Overview
- U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez granted summary judgment in Mirabelli v. Olson and entered a class-wide permanent injunction.
- The order enjoins Attorney General Rob Bonta, the California Department of Education, and school employees from policies that conceal or misstate a student’s gender identity to parents.
- Benitez held that parents have Fourteenth Amendment informational rights and that teachers have First Amendment speech and free-exercise protections to communicate accurate gender information.
- The injunction specifies that staff may not mislead parents, withhold education records, or use different names or pronouns with parents over a parent’s objection, and it directs PRISM training to reflect these rights.
- The decision conflicts with AB 1955’s privacy framework, and the Attorney General’s office has not said whether it will appeal.