California school district settles with mother after school ‘transitioned’ daughter without her consent
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FIRST ON FOX — In what's been called a landmark victory for parental rights, a California school district has settled for $100,000 with a mother who said her daughter was "socially transitioned" to a boy without parental knowledge or consent.
Jessica Konen said her 11-year-old daughter, Alicia, was told by her school in the Spreckels Union School District in Monterey County that she may be upset because she didn’t know who she "truly was inside." From there, the school allowed her to use the boy’s bathroom, used male pronouns to refer to her and was "socially transitioned" away from her biological gender.
Once Konen found out that her daughter was being identified as a male and socially transitioning without her knowledge, she sued the district. Her daughter has since decided to re-identify as a girl, and the California single mother vowed to keep fighting for parental rights after the settlement in which she was represented by the Center for American Liberty.
"They need to understand their place, and they need to stay in their place. And schools nowadays, they're awful. So, I'm going to fight this fight and keep fighting this fight," Konen told Fox News Digital.
"I am not going to allow this to keep happening to children," Konen continued. "I feel that the fight, it has to continue."
The Spreckels Union School District is not admitting fault with the settlement. But it's nonetheless a significant moment amid the nationwide debate over parental rights related to schooling decisions that affect children.
"At its core, this case is about upholding the sacred bond between parents and their children," Mark Trammell, Executive Director of the Center for American Liberty, told Fox News Digital. "Parents have an inherent right to be involved in pivotal decisions concerning their children's lives."... (Read more)
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