The faculty and staff in the North Kingstown School District in Rhode Island should reinforce parents’ safeguarding rather than undermine it.
But they are keeping secrets from parents about children’s “gender confusion” — more likely peer pressure than genuine confusion. That’s why American First Legal (AFL) filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Education and the Department of Justice.
AFL said the school district “maintains some of the most radical student gender policies in the nation.” A child with mental health issues gets to decide whether to tell parents.
Faculty and staff, even those who object, must lie and refer to the child by opposite sex pronouns and a different name. They must use the child’s actual name in front of the parents, though. Deception.
Schools in this district allow boys pretending to be girls to access girls’ restrooms and changing rooms.
AFL alleged that the school district is violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the Free Exercise Clause, and the Due Process Clause.
But the North Kingstown School District has already lost the argument. As AFL noted, the Supreme Court ruled in Mirabelli v. Bonta (2026) that a school policy mandating teachers keep secrets from parents about their children’s “gender identity” was unconstitutional.
Leftist ideology is deeply rooted in government schools across the country. We have to reverse the trend and enforce the law against those seem to care nothing about children’s safety or privacy.
