{"id":2497444,"date":"2025-10-10T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-asked-to-weigh-in-on-schools-secretly-transitioning-students\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:14:14","slug":"supreme-court-asked-to-weigh-in-on-schools-secretly-transitioning-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-asked-to-weigh-in-on-schools-secretly-transitioning-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court asked to weigh in on schools secretly transitioning students"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fsupreme-court-asked-to-weigh-in-on-schools-secretly-transitioning-students%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=2497444&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>Three separate petitions have been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to decide whether public schools can secretly facilitate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-asks-department-of-family-protective-services-to-say-whether-trans-surgeries-for-kids-are-child-abuse\/\" title=\"Abbott Asks Department Of Family Protective Services To Say Whether Trans Surgeries For Kids Are Child Abuse\">social gender transition<\/a> of students without informing or obtaining consent from their parents.The cases involve different school districts across the contry, where plaintiffs allege that schools have enacted gender support plans or allowed students to transition at school without parental knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>One case from Florida involves parents whose daughter,a middle schooler with learning difficulties,was subject to a secret gender transition plan by the school,including use of preferred pronouns and updating school records,all against district policy that discourages notifying parents. another case from Massachusetts describes a school that ignored explicit parental instructions not to interfere but still conducted private counseling and allowed a sixth grader to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-activists-file-ballot-initiatives-to-counter-states-transgender-policies\/\" title=\"California activists have submitted ballot initiatives to challenge the state&#039;s transgender ....\">opposite-sex facilities<\/a>. A Colorado case highlights middle school Gender and Sexualities Alliance (GSA) clubs that allegedly encouraged students to come out as transgender while advising them to keep this confidential from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>The central legal question concerns parental rights and whether schools violate the constitutional right of parents to be fully informed of and involved in decisions about their children&#8217;s care and wellbeing, specifically regarding gender identity matters. Parental rights advocates argue that these school policies wrongly presume parents to be untrustworthy and exclude them from critical decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Supreme Court declined to hear a similar challenge, but three justices dissented, underscoring the importance of the issue. Advocates are hopeful the Court will now accept one or more of these cases, possibly consolidating them. Legal experts suggest the Court may be strategically taking on various transgender-related issues in a specific order to build on prior decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The disputes center on the balance of authority between schools and parents, with advocates emphasizing that parental authority is a fundamental right grounded in law, and criticizing school policies for secretly supporting gender transition plans without parental consent.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Supreme Court asked to weigh in on whether schools can secretly transition students<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2151918\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Three separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Supreme-Court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> petitions involving various school districts across the country asked the nation&rsquo;s highest court to weigh in on whether schools can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transition<\/a> students without parental knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Littlejohn v. Leon County School Board<\/em>, plaintiffs January and Jeffrey Littlejohn say the Florida school district devised a secret &ldquo;gender support&rdquo; plan for their 13-year-old daughter, who had learning difficulties, developmental delays, and deteriorating mental health.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3844590\/alex-jones-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-1-4-billion-defamation-judgement\/\">Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to pause $1.4 billion defamation judgement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3829193\/eight-cases-to-watch-new-supreme-court-term\/\">Eight cases to watch in the new Supreme Court term<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3841959\/justice-john-roberts-concerns-imiting-candidate-lawsuits-fraught-election-time\/\">Justice Roberts raises concerns about limiting candidate lawsuits to &#8216;fraught&#8217; election time<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>According to the family&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25-259\/373528\/20250903144331511_25-___________Petition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petition<\/a> for a writ of certiorari, school officials secretly met with the middle schooler and drafted a detailed plan for her &ldquo;formal gender transition at school,&rdquo; pursuant to district policy, which directs staff &ldquo;not to notify parents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the district&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017f-d30b-d9e9-a57f-d38b05900000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LGBTQ+ Support Guide<\/a>, all teachers were required to use &ldquo;they\/them&rdquo; pronouns when referring to the teenager, and the school updated its internal records to reflect this &ldquo;nonbinary&rdquo; identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3839051\/parental-rights-core-leon-county-gender-incongruence-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FLORIDA PARENTS SUE AFTER SCHOOL CLANDESTINELY ORCHESTRATED DAUGHTER&rsquo;S GENDER TRANSITION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Foote v. Ludlow School Committee<\/em>, petitioners Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri instructed a Massachusetts middle school multiple times not to interfere with the mental healthcare plan they had in place for their gender-confused daughter.<\/p>\n<p>But over these objections, the school administration, following district protocol, facilitated the sixth grader&rsquo;s in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-grills-target-over-sick-charity-donation-twitter-exposes-retail-giant-with-community-note\/\" title=\"Elon Musk doubts Target&#039;s charity gift, Twitter discloses with community message.\">-school gender transition<\/a> behind their backs, Foote and Silvestri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25-77\/365503\/20250718094702827_2025.07.18%20Foote%20Cert%20Petition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to them, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >school personnel conducted private counseling sessions<\/a> with the 11-year-old, whom they treated as &ldquo;genderqueer,&rdquo; and she was allowed to access opposite-sex facilities, such as the boys&rsquo; bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Lee, et al. v. Poudre School District<\/em>, two Colorado couples, Jonathan and Erin Lee alongside Nicolas and Linnaea Jurich, say their daughters attended Gender and Sexualities Alliance meetings at Wellington Middle School, where prizes were provided to children who &ldquo;came out&rdquo; as transgender.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;seeds of distrust were planted&rdquo; against parents during these after-school GSA activities, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25-89\/365653\/20250721144143726_Petition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a 301-page petition<\/a> filed by the Lees and Juriches. Both girls were told to keep club conversations confidential because their parents may not be &ldquo;trustworthy&rdquo; to talk about gender identity with.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/2780373\/parents-are-fed-up-with-public-schools-secretly-transitioning-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PARENTS ARE FED UP WITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS SECRETLY TRANSITIONING CHILDREN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the crux of each case, all backed by parental rights groups, is a constitutional question concerning the fundamental rights of parents to be fully informed about the well-being of their children while they are in the care of public school programming.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, the Supreme Court declined to take up a similar challenge in <em>Parents Protecting Our Children v. Eau Claire Area School District<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas would have heard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/23\/23-1280\/314351\/20240605115033260_Cert.%20Petition%20-%20FINAL%20PDFA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wisconsin case<\/a>, but they were one vote short of what is needed for a full review.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/24pdf\/23-1280_8m59.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a dissenting opinion<\/a> on the denial of certiorari, Alito said parent-exclusion policies present an issue &ldquo;of great and growing national importance,&rdquo; that is, whether public school districts violate parents&rsquo; constitutional right to make informed decisions regarding the rearing of their children when school staff, without parental awareness or permission, encourages a student to transition genders socially and even assists in that process.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are told that more than 1,000 districts have adopted such policies,&rdquo; Alito added.<\/p>\n<p>This time, parental rights advocates are hopeful the Supreme Court will accept at least one of the cases, if not all three, seeking certiorari.<\/p>\n<p>The three of them could be consolidated, explained Erin Friday, an attorney and the president of Our Duty-USA, which filed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25-259\/378901\/20251006172614735_25-259%20Brief%20of%20Amici.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amicus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25-77\/373457\/20250903112043216_Foote%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">briefs<\/a> supporting the <em>Littlejohn<\/em> and <em>Foote<\/em> appeals.<\/p>\n<p>Friday, a licensed California lawyer, speculates that the Supreme Court could be building on case law by taking on transgender-related cases in a certain order, such as addressing the medical transitioning of minors in <em>United States v. Skrmetti<\/em>, so-called &ldquo;conversion therapy&rdquo; in <em>Chiles v. Salazar<\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bay-area-residents-hold-worldwide-stop-the-war-on-children-rally\/\" title=\"Bay Area locals unite for global &#039;Stop the War on ... protest.\">sex-segregated school sports<\/a> in <em>Little v. Hecox<\/em>, as well as <em>West Virginia v. B.P.J.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators against transgender rights protest during a rally outside the Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington, as arguments begin in a case regarding a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. (Graeme Jennings \/ Washington Examiner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I think they&rsquo;re doing it in order of which they think they can build on previous decisions,&rdquo; Friday told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Friday believes the matter of schools deliberately concealing social transitioning plans from parents is of interest to the Supreme Court, as this sort of school-sanctioned secrecy usurps parental authority.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With all of these school cases, there is a presumption that the parents are dangerous,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;That is the antithesis of law in the United States. Parents are presumed to love their children and have their best interest at heart. That&rsquo;s part of our foundational documents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3151491\/identity-crisis-california-keeps-parents-in-the-dark-about-their-childrens-gender-confusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IDENTITY CRISIS: CALIFORNIA KEEPS PARENTS IN THE DARK ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN&rsquo;S GENDER CONFUSION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday, whose own daughter started identifying as transgender around age 13 due to social influence, said these school concealment practices are based on the false premise that parents who believe in biological reality are &ldquo;abusive&rdquo; simply for not affirming their child&rsquo;s chosen gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The schools are going well beyond just accepting what a child says they want to be called,&rdquo; Friday continued. &ldquo;They are scaffolding gender identity, and they are hiding it from parents.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court urged to rule on secret student transitions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3767,"featured_media":2497446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24341079064768-scaled-e1760108180307.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[35136,52966,3735,60144,32275],"class_list":["post-2497444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-education-policy","tag-legal-intervention","tag-schools","tag-student-transition","tag-supreme-court"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24341079064768-scaled-e1760108180307.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497444","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\/3767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497448,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497444\/revisions\/2497448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}