Advancing American Freedom led a coalition of 42 amici urging the Supreme Court to take up Lee v. Poudre School District R-1, a case challenging a Colorado school’s efforts to socially “gender transition” two middle school girls without their parents’ knowledge or consent. A teacher, Jenna Riep, invited both girls to attend after-school meetings of the Gender and Sexualities Alliance Club (“GSA”). When one of the girls, a then-12-year-old referred to as C.L. in court filings, attended, a substitute teacher told the children present that they were “likely transgender” if they “were not completely comfortable with their bodies,” and warned them that telling their parents about the meeting “might not be safe.” When the girl’s parents withdrew her from the school after this incident, the principal insisted on coming to the family’s home to “check on” her.
The other girl, referred to as H.J. in court filings, who asked her parents to homeschool her so she would not have to have class with Ms. Riep because the teacher “kept asking” the girl “to return to GSA meetings,” ultimately attempted suicide and “pinpoints the GSA meetings as the beginning of her emotional decline.”
This case is one of at least three that the Court will likely have the opportunity to consider this term that could protect children and parents from the dangers of gender ideologists. AAF and its fellow amici urge it to do so.
“Parents around the country know that gender ideology is bad for their children and yet many, as happened in this case, find out after the fact that their kids’ school is pushing it either through the curriculum or in extra-curricular activities. And even when parents find out what is happening and seek to put a stop to it, they or their children are often hounded by zealots on the school’s staff,” said AAF General Counsel J. Marc Wheat. “The parents in this case and many others have been denied the opportunity for judicial review by lower courts. We urge the Supreme Court to take up this case and the others like it and reaffirm the right of parents to raise their children free from gender ideology.”
