The parents of an autistic daughter are suing a Michigan school district for using male pronouns to address their child without consent.
On Monday, following the revelation that the Rockford Public School District had been using the pronouns “he/him” to refer to their eighth-grade daughter since last year, Dan and Jennifer Mead filed a lawsuit against the district.
As reported by NewsNation, the lawsuit claims that the school violated both the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the parents by using male pronouns and a masculine name for their child.
The Meads found out about the pronouns in October 2022 when a school psychologist included a masculine name for the child in a report. They have since removed their daughter from the Rockford Public School District.
The parents are being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom.
In a statement, the Alliance Defending Freedom said, according to the Daily Mail: “At first, the Meads thought this was a mistake — that another child’s information had been included in their daughter’s documents.”
“When the Meads asked district employees to refrain from using the masculine name and male pronouns, the district refused to comply with their wishes,” the lawsuit claims. “They weren’t able to help her in a difficult time in her life.”
“So it prevented them from helping her and that denied them their Constitutional rights. Schools shouldn’t keep information like that from parents,” the ADF said.
The Meads have decided to homeschool their daughter, which, according to the complaint, “has required Mr. Mead to remain out of the workforce, which has caused the Meads to lose his income.”
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