Last week US District Judge Roger Benitez issued a landmark ruling that confirmed what parents have been saying for years: School policies that hide a child’s gender-identity changes from families are unconstitutional.

Benitez’s decision in Mirabelli v. Olson, which overturns a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2024, applies statewide and permanently blocks these secrecy rules.

Two brave teachers made this victory possible.

Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West refused to lie to parents.

Their Escondido school district, backed by state officials, ordered staff to use new names and pronouns at school while deliberately hiding that information from moms and dads.

Benitez dismantled that scheme, affirming that parents have a fundamental 14th Amendment right to direct the upbringing of their children.

Teachers also have First Amendment rights protecting them from being forced to deceive families.

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