EXCLUSIVE: Mom's fight with school over teen daughter's gender transition gets boost from parents group

SPECIAL The American Parents Coalition APC is weighing in on a lawsuit against a Florida middle school accused of secretly socially transitioning a -year-old girl behind her family s back The group which advocates for the rights of parents and families across the country filed a brief in assistance of the Littlejohn family with the th Circuit Court on Wednesday APC is arguing that so-called social transitioning is a type of healthcare remedy and that parents have a substantive due process right to be informed about the treatments a school administers to their minor child and to refuse those treatments The girl s parents January and Jeffrey Littlejohn filed the suit against the school board of Leon County Florida In an interview earlier this year January Littlejohn who was one of President Donald Trump s guests at his address to a joint session of Congress shared how the school s actions had an extreme destructive effect on her daughter and entire family Littlejohn commented that despite the school s behavior her daughter has worked through her gender confusion But she mentioned the school s actions created a huge wedge between us and our daughter that took a large number of years to repair TRUMP GUEST WHOSE DAUGHTER WAS TRANSITIONED BEHIND HER BACK SPEAKS OUT She explained that the school took it upon themselves to intervene and socially transition my child when the girl and her friends became fixated on their gender identity Though certain consider social transitioning virtually harmless Littlejohn explained that it goes way beyond name and pronouns They sit the child down and in our episode it was behind closed doors with three adults that consisted of the school counselor the assistant principal and a social worker I had never met and they did an official gender assistance plan she explained In this session Littlejohn reported the school staff demanded her daughter what bathroom and locker rooms she needed to use which sex she craved to room with during overnight trips and whether she required her parents to be notified PARENTS TELL SCOTUS LGBTQ STORYBOOKS IN CLASSROOMS CLASH WITH OUR FAITH They put the burden on her as to whether or not my parental rights would be honored by deciding she was the sole decision-maker as to whether or not my husband and I would be notified of the meeting she explained Littlejohn announced that when she made inquiries about the session to the school she was reported they could not give me any information about that meeting and that my daughter was now protected by a nondiscrimination law Despite this a three-judge panel from the th Circuit Court ruled - against the Littlejohns saying the matter did not violate the parents due process rights COLORADO'S 'TOTALITARIAN' TRANSGENDERISM BILL SPARKS CONCERNS FROM PARENTSAfter this ruling the Littlejohns appealed to have their circumstance heard by the entire th Circuit Court The American Parents Coalition joined in patronage of the Littlejohns lawsuit Wednesday In its brief APC states that the Leon County School Board violated the requirements of substantive due process when it started a minor child on the road to gender transition without the knowledge and consent of the child s parents 'LET US BE THE PARENTS' SUPREME COURT SHOULD LET PARENTS OPT KIDS OUT OF LGBTQ SCHOOL LESSONS LAWYER ARGUESThe brief argues that regardless of debates about the safety and efficacy of gender transition treatments this much is clear social transitioning is the first step in a process to treat a psychiatric determination of gender dysphoria that then leads to puberty blockers cross-sex hormones and surgeries The group explained that even for proponents of this care this first step can t be taken lightly Yet in the Littlejohns development the local school board decided that the parents should not be informed and need not consent before their middle-school age child is socially transitioned There s no doubt that social transitioning is a clinical medication the group argues Parents should be involved in the physiological process from this very first step they should walk with their children through the challenges of growing up Alleigh Marr executive director of APC explained the decision to join the Littlejohns suit telling Fox News Digital her group is determined to sponsorship parents and families and ensure nothing stands between parents and their child FLORIDA AG LAUNCHES OFFICE OF PARENTAL RIGHTS LENDING LEGAL FIREPOWER TO DEFEND PARENTS' 'GOD-GIVEN RIGHT' No parent should ever be kept in the dark about their child revealed Marr When the school took strategies to socially transition the Littlejohns' daughter without their knowledge or consent it wasn t a misstep it was a deliberate attempt to cut parents out of critical decisions while pushing gender ideology onto a child This blatant flouting of parental rights and authority completely cannot be accepted or normalized Leon County Schools did not without delay respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment