United States: Three mothers from Pennsylvania have filed a legal action alleging their first-grade children were taught about transgender in violation of school district policy and state law.
Carmilla Tatel, Stacy Dunn, and Gretchen Melton seek a court order to prevent Jefferson Elementary School in the Mount Lebanon School District in Pennsylvania from stopping gender-related instruction or allowing parents to take children out of the lessons.
Moreover, the school district’s superintendent, board, principal, and first-grade teacher Megan Williams are also named in the suit.
The mothers claim that Ms Williams ignored their parental rights by providing classroom instruction on gender dysphoria and transgender transition.
They are looking for damages from a federal jury trial.
In the case, the parents claim that Ms Williams “Began the process of interjecting her own personal life and views into the classroom, explaining that her child had worn an ‘Elsa dress’ for Halloween”.
Along with this, they claim that being the mother of a transgender child the same age as their children did not give Ms Williams the right to “Impose those views on a captive audience of six- and seven-year-old children.”
According to the sources, spokeswoman Kristen James rejected the claims made in the lawsuit.
Ms James mentioned in the statement, “The complaint filed against the district, its board and employees contains various allegations that are untrue or based on partial truths that mischaracterise events for sensational effect.”
