Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, many are calling a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling as one of the most important parental rights victories of the 21st century.

In an emergency ruling in Mirabelli v. Banta, the court blocked California schools from purposely

keeping from parents when their kids identify as the opposite sex at school.

According to plaintiffs, the legal practice of hiding social gender transitions from parents

has caused ongoing and irreparable harm to parental rights and to children's well-being,

and it needed to be stopped immediately. For example, in one tragic case, an eighth-grade

girl attempted suicide. Only when she was in the hospital did her parents learn from a doctor

that she'd been presenting and treated like a boy at school. And these cases exist because back in 2024, the California Department

of Education issued guidance to public schools to classify a student's expressed transgender status

as private. So directions were given to schools to respect a student's wish on whom to inform,

meaning they could withhold the information from their parents.

As a result, parents in California were left in the dark of a school treated their child

as a different gender, including using a child's preferred names and pronouns, regardless of what

the parents wished. And teachers were also forced to comply with the deception of the children's

parents.

And of course, we also know that teachers, counselors, and school officials were often encouraging students to question their identity.

Defending the policy, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, claimed, and I quote,

For many students, the consequences of compelling the disclosure of confidential information about their

gender identity would be irreversible, end quote. Manta must not be familiar with the work of

Walt Hire or the results of the Cass Review or the comprehensive studies that have been published

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