Transgender identity lawsuit filed against Chico Unified School District

CHICO, Ca—On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, the Center for American Liberty filed suit against the superintendent and individual school board members of the Chico Unified School District on behalf of Aurora Regino. Aurora’s daughter, also known as A.S., was eleven years old when her public school transitioned her to a male identity behind her mother’s back.

In the fall of 2021, when she was a few months into fifth grade, A.S. began feeling depressed and anxious. A.S. took her school counselor’s advice and began to think these feelings were caused by her being born a different gender.

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The school counselor invited A.S. to an arts-and-crafts club (the “Girls Group”) with other girls in her school and after a few meetings, A.S. “came out” to her counselor as transgender. Instead of exploring what the cause of the anxiety and depression might be, the school counselor focused on one thing only: how to transition A.S. to a male identity.

The school counselor and teachers at the school called A.S. by a male name, male pronouns and essentially treated her as if she were a different person all without her mother’s knowledge. This went on for a couple of months before Aurora found out. Aurora sought help from a licensed family therapist and immediately sought answers from the school district about how it could transition her daughter behind her back.

“If the school system thinks this is the law, then someone needs to stand up for our children and let them know how wrong and damaging it is,” Aurora Regino said. “Our rights as parents do not stop as soon as we drop our children off at school.”

“The District’s policy of transitioning kids behind their parents’ backs is radical gender-ideology at its worst,” Harmeet Dhillon, Founder of The Center for American Liberty, said. “For the government to assume this role is both unconstitutional and reprehensible.”

The district claims it is required by state law to keep parents in the dark when their child is transitioning to a different gender in school. Therefore, the school has refused to abandon the policy. Fortunately, A.S. has returned to identifying as a girl but Aurora has no assurances that what happened to her daughter last year won’t happen again.

“In the Chico Unified School District, children as young as five years old can transition to a different gender in secret from their parents,” Josh Dixon, Director of Litigation for The Center for American Liberty, said. “This act of ‘social transitioning’ is powerful psychological treatment that often leads to much more permeant procedures like puberty blockers and even surgery.”

The lawsuit argues that the district’s secrecy policy violates parents’ fundamental rights protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Center for American Liberty is seeking declaratory relief and an injunction that would prohibit the Chico Unified School District from continuing to implement the Parental Secrecy Policy.

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