In May 2022, the Meads' daughter sent a message to the school counselor asking her to email her teachers and tell them to start calling her by a masculine name. Starting then, through the end of the school year a few weeks later, the counselor corresponded multiple times with Jennifer about her daughter, but allegedly failed to mention that their daughter had requested teachers use a masculine name and pronouns. When the Meads' daughter started eighth grade, they claim district employees began referring to her by the masculine name without the Meads' knowledge or consent.

"This social transition went on for several months before the Meads realized what was happening," ADF Senior Counsel and director of ADF's Center for Parental Rights Kate Anderson said. "They found out when the counselor went through to change documents, she missed one and so one went home with the male name and male pronouns."

Even though the counselor had given regular updates to Jennifer about her daughter, the district deliberately chose not to tell them about this request, they allege. They thought this information was a mistake until they realized the truth and immediately asked district employees to refrain from using the masculine name and male pronouns, which they said employees refused to comply with. When the Meads confronted the school about their actions, Anderson said district officials "just threw up their hands and said it was their policy to do so," which she said is "something we're seeing around the country."

"I think a court's going to step in and stop that because schools shouldn't be making these decisions for parents," she said. "You really see with the Meads' daughter how that [policy] affected her and they can speak to that."

Once Dan and Jennifer believed their daughter had been actively "encouraged" to hide what was going on with her from her parents, they immediately pulled her out of the district.

"This was hurting our daughter, without this critical information, we were not able to help her like we should have been able to," Jennifer said. "We know our daughter best, we love our daughter more than anyone and that was very important for us to know that, so that we could help her thrive and they were hiding this from us. This is critical information, this is life-changing information that they were keeping from us intentionally."

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