THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: School Gender Policies Harm Students and Violate Parents’ Right To Raise Their Children

Like others around the country, the Rockford, Michigan, Public School District requires parental permission for many things that affect their children’s safety, education, and personal wellbeing. But during the 2021-22 school year, acting on nothing more than a seventh-grade girl’s email to a school counselor and without notifying her parents, East Rockford Middle School personnel began treating her as a boy and allowing her access to all boys-only school facilities. They actively concealed the situation from the girl’s parents, and even altered school records that the parents might see.