Supreme Court: Parents have right to know gender transition at school

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Parents have the right to know about their child’s gender identity at school, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an emergency decision Monday. The 6-3 decision by the conservative majority found parents were likely to prevail in a lawsuit seeking to overturn a California law that required teachers to use students’ preferred names and pronouns at school and that barred them from disclosing students’ gender identity to parents without the students’ consent. The decision was notable because the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to take up similar cases that had worked their way through the courts. The case touches on hotly contested issues about the role of schools in children’s lives and how the law distinguishes between parents’ rights and children’s rights. The majority invoked Mahmoud v. Taylor, a decision last year that found parents have the right to opt their children out of