Attorney General Alan Wilson fights for parental rights at the Supreme Court

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is leading a 19-state “friend-of-the-court” brief at the U.S. Supreme Court to safeguard the constitutional rights of parents.

“Parents hold the primary role in the upbringing of their children,” Attorney General Wilson stated. “Any effort by a school or district to withhold information regarding a child’s well-being is a violation of the constitutional rights of parents.”

The amicus brief supports a mother who discovered her child’s school was allegedly withholding information about her daughter’s gender identity. The child was being “socially transitioned” through a new name and gender pronouns used by multiple school officials. The school also allegedly failed to tell her that an employee provided her daughter with two chest binders to assist in her gender transition.

“As a parent, I expect my child’s school to respect how I have chosen to raise them,” Attorney General Wilson said. “I also expect that when presented with an issue as important as gender identity, that school officials communicate with parents rather than keep them in the dark.”

Attorney General Wilson is leading this brief, which has been joined by Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia.

You can read the brief here.