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A handful of court cases are being debated to decide whether school officials should be required to tell parents if their child identifies as LGBT.
The state and federal cases are likely to create further legal and legislative battles involving thorny questions surrounding student gender identity, the scope of parental rights and the limits of school authority concerning.
The first lawsuit was reportedly in 2020 against a school district in Madison, Wisc. Other cases have been filed in school districts across the country, including Montgomery County, Md.; Leon County, Fla.; and Ludlow County, Mass.
Rick Claybrook, an attorney for the parents in the lawsuit against the Montgomery County school district, told Education Week , “The central issue in the case is parental rights to their children and knowing what’s going on in the school with their children, and by this policy, that is being denied.”
Parents have argued in multiple cases that when the schools support children’s LGBT lifestyle without informing parents it is in violation of state constitutions or the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“Kids have their parents to protect them because they’re not able to do so until they reach maturity, and I think often will misunderstand whether the parents are supportive or not,” Claybrook said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in 2017 that 1.8% of high school students identify as transgender.
LGBT activists see the lawsuits as part of a broader political effort unfolding in state legislatures across the country, citing recently enacted laws that bar transgender students from playing on teams that do not align with their biological sex and restricting what instructors can teach about gender identity .”I can’t help but recognize that although ‘parents’ rights’ have been proposed as the basis and framework for a lot of these things, a larger concern is not […]
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