{"id":1268435,"date":"2022-02-03T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1268435"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T19:59:37","slug":"republicans-urge-department-of-education-to-stop-secret-gender-transitions-for-students-after-12-year-olds-suicide-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-urge-department-of-education-to-stop-secret-gender-transitions-for-students-after-12-year-olds-suicide-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Urge Department Of Education To Stop Secret Gender Transitions For Students After 12-Year-Old\u2019s Suicide Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-urge-department-of-education-to-stop-secret-gender-transitions-for-students-after-12-year-olds-suicide-attempt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1268435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republicans urged Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to clarify that schools are legally required to disclose students\u2019 gender identity to parents in a Thursday letter.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Foxx-and-Burr-letter-to-Cardona-re-Title-IX-and-FERPAFINAL.pdf\">letter<\/a>, signed by Republicans Rep. Virginia Foxx and Sen. Richard Burr, comes in light of news that a 12-year-old girl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/florida-father-daughter-suicide-school-counseling-gender-identity\">reportedly<\/a> attempted suicide on a school bus in Clay County, Florida,\u00a0after her school began referring to her a boy and calling her by a new name without disclosing the student\u2019s gender identity to her parents.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/metastasizing-like-a-cancer-parents-across-the-country-sue-schools-over-clandestine-transitions\/\">broader trend<\/a> of schools <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/16\/california-teachers-accused-of-carrying-out-clandestine-transition-lgbtq\/\">concealing vital information from parents<\/a> about their minor children, particularly concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/17\/parents-sue-wisconsin-school-district-clandestine-gender-transition\/\">gender identity issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sheer fact that a 12-year-old student attempted to take her life after her own school refused to disclose conversations about a gender transition to her parents is repulsive,\u201d Foxx told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cParents across this country deserve to know vital information about their children \u2013 and not be blindsided by the very people that are entrusted to teach them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foxx and Burr urged Cardona to clarify that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) explicitly states that schools cannot have policies that deny parents the right to review the educational records of their children. \u201cActively concealing vital health information from parents \u2018effectively prevents\u2019 parents from accessing information to which they are entitled,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also challenged guidance from the Obama administration instructing schools to treat gender identity as a protected category through Title IX, which has traditionally been used to promote gender equality in education. <strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/02\/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-university-pennsylvania-letter-ncaa-rules\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Several\u2019 Unnamed Female Swimmers Voice Support For Trans Teammate In Unsigned Letter)<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foxx and Burr close the letter with a list of questions they expect the Department of Education to answer in the next two weeks clarifying the department\u2019s interpretation of Title IX and the obligation of schools to disclose mental health crises to parents.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Virginia Supreme Court Reinstates Teacher Removed For Speaking Out Against Gender Policy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5C9y8rG8CO\">https:\/\/t.co\/5C9y8rG8CO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1432916235071721476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter asks whether \u201cschool personnel should practice other forms of medical or psychological treatment without appropriate licensure or training\u201d and \u201cwhat other medical or psychological treatments [the department believes] that school personnel should provide to minor children without parental consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans urged Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to clarify that schools are legally required to disclose students\u2019 gender identity to parents in a Thursday letter.The letter, signed by Republicans Rep. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}