Parents, not bureaucrats, raise America’s children and the Supreme Court agrees

Parental rights strengthened as Supreme Court determines schools must obtain parental consent before facilitating student social gender transitions under constitutional protections.

Ian Prior is Senior Counsel at America First Legal and the author of Parents of the World Unite. He previously served as Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

SCOTUS also made clear that California’s policy requiring schools to keep a student’s "gender identity" secret from parents likely violated their well-established "rights to direct the upbringing and education of their children" and that the denial of these rights "constitutes irreparable harm." 

The importance of this decision for parents cannot be overstated. Schools across America must now request parental consent before facilitating a child’s social transition to a different sex. In other words, if a student wants to be addressed at school by pronouns of the opposite sex or use the bathroom or locker room of the opposite sex, the school must get parental consent. Schools can no longer hide or abet the facilitation of a student’s gender transition from parents and pretend it is lawful.