Standing Plagues California City’s Trans School Policy Challenge

Huntington Beach, Calif., may lack legal standing, a federal appeals panel suggested Tuesday, to sue the state over a law that prohibits schools from requiring teachers to disclose the gender identity of their students without consent to parents and others.

Judge Daniel P. Collins said the conservative Southern California city’s decision to sue the only state and not any school districts undermines its standing.

The judge for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said he was potentially open to the city’s theory that the state law, AB 1955, allows school teachers to socially transition transgender students without ...