From Mead v. Rockford Public School Dist., decided today by Judge Paul Maloney (W.D. Mich.):
Plaintiffs Dan and Jennifer Mead have a daughter, G.M., who attended a middle school in the Rockford Public School district. G.M. asked the school to refer to her using a masculine name and pronouns. The school followed G.M.'s request but did not inform G.M.'s parents of her request. Plaintiffs ultimately discovered the situation. Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit alleging that the school violated their constitutional rights by actively concealing from them information about their daughter….
The court allowed plaintiffs' Fourteenth Amendment parental rights claim to go forward:
