Catholic News Agency reports (December 23, 2025) that Federal Judge Roger Benitez permanently blocked California’s “gender secrecy policies” permitting schools to conceal children’s psychological gender confusion from parents. The class action lawsuit victory establishes parental rights to information about their children’s purported “gender transitions” under 14th and First Amendment protections. Plaintiffs Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West, identified as Christian teachers, hailed the decision as restoring “honesty, transparency, and fundamental rights.” The Thomas More Society celebrated the ruling as restoring “sanity and common sense” against state-enforced secrecy. This occurs against the backdrop of federal investigations into Virginia school districts and a recent Catholic student’s legal victory against transgender indoctrination.
Natural Law Obliterated by Gender Delusion
The very premise of “gender transitions” constitutes blasphemous rebellion against divine ordinance. Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii (1930) condemns all who “put themselves in conflict with the inviolable plan of God” regarding human nature. The court’s recognition of “gender information” as legitimate implicitly endorses the heretical notion that God’s creation is mutable – a direct contradiction of Genesis 1:27 (“male and female He created them”).
By framing this as a mere information dispute, both plaintiffs and court commit the deadly error of naturalism, treating sexual confusion as morally neutral data rather than spiritual pathology. The Church has always taught that “the first and most immediate educators are the parents” (Divini Illius Magistri, Pius XI, 1929), with schools serving as extensiones familiae (extensions of the family). California’s policy inverted this God-established order, making the state the arbiter of children’s ontological status – a satanic usurpation echoing the Syllabus of Errors condemnation of state supremacy over family rights (Proposition 47).
Parental Rights as Divine Entitlement, Not State Grant
Judge Benitez’s constitutional arguments, while politically useful, dangerously mislocate the source of parental authority. Non derivatur a republica, sed a Deo – parental rights derive not from the state but from God. The Code of Canon Law (1917) affirms parents as “primary and principal educators” (Canon 1113), a truth the court reduces to mere statutory interpretation.
The plaintiffs’ celebration of “transparency” as the highest good exposes their Protestantized worldview. Catholic education exists not for information exchange, but for santificatio animarum (sanctification of souls). Pius XI’s warning in Divini Illius Magistri thunders against this case: “Any… institution which ignores or neglects the supernatural, is in opposition to the will of God and cannot contribute to the right formation of youth.” The teachers’ lawsuit preserves the poison (gender ideology) while quibbling over dosage control.
State as Agent of Spiritual Destruction
California’s policies reveal the modernist state’s true face: soldier of the Antichrist waging war on the family. Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei (1885) condemns states that “desire to be divorced from every religious sanction” as enemies of human dignity. The court’s recognition that schools are “state agents” confirms Pius XI’s warning in Divini Redemptoris (1937) about governments seeking “monopoly over education” to destroy Christian civilization.
The article’s reference to Health and Human Services directives demonstrates the diabolical disorientation infecting all governance structures. Federal attempts to curb gender ideology through funding threats constitute mere internecine warfare between revolutionary factions. As Pius IX declared in the Syllabus (Proposition 77): “In the present day, it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” – precisely the secularist dogma enabling gender madness.
Lethal Silence on Moral Harm
Nowhere does the article mention the spiritual infanticide perpetrated through gender ideology. The Catechism of St. Pius X condemns as “mortal sin” any action “contrary to the natural law,” including self-mutilation (Question 923). Judge Benitez’s focus on “information rights” ignores the eternal consequences of children being encouraged toward damnation through transgender delusions.
The court’s First Amendment reasoning for teachers continues the conciliar sect’s error of religious indifferentism. True Catholic educators have non ius sed officium (not right but duty) to oppose all errors endangering souls. Pius X’s Lamentabili condemned the notion that “truth changes with man” (Proposition 58) – the foundational heresy enabling gender ideology’s spread.
Pseudo-Catholic Endorsement of Apostasy
The article’s closing reference to “Catholic bishops back[ing] Trump’s removal of gender ideology” exposes the conciliar sect’s double-minded apostasy. These false shepherds simultaneously promote transgender bathrooms in Catholic schools while posturing as defenders of parental rights. Their “support” for refugee form changes constitutes modernist reservatio mentalis (mental reservation), preserving gender ideology’s philosophical foundations while making cosmetic adjustments.
The Catholic student’s Virginia lawsuit victory proves meaningless when her diocese likely permits LGBT “ministries” and heretical sex education. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas (1925), until “states allow themselves to be governed by Christ,” such legal victories remain temporary stays against hell’s onslaught.
Conclusion: Restoring Christ’s Kingship Over Education
This ruling’s narrow constitutionalism cannot mask the theological catastrophe consuming education. Catholic parents must reject all government schools as Pius XI commanded: “It is necessary that all the teaching and the whole organization of the school… be regulated by the Christian spirit” (Divini Illius Magistri). The true solution lies not in courtroom battles over “transparency,” but in restoring the social reign of Christ the King through Catholic counter-revolution.
As the demonic gender cult advances, faithful Catholics must heed Pius X’s command in Pascendi: “To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against the truth, is the part of a man who is either cowardly or ungrateful to God.” Parental rights will remain insecure until societies publicly profess Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat (Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands).
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Federal judge strikes down rules allowing schools to hide gender ‘transitions’ from parents (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 23.12.2025