- Four Colorado families are appealing a dismissed lawsuit, claiming Jefferson County Public Schools violated parental rights by assigning students to overnight accommodations based on gender identity rather than true sex.
- An 11-year-old girl was reportedly assigned to share a hotel room and bed with a student who identified as female, without prior notice to her parents, prompting the initial complaint.
- Another family reported that their son was placed in a cabin with a female student as his counselor, who was also tasked with supervising his showers.
- Alliance Defending Freedom argues that their parental rights were violated and the district is intentionally withholding information from parents. The case is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
Four Colorado families are asking an appeals court to protect girls from being assigned to room with or sleep in the same bed as “transgender” students during school trips.
According to an emailed press release from the Truth & Liberty Foundation, a Christian advocacy organization, the case began after Joe and Serena Wailes’ 11-year-old daughter was told she would be sharing a hotel room and bed with a male student who identified as female while on a school-sponsored trip to Washington, D.C., in 2023.
Neither the girl nor her parents were told about the sleeping arrangements before the trip. After contacting her parents and having several discussions with the chaperones, the girl was eventually allowed to change her room, but the lawsuit alleges that she was reportedly directed not to tell anyone why she switched.
According to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the legal nonprofit representing the families, Jefferson County Public Schools’ policy on overnight trips says that students must be “assigned to share overnight accommodations with other students that share the student’s gender identity” instead of true sex. However, ADF says that the district tells parents that girls will be roomed together on one floor, and boys are on another — without revealing that “girl” and “boy” do not refer to a child’s true sex.
According to court documents, a different family in the same suit experienced a similar situation when an 18-year-old female student who identified as non-binary was assigned as a counselor to their young son’s cabin during a school trip. The counselor’s responsibilities included monitoring the boys’ showers to control their hot water use.
The parents initially sued the school district in 2024 for a violation of their parental rights. The case is currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit because a lower court dismissed the parents’ claims.
In the release, Richard Harris, executive director of Truth & Liberty, said that the case “demonstrates how insane the policies of radical gender ideology have become.”
“It’s time to abandon the delusional gender identity framework altogether and get back to the truth and common sense,” Harris said. “If a boy feels like he fits in more as a girl, let’s not lie to him by pretending he is a girl. That only fuels the destructive delusion. Instead, let’s tell him the truth that he is, in fact, a boy, not a girl, and that his feelings do not dictate reality.”
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