Bienvenilos. That's California for welcome to this emergency episode of National Reviews.

Radio Free California podcast. I'm Will Swain, president of the California Policy Center.

You can find my colleagues and me at California Policy Center.org. One of my colleagues is

attorney Emily Ray. She's head of our California Justice Center. And she's here to discuss the

just-announced decision in Mirabelli v. Olson. That's the federal case that pits the state of California against

just about every parent of a school-aged kid in the state. Emily, what's Mirabelli about and where

did the judge come down? Well, thanks for having me on, Will. So Mirabella is a lawsuit that was brought a few

years ago originally by two teachers in the Escondido Union School District,

a public school, they were teachers at a public school.

They objected to a school policy that essentially required them to lie to parents if a child

asked to socially transition their gender in their classroom. And, you know, if a parent

asked them about it, if a parent point blank went up to them and said, you know, is my child

transitioning their gender? Under these policies, they had to lie or like otherwise avoid

answering the question. So they brought suit. Over time, the lawsuit

kind of morphed into something more. It is no longer just being brought by these two teacher

plaintiffs. It is a class action, a certified class action, on behalf of both teachers in California

who object to lying to parents or keeping secrets

from parents and also the parents who object to being lied to or, you know, having information

hit from them. So what happened yesterday was, was big. This is a big deal, a monumental decision

coming out of the Southern District of California.

This is a federal court.

And it's Judge Benitez issued this decision, essentially saying that California can't have policies

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