Parents Sue Wisconsin School District for Affirming Children’s Gender Identities Without Consent:

Fourteen individual parents from eight families have filed a lawsuit against a Wisconsin school district over an administrative policy allowing teachers to affirm a student’s preferred gender identity without parental permission.

In April 2018, Madison Metropolitan School District adopted “Guidance and Policies to Support Transgender, Non-binary & Gender-Expansive Students,” which covers topics such as “all gender restrooms,” LGBTQ-inclusive curricula and gender pronouns. The document also specifies that if the student has not yet shared gender identity preferences with family members, school staff should use the child’s legal name and corresponding pronoun when communicating with family, but use the name and pronoun chosen by the child in school settings.

“MMSD policies enable children, of any age, to change their gender identity at school without parental notice or consent, and instruct district employees to conceal and even deceive parents about the gender identity their son or daughter has adopted at school,” a statement from Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, the law firm representing the 14 parents, says. “These policies violate critical constitutionally recognized parental rights.”

The law firm issued a demand letter to MMSD on Dec. 18 asking the school district to update and amend its policies within 45 days. The district refused.

https://decisionmagazine.com/parents-sue-wisconsin-school-district-for-affirming-childrens-gender-identities-without-consent/