March 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling Monday temporarily blocking California's policies that ban public schools from sharing a child's transgender status with their parents.
The emergency ruling in Mirabelli vs. Bonta blocks the California policies only until the case can make it through the court system. The majority opinion is that the plaintiffs will likely win the case because "the parents who object to the California policies on free exercise grounds are likely to succeed on the merits."
The case was brought by a group of Christian teachers and parents who disagreed with the state's policies of protecting transgender students' privacy if they transitioned at school against their parents' wishes. The parents and teachers are represented by the Thomas More Society, a law firm that represents Catholic public interests.
"California is requiring public schools to hide children's expressed transgender status at school from their own parents," CNN reported the Thomas More Society told the Court. "California parents (including religious parents) are suffering grievously under the state's regime."
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