One set of parents said they weren’t told their junior-high daughter was being treated as male at school. Others said teachers lied to them about how their daughter was referred to as at school.
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on March 2 backed parents’ right to be told if their child changes their name, or pronouns they’re using in school, blocking California rules aimed at preventing teachers from outing transgender students to their parents.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!“Under long-established precedent, parents − not the State − have primary authority with respect to ‘the upbringing and education of children,'” the majority said in an unsigned opinion. “The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health.”
The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the decision to grant the parents’ emergency request.
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Justice Elena Kagan criticized the conservative majority for making a rushed decision about a case “raising novel legal questions and arousing strong views” that is at an early stage of litigation.
“The Court is impatient: It already knows what it thinks, and insists on getting everything over quickly,” she wrote of the decision that came without the full rounds of briefing and oral arguments for cases.
Why, all of a sudden, do we have SOOOO many kids who NEED to change their gender???
First – are we NOT teaching biology in school?? Don’t these idiots know that XX canNOT become XY???
Secondly – a 5 or 7 years old is only looking at benefits. I wanted to be able to pee standing up – so I could do it out in the woods.
Third – are y’all just plain CRAZY?????
What parental control?
Confused (above) makes a great point.