{"id":1785412,"date":"2022-12-23T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785412"},"modified":"2022-12-23T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:02:59","slug":"federal-judge-says-school-hiding-kids-gender-transitions-doesnt-shock-the-conscience-throws-out-parent-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-says-school-hiding-kids-gender-transitions-doesnt-shock-the-conscience-throws-out-parent-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Says School Hiding Kids\u2019 Gender Transitions Doesn\u2019t \u2018Shock The Conscience,\u2019 Throws Out Parent Lawsuit"},"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%2Ffederal-judge-says-school-hiding-kids-gender-transitions-doesnt-shock-the-conscience-throws-out-parent-lawsuit%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=1785412&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--><p>A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Massachusetts<\/a> parents who accused public school officials of hiding their children\u2019s gender transitions from them.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Mark Mastroianni, an Obama appointee, criticized Ludlow Public Schools officials for allegedly hiding the pair of siblings\u2019 gender transitions from their parents, but he said the officials\u2019 actions do not \u201cshock the conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the court is apprehensive about the alleged policy and actions of the Ludlow Public Schools with regard to parental notification, it cannot conclude the decision to withhold information\u201d about the children from their parents meets the\u00a0conscience-shocking legal standard in Massachusetts, the judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/federal-judge-dismisses-massachusetts-gender-identity-schools-case\">wrote<\/a> in his December 14 ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, parents Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri\u00a0filed a lawsuit in\u00a0Massachusetts federal court against staff members at Paul R. Baird Middle School, as well as the elected school committee, and the town of Ludlow just east of Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>School officials \u201cimpermissibly inserted themselves into the private realm\u201d of their family, violating their \u201crights to make decisions regarding their children\u2019s upbringing, mental health, and well-being,\u201d the parents <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/16\/ludlow-public-schools-secretly-promoted-our-kids-gender-transition-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in their suit.<\/p>\n<p>The parents claimed that\u00a0school officials failed to inform them that their two children,\u00a0an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, were transitioning to a gender other than the one corresponding to their biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-year-old girl allegedly emailed school staff in February 2021 and announced that she wanted to go by a cluster of new pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am genderqueer. \u2026 My new name will be R**** \u2026 If you deadname me or use any pronouns I am uncomfortable with I will politely tell you \u2026 A list of pronouns you can use are: she\/her he\/him they\/them fae\/faerae\/aer ve\/ver xe\/xem ze\/zir. \u2026 Please only use the ones I have listed and not the other ones. I do not like them,\u201d the girl wrote, her parents <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/16\/ludlow-public-schools-secretly-promoted-our-kids-gender-transition-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, a school counselor allegedly sent an email to staff ordering them not to tell her parents about the gender identity change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cR**** [B****] is still in the process of telling his parents and is requesting that school staff refer to him as B**** and use she\/her pronouns with her parents and in written emails\/letters home,\u201d the counselor wrote, according to the parents.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the girl\u2019s 12-year-old brother asked school staff to use female pronouns for him, and staff hid that information from his parents, the parents claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The parents also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/16\/ludlow-public-schools-secretly-promoted-our-kids-gender-transition-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0in court filings that they had previously even asked school staff not to have private conversations with their children about gender. However, they discovered that the superintendent, principal, guidance counselor, and teachers all ignored that request and were using the children\u2019s new pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the school even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/interview\/public-education-has-lost-its-way-says-teacher-fired-by-school-for-telling-father-of-11-year-old-girl-about-her-gender-identity-transition\">fired<\/a> a teacher,\u00a0Bonnie Manchester, 48,\u00a0for telling the girl\u2019s dad that she was transitioning to\u00a0\u201cgenderqueer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his ruling earlier this month throwing out the parents\u2019 lawsuit, Mastroianni pointed to the requirement in Massachusetts for school officials not to discriminate against students on the basis of gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>He also cited \u201cthe difficulties this issue presents and the competing interests involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from Massachusetts parents who accused public school officials of hiding their children\u2019s gender transitions from them. U.S. District Court Judge Mark Mastroianni, an Obama appointee, criticized Ludlow Public Schools officials for allegedly hiding the pair of siblings\u2019 gender transitions from their parents, but he said the officials\u2019 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1785415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,11533,6202,7118,3974,4685,8221,5387,4247,4585,6853,10328,4005,3924,10530,11534,11532,6195],"class_list":["post-1785412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-conscience","tag-daily","tag-doesnt","tag-federal","tag-gender","tag-hiding","tag-judge","tag-kids","tag-lawsuit","tag-out","tag-parent","tag-says","tag-school","tag-shock","tag-throws","tag-transitions","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785412","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}