Parents should be the ones raising their children. While this seems like common sense, public school boards across the country have cut parents out of a deeply vulnerable part of their kids’ lives. “Parental exclusion policies” direct school staff to affirm their students’ gender dysphoria by referring to children by whatever pronouns and names they request and to lie to parents who object.
While many legal challenges have been filed, the Supreme Court recently issued an opinion addressing these policies for the first time. In Mirabelli v. Bonta, a case from the emergency docket, the court recently held that California’s parental exclusion policy likely violates the First and 14th Amendments. This decision, while necessary and important in itself, offers broader insight into the justices’ minds and the future of the court. Here are three key takeaways from Mirabelli that go beyond this case.
