CA Mom

The Oakland City Council just unanimously voted to urge local hospitals to provide gender castration services to minors. They should all be in jail.

On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a motion in an attempt to evade the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta. As background, in December, the the U.S. District Court issued a permanent injunction and ordered the government defendants to publicly post a statement that said, among other things, “Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence.” The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the order, meaning it could not be enforced while the appeal was pending. SCOTUS vacated the stay order with respect to the parents’ claims, meaning the district court’s order was again in force. However, the stay remains in place with respect to the teachers’ claims. Now Bonta is asking the Court of Appeals to either stay that part of the order, despite the SCOTUS ruling, or to replace the district court’s clear statement with a bunch of confusing quotes from the SCOTUS opinion. He argues that the statement does not “track the reasoning in the Supreme Court’s decision.” While it may make sense to clarify precisely which parts of the stay remain in place, it’s outrageous to suggest that the SCOTUS order doesn’t have to be strictly followed because the per curiam opinion issued as part of the emergency docket doesn’t perfectly explain its reasoning. The Court was aware of the content of the statement when it ordered the stay lifted. It must be frustrating for the lawyers representing the plaintiffs to have to relitigate these issues after such a decisive win in the Supreme Court.