Lawsuit Can Proceed Against School District that Socially Transitioned Child and Hid It From Parents

Hotair ^ | 09/19/2025 | John Sexton

[SeekAndFind]

Back in December of 2023, Dan and Jennifer Mead announced they were suing the Rockford Public School District in Michigan. The school their daughter attended had been socially transitioning her without informing them.

The Meads' biologically female child had attended Rockford Public Schools, a district operating 20 schools in Rockford just north of Grand Rapids, since kindergarten, but after beginning sixth grade at East Rockford Middle School in fall of 2020, the child began meeting with the school counselor regarding a dip in their academic performance.

Over the next two years, the child continued regularly meeting with the school counselor, branching into other topics stressing the child's mental health. Throughout their meetings, the school counselor maintained open communication with the Meads concerning their child's mental state, leading the Meads to develop significant trust in the counselor and the school.

In May 2022, toward the end of their child's seventh-grade year, the Meads' then 13-year-old messaged the school counselor, asking to notify teachers of their switch to he/him pronouns and a masculine name. When the child started eighth grade in the fall, the school employees began calling the child by their preferred name and pronouns — without the Meads' consent or knowledge.

The school had been lying to them and the Meads only discovered it by accident. Her mother described how this happened at a hearing held earlier this month. Mrs. Mead said it was like her daughter was emerging from a cult.

“She was led to believe that she was broken, and she is NOT.”

At this week’s Religious Liberty Commission hearing, @ADFLegal client Jennifer Mead described her daughter’s secret “transition” at school.

Nothing motivates me more than standing with parents to protect their kids. pic.twitter.com/rEso7tdfnP— Kristen Waggoner (@KristenWaggoner) September 12, 2025

So the Meads sued the district and the district responded by asking that the case be dismissed. Yesterday a court issued a mixed decision, dismissing one part of the lawsuit but upholding the claim that the district had interfered with their parental rights, not only by not informing them but by carrying out a social transition without them.

Plaintiffs also allege that the District’s actions amount to medical health treatment.  They plead that the District engaged G.M. in a “psychosocial intervention for gender dysphoria.” Viewing the complaint in a light most favorable to the Meads, Rockford’s “psychosocial intervention for [G.M.’s] gender dysphoria” can be seen when Ms. Slater engaged in a confidential evaluation on G.M.: “Ms. Slater’s file on G.M. closed on November 14, 2022, with a handwritten note labeled ‘Confidential File’ at the top memorializing that ‘[e]vaul. Was not completed due to parent withdrew student to be homeschooled.’”...Plaintiffs plead this “intervention” began when school officials referred to G.M. by a masculine name and male pronouns for G.M.’s social and gender transition. Gender dysphoria, they assert “is complex” and proper “diagnosis very commonly suffer[s] from other clinical mental health conditions, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder,” three disorders G.M. allegedly suffers from.  The District’s policy and practice allowed school officials to deceive the child’s parents, which undermined their ability to choose appropriate medical treatment for their child (a third-party therapist or psychologist).  The District’s policy and practice “undermines a meaningful role for parents if the child decides his or her biological gender is not preferential.”

The court finds that Plaintiffs have plausibly alleged that the District’s conduct infringed upon a fundamental right. Consequently, the court conducts a strict scrutiny analysis.  When the level of scrutiny is strict, the government carries the burden of proving that its action was justified. Specifically, the government must show that “its course was justified by a compelling state interest and was narrowly tailored in pursuit of that interest.”

Defendants contend they have a compelling interest in “ensuring the safety of its students.” That interest, however, does not give school districts carte blanche to tell a child’s parents nothing about their child’s gender transition.  Defendants do not suggest that G.M. faced harm from her parents if the District were to have informed the parents about G.M.’s request.  Defendants have not met their burden to show how concealing a child’s gender transition from its parents promotes that child’s safety.

Of course there's no telling what will happen next with this case, but the argument outlined here, that social transitioning while not informing parents violates parental rights under the 14th Amendment, certainly sounds like something a majority of the current Supreme Court would agree with. And if it ultimately does, that's going to put an end to policies like this one in Michigan and the statewide police in California.

In the meantime, I hope this decision encourages parents in other jurisdictions to sue school districts who do this on the basis of some policy or law. Ultimately, I think these districts are going to lose these fights in the courts and wind up paying these parents a substantial amount of money.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The “teachers” and school officials need a little time in the Iron Bar Hotel.

[ransomnote]

I am moved by the suffering of young people who were conned into believing they would no longer struggle with depression or other challenges if they transitioned to 'become' the opposite sex.

The surgeries some are pressured into getting are mutilating and often experimental, with a huge rate of serious complications. Double mastectomies for 15 year old girls transitioning often have puzzling degrees of scarring and necrosis when this surgery has been around for decades (e.g., nipple tissue dies, becomes infected and sometimes simply rots away). Their doctors, who said they were 'excited' for these young transitioners and acted like their friend or guardian, ignore them once surgical complications set in and refuse to take their calls.

After watching videos like this, I believe these people don't realize they have been preyed upon by butchers; there's an air of disbelief and guilt in many victims which hasn't made it's way to legitimate patient/consumer rage at the scale of betrayal.

Below is an image from a video featuring a de-transitioning man (pushed to be female as a minor, deep regret in late 20's, detransitioning back to male).

To see and hear how well his appearance, mannerisms and voice pass for female, click this YOUTUBE video link (video starts playing in the middle of his comments).

It's quite painful to see his heartbreak over paths he was conned into taking as a minor by evil adults. Older trans people 'warned' him not to wait because would look more masculine like they do (would not pass for female).

Now that his confusion is gone, he knows he is a man,  and yet he looks/sounds female.  The reason he passes as female (as do trans among the elites), and cannot expect to pass as male after he stops taking the hormones, is that they conned him into taking hormones before he matured. He transitioned behind his parent's backs and accepts responsibility for that. He asks when the trans community will accept their responsibility for misleading people like him.

He regrets he never experienced being a man before the chance to live as a man was taken away forever.

This is WHY predators urge minors to take hormones/surgery young, before it's 'too late'. They pass very well and are basically trapped if/when they try to detrans.

[Celtic Conservative]

I’m somewhat suprised. That side of the state tends to be more religious and conservative. A mix of Dutch reformed, German Lutheran and Irish Catholic.

CC

[rxh4n1]

“The “teachers” and school officials need a little time in the Iron Bar Hotel.”

Are they personally liable? If not, it’s the taxpayers that get hosed and the law should be amended to make them personally liable. It would end this for good.

[thecodont]

This is pure evil.

[Fire137]

I highly recommend everyone to read the book Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier. She has done numerous interviews you can find on youtube. Its an excellent read

[cnsmom]

These perverts are organized with teachers planted in schools that recommend new hires from the network. They demand mis labeling bathrooms then stock the library. It is a movement and the changes are slow.They ban and replace. They wear parents down so by middle school they can start drugging the students. They ban certain cartoon images and encourage others it is a long process And they target a family profile. This has been building in the schools for over 30 years. Teach for America recruits and the Peace Corps. Every parent needs to investigate schools looking for clues before sending a child.

[piasa]

ANY teacher or school official that went along with calling a child by “preferred pronouns” that differ from reality needs to be fired and barred from working with children for life.

If you don’t have the courage to stand up for common sense on behalf of kids you cannot be trusted at all.

[SunkenCiv]

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