California Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Garza has ruled the Chino Valley Unified Board of Education cannot require schools in its district to inform parents if children are gender-swapping in class, after Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged the policy “unlawfully discriminates against transgender and nonbinary students, subjecting them to disparate treatment and harassment including mental, emotional, and even physical abuse.”
Judge Garza, originally appointed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, has sided with AG Bonta and blocked the ‘parental notification’ policy, which would have ensured that parents were told if their children were using a different name, different pronouns, or using restrooms and playing on sports teams for the opposite sex.
“Today’s decision by the San Bernardino Superior Court rightfully upholds the state rights of our LGBTQ+ students and protects kids from harm by immediately halting the board’s forced outing policy,” Bonta boasted.
The Chino Valley Unified Board of Education has vowed to appeal, however, warning the Democrats have “picked the wrong parents to fight with.”
“These are our children and we love them, and we care for them, and we are not a danger to them, and we will make sure that is known, and we will show our children that we will not be submissive to unlawful ways to shut us out,” said board president Sonja Shaw.
