Judge Delivers Major Blow to CA’s Anti-Parent Regime, Rules ‘Lying Teacher’ Law Unconstitutional – RedState
The state of California, under the leadership of woke Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the far-left Legislature, passed a law in July 2024 — AB 1955 — that required teachers to affirm students’ gender identities but keep any changes secret from parents. In other words, they demanded that teachers lie.
Bad news for the Golden State’s gender extremists, of whom there are many: U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez issued summary judgment Monday, ruling the law unconstitutional.
Finally, a 2024 story where a judge didn’t go out of his way for the Democratic Party and progressives.
Boom:
🚨BREAKING: United States District Court Judge Roger Benitez has issued a summary ruling finding parental exclusion policies UNCONSTITUTIONAL and issuing a permanent class-wide injunction in Thomas More Society Mirabelli v. Olson.
In a first of its kind, class-wide,… pic.twitter.com/KWN0rriZMz
– Thomas More Society (@ThomasMoreSoc) December 23, 2025
The tweet above continues:
In an unprecedented class-wide victory, a federal court has permanently blocked California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Department of Education from forcing teachers to lie to parents about their own children’s secret gender transitions — ruling that parents have a constitutional right to know and teachers have a constitutional right to share the truth.
MORE: California’s vast Democratic majority crosses AB 1955 amid chaos and brawls
Gavin Newsom runs like a top and claims positions in total contradiction with his record
Benitez’s opinion contained masterful prose, rejecting the ridiculous claims of leftists on many fronts.
Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their child in a public school expresses gender incongruity. Teachers and school staff have a federal constitutional right to accurately notify their student’s parent or guardian when their student expresses gender incongruity. These federal constitutional rights take precedence over any state or local law, state or local regulation, or state or local policy to the contrary.
Incredibly important and great decision by Saint Roger Benitez – US District Court Judge in San Diego – protecting all California children and their parents, and castigating the depraved CA AG. @RobBonta and his puppeteer @GavinNewsom who have and will do anything – with the CA… https://t.co/1rgowLXCfk
— 𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬 (@EricEarly_CA) December 23, 2025
Incredibly important and great decision by Saint Roger Benitez – US District Court Judge in San Diego – protecting all California children and their parents, and castigating the depraved CA AG. @RobBonta and his puppeteer @GavinNewsom who have done and will do everything – with California taxpayers’ money – to separate young children from their parents, support hidden sex modification surgeries, etc. Congratulations to my lawyer friend @PaulJonna on this issue of obtaining this extraordinary decision.
The judge “prohibited the implementation or enforcement” of the unparental and unconstitutional requirements that the Golden State attempted to impose on its educators. The ruling states that the State cannot:
(a): permit or require any employee of the education system of the State of California to mislead the parent or guardian of a minor child in the education system about their child’s gender presentation at school, whether by: (i) lying directly to the parent; (ii) prevent the parent from accessing the child’s education records; or (iii) using a different set of preferred pronouns/nouns than those used at school when speaking with parents;
And no, Newsom and Bonta, you cannot:
(c): Require any employee of the California State education system to use a name or pronoun to refer to a child that does not match the child’s legal name and birth pronouns while concealing such social gender transition from the child’s parents, over the employee’s conscientious or religious objection;
Or:
(d): or otherwise prevent a teacher or other school administrator, counselor, or staff member from communicating to parents that their child has demonstrated a form of gender incongruity, such as changing their name or preferred pronoun.
This is a huge victory for parents across the state and will hopefully set a standard for judges across the country: Don’t mess with our kids.
They have ruined the parent-child relationship.
Big mistake. https://t.co/WvziYebw26
– Shannon Adcock 🇺🇸 (@Shannon_A_IL) December 23, 2025
“IT IS SO ORDERED,” Judge Benitez wrote. Thank you Roger for this very nice Christmas gift.
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