Posted on 10/19/2025 5:39:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The court order in Mirabelli v. Olson means the case will represent over 300,000 California public school teachers and the parents of more than 5 million California public school students.
(The Center Square) - A federal judge certified a class action lawsuit this week, representing all California parents and teachers affected by Parental Exclusion Policies on students' gender identity, following a lawsuit by the Thomas More Society.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez certified a class action lawsuit on October 15. In the case Mirabelli v. Olson, the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit law firm, is representing the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the Escondido Union School District, the California Department of Education and California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
The court order in Mirabelli v. Olson means the case will represent over 300,000 California public school teachers and the parents of more than 5 million California public school students.
Judge Benitez wrote in the court order, “Injunctive relief on behalf of the proposed class would achieve systemic changes to the California Department of Education that would obviate the need for future lawsuits seeking similar relief.”
On November 17, a summary judgment hearing could end California's Parental Exclusion Policies statewide. The hearing will decide if Judge Benitez rules that these policies violate parents’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to their children’s upbringing and for teachers, their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religious expression.
Under these policies, teachers and administrators are required to use preferred pronouns requested by a student and hide a child’s gender identity from parents. They use biological pronouns and legal names only when speaking with parents, if the child requests parents be kept in the dark.
“Judge Benitez has recognized that California’s gender secrecy policies affect millions of families and teachers, and that everyone impacted deserves to have...”
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“...over 300,000 California public school teachers and the parents of more than 5 million California public school students...”
Ummmmm...somebody please check my math, but that works out to roughly 17 students per teacher. I doubt there’s a classroom anywhere in California that only has 17 students. Yet the teachers’ union keeps saying class sizes are too big and they’re overworked. What am I missing?
He is known for his rulings striking down several California gun control laws.
Roger Benitez was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 17, 2004, by a 98–1 vote. The only vote in opposition came from Dick “I’m A Total Dick” Durbin of Illinois.
Once again, El RushBo leads the way, and tells it like it is.
Every time Durbin was mentioned by Rush, Rush would be sure to say: Little Dick Durbin.
To this day, no one has ever challenged this remark.
Before the “trans” craze, gender dysphoria was a sign of a serious underlying medical condition; the people who experience true gender dysphoria are a tiny subset of individuals who suffer from incurable endocrine defects or it can result from tumors on the pituitary gland. Most parents are aware of the endocrine defects from birth or early ages; however, some do not get diagnosed or the symptoms don’t present until puberty when the endocrine system ramps up hormone production.
Not making parents aware that this is happening can have catastrophic consequences on the health of the child and deny them necessary medical treatment.
The people of California are insane to follow this dictate.
Then you have a whole cluster of kids who are not gender dysphoric and have no endocrine defdcts; they are just looking for attention. They need a good ass kicking.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973 because of gay rights activists targeting members of the APA.
They pretended it was a scientific decision, and that the extreme pressure by gay activists had nothing to do with it.
Awesome!
Judge Benitez is a California treasure. If only we had more like him.
Certainly not Loretta or his various office toys...
The 300,000 includes many tens of thousands that haven’t entered a classroom to teach this millennium. Also, there are many ‘special education’ classrooms with < 10 children per classroom, and a lot of schools with virtually no students actually attending. A classroom may have 25 student names listed on the rolls, but there are both hundreds of thousands of ghost students and tens of thousands of ghost teachers. See New Orleans 2005, when the Feral government had been paying for 700 police officers for years to add to the city/state paid 900 police. The 700 Fed-paid police were entirely phantoms, and the police and the insurance companies knew about the fraud. Zero health insurance claims by 700 ‘police’ and their families meant massive profits to the insurance company and agents involved.
It’s the same for California schools and the Unaffordable Don’t Care Act. Tens of billions in annual subsidies to phantoms and their families. With more than two million ‘illegal aliens’ reported leaving these States, it is likely that some hundreds of thousands of these aliens are as real as the aliens reported in the Weekly World News - bookkeeping entries to pay Demonrat activists - commissions and premia both.
Homosexuality and gender dysphoria are not the same thing.
But the one thing they do have in common is radical activists pushing to change how someone could be diagnosed as gender dysphoric. Before, it looks years and a team of doctors to be declared “trans.” Now, anyone can just make the claim and Shazam! Puberty blockers and hormones for you.
They pushed aside the Zucker protocols (Dr. Zucker was the world’s leading expert on sexual dosorders) and tossed out decades of science in favor of feelings.
Just lunacy.
It is all LGBTQWXYZ.
That may be how it is framed by the media and activists, but what differentiates gender dysphoria from the other groups is that true dysphorics have an incurable endocrine disorder.
It is a side effects of these conditions.
No endocrine disorder? Not trans.
I’m guessing the teachers had to opt in somehow. Maybe it’s just an estimate. I’m a bit surprised that roughly half the teachers oppose the policy.
Census 2000 had almost 40M total — 22% under 18.
5 million school children seems a bit low but not by much.
I’m not sure how many go to private school.
Oooh...brain fart, yes. I’d expect 150k active teachers for 5M students, not 600k.
I was thinking the teachers had to opt in somehow. Surely some of them support keeping the parents in the dark.
Per the California Department of Education website:
For 24-25
Students in public schools= 5,806,221
Teachers in public schools= 286,126
“*Previous counts included non-instructional teaching support staff; however, these counts now only include teachers with classroom-based, teaching assignments.”
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/ad/ceffingertipfacts.asp
Even if that means mass execution of teachers and their enablers.
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