A Florida middle school’s secret gender transition of a 13 year old has been upheld as against her parents' allegations of interference with parental direction of their child's upbringing.
A federal appeals court has ruled against two Florida parents who allege a school district aided their child’s “secret” gender transition in a case highlighted by President Donald Trump in his address to Congress last week. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, ruled 2-1 on March 12 that January and Jeffrey Littlejohn could not prevail on their parental-rights claim under the 14th Amendment’s due-process clause because school officials’ actions did not “shock the conscience.”
The story of the Littlejohns and their child, who is female at
birth and sought to transition at age 13 in 2020 at their Tallahassee, Fla.,
middle school, has been an important case, cited by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
in his successful effort to enact a law limiting what schools could teach and
speak about sexual orientation and gender identity.
This ruling jeopardizes parents’ rights to protect their
children while at school, and certainly works to deconstruct rather than restore families.
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