Court: Wisconsin School District Violated Parents’ Rights By Affirming Minors’ ‘Transition’ Without Their Consent AND Over Their Objections

A school district in Wisconsin can no longer “socially transition” children or use opposite-sex pronouns without the consent of parents.

Unfortunately, some parents will consent. But parents who oppose this whole poisoned ideology and manipulation will have a say.

Concerned parents with children in the Kettle Moraine School District filed a lawsuit over a policy that allows staff to honor minor students’ requests to affirm their “transition” without parental consent and over their objections.

The school district claimed that there was no “justiciable controversy” because one set of the plaintiffs no longer attend the school, and the other set of plaintiffs don’t have standing because they have no children at the school.

The court rejected both of these claims and granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment.

“This Court has before it what modern society deems a controversial issue – transgenderism involving minors within our schools,” the court wrote (PDF). “Clearly, the law on this issue is still developing across the country and remaining largely unsettled. However, this particular case is not about that broad controversial issue. This particular case is simply whether a school district can supplant a parent’s right to control the healthcare and medical decisions for their children.”

The court ruled that Kettle Moraine School District’s policy to enable or affirm a minor’s “transition” without parental consent violates the parents’ constitutional right to determine the appropriate medical and healthcare for their kids and blocked the school district from allowing or requiring staff to refer to students with opposite-sex pronouns while in school, without express parental consent.

The whole discussion is absurd, but here we are.

Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) and Alliance Defending Freedom represented the plaintiffs.

“This victory represents a major win for parental rights,” said Luke Berg, WILL deputy counsel. “The court confirmed that parents, not educators or school faculty, have the right to decide whether a social transition is in their own child’s best interests. The decision should be a warning to the many districts across the country with similar policies to exclude parents from gender transitions at school.”

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