America First Legal has filed a lawsuit against California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) over a new law prohibiting schools from notifying parents if their child wants to change their gender and be referred to by the wrong pronouns.
Board member of California school district blasts Gavin Newsom’s insane anti-parent policies 🔥
Her school district was sued by California over their policy requiring parents be informed if their child decides they’re trans or nonbinary.
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 14, 2024
The measure, Assembly Bill 1955, was signed into law by Newsom on July 15.
The legislation states: “This bill would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools, and a member of the governing board or body of those educational entities, from enacting or enforcing any policy, rule, or administrative regulation that requires an employee or a contractor to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent unless otherwise required by law, as provided. The bill would prohibit employees or contractors of those educational entities from being required to make such a disclosure unless otherwise required by law, as provided.”
America First Legal explained the motivations behind their lawsuit in a statement, arguing that California’s law is “an attack on our fundamental parental rights.”
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On behalf of a group of parents and the city of Huntington Beach, CA, we just sued Governor Gavin Newsom for outlawing schools from telling parents about a child’s desire to change their sex, including as a result of peer or teacher pressure.
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— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 18, 2024
“It prevents school districts from requiring parental notification if their child begins to exhibit gender confusion, such as by requesting to be called by a name and pronoun of the opposite sex,” the statement continued.
The conservative legal group went on the highlight the fact that this law “does not set an age limit—schools cannot notify parents even if preschoolers are being socially ‘transitioned.’ It also prevents schools from disciplining employees who are initiating or facilitating social ‘transitioning,’ which courts have recognized is a type of medical intervention or treatment that medical professionals have recognized can inflict serious short-term and long-term harm.”
Highlighting the implications for parental rights, America First Legal pointed out that the law is blatantly unconstitutional, though the Constitution has never stopped Newsom from pushing through his authoritarian agenda in the past.
“This law violates the 14th Amendment, which guarantees the rights of parents to make decisions about their minor children regarding all medical treatment—in this case, social ‘transitioning,’” the statement continued. “Fit parents are presumed to act in the best interest of their child. The government cannot intervene in their relationship simply because it does not like the parents’ decision. Whether a child socially ‘transitions’ or announces their sexuality is a personal and private issue, not an educational issue or one to be decided by the government. The State of California is thus intruding in a very personal, private matter—communication on one of the most intimate of topics between a parent and child—in violation of the U.S. Constitution.”
This is not the first lawsuit filed by America First Legal related to the far-left’s insane push of transgenderism on children — as the group sued the Eu Clair Area School District in Wisconsin in September 2022 over a policy of “hiding critical information regarding a child’s health from his or her parents.” They also sued Arizona’s Mesa Public Schools over the promotion of “gender transitions” for students without notifying parents.
