A group of parents challenged a policy of the Eau Claire Area School District in Wisconsin that required teachers and school administrators to hide from parents that their children were “socially transitioning” to a new gender identity, if the school deemed the parents not sufficiently supportive of the transition. The school district prevailed on a Motion to Dismiss the case for lack of standing in the trial court, and prevailed on appeal to the Seventh Circuit. The parents sought a writ of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to take the case and resolve a critical question about whether the parents have standing to sue to prevent the policy from going into effect, without having to wait until after their children have suffered irreparable mental and/or physical harm.

The Robertson Center’s brief supports the parents’ petition asking the Supreme Court to hear the case. Similar to the brief we filed in John and Jane Parents 1, et al v. MCBE, this brief highlights the parental rights scholarship of Regent Law Professors S. Ernie Walton and Eric A. DeGroff. Research by Professors Walton and DeGroff demonstrates parents’ historical right to direct the upbringing of their children and the limits of a school’s authority to hide information from the parents about important moral and religious matters.