An expansive coalition of states, advocacy organizations, and doctors are making it clear—it’s time for courts to uphold parental rights.

Twenty-three states joined in filing an amicus brief in support of Aurora Regino in her landmark case against the Chico Unified School District, urging the Ninth Circuit to uphold parents’ right to direct the upbringing of their own children.

Aurora’s daughter was in the 5th grade when an elementary school guidance counselor facilitated her social “transition” from female to male without Aurora’s consent. In fact, the school never even notified Aurora that this transition was happening. It took just minutes for the counselor to decide that at school Aurora’s daughter would now have a male identity with a new name and new pronouns—without so much as a phone call home to mom.

So, Aurora took the school district to court.

Aurora is now asking the Ninth Circuit to uphold her fundamental right to be involved in the critical decisions affecting her daughter’s mental health without interference and deception from school officials.

Twenty-three states and several advocacy organizations agree with her. This support is encouraging and important. In the face of rapidly increasing Left-wing indoctrination of students in states like California and New Jersey, nearly half of all states took a powerful stand for protecting parental rights from government encroachment.

Here’s what those twenty-three states said in their brief:

“When a student considers transitioning genders, parents have a fundamental, constitutional right to not be shut out of that decision making process. Yet school districts across the country, strong-armed by ideologically driven advocacy groups, have done just that, trampling on parents’ fundamental right to be informed of critical information about their child’s mental health and well-being. This Court must therefore reverse.”

Aurora’s case will be heard at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on May 9, 2024.