Thu Sep 28, 2023 – 3:38 pm EDTThu Sep 28, 2023 – 3:40 pm EDT
SAN DIEGO, California (Thomas More Society) — Parental rights are on the chopping block in California, yet the state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is thumbing his nose at the supremacy of federal law and federal courts. In a September 26, 2023, letter issued to school district superintendents and members of boards of education titled, “Guidance Regarding Forced Disclosure Policies Concerning Gender Identity,” Attorney General Bonta advises school districts to follow a state temporary restraining order issued in People v. Chino Valley Unified School District (Cal. Super. Ct. San Bernardino County, No. CIV SB 2317301), instead of a federal preliminary injunction issued in Mirabelli & West v. Olson (S.D. Cal. No. 3:23-cv-768). Thomas More Society attorneys state that the Attorney General’s analysis is deeply flawed and misleading.
In the Thomas More Society case, Mirabelli & West v. Olson, two Escondido Union School District (EUSD) teachers sued officials with both their local school district and the California Department of Education for forcing them to lie to parents about their students’ gender dysphoria in violation of their First Amendment rights and the Fourteenth Amendment rights of parents to direct the care,
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