A Wisconsin judge ruled on Tuesday against a school district’s policy of adopting students’ preferred pronouns and names without obtaining parental consent, a decision cheered as a “groundbreaking legal win” for parents’ rights.
granted summary judgment to parents who sued the Kettle Moraine School District in southeastern Wisconsin, finding the district violated the rights of parents to make medical decisions on behalf of their children.in the 19-page opinion. “The School District could not require or allow a student to participate in a sport without parental consent.
Teachers and staffers have sued in recent years over being required to use preferred pronouns or conceal students’ social transitions from parents, but the“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,” Mr. Berg said. “The decision should be a warning to the many districts across the country with similar policies to exclude parents from gender transitions at school.
The district argued that the lawsuit should be thrown out, saying the cases were either no longer relevant or hypothetical.disagreed, saying the “injury that they may suffer is not too far attenuated so as to make the injury ‘hypothetical.’”
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