Attorney General Alan Wilson leads charge to SCOTUS against radical school-led child gender transitions

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced today he has joined a coalition of 21 states and Guam, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, a case that seeks to reaffirm parental rights over America’s public-school officials. 

The case involves parents in Massachusetts whose eleven-year-old daughter was secretly “socially transitioned” by her school, given a new name, pronouns, and bathroom access, while staff deliberately concealed the information from her parents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the school’s actions, effectively allowing schools to override parental authority. 

“Parental rights don’t stop at the schoolhouse door. What happened in Massachusetts is a warning to every family in America, and South Carolina is standing up to stop it,” said Attorney General Wilson. “The Constitution makes it clear that parents, not government employees, have the first and final say in raising their children, especially on matters as sensitive and life-altering as a child’s upbringing and gender. We will not let activist school boards push parents to the sidelines.” 

The multistate brief argues that the First Circuit’s decision undermines centuries of legal tradition recognizing parents as the primary decision-makers in their children’s upbringing. The brief urges the Supreme Court to grant review and restore the constitutional balance between families and public schools. 

South Carolina joined Montana, West Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, and Guam in filing the brief. 

You can read the brief here.