Global Courant 2023-05-05 15:00:57
Two Colorado families are suing their children’s school district over allegations that teachers and administrators encouraged their daughters to join an LGBTQ club and keep its activities “secret” from them.
Parents Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich, whose sixth-grade daughters attend Wellington Middle-High School, on Wednesday sued teachers from the Poudre School District (PSD) with the help of America First Policy Institute (AFPI ) and Illumine Legal, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by the Daily Caller.
Not only were the activities of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) not disclosed to parents, those running the club meetings actively encouraged students to keep discussions about polyamory, suicide, puberty blockers, transgenderism, gender identity, sexuality, and name and pronoun changes secret for their parents.
A pro-polyamory group marches with placards expressing their views during the 2018 Toronto LGBTQ Pride Parade. (SOPA images via Getty Images)
Teachers also invited Deputy Teacher Kimberly Chambers, who is the executive director of the Supporting Pride Learning and Social Happenings (SPLASH) organization that aims to “educate school-aged children about topics such as sexuality and gender identity,” to speak at one of the GSA’s meetings. , which was attended by Lee’s sixth-grader daughter, according to the lawsuit.
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Chambers reportedly “told the kids that if they’re not completely comfortable in their bodies, that means they’re transgender,” while speaking to the school club on May 4, 2021. The teacher also had kids discuss what sex and sex they are attracted to and rewarded students with “LGBTQ paraphernalia like toys, flags and other swag” if they “came out” as transgender.
The teacher told the students that there was “a higher chance of suicide by transgender youth,” but the Lee’s said their daughter didn’t even fully understand what suicide was at the time.
Chambers also repeatedly told students that it “may not be safe to tell their parents what happened at the GSA meeting or talk about transgender issues” and instead suggested they talk to her or other teachers. She offered students her phone number and told them to contact her on Discord so they could contact her at any time.
Johnathan and Erin Lee were thrilled that their “shy” daughter had been asked to participate in school activities because she hadn’t had many opportunities to make friends, but were alarmed to find that upon returning home from the meeting, she shared that she ” would be a transition – despite never thinking about transgenderism before the meeting.
Gay Pride Parade, Unapologetically Us float, Manhattan, New York City. ((Photo by: Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))
Their daughter has since given up her desire to transition, but, according to the lawsuit, endured a “month-long emotional downturn of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts.”
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The Jurich family are suing because their daughter underwent much of the same treatment as Lee’s daughter, where the students were told by WMS art teacher and staff sponsor of the school-sponsored GSA club, Jenna Riep, “that if they didn’t like it their bodies, they were most likely not the sex they were ‘assigned’ at birth.”
In addition, Riep “encouraged secrecy, confidentiality and suspicion about whether her parents could be trusted with these discussions” and invited Jurich’s daughter to a meeting with SPLASH, the organization Chambers was affiliated with.
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After the meeting, their daughter “began having her first suicidal thoughts” and began leaving notes for her parents about transgenderism, stating that she was “aromantic” and “asexual”. In the fall of 2021, she began questioning her gender identity.
Children march in a Gay Pride parade. (Glow images via Getty Images)
“After her experiences at the GSA club, her relationship with her friends deteriorated, and she was uncomfortable with the idea of possibly taking classes with Riep,” the lawsuit reads. Their daughter’s emotional state “underwent a significant decline” to the point where she asked to be homeschooled.
She eventually attempted suicide by drinking an ounce of bleach and has since “articulated that her disturbed emotional state began when she attended GSA at WMS”.
In the same district, Fox News Digital previously reported that Laurel Elementary School deputy principal Amanda Pawelski asked other administrators how to address a student whose parents had instructed school staff not to use the student’s preferred pronouns, according to e emails posted on Twitter by Independent Women’s Forum senior fellow Nicole Solas.
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“I feel very involved with the student, but have heard that we must legally follow parental directions due to the age of the child (elementary school),” Pawelski wrote in the email. “I’ve also heard that this is different in high schools because of legal age restrictions.”
The district’s LGBTQIA+ coordinator, Shayna Seitchik, explained that “the school should use the student’s affirmative name and pronouns at school and use their legal name and associated pronouns when talking to the family until they learn the new name. and student pronouns support.”
Kendall Tietz is a production assistant at Fox News Digital.
