A judge in California has upheld a local school district’s ban on the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Temecula Unified School District, as well as a policy requiring the district to notify parents if their child decides to change genders at school.

The ruling marks a victory, though perhaps a temporary one, for conservative parents and school board members who implemented these policies against intense pressure from Governor Gavin Newsom, activist groups, and the media.

Critical Race Theory holds that racism infects all of America’s institutions. As Breitbart News reported in August, legal activists sued the Temecula school district over the Critical Race Theory ban, adopted in 2022, arguing that it violated students’ rights.