AAF led a coalition of 50 amici urging the Supreme Court to take up Foote v. Ludlow School Committee in which a school in Massachusetts facilitated an eleven-year old’s “social gender transition” even after the girl’s mother specifically instructed the school’s staff not to discuss those issues with her daughter. The school’s efforts included the school counselor texting the girl and messaging her about gender identity via online chat. Parental rights have been recognized in the West for thousands of years and have been a part of the American conception of liberty long before the Founding. There are several cases currently being appealed to the Supreme Court raising these issues. AAFF urges the Court to take them up and affirm the constitutional protection of parental rights against gender ideology.
“No parents should have to worry that their child’s school will indoctrinate children while encouraging them not to tell their parents, yet this story has become all too common in America in recent years,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “Last term, the Supreme Court’s decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor secured parent’s religious rights against certain forms of gender indoctrination. Now the Court must ensure that all parents, regardless of faith commitment, can protect their children from dangerous and subversive ‘gender transition.'”
