An Arizona school district for 55,000 children used a ‘parental concealment cheat sheet’ to track the names and pronouns of 17 trans students and keep ‘unsupportive’ parents in the dark, court papers show.
Emily Wulff, a counselor at Kino Junior High, in Mesa, created the spreadsheet to record whether parents knew about a child’s decision to change gender at school, and to keep it a secret from them, it is claimed.
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It’s the latest in a series of lawsuits aimed at the teachers, schools, and therapists who help and in some cases encourage kids who identify as anything other than their biological sex.
‘Mesa Public Schools Superintendent Andi Fourlis has consistently denied that school district employees are helping to gender-transition students without their parents’ knowledge,’ said James Rogers, the lawyer who leads the case.
‘The evidence strongly suggests otherwise.’
Neither the school district nor Wulff answered our requests for comment.
The 79-page lawsuit, backed by the conservative America First Legal (AFL) group, includes emails from Wulff and a redacted copy of the spreadsheet, titled ‘Pronoun Preference,’ for 17 students aged between 12 and 15.
It lists their names, preferred names, and such pronouns as ‘they/them’ and ‘fluid.’ It lists whether parents and family members were ‘aware’ of the transition, and if they were ‘supportive’ of it.
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AFL, a legal group founded by ex-Trump administration officials, filed the case at Maricopa County Superior Court last year, but amended it this week with documents and emails obtained in public records requests.
The case was filed on behalf of Rachel Walden, a member of MPS’ governing board, and against the school district and Superintendent Fourlis for secret trans policies at schools across the Phoenix suburbs.
Under MPS policy, which dates back to 2015, teachers can discuss gender and identity with students — and which bathrooms and locker rooms to use — without declaring any changes to their families.
The updated case describes the mom of a girl at an MPS school who was in late 2022 experiencing confusion about her gender — they’re referred to as Jane and Megan Doe in papers to protect their identities.
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Teachers and the school principal refused to answer Jane’s questions about the child’s gender-swap, citing MPS policy, it is claimed.
Still, after the revelation, Jane and Meghan started discussing her issues and went to counselling.
Within weeks, she had dropped the ‘Michael’ pseudonym and her issues were ‘completely resolved,’ the papers say.
‘If MPS employees had immediately contacted Jane — as required by law — she could have had those important discussions with her mother and her mental health counselor sooner,’ the papers state.
That would have ‘avoided many months of needless suffering,’ they add.
The lawsuit does not seek damages, but for MPS to change its policies and ‘ensure that parents’ rights are respected and students are protected.’
‘No parent should have to go through what Jane and Megan Doe did,’ said lawyer Rogers.
‘AFL is helping to shine a spotlight on transgender policies that MPS has worked hard to hide from the public.’
Whether or not children are mature enough to make decisions about gender transitions is a hot button issue in America’s culture wars.
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Parents, teachers, and medical experts have a duty to affirm them, by using preferred pronouns, changing how they dress, and even by getting access to cross-sex-hormones and surgery, they say.
But critics warn of growing numbers of young people getting radicalized by peers and online trans influencers into making medical decisions they could later regret.
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