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The Supreme Court declines to hear a challenge to school policies that let children transition socially without automatically informing their parents.
Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh would take up the case. Alito and Thomas would do so on standing grounds. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
![The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari.
JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari.
This case presents a question of great and growing national importance: whether a public school district violates parents' "fundamental constitutional right to make decisions concerning the rearing of" their children, Troxel v.
Granville, 530 U. S. 57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion), when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender or assists in that process.
We are told that more than 1,000 districts have adopted such policies. See Pet. for Cert. i.
The policy in this case is illustrative. In 2021, the Eau Claire Area School District issued "Administrative Guidance for Gender Identity Support." App. to Pet. for Cert.
64. The guidance instructs school personnel to create "Stu-dent Gender Support Plan[s]" for students "[when appropriate or necessary." Id., at 65. The plans can address a student's restroom use, participation in athletics, and "so-cial, medical, surgical, and/or legal processes." Id., at 65-
66. Furthermore, because "[s]ome transgender... students are not 'open' at home," the policy contemplates circumstances under which "parents are not involved in creating" their child's Gender Support Plan. Id., at 66-72. As school personnel were told in an equity training session: "parents](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreidm3zgipl2ldbqqfu7ostrqimpuvhldjp2sa6d57jyosa6ofzpmka)
