Advocates, States, and Experts Rally Behind Parents Suing Massachusetts School District Over Secret Gender Transition Practices
Multiple parental rights advocates, psychiatrists, school district officials, and representatives from 21 states, as well as Guam, filed friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, supporting New England parents suing the Ludlow School Committee in Massachusetts.
The school district’s gender-identity policy, which excludes parents from decisions about their children’s gender transitions, is accused of violating parents’ constitutional rights to direct their children’s upbringing, education, and health care. Attorneys from the Child & Parental Rights Campaign and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) represent parents Stephen Foote and Marissa