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US Supreme Court rejects Massachusetts school gender-identity policy challenge
The decision leaves intact lower-court rulings that schools may follow a student’s requested name and pronouns without violating parental rights, lawyers said.
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal challenging a Massachusetts school policy that allows discretion over disclosing a student's chosen name and pronouns to parents, leaving the lower court ruling in place.
- A Massachusetts appeals court ruled that honoring a student's request to use a different name and pronouns at school without informing their parents does not violate parental rights under the Constitution.
- The student involved identified as genderqueer and requested teachers use a different name and pronouns at school without disclosing this to their parents.
- On the same day, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a separate case concerning religious schools and LGBTQ+ rights, highlighting ongoing court engagement in education-related LGBTQ+ issues.
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Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Case Over Hiding Student’s Gender Identity - The Thinking Conservative News
Supreme Court declined a case over a Massachusetts schoolgirl whose parents say officials concealed her alleged male identity from them. The post Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Case Over Hiding Student’s Gender Identity appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Case Over Hiding Student’s Gender Identity
Supreme Court justices on April 20 declined to take up a case involving a Massachusetts schoolgirl whose parents say officials wrongly hid their daughter’s purported identity as a male from them. At least six of the nine justices declined to accept a petition to rehear a lower court verdict in the case, which was brought by the girl’s parents in 2022 against the Ludlow, Massachusetts, school district. The vote count on the petition and how each …
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by parents to sue a public school district in Massachusetts over actions by teachers and officials to support the gender identity of students by not disclosing name or pronoun changes to parents without the child's consent.
Supreme Court stays out of parental rights case
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal from Massachusetts parents who contended the Constitution requires school employees to get their consent to encourage their child’s pronoun and name change in the classroom.
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