Parents win, Gavin Newsom loses again

The Ninth Circuit has confirmed that parents’ rights still exist in California —despite Gavin Newsom’s effort to stamp them out.Last week, the appellate court — still known as the most liberal in the land — blocked the enforcement of AB 1955, the 2024 law that prevents schools from informing parents when children tell schools that they want to change genders.Newsom adopted the law to spite conservatives who had won seats on local school boards in the 2022 midterm elections, and who had begun to push back against “woke” indoctrination.On the national level, President Joe Biden and then-Attorney General Merrick Garland had smeared parents as “domestic terrorists” if they stood up at school board meetings.That only made parents more determined to take back control of their schools, even in deep-blue California.In the community of Chino Hills, school board president Sonja Shaw spearheaded a new policy that required schools to keep parents informed.California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond invaded the board meeting to protest, and Shaw had to have him removed.(Shaw is now one of the two finalists for his position in the general election in November.)Newsom responded by signing AB 1955 into law.

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But he could not defend his opposition to parents’ rights.In fact, when asked why parents didn’t have the right to know about their own children, he tried to deflect the question, saying it wasn’t a major issue for voters anyway.The vast majority of Californians support parents’ rights, but Newsom dared not defy the LGBTQ+ activists in his base.Parents and teachers went to court, and the Supreme Court agreed with them earlier this y...