California has enacted a landmark law banning schools from outing LGBTQ+ students to their parents or guardians, becoming the first state to ban forced outing. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1955 on Monday, officially prohibiting schools from disclosing a student’s gender identity or sexuality to their guardians without the student’s permission. The law will also require the California Department of Education to provide families with resources on how to “manage conversations about gender and identity privately.” The bill’s passage comes in response to a number of conservative districts in the state that have instead enacted policies forcing school staff to disclose a student’s gender identity to their guardians if it does not match their sex at birth. California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit last year against one such district, the Chino Valley Unified School District, asserting that its forced outing policy and those like it put transgender students “in danger of imminent, irreparable harm.”