{"id":25610,"date":"2025-03-07T18:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25610"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T02:54:01","slug":"federal-court-rules-parental-rights-are-not-unlimited-schools-can-hide-childrens-gender-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/federal-court-rules-parental-rights-are-not-unlimited-schools-can-hide-childrens-gender-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Rules \u2018Parental Rights Are Not Unlimited,\u2019 Schools Can Hide Children\u2019s Gender Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. appellate court system has largely avoided debating the contentious issue of parental rights as it relates to children\u2019s gender transition efforts in schools \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous decision published late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First District\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca1.uscourts.gov\/sites\/ca1\/files\/opnfiles\/23-1069P-01A.pdf\">issued a ruling<\/a>\u00a0in Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, a case centered on a Massachusetts middle school facilitating a student\u2019s social gender transition while keeping the transition a secret from the student\u2019s parents. Addressing the merits, the court dismissed the case, writing that \u201cparental rights are not unlimited. Parents may not invoke the Due Process Clause to create a preferred educational experience for their child in public school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/news\/federal-court-rules-parental-rights-are-not-unlimited-schools-can-hide-childrens-gender-transitions\">washingtonstand.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. appellate court system has largely avoided debating the contentious issue of parental rights as it relates to children\u2019s gender transition efforts in schools \u2014 until now. In a unanimous decision published late last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First District\u00a0issued a ruling\u00a0in Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, a case centered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/federal-court-rules-parental-rights-are-not-unlimited-schools-can-hide-childrens-gender-transitions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal Court Rules \u2018Parental Rights Are Not Unlimited,\u2019 Schools Can Hide Children\u2019s Gender Transitions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6F4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25611,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25610\/revisions\/25611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}