Post by NEWSBOT on May 6, 2023 9:36:37 GMT -5
A Colorado school urged students to join an LGBT club and to keep the group's meetings and activities "secret" from their parents, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the parents of two sixth-grade girls.
The lawsuit, filed by America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal on behalf of parents Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich against Poudre School District, claimed that teachers encouraged their daughters to join Wellington Middle-High School's Genders and Sexualities Alliance art club in May 2021.
Administration staff allegedly instructed the girls to keep the GSA meetings a "secret" from their parents because the club has a "what happens at GSA stays at GSA policy," the suit claimed.
According to the parents' complaint, the GSA club featured a guest speaker, Kimberly Chambers, a teacher who ran Supporting Pride Learning and Social Happenings, an organization that teaches school children about sexuality and gender identity.
The lawsuit also claimed that Chambers told the children it "might not be safe to tell their parents what happened at the GSA meeting or to talk about transgender issues." Instead, she allegedly encouraged students to discuss the topic with her and provided them with her phone number and Discord information.
According to the Lees, after attending the GSA meetings, their daughter suddenly declared she "would be transitioning — despite never having had any thoughts about transgenderism before the meeting."
After a "months-long emotional decline of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts," Lees' daughter no longer wanted to transition.
The Jurichs claimed that the school's art teacher and sponsor of the GSA club, Jenna Riep, "encouraged secrecy, confidentiality, and suspicion" about whether their daughter could confide in her parents about LGBT topics.
The lawsuit, filed by America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal on behalf of parents Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich against Poudre School District, claimed that teachers encouraged their daughters to join Wellington Middle-High School's Genders and Sexualities Alliance art club in May 2021.
Administration staff allegedly instructed the girls to keep the GSA meetings a "secret" from their parents because the club has a "what happens at GSA stays at GSA policy," the suit claimed.
According to the parents' complaint, the GSA club featured a guest speaker, Kimberly Chambers, a teacher who ran Supporting Pride Learning and Social Happenings, an organization that teaches school children about sexuality and gender identity.
The lawsuit also claimed that Chambers told the children it "might not be safe to tell their parents what happened at the GSA meeting or to talk about transgender issues." Instead, she allegedly encouraged students to discuss the topic with her and provided them with her phone number and Discord information.
According to the Lees, after attending the GSA meetings, their daughter suddenly declared she "would be transitioning — despite never having had any thoughts about transgenderism before the meeting."
After a "months-long emotional decline of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts," Lees' daughter no longer wanted to transition.
The Jurichs claimed that the school's art teacher and sponsor of the GSA club, Jenna Riep, "encouraged secrecy, confidentiality, and suspicion" about whether their daughter could confide in her parents about LGBT topics.