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Appellate judges reverse lower court’s dismissal of case against officials and their actions.
A transgender agenda adopted by many school districts across the nation, a policy that is being challenged over and over by parents, has taken a huge hit in a court in the leftist state of California.
There, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit by a mother against the Chico Unified School District over the decision by officials there to covertly help her fifth-grade daughter’s “gender transition.”
That’s the idea that a girl can become a boy, or vice versa, through chemicals and body mutilating surgeries, even though that, by the science, can’t happen as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
Nevertheless, as part of the agenda, wildly and extensively promoted by Joe Biden while he was in office, schools often allow their teachers, counselors and others to persuade children they are transgender. Then they facilitate treatments for the child, all the while keeping their actions secret from parents who almost never would approve.
According to a report from the Center for American Liberty, an organization launched by attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon, who now is serving in the Trump administration, “The Constitution is clear, parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. Government-run schools cannot usurp that role behind closed doors.”
The report called the decision from the 9th Circuit a “significant First and Fourteenth Amendment victory.”
The appeals court ruled that the case brought by Aurora Regino “may proceed, reversing a lower court’s dismissal.”
The decision said, “the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the fundamental right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.”
“Today’s decision restores hope to parents nationwide that their rights don’t end when their children enter the classroom,” said Mark Trammell, CEO of the Center for American Liberty. “The Constitution is clear, parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children. Government-run schools cannot usurp that role behind closed doors.”
“Regino filed the lawsuit after learning that her 11-year-old daughter’s school had been affirming a new gender identity, complete with name and pronoun changes, over a period of weeks, all without any notification to or involvement from her. At the time, her daughter was struggling with mental health issues, including anxiety and depression,” the organization reported.
Regino said, “No mother should ever be blindsided by a secret school policy that excludes parents from life-changing interventions.”
The opinion also said that “the right to familial association encompasses the right of parents to make important decisions about their children’s health and education,” a conclusion that is seen as putting guardrails around “ideologically driven practices in public education.”
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