Mae M v. Komrosky
What’s at stake: Protecting trans students from “forced outing” policies.
Summary: In 2023, Temecula Valley Unified School District adopted a forced outing policy. The rule required schools to inform a student’s parents or guardians if they requested to use a name or pronoun, or access school facilities or programs, not aligned with the sex identified on their birth certificate or other official records. The policy required this parental disclosure even when it would put a transgender student at risk.
Temecula Valley students and teachers filed a lawsuit challenging that policy, along with another policy censoring teachers from talking about race, gender and sex. The lawsuit asserted that the forced outing policy violated California’s constitution and its education and government codes. In October 2024, Public Justice joined an amicus brief, written by the ACLU of Southern California and ACLU of Northern California, in support of the lawsuit.
In December 2024, Temecula Valley USD voted to rescind its forced outing policy.
