Since 2021, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have been representing two sets of area parents against KMSD over school officials treating children as members of the opposite sex without parents’ permission.

One of the families involved said the school actually refused their request to use their daughter’s actual name and female pronouns, resulting in moving the child to a different school and getting her counseling (the girl later came to accept her actual gender).

On Wednesday, a Waukesha County circuit court ruled in favor of the parents, determining that KMSD’s policy “violates parents’ constitutional right to determine the appropriate medical and healthcare for their children,” and enjoining the district “from allowing or requiring staff to refer to students using a name or pronouns at odds with the student’s biological sex, while at school, without express parental consent.”

[Well, good, but I’d have preferred if they left off the qualifier about parental consent. School personnel have no business making medical and psychological diagnoses and treatment regardless of whether parents consent or not. Would anyone suggest that teachers and administrators could treat schizophrenia, cure cancer, or conduct plastic surgery? Schools should butt out, period, and focus on education. — Ed]