Two California teachers placed on administrative leave for refusing to withhold information about students’ gender “transitions” from their parents are back to work after filing a lawsuit challenging an unconstitutional policy.
Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, teachers at Rincon Middle School in Escondido, California, went back to work on Tuesday, January 16th after a federal judge demanded that the school, the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), and the California Department of Education, abide by an earlier ruling to reinstate them.
Last May, Mirabelli and West filed a lawsuit suing EUSD and the state’s department of education after the administration established a policy that required teachers to not only address trans-identifying students by their preferred pronoun, but it required them to hide from parents their student’s gender confusion.
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School counselors were assigned to help students transition with a “gender support plan” and would notify staff about which students were transitioning and instructed them on how to keep the information hidden from their parents, according to the California Family Council.
West and Mirabelli requested a religious accommodation against the policy but were only granted the accommodation
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