Two religious parents filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly “socially transitioning” their child with a masculine name and pronouns without notifying them.
The parents, identified in court documents only as John and Jane Doe, are being represented by America First Legal (AFL), an anti-LGBTQ+ conservative legal organization. The parents want school officials to start misgendering their child and for the judge to declare the school district’s trans-inclusive name and pronoun policies as illegal. The school district has declined to comment on the case.
The lawsuit, filed in Maryland’s U.S. District Court, says the school began referring to the child with a masculine name and pronouns at the beginning of the school year at the student’s request. The parents only became aware of this last December 10 when the school emailed the parents about a lab experiment happening in class the next day. The email used a male name to refer to their child, The Baltimore Banner reported.
The staff member who sent the email reportedly tried to unsend it and then sent the parents a message saying that the email wasn’t intended to go to them, the lawsuit said. The following day, the parents allegedly spoke to the staff member who “admitted to lying in the emails” and informed the parents that their child had requested the masculine name and pronouns, the lawsuit adds.
I agree that the parents should be better plugged in with their kid and know what’s going on with them.
The question is more “to what degree should the state enforce good parenting.” Should being a bad parent be allowed by the state? Should the state be allowed to lie to you to trick you into being a better parent?
The parents in this situation seem like they probably suck. We don’t disagree on that.
It’s not a trick, it’s completely irrelevant to their job.
Is wearing a skirt going to help or hinder retention of the Pythagorean theorem? Neither? Well don’t waste my tax dollars sending emails about it.
Is the child getting bullied? Does that help or hinder retention? Hinders? Then put a fucking stop to it. Again, don’t waste my tax dollars sending emails and having meetings, do something relevant like discipline the bullies.