Feature: Temecula Valley USD Forces Religious Accommodations On Female Students
On September 3, 2025, students and parents in the Temecula Valley Unified School District staged a walkout to protest the district’s proposed policy for transgender students. The event was in response to reports of a biological male, who identifies as female, accessing girls’ locker rooms during P.E. class. According to one source, the school board voted 4-1 to table two measures that would require students to seek religious or mental health accommodations to avoid sharing facilities with the opposite sex. TVUSD’s Board Policy 5145.31: Religious or Mental Health-Related Accommodation says:
In accodance with California Education Code section 221.5…the District shall provide access to facilities, including bathrooms and locker rooms, consisten with a student’s gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on a student’s records. This includes access to menstrual products available in all women’s restooms, all-gender restrooms, and at least one men’s restroom.”
Read more on this issue here.
CTA: Sign the petition to support girls’ safety and privacy on school grounds and help stop the spread of transgender ideologies in K-12 education.
Straight News: Arizona Law vs. Phoenix Schools: LGBTQ+ and Explicit Books on Student Shelves
by The State 48 News
What: State 48 News received an anonymous tip with photos revealing a trove of sexually explicit content for students in the Phoenix Union High School District.
Where: Trevor Browne High School
When: Reported on September 7
Who/Why: School district officials are confident they will never be fined or prosecuted for violating state indecency laws.
Read more on this issue here.
CTA: Contact the Arizona Department of Education Empowerment Hotline. Contact your legislative representative and request that SB1090 be reintroduced in the upcoming 2026 legislative session.
Catalina Foothills School District Bans Homeschool Student
On September 3, 2025, the Catalina Foothills School District made headlines after an ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account) student was banned from joining a sports team. News 4 Tucson reported, “A 15-year-old homeschooled girl from [CFSD]…has been denied participation on the Catalina Foothills High School cheerleading team, despite initially being told she could join.” The district apparently reversed its decision after discovering the student’s family used the state’s ESA program. According to the ESA parent handbook:
Empowerment Scholarships may be used to pay for individual classes and extracurricular programs provided by public district schools, public charter schools, [and] public career technical education districts…keep in mind that public schools have descetion on whether to accept ESA students for such classes or extra-curricular programs.
See page 25 of the ESA handbook.
CTA: Share this story on social media and tag the district to alert ESA families.
On September 1, 2025, AZ Free News reported on LGBTQ+ curriculum for elementary-aged students in the Scottsdale Unified School District. The article states:
[SUSD] is under criticisim from parents and community members over a BrainPOP lesson taught to elementary students that compares the struggles of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators, to those of LGBTQ+ service members….[B]acklash [was] due to its incusion of a call to action and a cartoon depiction of a newspaper headlines reading ‘LGBT Welcome in the Military’ and showing protestors with a rainbow banner outside the White House.
Read more on SUSD here.
CTA: Contact SUSD Superintendent Scott Menzel to request the removal of BrainPOP and every reference to LGBTQ and BLM from all the K-8 curriculum. SMenzel@susd.org | O: 480.484.6120 | C: 480.578.8763
ICYMI: Cartwright Elementary School District
In August 2025—just days after a deadly stabbing at Maryvale High School in the Phoenix Union High School District—two Cartwright Elementary School District board members were allegedly caught carrying boxcutters on campus in an alleged attempt to test the school’s security response. Cartwright Board President Lydia Hernandez and her daughter, Board Member Cassandra Hernandez—who may be breaking Arizona state law by sitting together on the dais—claim they were falsely accused and the district never took place. Watch the 12News report below.
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