SCOTUS blocks California's secrecy policy re: gender transitioning of students; Tebow says we are losing war on Child Sex Exploitation

 

U.S. Supreme Court blocks California’s secret gender transition school policies for kids, citing parental rights

Mar 4, 2026 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams1 Comment

It has been a long hard battle to protect children against the aggressive trans agenda being peddled in schools, which the Biden administration supported. In 2022, the Court also blocked Biden’s transgender mandate that would have forced religious hospitals to facilitate gender transitions.

The Supreme Court decision is also a win for religious freedom. Parents have every right to raise their children in their faith tradition, without state interference.

Underage children cannot give testimony in court; yet they were expected to make decisions about a life-altering procedure, and many at a critical time, before or during their turbulent adolescence.  As children were being “counseled” in schools under the guise of “care” by activists belonging to the transgender lobby, their parents were being kept in the dark. In many cases, children were being indoctrinated to believe that their parents were working against their interests.

Using children as guinea pigs to promote a radical transgender agenda is physically and psychologically damaging to them, not only immediately, but also in the long term, and no one knows yet to what degree. To illustrate the determination of this movement, in May 2022, a controversy erupted in Florida  after it was discovered that State Farm auto insurance company was “encouraging its agents in Florida to donate books promoting transgenderism to 5-year-olds to their local schools or public libraries, according to an email shared by a whistleblower.”

It isn’t enough that the Supreme Court had to rescue these children. There should be consequences for all of those involved in the coercion of these children. Unfortunately, the lives of many of these children have already been destroyed.

Supreme Court blocks California restrictions on schools notifying parents about students’ transgender status

by Lawrence Hurley, NBC News, March 2, 2026:

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday barred California from enforcing state rules that restrict when schools can notify parents about students who come out as transgender and requires teachers to use children’s preferred pronouns.

The court, on a 6-3 vote on ideological lines, allowed a federal judge’s ruling in favor of parents who oppose the policy on religious grounds to go into effect. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had put the judge’s decision on hold pending further litigation.

The court’s ruling focused on the parents’ claim that their rights under the free exercise clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated. The court also said they have valid parental rights claims under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

The court did not grant a similar request made by teachers who object to the policy.

“We conclude that the parents who seek religious exemptions are likely to succeed on the merits of their Free Exercise Clause claim,” the court said in an unsigned opinion.

“The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs,” the court added.

As for the parental rights claim, the court said that longstanding precedent says parents have primary responsibility over how to raise their children.

“The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health,” the court said…..

Tebow Urges Congress to Unite Behind Anti-Child Exploitation Bill: ‘We Are Losing the Battle’

Tim Tebow implores lawmakers to pass the Renewed Hope Act, which aims to bolster law enforcement's ability to identify and rescue children exploited in online abuse, warning that the battle against this escalating crisis is being lost.

Michael Foust

Updated Mar 04, 2026

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Activist and former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow on Tuesday urged lawmakers from both parties to unite behind legislation aimed at identifying and rescuing children appearing in online sexual abuse images and videos, warning that law enforcement is “losing the battle” and needs greater resources to confront the crisis.

Tebow testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism in support of the Renewed Hope Act, which would increase funding and staffing for law enforcement and investigators tasked with identifying child victims depicted in online abuse images and videos so they can be located and rescued.

Incredibly, an emotional Tebow said, law enforcement has images of 89,000 unidentified boys and girls who are victims of child sexual abuse and whose identities remain unknown to investigators. Just two years ago, he said, that number was 57,000.

“With all of the work that all of these people and amazing law enforcement agents and nonprofit NGOs [non-governmental organizations] are doing all around the world … we are losing the battle, and we are losing the war, and boys and girls are suffering for it,” he told senators.

Law enforcement agencies are massively understaffed, he said. To illustrate the scale of the problem, Tebow showed senators a map of the United States covered with thousands of red dots – 338,000 in all – each representing “someone that is downloading, sharing or distributing child rape images,” just in the last six months. Very few of them are being investigated, and most of the images involve children under 12, he added.

“The scale of harm right here in America is, to a certain extent, hard to comprehend, but that's why we're here,” Tebow said.

The average offender, he said, victimizes 13 children in a lifetime.

“We have to have more people, and we have to do a whole lot more, and we have to do it faster, because every day we wait, they're suffering, they're crying. And I believe right now, many of them are praying that we would respond – but how are we really going to respond?” Tebow asked.

“... But the question is, will we actually accept the responsibility of caring for these boys and girls and truly protecting them, or are we just going to continue to talk about it? There's so much we can do.”

The bill has cleared the House Judiciary Committee but has not yet been approved by the full House or Senate.

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