A district school in the United States, East Rockford Middle School, is being sued by two Christian parents, Dan and Jennifer Dean, for allegedly transitioning their daughter socially without their consent and hiding it from them.
Last week, the couple filed a federal lawsuit that employees at the school were referring to their daughter as a boy and treating her as such. She was also given a male name after she reportedly informed a school counselor that she identified as a male in 2022.
The parents also alleged that the records of their daughter in the school were changed before they were sent home and they got to know about it because one of the records was not changed.
The lawsuit, which was made available to The Christian Post read, “The Meads were stunned when they discovered that the District had — without seeking their consent and while actively concealing information from them — begun to treat their daughter as a boy, referring to her with male pronouns and a masculine name at school.
Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) are representing the parents. According to their lawsuit, the school violated the parents "sincerely held religious beliefs and parental rights" with their action.
In court documents, the daughter was referred to as ‘G.M’ and it was reported that she was having academic challenge in 2020 and decided to see her school’s counselor who was identified as Erin Cole in the lawsuit. The counselor started the gender transition for G.M and also employees of the school followed.
It added that she was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and major depressive disorder in 2022. Afterwards, the girl's social transition happened.
Speaking on the incident, ADF’s senior counsel, Kate Anderson said in a statement that the district's "constitutional violations destroyed their trust in the counselors, administrators, and other District employees with whom they had shared intimate details about G.M.'s and their lives.
"Parents, not the government, have the right to direct the upbringing, education, and health care of their children. Schools should never deliberately hide vital information from parents, yet that's exactly what the Rockford Public School District did."
In his reaction, the school’s Superintendent, Steven Matthews told The Christian Post: "In my opinion, we have an obligation to continue to protect the privacy of this family and their child. As such we will not comment on the case nor try the case in the media. We will respectfully decline to comment and let the legal process run its course."
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