When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know

[Mercenary]

I oppose the high school's actions. I do not consider a school to be a place responsible for raising a child, a school should merely provide and education unless the school is a private organization with the express mission to assist in some manner in non educational issues. You can agree or disagree with how parents handle an issue but ultimately it is the parents choice. Just like I disagree with parents who would get their child "hormone therapy", I respect it is their choice as parents. If a school wants to help a student play make believe, then that is their choice and subject to residents of the school district to act accordingly but withholding informatiin about a student from their parents should be illegal and the parents should be able to take legal action, if they so choose.

I certainly would withdraw my child from any school that withheld important information and would take any legal action possible.

The only exception to this is when there is objective abuse or extreme neglect, but controversial issues like this hardly qualify as objective. At most you could argue subjective abuse, that is abuse based on your personal political view on the issue, but that is too low a bar to override parental choice.