OXFORDSHIRE (The Christian Institute) — A 13-year-old girl has been granted permission by the High Court to take landmark legal action against Oxfordshire County Council over its controversial guidance concerning transgender pupils. The “Trans Inclusion Toolkit for Schools 2019” was implemented by the council last year. It says that boys who claim to be girls […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard law professor is coming under fire after she characterized homeschooling as parents having “authoritarian control” over their children and called for a “presumptive ban” on the practice. Elizabeth Bartholet, a Morris Wasserstein public interest professor of law and founder of the Child Advocacy Program, recently told Harvard Magazine that while parents […]
BOISE, Idaho — A college student at Boise State University who was born male but identifies as female has filed suit to challenge a new Idaho law prohibiting biological males from competing on girls’ sports teams. The 19-year-old student, who goes by the name Lindsay Hecox, ran track and cross-country in high school and now […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed a Statement of Interest in a case involving three female high school track athletes who sued the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) and other entities over a policy allowing students to compete in sports in accordance with their stated “gender identity.” “Title IX and its […]
(The Christian Institute) — A university academic has been accused of “abhorrent bigotry” after she posted on social media that only women can have periods. Dr. Eva Poen was commenting on a post on Twitter which called for a fitness app to change its wording from “female health” to “menstrual health.” It claimed, “Not everyone […]
WOKING — A couple in the England have alleged that staff at their daughter’s school brainwashed their child into thinking that she is a boy by subjecting her to personal talks and information about transgenderism without their knowledge. “Our daughter was egged on to feel that she’s a boy in a girl’s body,” state Ged and […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A K-12 sex education bill that passed both houses of the Washington State legislature and is headed to the desk of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee is being opposed by a plethora of parents, with a protest at the state capital and a “Sex Ed Sit Out” by keeping children home from school […]
BREMERTON, Wash. — A federal judge nominated to the bench by then-President George W. Bush has again ruled against a former high school football coach who lost his job in 2016 as school district officials decided not to renew his contract in the midst of a battle over his desire to pray at the 50-yard line. […]
WHITESBURG, Ky. — A school district in Kentucky says that a Bible verse has been painted over after the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote a letter to the superintendent to assert that the display is unconstitutional. Stenciled in large letters above the lockers where the Letcher Central High School football team changed for practice […]
HOLLAND PATENT, N.Y. — A school district in New York says that it has addressed a public high school biology teacher — who has agreed to comply — after it received a complaint from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) that the teacher recently “undermin[ed] the theory of evolution” to students. FFRF sent a […]