Attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have filed an opening brief with the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on behalf of four Colorado families who are challenging Jefferson County Public Schools for "violating parents' fundamental right to make decisions about the upbringing and education of their children."

"The families are asking the court to stop school-district officials from requiring their children to share bedrooms and shower facilities with students of the opposite sex on school-sponsored overnight trips," according to an ADF press release. "The district's policy of rooming students by 'gender identity' rather than sex without prior notice or a sex-separated alternative violates the families' free exercise, bodily privacy, and parental rights."

Jefferson County Public Schools forced the 11-year-old daughter of Joe and Serena Wailes to share a room with a gender-confused male on an overnight trip to Washington,DC, in 2023. The school district initially put the young female student in the same bed with the male student without letting her or her parents know about the true sex of the bedmate.

The school district told the girl not to talk about the gender-confused male's actual sex and instead instructed her to keep quiet that the student was actually a boy. The parents of the gender-confused child wanted their son's actual sex to remain in "stealth mode," according to Principal Ryan Lucas.

Bret and Susanne Roller, who are also part of the parent group suing the school system, discovered after their young son's school trip that the school district had assigned a female to share his cabin and monitor his showers.

"Parents, not government bureaucrats, have the right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their children, and that includes making informed decisions to protect their children's privacy," said ADF Senior Counsel Kate Anderson, director of the ADF Center for Parental Rights, said in a statement... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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