California judge halts district policy requiring parents be told if kids change pronouns
1 year, 3 months ago

California judge halts district policy requiring parents be told if kids change pronouns

Associated Press  

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A judge on Wednesday halted a Southern California school district from requiring parents to be notified if their children change their gender identification or pronouns at school. San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Garza ruled after California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School District for adopting a policy requiring schools to tell parents when their children change their pronouns or use a bathroom of a gender other than the one listed on their official paperwork. “Today’s decision by the San Bernardino Superior Court rightfully upholds the state rights of our LGBTQ+ students and protects kids from harm by immediately halting the board’s forced outing policy,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. Anthony De Marco, an attorney for Chino Valley Unified, argued the policy would not affect students who were holding private conversations with teachers, but would involve parents in situations where students were making more public decisions such as changing their name or pronouns or using bathrooms or joining sports teams of a gender other than the one on their official paperwork.

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US Supreme Court rejects parents' plea challenging school gender-identity policy
2 weeks, 1 day ago

US Supreme Court rejects parents' plea challenging school gender-identity policy

India Today  

The US Supreme Court, turning away another case involving transgender issues, declined on Monday to hear a bid to revive a lawsuit against a public school district in Wisconsin over a policy to support gender identity of students that some parents challenged on religious rights and other grounds. The Supreme Court rebuffed an appeal by a group of parents of …

Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students. Parents with children in Eau Claire public schools argued in a lawsuit that the school district’s policy violates constitutional protections for parental rights and religious freedom. But Alito described the case as presenting “a question …

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
Top News
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court’s conservative majority expressed skepticism about a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth during oral arguments on Wednesday, in what experts say is the most important transgender rights case the court has ever heard. The law is meant to encourage minors to “appreciate their sex” and prohibits doctors from prescribing …

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide
3 weeks, 1 day ago

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide

CNN  

CNN — When Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth last year, Sarah began taking days off work to drive hundreds of miles from her home in Nashville to a North Carolina clinic that could treat her transgender son. Parents like Sarah and transgender communities across the United States will be paying close attention Wednesday as the US Supreme Court …

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?

LA Times  

The conservative Supreme Court is poised to leap into another culture-war battle between red states and blue states, this time involving medical rights of transgender teens and their parents. Biden’s Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar told the court “there is broad consensus in the field that adolescents who have reached the early stages of puberty and have experienced gender dysphoria over …

New Hampshire’s highest court upholds policy supporting transgender students’ privacy
3 months, 3 weeks ago

New Hampshire’s highest court upholds policy supporting transgender students’ privacy

Associated Press  

CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld a school district’s policy Friday that aims to support the privacy of transgender students, ruling that a mother who challenged it failed to show it infringed on a fundamental parenting right. At issue is a policy that states in part that “school personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a …

U.S. Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold
4 months, 1 week ago

U.S. Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. Most Republican-controlled states have banned gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, and several have adopted policies limiting which school bathrooms trans people can use and barring trans girls from some sports competitions. In April, President …

Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country
4 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country

The Independent  

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Supreme Court blocks Biden’s new antidiscrimination rules for transgender students in red states
4 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court blocks Biden’s new antidiscrimination rules for transgender students in red states

LA Times  

The Supreme Court has refused to lift court orders in 26 conservative states that blocked Education Department rules extending anti-discrimination protections to transgender students. The Supreme Court said Friday it has turned down an appeal from the Biden administration and refused to lift court orders in 26 conservative states that blocked new Education Department rules extending antidiscrimination protections to transgender …

Editorial: Doesn’t Huntington Beach have something better to do than harass transgender kids?
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Doesn’t Huntington Beach have something better to do than harass transgender kids?

LA Times  

Less than 2% of U.S. teenagers identify as transgender. And now, the Huntington Beach City Council — no stranger to weird municipal policy — has stuck its toe into this culture war issue with a proposal to become a “Parents’ Right to Know” city. Opinion Editorial: Huntington Beach’s MAGA message to the world Two measures passed last week — to …

Federal protections of transgender students are in effect where courts haven’t blocked them
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Federal protections of transgender students are in effect where courts haven’t blocked them

Associated Press  

New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges took effect Thursday with muted impact because judges have temporarily blocked enforcement in 25 states and hundreds of individual colleges and schools across the country. A Kansas-based federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump added another wrinkle, asserting power over states led by Democrats: He said the rule …

Days before a Biden rule against anti-LGBTQ+ bias takes effect, judges are narrowing its reach
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Days before a Biden rule against anti-LGBTQ+ bias takes effect, judges are narrowing its reach

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration’s enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school. Sipple’s ruling followed one last week by U.S. District Judge John Broomes in Kansas, who blocked enforcement in that state, Alaska, Utah and Wyoming but also in …

Southern California school district sues Gov. Gavin Newsom over new transgender school law
5 months, 1 week ago

Southern California school district sues Gov. Gavin Newsom over new transgender school law

LA Times  

A Southern California school district has sued the state over a law signed by Gov. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the Liberty Justice Center on behalf of the Chino Valley Unified School District and several of the district’s parents, claims that the new law infringes on the rights of parents. The law states that school employees “shall not be required …

California passes law banning school mandates that out trans students
5 months, 1 week ago

California passes law banning school mandates that out trans students

Salon  

On Monday, California became the first U.S. state to legally bar school districts from notifying parents of a child's decision to change their pronouns. The law was signed in response to local districts in California passing laws requiring school districts to notify their parents if they learn of a child changing their pronoun. “As a parent, I urge all parents …

Southern California school district sues Gov. Newsom over new gender-identity law
5 months, 1 week ago

Southern California school district sues Gov. Newsom over new gender-identity law

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Southern California school district involved in an ongoing legal battle with the state over the district’s gender-identity policy sued Democratic Gov. But Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon called the lawsuit “deeply unserious” and said the new law “preserves the child-parent relationship.” “California law ensures minors can’t legally change their name or gender without parental consent, and parents …

Outrage over California law BANNING parents from finding out when kids transition at school
5 months, 1 week ago

Outrage over California law BANNING parents from finding out when kids transition at school

Daily Mail  

Advocates say some LGBTQ+ students need protection from their own parents Parents and activists have reacted furiously to a California law to help students change sex at school without their parents knowing about it, with one calling the Democrat-backed legislation a 'five alarm fire.' Gov Gavin Newsom on Monday signed the first-in-the nation law, which blocks public school districts from …

California is 1st state to ban school rules requiring parents get notified of child’s pronoun change
5 months, 1 week ago

California is 1st state to ban school rules requiring parents get notified of child’s pronoun change

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California became the first U.S. state to bar school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change under a law signed Monday by Gov. The law bans school rules requiring teachers and other staff to disclose a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation to any other person without the child’s permission. “It …

Newsom signs bill banning schools from notifying parents about student gender identity
5 months, 1 week ago

Newsom signs bill banning schools from notifying parents about student gender identity

LA Times  

The LGBTQ+ Pride Flag, bottom, flies for the first time with the California, top, and Los Angeles flags during Pride Month outside L.A. City Hall on June 6, 2024. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday that prohibits mandating that teachers notify families about student gender identity changes, capping a yearlong battle between conservative school boards concerned about parental rights …

California lawmakers send student gender notification bill to Newsom after explosive Assembly debate
5 months, 4 weeks ago

California lawmakers send student gender notification bill to Newsom after explosive Assembly debate

LA Times  

Assembly Bill 1955 would shield teachers from retaliation for supporting transgender student rights and prohibit school policies that require “forced disclosure” of youth gender decisions to their families. Assembly Bill 1955 by Christopher M. Ward would shield teachers from retaliation for supporting transgender student rights and prohibit school policies that require “forced disclosure” of youth gender decisions to their families. …

Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens
6 months ago

Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens

LA Times  

People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility by the Capitol in Washington in 2023. In the last three years, however, many Republican-led states have enacted laws that forbid medical treatments intended to help youths under 18 transition to what the measures describe as a “purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.” The Biden administration, the …

California Senate approves ban on requiring schools to notify parents of child’s pronoun change
6 months, 1 week ago

California Senate approves ban on requiring schools to notify parents of child’s pronoun change

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — School districts in California would be barred from requiring teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun at school under a bill the state Legislature is weighing amid legal battles over the rights of parents and gender-nonconforming students. But Republican lawmakers said the state shouldn’t dictate whether school districts can enforce …

Editorial: Phew. Anti-transgender measure won’t be on the November ballot
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Phew. Anti-transgender measure won’t be on the November ballot

LA Times  

Miran Magptyan, left, supporter of transgender notification policy, confronts protester Micki Simon, right, outside the Orange Unified School District board meeting in September before a vote on a parental notification policy. Thankfully, voters won’t face a discriminatory proposition that would have required teachers and school administrators to inform parents about their child’s gender identity at school and to enact anti-trans …

California bill would protect teachers amid school gender debates
7 months ago

California bill would protect teachers amid school gender debates

LA Times  

Supporters of transgender student rights rally outside an Orange Unified School District board meeting last year in protest of requiring educators to notify parents whose children use a different gender identity at school. Assemblymember Christopher M. Ward is carrying legislation that would shield teachers from “any retaliation” for supporting transgender student rights and would prohibit school policies that require “forced …

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah public schools have been rushing to prepare students and teachers as the state starts cracking down Wednesday on any school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender people. Principals in the Granite, Alpine, Davis and Salt Lake City school districts have been trained to address bathroom concerns on an individual basis, with discretion and …

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rollout of transgender bathroom law sows confusion among Utah public school families

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Utah public schools have been …

Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students

Associated Press  

Several Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools by banning blanket policies that bar transgender students from school bathrooms aligning with their gender, among other provisions. “The central feature of the Final Rule is the Department’s extraordinary move to transform Title IX’s prohibition of discrimination …

Battles over California schools’ transgender policies are raging in court. How’d we get here?
8 months, 1 week ago

Battles over California schools’ transgender policies are raging in court. How’d we get here?

LA Times  

It’s Tuesday, April 16. Rob Bonta named their would-be state law: “Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth.” Under the proposed initiative, schools in the state would be required to notify parents if their child changes their gender identification unofficially, such as in conversation with friends or teachers, or in school records, like a roll sheet. The initiative would also prohibit gender-affirming …

Tennessee schools would have to out transgender students to parents under bill heading to governor
8 months, 1 week ago

Tennessee schools would have to out transgender students to parents under bill heading to governor

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee would join the ranks of states where public school employees have to out transgender students to their parents under a bill advancing in the Republican-supermajority Legislature. The bill’s progression comes as Tennessee Republican lawmakers have established the state as one of the most eager to pass policies aimed at the LGBTQ+ community as Republicans pursue legislation …

Supreme Court Allows Idahos Ban On Transgender Youth Care
8 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Allows Idahos Ban On Transgender Youth Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. Under the court’s order, the two transgender teens who sued to challenge the law still will be able to obtain care. The law’s backers have said it is necessary to …

Transgender rights vs. parent rights. California goes to court to settle school divide
8 months, 1 week ago

Transgender rights vs. parent rights. California goes to court to settle school divide

LA Times  

Miran Magptyan, left, a supporter of parent-notification policies, confronts Micki Simon, who wants to protect the privacy of transgender students, outside the Orange Unified School District board meeting in September. Rob Bonta saw things differently when his office chose the name signature gatherers must use: “Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth.” Among its provisions, the initiative in question — which has …

I found out my daughter had changed gender when teachers called her ‘he’ at parents’ evening
8 months, 3 weeks ago

I found out my daughter had changed gender when teachers called her ‘he’ at parents’ evening

The Telegraph  

A mother has told how she only discovered that her daughter had been allowed to change gender at school when teachers called her “he” at a parents’ evening. “The school started affirming her behind my back and I only found out that the teachers were using male pronouns during a parents’ evening, when she was being referred to as a …

California school district changes gender-identity policy after being sued by state
9 months, 2 weeks ago

California school district changes gender-identity policy after being sued by state

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Southern California school district sued by the state has updated its policy requiring staff to notify parents that a student is using a different pronoun or bathroom designated for another gender and now will only mention that a child has requested a change to their student records. The Chino Valley Unified School District board approved the …

Republicans Are Trying to Erase Trans Identity From The Law
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans Are Trying to Erase Trans Identity From The Law

Huff Post  

Transgender people are at risk of losing the ability to update their driver's licenses and IDs with new legislation that restricts definitions of sex. At least 10 states have introduced or passed legislation to narrowly define what it means to be “male” or “female.” Such laws have myriad impacts for transgender people — from making it impossible to update birth …

Judge Temporarily Blocks Idaho’s Ban On Transgender Youth Health Care
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Judge Temporarily Blocks Idaho’s Ban On Transgender Youth Health Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of an Idaho law banning transgender health care for minors on Wednesday, just days before it was set to go into effect. Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled Wednesday that the American Civil Liberties Union was right to ask for an injunction blocking the law until its lawsuit on behalf of …

Teachers can’t be forced to use pupils’ chosen pronouns, says government
1 year ago

Teachers can’t be forced to use pupils’ chosen pronouns, says government

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Former Tory prime minister Liz Truss said it “doesn’t go …

Parents reveal how schools are 'actively' hiding children's gender switching as teachers vow to defy government's new guidance that family MUST be informed - with Tories warning rules must be put in l
1 year ago

Parents reveal how schools are 'actively' hiding children's gender switching as teachers vow to defy government's new guidance that family MUST be informed - with Tories warning rules must be put in l

Daily Mail  

Parents have accused schools of 'actively' hiding children's gender switches as Labour MPs and unions urged teachers to ignore new government rules. Gillian Keegan has released long-awaited gender identity guidance for schools today Kevin Sexton, executive headteacher of Chesterfield High School in Liverpool told Sky News : 'I'm not going to change what has worked for our school for the …

‘Trans guidance for schools should not punish teachers for objecting to the use of different pronouns’
1 year ago

‘Trans guidance for schools should not punish teachers for objecting to the use of different pronouns’

The Telegraph  

I will never forget the moment I opened my classroom door to find a 13-year-old trans-identifying student cutting herself with a razor blade she had smuggled into school. Or the sight of a painfully anxious 15-year-old boy – stick-thin due to an eating disorder – arriving at school one day wearing a skirt. They really believed that overnight a feminine …

Teachers and students grapple with fears and confusion about new laws restricting pronoun use
1 year, 1 month ago

Teachers and students grapple with fears and confusion about new laws restricting pronoun use

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis high school senior Caston Peters had used they and them or he and him pronouns at school for three years without a problem, but they came home a few days into this school year and told their mother that the situation had changed. But even though her own child’s wishes are being respected, Michaelis-Peters said she has …

School heads will let pupils change gender identity if parents are told
1 year, 1 month ago

School heads will let pupils change gender identity if parents are told

The Telegraph  

Children will be allowed to change their gender identity at school as long as their parents are told, under guidance to be unveiled in weeks. In a significant toughening of the draft guidance, schools will be told to keep parents fully informed if their child plans to change gender. Hard to define Another source said the Government had accepted that …

By outing 19 students to their parents, Texas school district violated ethics code
1 year, 1 month ago

By outing 19 students to their parents, Texas school district violated ethics code

Raw Story  

This article first appeared on Houston Landing and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. The Katy Independent School District’s decision to out transgender students to their parents is not only what one attorney described as “bullying masquerading as policy” – it’s also a violation of the Texas Education Agency’s code of ethics. Be aware that some school staff …

Schools trans guidance to be published by Christmas
1 year, 1 month ago

Schools trans guidance to be published by Christmas

The Telegraph  

Schools will receive guidance on transgender pupils by Christmas, but it could be spring before the rules come into force. MPs have warned that without official guidance, schools have been forced to seek advice from third-party providers, which have arguably promoted radical gender ideology in classrooms. A report by the Policy Exchange think tank published in March found that schools …

Judge blocks California school district policy to notify parents if their child changes pronouns
1 year, 2 months ago

Judge blocks California school district policy to notify parents if their child changes pronouns

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Parts of a controversial Southern California school district policy that require school staff to tell parents if their child asks to change their gender identification will remain halted after a judge granted a preliminary injunction Thursday to block them until a final decision is made in the case. The Chino Valley school board approved the policy over …

Local school districts largely compliant as state mandates gender-neutral restrooms
1 year, 2 months ago

Local school districts largely compliant as state mandates gender-neutral restrooms

LA Times  

Students walk and greet each other on the center quad on the first day of school at Laguna Beach High School at the start of the 2023-24 school year. “By requiring all California K-12 schools to provide gender-inclusive restroom facilities on campus, we’ll ensure the well-being of our LGBTQ+ and nonbinary students and ensure safer school communities for everyone.” In …

‘Kids are having to use their deadname’: Students say gender policies make schools feel unsafe
1 year, 3 months ago

‘Kids are having to use their deadname’: Students say gender policies make schools feel unsafe

LA Times  

Celeste Stoller, left, shown here with mother, Ruqayyah, is among the students speaking out against new policies requiring schools to notify parents if students indicate they are gender-nonconforming. “Multiple trans kids are having to use their deadname,” said Max Ibarra, a high school senior in the Chino Valley Unified School District in San Bernardino County, referring to a student’s birth …

Clarity urgently needed on transgender guidance for schools, says commissioner
1 year, 3 months ago

Clarity urgently needed on transgender guidance for schools, says commissioner

The Independent  

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Orange Unified board approves parental notification when a student identifies as transgender
1 year, 3 months ago

Orange Unified board approves parental notification when a student identifies as transgender

LA Times  

The Orange Unified school board Thursday night became the sixth California school system to require notifying parents when their child identifies as transgender — a decision made after state Atty. Orange police remove a person protesting the parental notification policy with a megaphone during the Orange Unified School District board meeting. Supporters and opponents of the parental notification policy face …

California courts may weigh affirmation of child’s gender identity in custody cases
1 year, 3 months ago

California courts may weigh affirmation of child’s gender identity in custody cases

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could soon require judges to consider whether a parent affirms their child’s gender identity when making custody and visitation decisions under a bill that cleared the state Senate on Wednesday. “This is about trying to make sure that something terrible does not happen to them.” Every Republican in the state Senate voted against the bill, with …

Judge blocks Chino Valley policy mandating schools notify parents if students are transgender
1 year, 3 months ago

Judge blocks Chino Valley policy mandating schools notify parents if students are transgender

LA Times  

Alexander Simpson, left, and Delbert Tran, attorneys for the state of California, appear in San Bernardino County Superior Court to argue for a temporary restraining order against Chino Valley Unified’s parental notification policy. Still, he found Chino Valley’s policy “too broad, too general” and without a “clear purpose or reference of parental support and involvement.” “There will be parents who …

California sues district that requires parents be notified if their kids change gender ID
1 year, 3 months ago

California sues district that requires parents be notified if their kids change gender ID

Associated Press  

SANTA ANA, Calif. — California’s attorney general sued a Southern California school district Monday over its new policy requiring schools to notify parents if their children change their gender identification or pronouns, the latest blow in an intensifying battle between a handful of school districts and the state about the rights of trans kids and their parents. Attorney General Rob …

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