in grades PK–12, the majority of them are considered too small to drive, cast a ballot, or give medical permission for one another, additionally remain too young to make critical decisions regarding their declared gender identity without consulting their parents. However, it is exactly what AB 1955 allows, or with potentially disastrous results for young children who cannot fully understand them, according to a statement from Emily Rae, senior lawyer at the Liberty Justice Center.
“Educators are not allowed to withhold information from parents, yet parents are entitled under the constitution to be informed what their young kids are up to in school. It is not Governor Newsom, Attorney General Bonta, or Superintendent Thurmond who are the children’s official guardians.
Rae added, “We will keep fighting distracting laws like AB 1955 in court, at no expense to taxpayers, in order to protect parents’ rights and kids’ welfare.
Director of Communications for Governor Gavin Newsom, Izzy Gardon, attacked opponents of the law in a message to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Gardon declared, “This is a highly foolish lawsuit, apparently meant to surface legitimate legal allegations rather than spark the dumpster fire previously referred to as Twitter.”