Another day, another government school district deceiving parents and keeping secrets about their children’s mental health issues.
The Hoonah City School District (HCSD) in Hoonah, Alaska, is facing a federal investigation for such a policy.
America First Legal (AFL) alleges that HCSD is violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act with its “gender identity” policy.
AFL has asked the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the school district. An excerpt:
Under HCSD’s policy, when school staff contacts parents, they are told to use the child’s legal name and birth gender, even if the child is going by a different name and pronouns at school. In practice, this policy requires school staff to present one identity to parents while facilitating another at school, effectively directing them to deceive parents about their own children.
Parents have the right to know what is going on with their own children. It is not optional.
In the complaint, AFL cited the case Mirabelli v. Bonta (2026), in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parents who sought religious exemptions from a “gender” secret-keeping policy likely would succeed on the merits.
“Parents are the first line of defense for their children,” said Ian Prior, senior counsel at America First Legal. “Hoonah City School District’s nonsensical ‘gender identity’ policies strip parents of their rights, applaud deception, and brazenly violate federal law. The Trump Administration should step in, halt HCSD’s policies, and restore parents as the primary decision-makers for their children.”
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