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What stopping California’s anti-parent law AB 1955 means and doesn’t mean

Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 10:05 am | Randy Thomasson

If you’re glad about the U.S. Supreme Court’s action defeating part of the Democrat Party politicians’ transsexuality agenda, I’m happy about it too, without being Pollyannish.

The good news, of course, is that six judges on the U.S. Supreme Court are getting more supportive of God-given parental rights, and that California’s evil law AB 1955 is back where it belongs, under a permanent injunction.

If Newsom & Co. don’t appeal this latest court action, AB 1955, which prohibited parents from being told their own children were acting out as “trans” at school, will “die on the vine” instead of being directly struck down.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s action to “vacate the stay” of a liberal three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals means that constitutional and pro-family Judge Roger Benitez’s permanent injunction against AB 1955 stands.

As reported March 2, 2026 by the San Diego Union-Tribune:

In December, District Judge Roger Benitez ruled in favor of the Mirabelli plaintiffs, who now also include several parents who oppose such school policies.


Benitez issued a court order prohibiting California school employees from “misleading” parents about their child’s gender status, such as by using different pronouns or names with a parent than the student uses at school. His ruling also prohibited employees from using pronouns or names that differ from the student’s legal ones if the parents object.


The state promptly appealed Benitez’ decision, and in early January, the Ninth Circuit granted the state’s request to stay his ruling pending that appeal.

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The Supreme Court lifted the stay based in part on its assessment of how likely it believes the parent plaintiffs are to succeed on the merits of their case.


“These policies likely violate parents’ rights to direct the upbringing and education of their children,” its ruling said.


Contrary to the Ninth Circuit, the Supreme Court majority found that Mahmoud does apply to Mirabelli. It said it considers California’s policies to be an even greater intrusion on parents’ exercise rights than the introduction of LGBTQ+ storybooks in schools it analyzed in the Mahmoud case, and that it doesn’t believe California’s policies are likely to survive the strict scrutiny standard it set in that case.

But the bad news is that AB 1955 is just the tip of the iceberg. Because there are 15 sexual indoctrination laws still requiring the brainwashing of every child in every California “public school.”

See 13 laws here, plus two more at our 2025 legislation archive, which details AB 727 (requires a pro-“LGBTQIA+” group’s phone number on student ID cards) and AB 715 (orders K-12 government schools to purge any scientific teaching about only two sexes and the natural family).

So, as I’ve been urging California parents for 17 years now — if you love your children, get them out of the godless government schools. See how at our special site for parents, Rescue Your Child. Children grow up fast, so please act now!

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Jesus Christ, Savior of the world and God in the flesh, in Matthew 18:6

Will SCOTUS protect girls’ sports in California?

Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:07 pm | Randy Thomasson

Um, a dude in a sports bra and make-up is NOT female.

Because there are only two sexes: If you’ve inherited a Y chromosome from your father, you’re male; if not, you’re female. The laws of Nature and Nature’s God cannot be altered.

FAST FACTS:

  • The SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) hearing on Jan. 13 was on whether to strike down state laws in Idaho and West Virginia that prohibit biological males from invading women’s and girls’ school sports teams.
  • After nearly three-and-a-half hours of arguments, reasonable court observers predict the Republican states’ pro-family laws will not be deemed unconstitutional and will therefore survive.
  • In July 2025, the Trump Administration’s U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a California federal lawsuit alleging the State of California is violating Title IX by engaging “in illegal sex discrimination against female student athletes by allowing males to compete against them.”
  • Title IX is a U.S. federal civil rights law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal funding. When passed, it aimed to ensure equal opportunities for women and girls in educational settings.
  • In September 2025, three high school girls in Southern California, represented by Advocates for Faith & Freedom, filed a new federal lawsuit — in the same Central California federal court district that the DOJ filed its lawsuit — to protect the girls’ rights under Title IX and the U.S. Constitution.
  • The California cases challenging California’s AB 1266 could reach the nation’s high court as soon as 2027; however, they must first be heard in federal district court and federal appeals court.
  • AB 1266 (signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2013) requires all K-12 public schools to permit biological boys in girls’ restrooms, showers, clubs, and sports teams; and biological girls in boys’ restrooms, showers, clubs, and sports teams. The “right” to violate these sexual boundaries is solely a self-declaration of a different “gender identity.”

Bottom line, the right lawsuits challenging AB 1266 are in place, but the wait for a SCOTUS hearing could be one to two years from now.

In the meantime, for real protection of girls, there’s a sure way to safeguard your children and grandchildren from sexual indoctrination in the government schools. See our special website for parents, RescueYourChild.com.

“We have a sitting Supreme Court justice who won’t say what a woman is because they’re not a biologist, which is so silly, because you don’t have to be a biologist to know what a woman is. I’m not a vet, but I know what a dog is.”
Riley Gaines, former college athlete and biological girls advocate, in 2023

How to have Real Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 10:14 am | Randy Thomasson

What’s the real meaning of Thanksgiving?

Turn the word around and it’s GivingThanks.

But to whom do you give thanks (since you thank a person)?

On Thanksgiving Day and hopefully every day, humble, in-reality people will thank Creator God in Jesus’ Name for His creation, sustenance, Word, love, etc. Because, without Him, we’re nothing and have nothing!

A great way to help those at your table give God glory is to ask, “What are you thankful to God for?” This substantive question, when safely and patiently asked, helps others give God the credit where credit is due. (You might need to remind them, “What do you specifically thank God for?” instead of just being glad about something or crediting “fate.”)

See these videos to inspire you and others to praise Creator God in Jesus’ Name: Thankful | Thank You God

Enjoy and read aloud to others these short stories about the first Thanksgiving in America

Remember, a grateful heart helps everyone. So challenge yourself to be thankful. Take a minute to reignite your soul to thank the Author of Life for air, food, water, and our basic necessities. Focus on the One who made the sun in the sky, the oceans, the animals, every original food and substance, and all we rely on, including the ground we walk on.

Lastly, stop and realize there are two types of people: Those who sincerely thank God, and those who “did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful” (Romans 1:21). And consider how thanking God not only gives God His due, but also calms your mind, since gratitude and worry cannot coexist in the same moment.

“…that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
Jesus Christ, Savior of the world and God in the flesh, in Matthew 5:45

“Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.”
From the 1674 Christian hymn by English Pastor Thomas Ken