A federal judge temporarily blocked a California school district from forcing teachers to conceal students’ in-school gender changes from their parents.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez issued a preliminary injunction Thursday against an Escondido Union School District (EUSD) policy that requires teachers, on the one hand, to immediately accept a student’s new gender identity and begin using the student’s preferred name and pronouns and, on the other hand, to refer to the student by his given name and biological sex when speaking with his parents unless he consents to their being informed of his gender switch.
Represented by attorneys from the Thomas More Society, Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, teachers at Escondido’s Rincon Middle School, filed a federal lawsuit against EUSD in April, charging that the policy infringes on their First Amendment rights.
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Federal Judge Blocks School From Forcing Teachers to Hide Students’ Gender Choices From Parents
- by: Michael Tennant
- 2023-09-18
- Source:
The New American
- 09/19/2023
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