A Question.

Well, okay, a few questions. But the primary one is: What about the child’s rights? What about our rights?

Religious parents sue school district over staff using child’s chosen pronouns

A pair of religious parents have filed a lawsuit against a Maryland school district after teachers respected their child’s request to use a masculine name and pronouns at school without first informing them.

Pink News

Jul 14

By Siân Thompson

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday (8 July) in federal court against Anne Arundel County Public School District, seeks to force educators to stop using the student’s chosen name and pronouns, instead requiring staff to refer to the child by their birth name and the pronouns associated with their sex assigned at birth.

The parents, identified in court only as John and Jane Doe, are being represented by the conservative legal organisation America First Legal, which was founded in 2021 by Trump adviser Stephen Miller and has repeatedly challenged LGBTQ+ protections in courts across the US.

When are the courts going to say it is child abuse to force a child into a gender that is not their true gender?

Where do you draw the line... when they’re 10? What about 12? Where do you draw your arbitrary line? Because that is exactly what it is—just some age that has no bearing on whether they are trans or not.

Suppose your son wants to dress as Anna from Frozen? Would it be okay to beat him to "beat the gay" out of him?

Conversion therapy? Maybe a little "brain zapping" might make your child think straight?

Then, conversely, what happens if you say, "Yes, you can call yourself whatever you want... loving you is the most important thing"?

Suppose ten years or so down the line they decide it was not truly them, so they detransition... So what?

Do you belittle them—"What a horrible life you created for yourself!"—or do you reach out to them, hug them, and say, "We love you, and that is the most important thing"?

What are your family values? It's your choice.