Supreme Court Declines To Hear Parents’ Challenge To School Policy Secretly Encouraging Gender Transitions
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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in March that the parents did not have standing to challenge the policy because they had not been directly impacted by it.

“School is now like Las Vegas: ‘What happens at school stays at school,'” parents told the justices in their petition, noting the policies have already “generated over two dozen lawsuits” with more likely coming down the road. “As any parent knows, parental authority includes the right (and the solemn responsibility) to say no to children’s often short-sighted desires when necessary to protect them from themselves.”

Alito expressed concern that some courts are using standing “as a way of avoiding some particularly contentious constitutional questions.” (RELATED: SCOTUS Conservatives Seem Ready To Uphold Child Sex Change Bans — But One Justice Is A Wild Card)

“[T]he challenged policy and associated equity training specifically encourage school personnel to keep parents in the dark about the ‘identities’ of their children, especially if the school believes that the parents would not support what the school thinks is appropriate,” Alito wrote. “Thus, the parents’ fear that the school district might make decisions for their children without their knowledge and consent is not ‘speculative.’…They are merely taking the school district at its word.”

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.