Mirabelli v. Bonta · ¶4

Two of the parent plaintiffs, John and Jane Poe, have religious objections to gender transitioning but were not told by their daughter's school when she began to present as a boy and use a male name and male pronouns during her seventh- grade year. In parent-teacher meetings, no one told the Poes about their daughter's transitioning or referred to her using the male name and pronouns that were used at school. At the beginning of their daughter's eighth-grade year, she attempted suicide and was hospitalized. Only then did her parents learn from a doctor that she had gender dysphoria and had been presenting as a boy at school. Just months after being discharged, the Poes' daughter was rehospitalized and held there involuntarily because she was at risk for self-harm. At a new school in ninth grade, she once again began identifying as a boy. Contrary to the Poes' instructions, teachers and…

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