American mother/advocate for safety and health and awareness on the "trans" agenda in schools.. and parents rights and the role in their children's development and well-being...January Littlejohn on Twitter: "Parents are being painted as enemies to their own children. Please help me stop the social transitioning of children without parental consent in schools. I do not want one more family to go through what we have. Please support our fight and stand with us. #defendparentalrights…" / Twitter
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"In the spring of 2020, our 13-year-old daughter became confused about her sex after three of her friends at school had started suddenly identifying as transgender. She had no previous history of sex confusion or symptoms of gender dysphoria. We sought help from a mental health professional because she was also experiencing anxiety and difficulty focusing due to her diagnosed ADHD. In August, prior to school starting, we notified one of her teachers that she was experiencing distress, that we enlisted the help of a mental health counselor, and that we were not affirming at home and that I felt her confusion was directly related to her friend group.
A couple of weeks after school had started in early September, I picked her up at the end of the school day as I always do. Upon getting in the car, my daughter told me that she had a meeting at school, that was held behind closed doors, where they asked her which restroom she wanted to use.
I immediately contacted the school and was told by the guidance counselor and vice principal that I could not be given any information regarding the meeting and that “by law” my daughter had to be the one to authorize my notification of the meeting or attendance to the meeting. In other words, school officials asked my 13-year-old daughter her permission as to whether or not my parental rights would be honored.
After many weeks of going back and forth with the school district, we learned the middle school had created a “Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Support Plan” with our 13-year-old daughter without our knowledge or consent.
This transgender support plan was a 6-page document completed with our daughter behind closed doors with three school officials that included the guidance counselor, vice principal and a social worker I had never met. The school took away my ability to protect her when they asked her questions that could have significantly impacted her safety and mental health, such as which restroom she preferred to use and which sex she preferred to room with on overnight field trips. The plan also directed school staff to use my daughter’s birth name when speaking to us, and to use a different name in school. This plan directed school staff to conceal from us that the meeting had ever take place.
When parents are excluded from decisions affecting their child’s health and wellbeing at school, it sends the message to children that their parents' input and authority are no longer important. This created a huge wedge between our daughter and us because it sent the message that she needed to be protected from us, not by us. Teachers told my daughter how brave she was where weeks prior she wasn’t. This is not a benign or neutral intervention schools are taking. The completion of gender support plans and treating a child as a gender other than their birth sex is actually a medical psychosocial intervention called social transitioning. By only affirming students’ false transgender identities and excluding families, many co-occurring mental health issues are going unchecked and unresolved.
Discussing gender identity issues with students without parents, can lead to significant decisions that will impact their emotional, mental and physical health and wellbeing. Social transitioning is the first step toward medical transitioning, which can lead to puberty blockers and cross sex hormones that can lead to bone density loss, impact brain development and cause sterility. Schools are grossly unqualified to be making these mental health decisions without parental involvement. We have since discovered that many other school districts in Florida and across our country had similar policies in place that concealed social transitioning minor children from their parents.
No family should ever have to go through the nightmare we have experienced, or what our daughter has endured. Parents know and love their children better than anyone. Experts agree that parental involvement in a child’s education is considered to be the most important factor in student success. For the safety of our children, these parental rights violations must stop and schools must be held accountable when they violate our constitutionally protected fundamental right to direct the care, upbringing and education of our children, which includes mental health and medical decisions. This is why we made the difficult decision to file a federal lawsuit against the Leon County School District in October of 2021.
In December of 2022, the judge granted Leon County's School District's motion to dismiss our case. We are disappointed and disagree in the strongest terms with the district court's dismissive treatment of constitutionally protected parental rights in this decision. We will be filing an appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. We are optimistic that the Court of Appeals will overturn the ruling, particularly in light of the 11th Circuit's en banc decision in Adams v. School Board of St John's County. If this ruling stands, this sends a shocking message to all parents. If schools can perform a medical psychosocial intervention with your minor child without your knowledge or consent that doesn't meet the legal threshold to hold school districts accountable, what else can school districts do with your children that ALSO does not meet this threshold?
The appeals process could take a very long time and this lawsuit has been both financially and emotionally draining. We are committed to not only fighting for our rights, but all parental rights. Parents must be involved in critical decisions and events occurring at schools, including when children becomes confused over their sex. Often times, these children have co-occurring mental health issues that parents need and deserve to know about so they can get their child the help they need.
Schools are still trying to hide this information from parents not just in Florida, but all over our country. We are seeing an explosion of young girls suddenly becoming confused over their sex and assuming false transgender identities as a result. Hiding this information from parents is not in the child's best interest or the parent/child relationship. Please join us in standing up for parental rights in public schools. All donations will go directly to our attorneys, The Child and Parental Rights Campaign, for our appeal and legal fees. Thank you for your support and God bless!"
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DetransAwareness is now growing... thank God!
