Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case on Trans Student Privacy
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case on Trans Student Privacy
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Publish Date: 2026-05-03 14:27:00
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case brought by parents who say their child’s school district failed to notify them of the student’s social transition, including the use of a new name and different pronouns during school hours.
The high court offered no explanation for declining the appeal, leaving in place a 2-1 ruling from a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with the school district.
The case stems from a dispute involving January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, whose middle-school-aged child, assigned female at birth, told her parents in 2020 that she was questioning her gender and asked to go by “J” and use they/them pronouns. The parents did not agree but told their child, referred to as “A.G.” in court documents, that she could use “J” as a nickname at school.
Soon after, A.G. told a school counselor they wanted to use a different name and they/them pronouns. The counselor, a school social worker, and the principal then met with the student to develop a support plan, asking A.G. about their preferred name and pronouns. The Littlejohns later claimed in court filings that they were neither informed of nor invited to the meeting because their child did not specifically request their presence.
A few days later, the Littlejohns say they learned of the support plan meeting and demanded that school officials stop meeting privately with their child or treating her as nonbinary. They were later given a copy of the plan.
However, an email obtained by CNN in 2022 shows that January Littlejohn asked the school to use they/them pronouns for her child and said she would not stop her child from using her preferred name…
