Supreme Court Declines Parents’ Challenge to Wisconsin Transgender School Policy

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Supreme Court Declines Parents’ Challenge to Wisconsin Transgender School Policy

The Supreme Court turned away a challenge on Dec. 9 to a Wisconsin school district’s policy of allowing students to undergo gender identity transitions without informing parents.

The decision to deny the petition came in the form of an unsigned order in Parents Protecting Our Children v. Eau Claire Area School District. The members of the unincorporated group challenging the policy are parents of children enrolled in the school district.

Three justices voted to hear the case, but four votes are needed under court rules to schedule oral arguments.

The new ruling was issued after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Dec. 4 in United States v. Skrmetti, which is the federal government’s challenge to a Tennessee law that bans puberty blockers and medical treatments for minors who identify as transgender.

Twenty-six states have enacted laws banning transgender treatments on minors. Some also require that school sport participation be based on biological sex, require gender-specific bathrooms, and prohibit children’s attendance at drag shows. Other states have passed laws protecting gender treatments for minors.

A federal district court threw out the Wisconsin case in February 2023, ruling that Parents Protecting Our Children lacked legal standing to challenge the policy. In March 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed.

In its June 5 petition, the parents group said that the school district, “like over a thousand other school districts across the country, has adopted a policy to facilitate gender identity transitions at school and to keep this hidden from parents who would disagree that it is in their child’s best interest to change gender identity.”

“The District even trained all of its staff that ‘parents are not entitled to know their kids’ identities. That knowledge must be earned,’” the group stated.

The petition said the Supreme Court found in Troxel v. Granville (2000) that parents possess a “fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of [their] own [children].”

By Matthew Vadum

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