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From the Daily Caller: The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up parents’ challenge to a school district policy that secretly encourages gender transitions.
Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas would have granted the petition, according to the order.
“This case presents a question of great and growing national importance: whether a public school district violates parents’ ‘fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of’ their children…when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender or assists in that process,” Alito wrote in a dissent joined by Thomas. “We are told that more than 1,000 districts have adopted such policies.”
More details from USA Today:
A group of Wisconsin parents argued challenges to gender identify support policies are being dismissed by judges across the country before they can be fully litigated because parents can’t show they’ve been affected.
But the policies usurp parental authority even before they’ve been applied to a particular student, the parents argue. And parents may not always know if a gender identify support plan is being used on their child.
Alito, in a statement explaining why he and Thomas wanted to hear the case, echoed the parents’ concerns. And he said lower courts may be trying to avoid taking on “some particularly contentious constitutional questions” like this one, which he said is of “great and growing national importance.”
By denying review, Supreme Court lets Boston get away with unconstitutional racial balancing in its “exam schools.” Alito, joined by Thomas, issues 5-page dissent. Gorsuch also expresses concerns. See today’s order list beginning at p. 9. https://t.co/FYnBuVLdAs
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) December 9, 2024
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