School districts that buy into these theories are not merely embracing the idea that hiding children’s gender transitions from their parents is legal, but that divulging the information without the child’s consent is illegal and possibly perilous to the student’s safety. In Dover, Pennsylvania, for example, a mother of a middle school student castigated a local school board after discovering that school staff had been addressing her 12-year-old daughter with male pronouns for a year. School officials even sent the child to a hospital for an evaluation without informing the parents. When the mother confronted the school board, she was told that there was a law against informing her. School boards in Chico, California, New Castle, Maine, and beyond have said the same.

No such law exists, however—and the legal theories pushed by activist groups to legitimize secrecy policies are baseless. …

The likely vast majority of public school parents who share that opinion must now consider the new reality they face: When you drop your child off at school, radicalized teachers and administrators, backed by transgender ideologues, could be acting behind your back—and outside the bounds of federal law—to foster your child’s new gender identity, whether you like it or not.

[Parents have three choices: surrender, fight for school board representation to change these policies, or withdraw from public schools for either private schools or homeschooling. The best policy initiative to facilitate parental rights is school vouchers, which is why the education establishment and the teachers’ unions (a redundancy these days) oppose it so vehemently. — Ed]