Michigan: Christian Parents File Lawsuit After School Uses Masculine Pronouns for 13-Year Old Autistic Daughter Without Informing Them

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Two parents have filed suit against the Rockford Public School District in Michigan after teachers at their 13 year-old autistic daughter’s teachers began using her stated preferred masculine name and pronouns without telling them, the Hill reports.

In their lawsuit, devout Christians Dan and Jennifer Mead claim that their constitutional 1st and 14th Amendment rights were violated when their daughter’s school began to “socially transition” her without discussing the matter with them at all, the Hill reports.

The Meads’ child had asked the school to use him/his pronouns and a new masculine first name in May 2022; the parents did not find out until October 2022, when a teacher accidentally let it slip in a written communication, the Hill reports. The Meads immediately removed the child from school and filed suit.

“No one with the school district told them that the school district had begun to treat her as a boy by calling her a masculine name and by male pronouns,” Vincent Wagner, an attorney for the parents, told Nexstar’s WOOD-TV.

“They weren’t able to help her in a difficult time in her life,” Wagner said. “So it prevented them from helping her and that denied them their constitutional rights. Schools shouldn’t keep information like that from parents.”

As Dan Mead has had to leave his job in order to home school his child, the lawsuit claims both nominal and compensatory damages, and attorney fees, the Hill reports.

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