A group of Pennsylvania parents has won in court, accusing a public school district of violating civil rights when teaching elementary school students about gender reassignment and gender dysphoria.
According to National Review, A Pennsylvania state court has ruled in favor of three mothers who filed a lawsuit against the Mount Lebanon School District in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
In the lawsuit, Carmilla Teitel, Gretchen Melton and Stacey Dunn name the school district, the school board and the first-grade teacher.
Parents claim the teacher read a book to 6- and 7-year-old students that discussed gender reassignment and played a video called “Jacob's New Dress'' during class that touched on issues such as “gender nonconformity.'' did.
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Three parents filed a lawsuit against the school after it refused to deny their children gender-related classes. (St. Petersburg)
Teacher Megan Williams also said, “I explained to the students that sometimes parents are wrong when taking their child home from the hospital, and that parents and doctors also sometimes make mistakes.'' It is being
Joy Flowers Conti, a senior judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, ruled last week that the school violated parents' constitutional rights by refusing to deny their children certain classes. I put it down.
“For a teacher to instruct a first-grader to read a book that shows parents that their beliefs about their child's gender identity may be wrong is a direct denial of parental rights,” Conti wrote in the opinion. I wrote it in
“Williams' actions shocked the plaintiffs' own families to the core of their relationships with their own young children. The books they read and the instruction Williams gave to first graders emphasized that gender is determined by the child. , she continued, “taught me that my parents' beliefs were not determined by rules, nor by God or biological reality.''
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Transgender policy is a point of contention between those who think parents should have more control over their children's education and those who think LGBT students should be given the power to decide what to tell their parents and what not. It becomes. (Adobe Stock)
Conti added that Williams' actions showed “intolerance and contempt” for his parents' moral and religious beliefs. She also said elementary schools were violating parents' fundamental right to “control the upbringing of their young children.”
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The Mount Lebanon School District and Williams did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.
