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CV NEWS FEED // After the U.S. Supreme Court refused Dec. 9 to hear a case about whether schools can hide a student’s “gender identity” from the student’s parents, the founder of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) urged parents to remove their children from public schools.
A press release from USPIE states that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear oral arguments in Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, allowing the lower courts’ decision favoring the school to remain in place.
Parents brought the case forward when a Madison, Wisconsin, school district told teachers to hide students’ “gender identities” from their parents. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito opposed the decision to ignore the case.
“This case presents a question of great and growing national importance,” Justice Alito wrote, “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.”
USPIE founder and President Sheri Few expressed disappointment in the result of the case.
“You have to ask yourself, who would have more standing in a case like this than parents whose children may be directly affected by this policy?” she said. “Shame on the other justices for ducking this opportunity to set things right and restore decency and common sense to school policies on this hot-button issue.”
Few added later that she encouraged parents who have been harmed by such policies to step forward. She also stated that the court’s ruling means that parents cannot help their children until after they are already struggling with gender dysphoria.
“The Seventh Circuit is basically saying that parents have to wait until a child is victimized before they have any recourse,” Few said. “This is an excellent example of why parents must get their kids out of public schools in order to protect their innocence and long-term health.”
