Two religious parents filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly “socially transitioning” their child with a masculine name and pronouns without notifying them.
The parents, identified in court documents only as John and Jane Doe, are being represented by America First Legal (AFL), an anti-LGBTQ+ conservative legal organization. The parents want school officials to start misgendering their child and for the judge to declare the school district’s trans-inclusive name and pronoun policies as illegal. The school district has declined to comment on the case.
The lawsuit, filed in Maryland’s U.S. District Court, says the school began referring to the child with a masculine name and pronouns at the beginning of the school year at the student’s request. The parents only became aware of this last December 10 when the school emailed the parents about a lab experiment happening in class the next day. The email used a male name to refer to their child, The Baltimore Banner reported.
The staff member who sent the email reportedly tried to unsend it and then sent the parents a message saying that the email wasn’t intended to go to them, the lawsuit said. The following day, the parents allegedly spoke to the staff member who “admitted to lying in the emails” and informed the parents that their child had requested the masculine name and pronouns, the lawsuit adds.
I, for one, cannot wait for the inevitable follow up several years later when these chuckle fuck bring up new lawsuits to find someone to blame for their kids going full no contact with them. (My mother is almost at this stage and I love it for her)
Similar thing happened in Florida last year:
Brevard teacher first to lose job over Florida law requiring parent sign-off on preferred name
It’s the first reported incident of a teacher losing their job as a result of Florida’s law requiring parental consent for a child to go by an alternative to their legal name in school.
Melissa Calhoun, a teacher at Satellite High School in Brevard County, will not have her contract renewed for the 2025-2026 school year after calling a student by a preferred name without getting a signed form, according to Brevard Public Schools Spokesperson Janet Murnaghan.
There’s gonna be a fuckload of kids that never speak to their parents again after they leave the house.
Now when the kid grows up they should sue the school for not respecting their gender identity too after this
Under this Supreme Court after its W. Va. v. Jackson decision? I honestly expect to see “Straights Only” signs being allowed put out soon under this Court.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this bullshit goes all the way to the SCROTUS and gets the fascist rubber stamp.
Guillotines are coming?
I’m not even allowed to see my kids medical record without their consent. Unless we are talking a young child her, I would say just call it medical information. Case closed.
To what degree should the state be allowed to hide things from someone’s legal guardians?
Like, I totally understand the impulse here, but I don’t know that it’s actually a good one.
What if the state refused to tell a kids parents that they were struggling with depression, and then the kid self harms, and the parents weren’t given the opportunity to provide the support network necessary to get them the help they need.
I’m certain that there are a lot of bad parents out there who would not handle this information about their child well. This article proves it even. But parents being terrible parents isn’t limited to this issue. Should the state be empowered to step in and force them to be better parents? Should the state be allowed to lie to them about what their child is doing at school in order to prevent them from making certain decisions about their child?
I’m not saying that the state has to reinforce the parents viewpoints. Far from it. Schools should be free to set curriculum to what they want and enforce whatever code of conduct makes sense for the school, parents be damned. But I feel a lot weirder about it when the state starts actively lying to the parents about what’s going on with their child while in the state’s care.
To what degree should the state be allowed to hide things from someone’s legal guardians?
This is exactly the backwards question. Part of the essential role that schools provide for childhood development is that they are a place where the parents don’t see everything.
The relevant question is “how much should a school be forced to tell the parents if the child objects”. And in the case of gender identity, that answer is zero. Either the parents already know, or the child has presumably very good reasons not to tell.
