The parents of a Florida teenager have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after their daughter's school ordered their child to seek a gender transition without telling them.
January and Jeffrey Littlejohn of Tallahassee, Florida, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida last month, seeking to "vindicate their fundamental rights to direct the upbringing of their children" after Deerlake Middle School, where their 13-year-old daughter was enrolled, did not inform them that their daughter had joined a school-sanctioned gender transition plan.
The lawsuit, which calls the school superintendent, the assistant superintendent, and the Leon County School Board as defendants, says the Littlejohns' daughter told them during the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 that "she was confused about her gender and believed she might be non-binary."