(The Center Square) — One Wisconsin mother is blasting a school policy allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their chosen gender identity without public discussion from parents.
Parents have filed a legal challenge to that policy in Doe v. Bethel Local School District Board of Education, which is now being considered by a federal appellate court.
The controversial case could make its way to the Supreme Court given the growing national attention on this topic and the flurry of similar policies, and the challenges to them, at schools nationwide.
Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty group involved in the case, filed a brief to the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit this week on behalf Tammy Fournier, the mother in question.
Fournier’s child was not involved in this latest case, but in another similar instance Fournier sued her own child’s school after it implemented a policy to change students’ names and pronouns without parental consent.
A Wisconsin court ruled in Fournier’s favor last fall, but similar policies still stand in schools around the nation.
Now, Fournier is speaking out on the Doe case, one of a growing number of parents taking their kids’ schools to court and speaking out.
“Many other school districts have policies empowering school employees to decide whether to treat children as the opposite sex,” the brief said. “These policies often don’t require parental notification or consent; in fact, they often prohibit disclosing the school district’s decisions to a minor student’s parents without the student’s permission.”
Proponents of the transgender policies say they are protecting students going through a difficult transition.
Opponents say parents have the right to know what is going on and the final say when it comes to their children.
”Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and healthcare of their children,” Vincent Wagner, a lawyer for ADF, said in a statement.
Wagner said these cases are indicative of a nationwide trend.
“School districts across the country are increasingly violating parents’ rights by leaving them out of key decisions about their own children,” Wagner said. “More and more, school districts are adopting policies that require school staff to treat children as the opposite sex—in many cases, without parental consent or even notice.
“But the Constitution protects parents’ fundamental right to make decisions about how to care for their children and the right to access information necessary to make such decisions,” he added.
The treasonous destructive immoral woke Democrat Party and their cult worshipers must be removed from all positions of authority. Stop Voting for Democrats!
It has become NOT the will of the PEOPLE, but the will of the treasonous destructive immoral woke Democrat Party and damn the will of the people.
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Woke, Socialist Democrat Party cult’s destructive beliefs and agendas, is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, open borders, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender, same sex marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and perversions, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the of Disguise of Democrats versions of “anti-discrimination.”
To dems, AGENDA Matters only, laws, parents, morals. THEY DON’T>
“Which creature walks on 4 legs in the morning, then then 2 legs in the afternoon, then three legs in the evening” The correct answer is man, where real adults get tasked with protecting the American unborn as well as the aged who cannot protect themselves. Only a fool allows people who craw like crawfishing infants, or hobble about America mentally physically caned, or morally changed being politically coined, in bribes and filthy lucre, to be allowed to define their own gender let alone drive cars, drink or get drafted into the service of their country, but who the democrat party allows to get drafted into their legions of Political leprosy that rots the formerly sane and healthy American body politic like dead fish,,,, from the head on down. I am so sick and tired of allowing self-lobotomized politically used and confused Marxian “Useful idiots” to redefine what is sane and proper. It’s like empowering a city insane asylum to take over the control of our Democrat run cities, then hear them cry when the food and warm places run out, and the youth of the Country beings to slowly disappear from the now dangerous schools and streets, whose socially surrendered control gets full of only illegal alien minded released criminals, drug users, drug sellers, with mindsets of the violent insane get passed on to their own children who then influence and attack our own to behave in like manner. The true American enemy stands before us,
The Weaponization of THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, against American Parents of Children, The D.O. J, “For Thee, But Not For Me.” The Two- Tiered Justice System as the democrat party sees things.
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” Trust, But Verify,”All Politicians Word. The (WHITE -RACE-MALE Has Disappered From History.
Martin Luthur King,I Have A Dream That My Little Children Will Grow Up In A Nation Where They Won’t Be Judged By The Color Of Their Skin But By The ContextOf Their Character.”
The White- Male Race Has been Erased From History.
Public schools have become the sanctuary of reprobates and degenerates. To allow males to participate in female sports should be defined as a crime. I also wonder what kind of a boy needs to compete against girls. To prove what? One thing that is almost certain, these boys couldn’t successfully compete against other boys, looking at you Thomas) so they switch lanes and claim to be female. The girls in any of these “competitions” should simply boycott the event. Thanks but no thanks. Take your decadence somewhere else, you are NOT welcome here and we will not be party. We will not descend to your low level.
I agree with your thoughts, but recently a Christian school forfeited a girls basketball game because the opposing team had a biological male. The entire school was then removed from all scheduled sports games. Not sure what the answer is–besides getting Democrats put of office.
How’s about CIVILLY SUING THE PARENT(S) of the “IT” that causes such harm?
The Department of Education needs to go so parents can once again have a say in how their schools are run. Short of that every parent with the ability needs to remove their children from public schools.
The Department of Education and the Department of Justice are nothing more than extensions of this treasonous, destructive, unethical, immoral, dishonest, woke, demonic Democrat Party cabal.
The U.S. is no longer ruled by WE the PEOPLE, the U.S. is now ruled by the elite of the Democrat Party and their Democrat RINO politicians.
If WE the PEOPLE do not stop supporting this treasonous, destructive, unethical, immoral, dishonest, woke, demonic Democrat Party cabal, VERY SOON WE the PEOPLE will be servants and slaves to this Democrat Party cabal.
Dec. 19, 2023 Unelected judges (appointed by Democrats) on the Colorado Supreme Court have ruled that the Republic does NOT belong to the people. We the People are nothing more than tax paying servants to this treasonous Democrat Party.
” Leona Helmsley,” Only The Little People Pay Taxes.” ( The Teachers Union.Dues Goes Largely To The Democrat Party.
To Paraphrase Adolf Hitler, ” When A Opponent Say,” I will not Come Over To Your Side,” I Clamly Say, ” Who are You? Your Child Already Belongs To Us, You Ate Old And Will Pass On. But your dessendents Already Stand In This New Camp And Know Nothing Else…” The Teacher’s Union Dues Goes To Susport The democrat Party.!
I;ve long said we need to END the doe.. SHUNT IT all down to the state level.
” The Politician’s Creed,” … My politic Like My Religion Are Of An Excedingly Accomodating Kind…” To Paraphrase “The Politicians Creed.”
Mothers, just like the Dads, sometimes have plans for their daughters future in sports, especially if potential seen. But if the girls competing against boys, they may not shine so well. Hopefully some middle ground with be discovered to satisfy this issue.
There is no middle ground. Either you love the kids and are committed to get them psychiatric help, or you are just taking the easy road by humoring them. The former may be uncomfortable for a time, but may ultimately save the kid’s life. The latter has a good chance of ending up with a funeral for the child who committed suicide. (Studies show that allowing the person to “transition” does NOT lower their probability of suicide.)
Children who are “being protected while going through a difficult transition” are not being helped in any way. If these teachers and administrators really had the best interest of the child at heart, they would get the kid into psychiatric counseling immediately. How many times does it have to be proven that transgenderism is a mental disease, and that humoring the person (i.e. “helping them transition) is actually harmful? The likelihood of suicide among these kids who are truly gender-confused (not just faking to get attention or a leg-up in sports) is astronomical, and does NOT diminish when they are allowed or encouraged to “transition.” If you love them, don’t change their name/pronouns, get them help.