Colorado school sued by parents for allegedly recruiting kids secretly for gender and sexuality club.

Colorado Families File Civil Rights Lawsuit Against School District

Deceitful Tactics Used to Recruit Children for Gender and Sexualities Alliance Club

Two Colorado families have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Poudre School District (PSD), alleging that school officials secretly recruited their children for an after-school club focused on gender and sexual orientation. The families claim that officials at Wellington Middle School (WMS) in PSD convinced their children to join a Gender and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) after-school club where a guest speaker introduced concepts of gender fluidity and various types of sexual attraction.

The families allege that school officials and GSA club members used deceitful tactics to recruit their children into the club and encouraged secretive behavior to keep their parents from knowing what they were doing. The lawsuit claims that agents of the school district who were involved in the GSA club told the children participating that discussing GSA materials at home with their families might not be safe.

The lawsuit further claims that one of the teachers involved in the club presented herself as a more trustworthy adult to talk to than the children’s parents and gave the children her contact information so that they could contact her directly. The school officials involved in the club are further accused of encouraging children to come out as transgender by rewarding them with prizes in the form of LGBTQ paraphernalia such as toys.

The lawsuit alleges that officials involved in the GSA club taught children about polyamory, suicide, puberty blockers, transgenderism and gender identities, sexualities, and changing names and pronouns. The families claim that their children were led to believe they were attending an art club or an anime club when they were actually attending a GSA club meeting.

The civil complaint said of the Jurich family’s situation, “This sort of misdirection reflected the secrecy and subterfuge in which the Club encouraged children to engage, as well as the mistrust of parents and destruction of the parent-child relationship that the Club engendered.”

The America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal are bringing the lawsuit on behalf of Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nicolas and Linnaea Jurich against the Poudre School District (PSD).