Description: A Florida school district met secretly with a 13-year-old girl, behind her parents’ back, to develop a “gender support plan” that permitted the girl to use pronouns inconsistent with her sex. The plan also indicated that school staff should begin using a different name and “they/them” pronouns when referring to the child at school, but would use the child’s given name and “she/her” when talking to her parents, intentionally keeping the parents in the dark about what was going on with their daughter at school.
ADF to 11th Circuit: Parents, not the government, have the right to raise their kids
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Vincent Wagner regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Wednesday asking the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to review the case Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County and support parents’ right to make important decisions about their children:
“Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and health care of their children. Leon County Schools violated this right by using cross-gender pronouns and a different name for a student—a controversial psychosocial intervention—against her parents’ express wishes. As we explain in our brief, the decisions in this case so far have not recognized the long history and tradition supporting parents’ right to make crucial mental health decisions like this for their children. Parents know their children best, and they shouldn’t be kept in the dark about their children’s wellbeing. We are urging the full 11th Circuit to rehear this case and reverse the lower court’s decision for its failure to respect parents’ constitutionally protected freedom to make the best decisions for their own kids.”
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