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<\/p>\nThe U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in Mirabelli v. Olson deciding against California\u2019s law that allowed for gender transitions of school children without parental knowledge has met with commendation from advocacy groups and law firms, with a legal counsel calling the decision one of the \u201cbiggest parental rights wins\u201d in a generation.<\/p>\n
Chief legal affairs officer at think tank America First Policy Institute Leigh Ann O\u2019Neill told The Center Square that she hopes \u201cto see these policies where they belong — in the waste bin of history.\u201d<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 04: The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on March 4, 2026 in Washington. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
“Secrecy policies like the ones used by California schools drive a wedge between parents and their children,\u201d O\u2019Neill said.\u201cTeachers and administrators are undermining parents\u2019 right to be the primary decision makers for their children,\u201d O\u2019Neill said. \u201cThe Supreme Court has signaled its clear understanding of the urgency of this case.\u201d<\/p>\n
President of advocacy group the American Principles Project Terry Schilling told The Center Square that \u201cthe Supreme Court recognizes what every parent knows in their heart: gender ideology violates the rights of children and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Gavin Newsom Democrats waged a war against common sense and parents, and they lost,\u201d Schilling said.![\"SAN](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4dd6f703-d7bb-47ad-a716-38a1e7560d5b-GettyImages2263645995.jpg\"\/)
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 28: California Gov. Gavin Newsom sits at an event promoting his book “Young Man in a Hurry” on February 28, 2026 in San Francisco. (Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Schilling emphasized that \u201clawmakers cannot merely rely on the courts to protect families. Parents need lawmakers to step up and pass nationwide bans on the poison of child sex changes and gender ideology running rampant in our education and medical establishment.”<\/p>\n
Vice president and legal fellow at education restoration group Defending Education stressed to The Center Square the importance of parental rights as it pertains to the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe parental right, rooted in biology and recognized for millennia, is the cornerstone of any society,\u201d Perry said. \u201cWe sacrifice or neglect that right at our peril.\u201d\u201cParental rights are both natural and pre-political,\u201d Perry said. \u201cThey predate the Constitution and government itself, and when state agencies appoint themselves the arbiters of the future of our minor children, our society suffers greatly for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perry stated that \u201cin Mirabelli v. Olson, the Court reinstated a victory for the parents from the trial court which prohibited \u2018misleading parents about their children\u2019s gender presentation\u2019 and required schools to follow parents\u2019 instructions regarding the names and pronouns that children use.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perry said however that \u201cbecause this was an emergency docket disposition that related only to one case out of California – the ruling will have limited practical effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a victory for the California parents — but a procedural one, only,\u201d Perry said. \u201cThe parents will now return to the lower court and continue to litigate on the policy itself, while its operation is halted for the time being.\u201d\u201cIt is, however, a positive sign of the Court’s desire to wade in to the increasing conflict between parents and schools on gender secrecy policies,\u201d Perry said.<\/p>\n
Senior Council at nonprofit law firm Becket Adele Keim called the Supreme Court case \u201cone of the biggest parental rights wins in a generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Court reaffirmed that parents \u2013 not the state \u2013 have primary authority over their kids\u2019 upbringing and education,\u201d Keim told The Center Square.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means that parents have the right not to be shut out of decisions relating to their kids\u2019 mental health, which is what California\u2019s gender transition secrecy policies did here,\u201d Keim said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Court held that parents don\u2019t forfeit that right when they send their kids to public school,\u201d Keim said.<\/p>\n
Keim told The Center Square that \u201ca liberal society like ours recognizes that kids don\u2019t belong to the state,\u201d but to parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cA healthy society flourishes when schools and governments work with parents, not against them,\u201d Keim said. \u201cAt a minimum, that means not keeping parents in the dark about their kids\u2019 mental health, like California did here.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled \u201cin favor of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against a California law that allowed public schools to conceal a student\u2019s \u2018gender transitions\u2019 from their parents,\u201d The Center Square reported.<\/p>\n
As Adele Keim told The Center Square, the case \u2013 Mirabelli v. Olson \u2013 \u201cbuilds on Becket\u2019s win in Mahmoud v. Taylor last year, where the Court held that parents in Maryland had the right to opt their children out of storybooks that pushed one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality and conflicted with the families\u2019 religious beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThese rulings make it clear that American parents don\u2019t forfeit their rights when they send their kids to public school,\u201d Keim said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in Mirabelli v. Olson deciding against California\u2019s law that allowed for gender transitions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-209817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}