Aurora Regino was the last to know that her daughter’s school district was secretly helping the 11-year-old identify as a boy.
An elementary school guidance counselor at Chico Unified School District in California started referring to the little girl with a boy’s name and boy’s pronouns. Regino said her daughter told the counselor that she wanted to tell her mother about the counseling sessions and her struggles with her gender identity, but the counselor ignored her.
The Center for American Liberty first filed a lawsuit against the Chico Unified School District in January 2023. A federal district court dismissed the case, and the Center for American Liberty, a free speech nonprofit, appealed the case to the federal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where it is currently pending.
A year-and-a-half later, the state codified how the school counselor handled…
