Many school districts across the nation are “transitioning” children without their parents’ knowledge or consent. Should the Supreme Court step in to stop them?

From Fox News. A coalition of 17 state attorneys general are asking the Supreme Court to recognize parental rights in a case involving a Maryland school district’s transgender policies.

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West Virginia is leading the coalition challenging a case involving parents fighting an appeals court ruling that found they did not have the right to sue Montgomery County Public Schools over a policy that allows teachers and administrators to transition children without their parents’ knowledge or consent.

Plaintiffs in the case dubbed the guideline in question the “Parental Preclusion Policy,” which their lawyers with the National Legal Foundation argued was a violation of their rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. …

In August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit dismissed the case brought by three parents of students at Montgomery County Public Schools over the district’s “gender support plan” in a 2 to 1 ruling. …

The coalition wrote in their brief that “‘…the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by the Court’ [is] the right of parents to direct the care and custody of their children.” …

Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia joined the West Virginia-led brief.

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