Supreme Court won't stop school district from hiding gender transition from parents

 By Michael Gryboski - Posted at The Christian Post:

Published December 9, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow a Wisconsin school district policy requiring teachers to hide the preferred gender identity of a trans-identified student from their parents to remain in effect.

In an orders list released Monday morning, the high court declined without comment to hear oral arguments in the case of Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District.

The denial of appeal allows for a lower court decision in favor of the school district to remain in place that ruled that the parents' group lacked standing, thus upholding a guidance on "gender identity support" for students to be implemented.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, along with Justice Clarence Thomas, dissented against the denial of certiorari in comments included in the orders list, arguing that the relevant topics of the case warranted review.

"This case presents a question of great and growing national importance: 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," wrote Alito.

"I am concerned that some federal courts are succumbing to the temptation to use the doctrine of Article III standing as a way of avoiding some particularly contentious constitutional questions."

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See also:

• Supreme Court lets school district keep parents in the dark about trans grooming in major blow to parental rights (United States Parents Involved in Education)