Thousands of U.S. Public Schools Hide Their Child’s Gender Status from Parents

Nearly 6,000 U.S. public schools have a leadership policy that prevents parents from knowing if their child identifies as the other gender in the classroom — which could become federal policy if President Biden’s Title IX proposals are approved in May.

At least 168 school districts across the country have policies in place that prohibit faculty and staff from disclosing a student’s gender status to parents without the student’s permission. list compiled by the conservative group Parents Defending Education and shared with The Post.

These policies affect more than 3.2 million students in all areas—large and small, rich and poor, urban and rural, red and blue—from North Carolina to Alaska.

A partial list includes the two largest school districts in the country, Chicago Public Schools and Los Angeles Unified School District, as well as other city jurisdictions such as D.C. Public Schools, Baltimore Public Schools, San Francisco Unified School District, Portland Public Schools. and Seattle Public Schools.

Dark Blue Campus Areas – Berkeley and Palo Alto, California; New Haven, Connecticut; Iowa City, Iowa; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Hanover, New Hampshire; Durham, North Carolina; and Madison, Wisconsin are on the list, as are 11 counties in dark red Idaho, 16 in purple Pennsylvania, and seven in Virginia, where Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected in 2021 in part on a platform of giving parents more say in their education. children.

The list includes three school districts in New York – Buffalo City; Brighton, near Rochester; and Lake George in the Adirondacks. Nine of the counties on the list are located in New Jersey, including Fairview, Garfield, and Tenafly in Bergen County.

Nicole Neilly, president of Parents Defending Education, told The Post that the list “is just beginning to scratch the surface of what goes on behind closed doors in American schools.”

“This investigation shows that parental exclusion policies are a coast-to-coast problem — and that living in a red state does not mean families are automatically immune to the problem,” Neily said. “No doubt there are hundreds (if not thousands) of others with similar policies. We urge everyone to be on the lookout – and let us know if they find something similar in their backyard.”

“These rules are everywhere, and they are not always written down,” agrees Luke Berg of the Wisconsin Law and Freedom Institute. “I don’t have a list as complete as PDE, but given what I’ve heard from parents, I’d guess it’s even more common than the 6000 they’ve documented.”

“In our view,” Berg added, “all of these policies violate the constitutional rights of parents under the United States Constitution and possibly many state constitutions.”

Despite the legal controversy, in July 2022, the Biden administration proposed new Title IX rules that would allow employees of school districts across America to withhold gender information from parents, leading to a potential battle between the federal government and red states.

The policy has already sparked legal action in some counties where opponents come from across the political spectrum. Last November, a transgender clinical psychologist filed an amicus brief on behalf of a conservative legal group suing a school district in Montgomery County, Maryland, which covers some of the nation’s thinnest suburbs of the nation’s capital.

Psychologist, Dr. Erika Anderson, said in a summary that social transition at school during childhood “is an important and potentially life-changing decision that requires parental involvement for many reasons.”

“I don’t want to be erased as transgender, and I don’t want them to have their prerogatives or identity taken away from them,” she said. said New York Times in January, “but on this I agree with people who are ready to defend parents.”

Vernadette Broyles, who runs a conservative campaign for children’s and parental rights, has equally invested in the legal battle, pushing school districts And gender clinics so to stop a policy that keeps parents in the dark.

Such guidance, she said, violates the parental right to privacy enshrined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974, as well as the rights of parents enshrined in the 14th Amendment.

“Privacy rights belong to the parents over the child, not the child over their parents,” Broyles told the Washington Free Beacon last year, stating that school administrators and teachers are “intentionally confusing by driving a wedge between children and parents.” at a time when children need their parents the most.”

Broyles currently represents whistleblower Jamie Reid, a 42-year-old former curator at the Washington University Transgender Center in St. Louis. Reed told The Free Press in February that the gender clinic performed “morally and medically appalling” procedures on children, sometimes without informed parental consent.

The proportion of youth identifying as transgender has doubled, from 0.7% to 1.4%, since 2017. in accordance with reports from Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

The fight for so-called “parental rights” in school transgender issues made national headlines during Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign after a self-proclaimed “non-binary” teenager sexually abused two teenage girls in the bathrooms of a high school in posh Loudoun County.

During his first year in office, Youngkin, 56, set about reversing policies set by his Democratic predecessor Ralph Northam, including allowing students to use restrooms or play on sports teams that conflict with their biological sex.

“It’s not controversial,” Youngkin told CNN in October. “The previous administration had a policy that excluded parents and essentially did not require parental involvement. … ​If parents really want their child to be able to change their pronoun or their name or use the toilet, if the parents choose to do so, then, by law, that’s what schools will do.”

Youngkin’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

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