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Advocates Fear Supreme Court Is ‘Going After the Transgender Community Deliberately’

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Katie DeBenedetti

Mar 3, 2026

An emergency Supreme Court ruling to temporarily bar California from enforcing a state law that prevents public schools from outing transgender students has advocates raising concerns about its potential to further roll back protections for transgender youth.

The court’s conservative majority on Monday sided with a group of Christian parents who alleged that the law violates their religious and due process rights.

The decision comes as the court also considers this spring whether to bar transgender girls from participating in public school sports and strike down a law banning conversion therapy for minors in Colorado. Last year, the court upheld a law barring some gender-affirming care for minors.

It gets worst;

“This is the fifth anti-trans decision that the Supreme Court has done,” said Jorge Reyes Salinas, the communications director for Equality California. “It is disappointing, and it is alarming that the Supreme Court has chosen to do this and once again disregard the safety and well-being and privacy of transgender people, specifically transgender youth.

“It is very clear to the American people that the Supreme Court is going after the transgender community deliberately,” he continued.

I am not as worried about Trump as I am about the Supreme Court. While a President can eventually be voted out of office, Trump has packed the judicial system with far-right ideologues who seem to harbor a deep-seated animosity toward trans existence.

What about our rights? Do the Supreme Court and the administration even understand FERPA?

The absurdity of this ruling cannot be overstated. The Court suggests a teacher’s "religious freedom" is under attack if they cannot use a student's sex assigned at birth. However, this creates a direct conflict with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). By intentionally using the wrong pronouns, a teacher effectively "outs" a student to the entire class, violating their privacy.

It is bad enough that the courts believe parents have a right to forcibly out their children, but now they are suggesting that a teacher's "religious freedom" justifies violating federal privacy laws and more important than a child's life!