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Michigan parents have filed a lawsuit against a public school district, alleging that district employees began socially transitioning their daughter in secret without their consent.<\/p>\n
According to CBN News<\/a>, parents Dan and Jennifer Mead have sued Michigan\u2019s Rockford Public School District.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile we were working with the school closely to address [our daughter\u2019s] academic needs in regards to her autism, it came to our attention that the school was actively deceiving and hiding from us the fact that they were transitioning our daughter from being a girl to a boy, using a boy\u2019s name and pronouns,\u201d Dan Mead told the outlet in a recent interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n The couple shared that they first became aware of alleged social transitional after they received paperwork in which they said a school employee had \u201cinadvertently forgotten to change one of those male names and pronouns.\u201d<\/p>\n While Jennifer thought it was a mistake, such as the name belonging to another child, she said that the school never responded to her email when asking about the situation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe started to kind of dig a little bit more and say, \u2018Well, why would they not respond to an email over important information like this?\u201d she said. \u201cSo, once we found out what was really happening, clearly I was just in shock [and] disbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, Dan and his wife discovered an \u201cvery explicit\u201d book in her daughter\u2019s bookbag that reportedly came from the school counselor. He noted that the school included a story about a \u201chomosexual boy trying to kind of coerce the boy into a relationship with him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a meeting with the school principal,\u201d Dan explained. \u201cHe said to us, \u2018Look, you have to understand this is the school policy. We\u2019re mandated to do this. The desires of the children outweigh those of the parents, and there\u2019s not a whole lot we can do in that regard.’\u201d<\/p>\n Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Kate Anderson, who is representing the Meads, shared that policies regarding districts not informing parents about changes in student pronouns have become \u201cvery pervasive\u201d in several areas across the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have situations where they\u2019re actively hiding that information from parents like they were with the Meads,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cThey were actually erasing the male name and male pronouns on documents and replacing it with their daughter\u2019s real name and her female pronouns.\u201d<\/p>\n She argued that this is a violation of the U.S. Constitution because parents \u201chave the right to direct the upbringing and education of their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA school should never hide information from parents,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Despite what the Meads’ daughter went through, the couple shared that she is \u201cno longer confused\u201d and is feeling better after dealing with a period of anxiety and depression in light of what she was facing with the school.<\/p>\n \u201cShe is thriving, her grades are up, she is happy,\u201d Jennifer said. \u201cShe\u2019s like a different child now, and it\u2019s wonderful that we\u2019ve got her back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow many other parents have done this before us?\u201d Dan asked. [H]ow many are going to come after us? And if I ever had to look at another father or mother who went through this and say, \u2018Oh yeah, that happened to us, too, but we didn\u2019t do anything about it,\u2019 I don\u2019t know how I could handle that.\u201d<\/p>\n Dan added that he and his wife want to \u201cmake this right\u201d and prevent other parents and children from facing the same thing.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t get to lie to the parents about anything,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t get to withhold information, change documents \u2014 none of that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Anderson, the lawsuit was filed prior to Christmas and is still early on in the process. The Meads have asked<\/a> the court to consider the incident as a violation of the family\u2019s First and Fourteenth Amendment and are seeking damages regarding the cost of removing their daughter out of the school.<\/p>\n Image credit: \u00a9Getty Images\/TW Farlow<\/em><\/p>\n Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributing writer for Christian Headlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast devoted to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n