A lawsuit claims a Michigan school district began treating a middle-school daughter as a boy for more than six months without their knowledge or consent.
The lawsuit, filed this week by Dan and Jennifer Mead, claims Rockford Public School District employees secretly treated their 13-year-old daughter as a boy, referring to her by a new masculine name and male pronouns and tried to conceal these actions from the parents.
The complaint, filed with aid from the nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom, claims that the district violated the Meads’ fundamental parental rights found in the U.S. Constitution to protect their right as parents to make decisions about the upbringing, education, and health care of their children.