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Nearly 2 twelve states person banded together, filing an amicus little to support the law rights of a Florida family, whose nationalist mediate schoolhouse is accused of secretly "socially transitioning" their 13-year-old girl without their consent.
The brief, filed connected April 30, involves January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, parents successful Leon County, Florida, who allege schoolhouse officials met privately with their kid astir utilizing a caller sanction and pronouns, and did not pass oregon impact them arsenic parents.
School unit allegedly asked the Littlejohns' girl which bath and locker rooms she wanted to use, which sex she wanted to country with during overnight trips, and if she wanted her parents to beryllium notified.
A three-judge sheet from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals successful Atlanta sided 2-1 with the schoolhouse territory successful a ruling connected March 12, uncovering schoolhouse officials "did not enactment with intent to injure" oregon "force the kid to be a pupil enactment program meeting," frankincense not gathering the "shock the conscience" standard.
The Littlejohns appealed, requesting the tribunal perceive the lawsuit successful full.
Parents show signs astatine a parental rights rally. (Courtesy of Becket)
The "shock the conscience" modular is often utilized successful owed process cases and refers to "egregious and unjust actions" that interruption principles of fairness and decency, according to the Liberty Justice Center, which, successful summation to the little filed by the states' attorneys general, joined the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and Dr. Erica Anderson, Ph.D., successful filing a little successful enactment of the parents' position.
"The contented of parental notification policy, or, successful this case, the deficiency of notification policies, is thing we’re seeing astir the country," Emily Rae, elder counsel astatine the Liberty Justice Center, told Fox News Digital. "There are dozens of cases astatine the authorities level and national level juggling this issue, trying to find what parents’ rights are successful this situation."
States' attorneys wide called the court's determination "disastrous for parents everywhere," according to the 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 with the Littlejohns' girl without notifying them. (Courtesy of Becket)
"Purposefully withholding from a genitor captious accusation astir expected aesculapian attraction that a schoolhouse is providing a pupil not lone violates that right, but does truthful to a disturbing and constitutionally intolerable degree," the states' attorneys wide added.
"Parents – not the authorities – cognize what’s champion for their children," Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr wrote successful a statement. "We volition ever basal for parental rights and Georgia families."
The Liberty Justice Center, successful conjunction with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and Anderson, wrote that schoolhouse officials are not experts and should not assistance successful students' transition.
"To summarize, nary nonrecreational relation recommends that teachers and schoolhouse officials, who person nary expertise whatsoever successful these issues, should facilitate a societal modulation portion astatine school, treating minors arsenic if they are truly the other sex, successful concealed from their parents," the Liberty Justice Center wrote. "Usurping the parents successful this mode is conscience-shocking."
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A parents' rights protagonist holds up a motion aft a California justice halted a schoolhouse territory argumentation requiring parents beryllium notified if their children alteration their sex recognition oregon 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 code to a associated league of Congress, said the school’s actions had a "destructive" effect connected her full family.
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Ultimately, she said her girl worked done the sex confusion, but the contented created a household 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.
Alexandra Koch is simply a breaking quality writer for Fox News Digital. Prior to joining Fox News, Alexandra covered breaking news, crime, religion, and the military successful the southeast.
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