A coalition of 22 state attorneys general has joined in one of multiple amicus briefs filed in support of two Florida parents who sued a Florida school district for holding secret meetings with their daughter on gender transitioning.
The attorneys general are asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Florida to reverse the Northern District Court of Florida’s dismissal of the parents’ claim in December 2022.
The judge who dismissed the case is Judge Mark Walker, appointed by former President Barack Obama.
“When a student considers transitioning gender, parents have a fundamental, constitutional right to be involved in that decision-making process,” the attorneys general wrote in the brief (pdf), filed on May 30. “Yet school districts across the country, strong-armed by ideologically driven advocacy groups, have shut parents out of the process and trampled on their fundamental rights.”…