Trump administration DOJ sues Kansas school district over transgender student guidelines and parental consent - NBC News

In what it called “a first-of-its-kind lawsuit,” the Justice Department has sued a school district in Kansas over its guidelines on student gender identity and assisting transgender students. The lawsuit, filed Monday, is the latest escalation from the Trump administration targeting school districts for policies or guidelines to accommodate transgender students in academic settings. The Justice Department said it was seeking to stop the Kansas City, Kansas, public school district from violating federal law by “facilitating secret ‘gender transitions’ for children at school without their parents’ knowledge or consent.” “Parental rights are paramount in the operation of America’s public schools, and Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools does not know children better than their own parents,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement.