States Support Parents In Legal Case Over School’s Secret Gender Transition Of Child

Nearly 2 twelve states person banded together, filing an amicus little to take sides nan law authorities of a Florida family, whose nationalist mediate schoolhouse is accused of secretly "socially transitioning" their 13-year-old girl without their consent.

The brief, revenge connected April 30, involves January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, parents successful Leon County, Florida, who allege schoolhouse officials met privately pinch their kid astir utilizing a caller sanction and pronouns, and did not pass aliases impact them arsenic parents. 

School unit allegedly asked nan Littlejohns' girl which bath and locker rooms she wanted to use, which gender she wanted to room pinch during overnight trips, and if she wanted her parents to beryllium notified.

A three-judge sheet from nan 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals successful Atlanta sided 2-1 pinch nan schoolhouse territory successful a ruling connected March 12, uncovering schoolhouse officials "did not enactment pinch intent to injure" aliases "force nan kid to be a student support scheme meeting," frankincense not gathering nan "shock nan conscience" standard.

The Littlejohns appealed, requesting nan tribunal perceive nan lawsuit successful full.

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Parents show signs astatine a parental authorities rally. (Courtesy of Becket)

The "shock nan conscience" modular is often utilized successful owed process cases and refers to "egregious and cruel actions" that break principles of fairness and decency, according to nan Liberty Justice Center, which, successful summation to nan little revenge by nan states' attorneys general, joined nan Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and Dr. Erica Anderson, Ph.D., successful filing a little successful support of nan parents' position.

"The rumor of parental notification policy, or, successful this case, nan deficiency of notification policies, is thing we’re seeing astir nan country," Emily Rae, elder counsel astatine nan Liberty Justice Center, told Fox News Digital. "There are dozens of cases astatine nan authorities level and national level juggling this issue, trying to find what parents’ authorities are successful this situation."

States' attorneys wide called nan court's determination "disastrous for parents everywhere," according to nan little that includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia and Arizona.

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The schoolhouse territory allegedly met pinch nan Littlejohns' girl without notifying them. (Courtesy of Becket)

"Purposefully withholding from a genitor captious accusation astir expected aesculapian curen that a schoolhouse is providing a student not only violates that right, but does truthful to a disturbing and constitutionally intolerable degree," nan states' attorneys wide added.

"Parents – not nan authorities – cognize what’s champion for their children," Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr wrote successful a statement. "We will ever guidelines for parental authorities and Georgia families."

The Liberty Justice Center, successful conjunction pinch nan Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and Anderson, wrote that schoolhouse officials are not experts and should not assistance successful students' transition.

"To summarize, nary master relation recommends that teachers and schoolhouse officials, who person nary expertise whatsoever successful these issues, should facilitate a societal modulation while astatine school, treating minors arsenic if they are really nan other sex, successful concealed from their parents," nan Liberty Justice Center wrote. "Usurping nan parents successful this measurement is conscience-shocking."

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A parents' authorities protagonist holds up a motion aft a California judge halted a schoolhouse territory argumentation requiring parents beryllium notified if their children alteration their gender recognition aliases pronouns astatine school.  (Will Lester/MediaNews Group/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images)

In an interview earlier this year, January Littlejohn, who was 1 of President Donald Trump’s guests astatine his reside to a associated convention of Congress, said nan school’s actions had a "destructive" effect connected her full family. 

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Ultimately, she said her girl worked done nan gender confusion, but nan rumor created a family rift that "took galore years to repair."

The Leon County School District and Carr did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.