{"id":2651673,"date":"2026-08-29T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-pushed-secret-gender-transitions-behind-closed-doors-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T14:39:17","slug":"school-pushed-secret-gender-transitions-behind-closed-doors-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-pushed-secret-gender-transitions-behind-closed-doors-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"School Pushed &#8216;Secret Gender Transitions Behind Closed Doors&#8217;: 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\">18<\/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%2Fschool-pushed-secret-gender-transitions-behind-closed-doors-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=2651673&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>Parental rights organization Moms for Liberty has filed a federal lawsuit against the School District of the Chathams&#8217; Board of Education, accusing it of secretly implementing gender transition policies targeted at minors without parental knowledge or consent. The lawsuit, brought by the Thomas More Society in New Jersey federal court, claims that the district\u2019s Policy 5145.7 infringes on constitutional rights-specifically First Amendment freedoms and parental rights under the Fourteenth Amendment-by allowing school counselors too facilitate a student\u2019s gender transition and refer students to external LGBTQ advocacy groups without informing parents. Mothers for Liberty and the Thomas More Society argue that these policies undermine parents\u2019 authority to guide their children&#8217;s moral and religious growth, particularly regarding gender and sexuality. The lawsuit also asserts that the policy mandates accepting a student&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-teachers-sue-school-district-over-transgender-policy-allegedly-forcing-them-to-lie-to-parents\/\" title=\"California Teachers Sue ... Over Trans... Policy Allegedly Forcing Them to Lie to ...\">asserted gender identity<\/a> nonetheless of parental involvement. The school district has not responded to requests for comment. This legal action aligns with broader political efforts, including prior Supreme Court cases, to challenge policies perceived as promoting gender ideology in schools, and reflects ongoing debates over parental rights and transgender student policies in education.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Parental rights group Moms for Liberty has filed a federal lawsuit against the School District of the Chathams Board of Education for allegedly \u201cpushing secret gender transitions behind closed doors,\u201d the Daily Caller News Foundation first learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The lawsuit, filed by the Thomas More Society on behalf of Moms for Liberty in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, partly alleges that the district\u2019s Policy 5145.7 violates the First Amendment\u2019s Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses and the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s Due Process Clause by allowing school counselors to hide a student\u2019s \u201cgender transition\u201d from parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cActivist school boards across the country are radically interfering with the moral and religious development of the impressionable and suggestible children in their captive audiences by imposing \u2018gender transition\u2019 policies,\u201d the verified complaint <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.website-files.com\/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46\/6a8dacce161912ca5d2934e0_Filed%20Verified%20Complaint.pdf\">alleges<\/a>. \u201cUnder these policies, parents have no right to know of a child\u2019s supposed \u2018social transition\u2019 to a gender other than their biological gender, which religiously motivated parents view as an ineradicable divine election, not a child\u2019s personal choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cAs alleged more particularly below, by enacting its Policy 5145.7, the District has followed this trend of arrogant usurpation of the constitutionally protected right of parents to guide the religious and moral formation of their children according to their belief in God, His creation of only two biologically determined sexes\/genders \u2014 male and female \u2014 and the eternal destiny of every human soul as affected by conformity to His eternal law,\u201d the verified complaint adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">School District of the Chathams\u2019 Board of Education did not respond to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cWhen Thomas More Society prevailed\u00a0at the Supreme Court, we made a promise: any school board or district that kept hiding a child\u2019s so-called \u2018gender transition\u2019 from parents, or that punished kids for refusing to bow down to an ideology they don\u2019t believe, would be held accountable,\u201d Thomas More Society senior counsel Christopher Ferrara told the DCNF in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The lawsuit also alleges that Policy 5145.7 allows students to be referred to outside LGBTQ advocacy groups without parental notice or consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cParents are the primary educators and caregivers of their children, not school boards, not counselors, and not ideologues pushing secret gender transitions behind closed doors,\u201d Moms for Liberty CEO and co-founder Tina Descovich said in a statement. \u201cThe Chathams Board of Education\u2019s open defiance of the Supreme Court\u2019s clear rulings in Mirabelli and Mahmoud is an assault on the constitutional rights of every family in that district. Moms for Liberty will not stand by while schools hide life-altering decisions from parents or persuade children to affirm an ideology that violates their conscience and faith. We are proud to partner with the Thomas More Society to defend parental rights in New Jersey and across America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\"><a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/files-backend.assets.thrill.com\/documents\/asset\/uploaded_file\/3612\/Chathams\/10f1c715-7a47-4fe0-a704-56e564d47f52\/5145.7P_Gender_Identity_and_Expression_Adopton.pdf?disposition=inline\">File Code 5145.7<\/a> says in part that \u201cthe Commissioner of Education directs school districts to accept a student\u2019s asserted gender identity regardless of parent consent or involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has notably prioritized dismantling gender ideology across the U.S. during his second term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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