A lawsuit by three parents claims a Pittsburgh-area school district is violating their civil and constitutional rights by teaching gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning to first grade students.
The three parents in the Mount Lebanon School District are seeking a court order to stop the instruction and a jury trial to decide both compensating and punitive financial damages. According to Fox News, the suit was filed by three mothers who are seeking a court order to stop the gender-related instruction at Jefferson Elementary School in Pittsburgh.
The suit targets the district, its superintendent, the school board, and Jefferson Elementary first grade teacher Megan Williams. It also names other school officials and an elementary school principal as well.
The mothers allege Williams did not respect their parental rights with her “direct classroom instruction” on gender dysphoria and use of books on the subject.
The lawsuit points out the “unique perspectives and views” that Williams might have as the mother of a transgender child who is the same age as her students, but noted that such a fact “does not give her the right to impose those views on a captive audience of six- and seven-year-old children.”
“Williams also began the process of interjecting her own personal life and views into the classroom, explaining that her child had worn an ‘Elsa dress’ for Halloween,” the complaint also said, alleging that Williams “explained to her students that sometimes ‘parents are wrong’ and parents and doctors ‘make mistakes’ when they bring a child home from the hospital.”
The suit argues that parents have a constitutional right to “control the education of their (children)” and “to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.”
“This lawsuit is not about politics. It is not anti-transgender. It is not about censorship. It is not about banning books. It is not about precluding appropriate DEI initiatives,” it reads. “Rather, it is about Plaintiffs’ parental rights and each of their respective decisions not to want their six- or seven-year-old child to receive first-grade classroom instruction on gender dysphoria or transgender transitioning from their first-grade teacher.”
The lawsuit also claims that the district violated its own polices by not listing gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning as part of the curriculum online and also alleges that parents were not given the opportunity to excuse their children from such instruction if it does not conform with how they would like to touch on such topics.
It also says that until recently the district had a policy of notifying parents and letting them opt out when topics that some might consider sensitive were taught in class. It says those topics have included the Holocaust, slavery, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, sex education, Black Lives Matter, and Planned Parenthood.
The lawsuit alleges Williams encouraged children not to tell their parents about her instruction according to WTAE-TV. The lawsuit raises other unrelated topics, alleging Williams does not have students in her class participate in the Pledge of Allegiance, and claiming that her emphasis on racial justice is “strident.”
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“A lawsuit by three parents claims a Pittsburgh-area school district is violating their civil and constitutional rights by teaching gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning to first grade students.”
The problem is that we the U.S.A. have a ruling Democrat Party that does NOT follow our Constitution and Laws.
These Democrat Party supporters keep electing Godless, dishonest, immoral, hateful, self-righteous representatives like the corrupt puppet Joe Biden, Tinkerbell PinocchiObama, the hateful Nancy Pelosi, racist Maxine Waters, Liar Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Camel toe Kamala Harris, Bimbo Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, anti-Christian Ilhan Omar, squaw Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley who intentionally pit one group against another to divide the country and cultivate hate and distrust, you got to ask yourself; what are the motives of these type people? To lead the country into prosperity OR to gain control, stay in power any way possible and to dominate the citizens? No matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation. Vote ALL liberal Democrats and RINOs OUT of Office everywhere. Return this country to we the people and by the people.
Blame the Supreme Court who has been dominated by Political Party perverts for the past 40 years. We finally get a chance to clean house and the lives of the clear-thinking Judges of decency get threatened. This is no accident and shows not only how desperate are the perverts to keep control of young minds, but to what extent up to and including murder they will go to keep it. It is way past time the perverts, not THE PEOPLE become the ones who feel threatened, because their distorted ideas of free speech to innocence minds is much worse than shouting “Fire” in a theater where millions of minds get trampled irreparably as the over-stimulated young minds run for the exits to get their promised immediate gratifications satiated, only to find disease and broken hearts awaiting them upon arrival at the secular mind and spirit death camps of miseducation where American innocence is the first but not the last casualty. These children are not owned by THE STATE, but on loan from god to parents to be raised in the image of he who created them.
Huge red flag. The teacher (Williams) is the “mother of a transgender child who is the same age as her students”. The mother had her child transition to a different gender? I think she committed child abuse. A first grade child cannot know about gender issues. Based on this child abuse (in my opinion), she is grooming her class for gender confusion. Fire this teacher. In a sane world, she would be charged with child abuse in my opinion.
I hope this suit does good.. BUT seeing as how libtard ridden Pittsburgh is, i fear it may be tossed.