Supreme Court rejects California district seeking to require schools notify parents of kids’ gender transitions

June 2, 2026

The United States Supreme Court has chosen not to intervene in a case involving a California school district’s policy requiring parents to be notified if their children seek to identify as a different gender in school.

The Christian Post reports that the court declined without comment to hear arguments in the case of Rocklin Unified School District v. Public Employment Relations Board et al., in an orders list issued Monday,

The court’s refusal to hear the case leaves in place a decision by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) blocking the implementation of a proposed parental notification policy.

The Rocklin Unified School District (RUSD) had proposed revisions to its regulations requiring officials to immediately notify parents if their children requested to be identified as a different gender, use different pronouns or a different name, or gain access to sex-specific facilities that did not align with their sex.

In response to the proposed revisions, the Rocklin Teachers Professional Association (RTPA), a labor union, claimed they were unlawful and filed a complaint with PERB.

According to the Christian Post, PERB ruled against the school district, and concluded that the proposed parental notification policy violated state law and that RUSD had failed to include RTPA in the revisions process.

RUSD chose to appeal the PERB decision to the Third Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal and later to the California Supreme Court, however, both courts declined to hear the case.

An appeal filed in April by the California Justice Center and the Liberty Justice Center with the Supreme Court on behalf of RUSD, argued that the policy involved parental rights.

The appeal states: “If PERB’s decision is left to stand, a union could sue a school board over any policy it opposes on substance on the basis that the adoption of such policy violates the procedural requirements in the collective bargaining agreement.”

In March, the Supreme Court issued a 6–3 per curiam opinion ruling against a California public school policy requiring teachers to withhold information from parents when a child identifies as trans.

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