Last week, Family Council joined dozens of other pro-family organizations from across the country in an amicus brief supporting parental rights.
The case centers on a New York school district that treated a middle-school girl as if she were a boy without her mother’s knowledge or consent. The girl’s mother, Jennifer Vitsaxaki, sued the school district after learning her daughter was secretly “socially transitioned” at school.
The lawsuit alleges,
Not one School District employee notified Mrs. Vitsaxaki or sought her consent before socially transitioning her daughter. Worse, although those employees knew about the School District’s actions, they told Mrs. Vitsaxaki nothing. School staff carefully used Jane’s given name and female pronouns when speaking with Mrs. Vitsaxaki, and they repeatedly said everything was fine, all the while treating [her daughter] as a boy and sending her resources for medical transition behind Mrs. Vitsaxaki’s back.
The amicus brief we joined last week argues that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing and care of their children. In this case, the school violated that fundamental right.
Over the years, we have seen pro-LGBT activists use public schools to promote transgender ideology to kids in many different ways. Our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom have recently spoken out about how schools are hiding important information about students from their parents. But policymakers are pushing back.
Arkansas has enacted laws to help prevent schools from socially transitioning children or promoting radical pro-LGBT ideology in the classroom, but federal lawsuits like this one could affect schools nationwide. That’s why it’s important for us to stand up for parental rights in this case.
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