On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) declined to hear a challenge by parents’ rights groups against a school district’s policy of secretly encouraging children to undergo so-called “gender transitions” without their parents’ knowledge.
According to the Daily Caller, the challenge was declined due to conservative justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and John Roberts denying the parental group’s petition. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh would have granted the petition.
“This case presents a question of great and growing national importance: whether a public school district violates parents’ ‘fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of’ their children…when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender or assists in that process,” wrote Justice Alito, in a dissent joined by Justice Thomas. “We are told that more than 1,000 districts have adopted such policies.”
The case stems from a lawsuit filed against Wisconsin’s Eau Claire Area School District over its policy of facilitating gender “transitions” and…
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