Supreme Court refuses to hear case from parents who objected to school's transgender support plans in DC suburbs

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review an appeal from a group of parents who claimed their suburban Washington-area school district was hiding transgender support plans involving their children.

Three parents sued the Montgomery Country school district in Maryland over guidelines adopted in 2020 that allow schools to develop support plans for transgender students and “respect the students’ wishes to keep certain information confidential.”

The Supreme Court’s decision, made without explanation, left in place an appeals court ruling that the parents lacked standing to sue because they never established the plans were put in place for their children. It’s the latest in a series of cases where the high court has dodged the issue of transgender rights at school – often leaving in place lower court rulings that sided with trans students.

“This case presents an issue on the merits that is roiling parents and school districts from Maine to California,” the parents who sued over the policy told the justices in their appeal last year. “It is important for parents, their children, and public schools alike to have this issue addressed and resolved now.”

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By John Fritze, CNN
2 minute read
Published 9:44 AM EDT, Mon May 20, 2024


Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/politics/supreme-court-transgender-montgomery-county-maryland/index.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Thanks. Adding a link.

Must parents be told of child's gender transition? Supreme Court rejects case
A lower court had ruled the parents couldn't sue because they hadn't shown they'd been harmed by the policy.

Maureen Groppe
USA TODAY
Published 9:42 a.m. ET May 20, 2024 | Updated 12:56 p.m. ET May 20, 2024

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday declined to weigh in on a school policy of not disclosing a student’s gender identity to parents if there are worries parents would not be supportive.

The court rejected an appeal from three parents who challenged a gender support plan adopted in Maryland’s largest school district in 2020.

That move by the court left in place a decision from the Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the parents couldn’t sue the Montgomery County Public School system because they hadn’t shown they’d been harmed by the policy.

None of the parents said their children were transgender, struggling with gender identity or likely to question their biological gender.

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[littlemissmartypants]

2. This...

None of the parents said their children were transgender, struggling with gender identity or likely to question their biological gender. ...snip...The parents, who brought the challenge under pseudonyms, said the whole point of the school’s nondisclosure policy is parents may never know what’s being kept from them.

But possibly all of the "parents" are certified jerks trying to intervene and violate the privacy of kids they have nothing to do with and may not even know.

If they did they are such deceitful and sneaky ass holes that they don't deserve to be trusted with a school locker combination much less anything else.

These pseudoparents certainly shouldn't be privy to any details that help ensure personal safety to this group of unnecessarily targeted vulnerable persons who are entitled by law to certain unalienable rights.

Thanks mahatmakanejeeves for adding context.

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[SouthBayDem]

3. Really saying something when a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS turned down the case nt