The Foundation for Moral Law filed an amicus brief on January 4th with the United States Supreme Court in the case of John and Jane Parents v. Montgomery County Board of Education, fighting for parents’ right to direct their children’s upbringing.

The Montgomery County public school system in Maryland is part of a disturbing policy trend that is happening across the country. Rejecting the biological truth of the male and female genders, schools are adopting what are effectively “secret gender transition” policies where the school facilitates and encourages students to be transgender while keeping this hidden from the parents. The Foundation submitted a brief in support of the parents that affirms the constitutional history of parental rights and the biological reality of male and female. Read the brief here.

Foundation Lead Staff Attorney Talmadge Butts, primary author of the brief, explained, “Gender identity ideology is all-pervasive in our modern secularized culture, and it is ripping people’s lives and families apart while big pharma profits billions. Schools have no authority to promote such a harmful ideology to children, and doing so is an unconstitutional violation of parental rights.”

Foundation Senior Counsel Colonel John Eidsmoe stated, “Policies such as secret gender transitions are used to wage war on God’s good design of male, female, and the family. The Foundation will continue to fight to ensure gender identity ideology has no place in our public institutions."