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Parents Sue WI School District for Affirming Children’s Gender Identities Without Consent
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:08 pm
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Fourteen individual parents from eight families have filed a lawsuit against a Wisconsin school district over an administrative policy allowing teachers to affirm a student’s preferred gender identity without parental permission.
In April 2018, Madison Metropolitan School District adopted “Guidance and Policies to Support Transgender, Non-binary & Gender-Expansive Students,” which covers topics such as “all gender restrooms,” LGBTQ-inclusive curricula and gender pronouns. The document also specifies that if the student has not yet shared gender identity preferences with family members, school staff should use the child’s legal name and corresponding pronoun when communicating with family, but use the name and pronoun chosen by the child in school settings.
“MMSD policies enable children, of any age, to change their gender identity at school without parental notice or consent, and instruct district employees to conceal and even deceive parents about the gender identity their son or daughter has adopted at school,” a statement from Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, the law firm representing the 14 parents, says. “These policies violate critical constitutionally recognized parental rights.”
The law firm issued a demand letter to MMSD on Dec. 18 asking the school district to update and amend its policies within 45 days. The district refused.
“Effectively what this is doing is taking a very significant and major life and healthcare-related decision and telling students, ‘You have the right to make this totally independent of your parents, and we’re actually going to help you hide this from your parents if you want,” said Luke Berg, an attorney for the Wisconsin firm.
MMSD says that it stands by its guidance document, arguing that it is meant to maintain confidentiality between students and staff.
But parents worry that by not being notified about their child’s gender identity issues, the child may not receive the treatment needed to address the underlying causes of gender dysphoria.
According to the lawsuit, many of the plaintiffs hold to the Biblical belief that “two sexes are a core part of God’s intended design for humanity and that the sex each of us is born with is a gift, not an arbitrary imposition.”
If the parents were aware of their children’s gender dysphoria, they would “not immediately ‘affirm’ whatever beliefs their children might have about their gender, but would instead remind them that they were ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’ (Psalm 139:14),” the law firm noted.
“A public school district should not, and cannot, make decisions reserved for parents,” said Rick Esenberg, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s president and general counsel.
Fourteen individual parents from eight families have filed a lawsuit against a Wisconsin school district over an administrative policy allowing teachers to affirm a student’s preferred gender identity without parental permission.
In April 2018, Madison Metropolitan School District adopted “Guidance and Policies to Support Transgender, Non-binary & Gender-Expansive Students,” which covers topics such as “all gender restrooms,” LGBTQ-inclusive curricula and gender pronouns. The document also specifies that if the student has not yet shared gender identity preferences with family members, school staff should use the child’s legal name and corresponding pronoun when communicating with family, but use the name and pronoun chosen by the child in school settings.
“MMSD policies enable children, of any age, to change their gender identity at school without parental notice or consent, and instruct district employees to conceal and even deceive parents about the gender identity their son or daughter has adopted at school,” a statement from Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, the law firm representing the 14 parents, says. “These policies violate critical constitutionally recognized parental rights.”
The law firm issued a demand letter to MMSD on Dec. 18 asking the school district to update and amend its policies within 45 days. The district refused.
“Effectively what this is doing is taking a very significant and major life and healthcare-related decision and telling students, ‘You have the right to make this totally independent of your parents, and we’re actually going to help you hide this from your parents if you want,” said Luke Berg, an attorney for the Wisconsin firm.
MMSD says that it stands by its guidance document, arguing that it is meant to maintain confidentiality between students and staff.
But parents worry that by not being notified about their child’s gender identity issues, the child may not receive the treatment needed to address the underlying causes of gender dysphoria.
According to the lawsuit, many of the plaintiffs hold to the Biblical belief that “two sexes are a core part of God’s intended design for humanity and that the sex each of us is born with is a gift, not an arbitrary imposition.”
If the parents were aware of their children’s gender dysphoria, they would “not immediately ‘affirm’ whatever beliefs their children might have about their gender, but would instead remind them that they were ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’ (Psalm 139:14),” the law firm noted.
“A public school district should not, and cannot, make decisions reserved for parents,” said Rick Esenberg, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s president and general counsel.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:09 pm to Crimson Wraith
And this is why we need to defund and defunct the dept of education
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:14 pm to Crimson Wraith
Yes. By all means, let's allow mentally ill children to dictate to the supposed adults what goes on in school,
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:16 pm to Apollyon
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And this is why we need to defund and defunct the dept of education
What do you suggest replacing it with? Honest Question.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:17 pm to HogFanfromHTown
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What do you suggest replacing it with? Honest Question.
Nothing
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:18 pm to Apollyon
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Nothing
So leave primary and secondary education completely up to the states?
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:20 pm to HogFanfromHTown
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What do you suggest replacing it with?
Didn't exist before Oct 1979.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:21 pm to HogFanfromHTown
This may come as a shock to you: the government does not need to be involved in the regulation of education. At all.
You realize when the dept of education was founded?
I can name several other cabinet departments that need elimination, downsizing and role absorption.
You realize when the dept of education was founded?
I can name several other cabinet departments that need elimination, downsizing and role absorption.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:23 pm to HogFanfromHTown
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So leave primary and secondary education completely up to the states?
Yes.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:24 pm to HogFanfromHTown
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leave primary and secondary education completely up to the states?
10th Amendment says hi.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:24 pm to Apollyon
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the dept of education
I'm not seeing anything about the US Dept. of Education in the OP. This looks like a State of Wisconsin type of thing to me.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:28 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
Wrong.
their brochure for rationale
They are claiming this authority under FERPA. Look it up.
their brochure for rationale
They are claiming this authority under FERPA. Look it up.
This post was edited on 2/19/20 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:28 pm to HogFanfromHTown
Please point to the benefits from the DoE.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:29 pm to Crimson Wraith
"don't cut his dick off bruh."
---Lil Boosie
---Lil Boosie
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:31 pm to Apollyon
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This may come as a shock to you: the government does not need to be involved in the regulation of education. At all.
They don't need to get involved with weights and measures either, but I prefer to have a national standard.
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:38 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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They don't need to get involved with weights and measures either, but I prefer to have a national standard.
Oh NOZ?!!!
However did we manage to master flight, perfect assembly line manufacturing, harness and mass distribute electricity, develop the pre-eminent 1st world infrastructure, build the atom bomb, dictate world economic markets, become the dominant superpower on earth, or walk the moon?
Oh yeah, we did all that shite prior to the dept of education, which has only been extant for 40 years. If anything, our standards have DECLINED since its creation.
You are a carricature.
This post was edited on 2/19/20 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:39 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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but I prefer to have a national standard.
So there’s similar outcomes in school districts because of national standards?
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:42 pm to Apollyon
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10th Amendment says hi.
lol the Dept. Of Education isn't unconstitutional. Basic public education 100% falls under "promoting the general welfare".
This post was edited on 2/19/20 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 2/19/20 at 3:43 pm to HogFanfromHTown
I didnt say unconstitutional, I replied to you when you implied it was outrageous to "leave it to the states"
Which by the way, is also constitutional.
Which by the way, is also constitutional.
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