Judge blocks Chino Valley school district’s trans outing policy
qvoicenews.comSonja Shaw is president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board of education. She supports a policy passed by the board in July that requires school officials to out trans students to their parents, On Thursday, a judge in San Bernardino blocked the policy from being enforced.
Photo: Chino Valley Unified School District board meeting screenshot. This article originally appeared on EdSource, and is republished with permission.
A state Judge in San Bernardino County ruled Thursday that a school district cannot require teachers to notify parents when a student identifies as transgender, saying the policy discriminates against youths based on their gender identity, The San Francisco Chronicle and other news outlets reported.
Superior Court Judge Michael Sachs said that the Chino Valley Unified School District’s policy “treats otherwise similar students differently based on their sex or gender identity” and therefore violates the students’ constitutional guarantee of equal protection.
