IFI Joins Amicus Brief Supporting Parental Rights in School “Transitioning” Case

The Illinois Family Institute has joined dozens of other organizations and individuals across the country in submitting a friend of the court brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit regarding the case of Vitsaxaki v. Skaneateles Central School District.

Jennifer Vitsaxaki, filed a lawsuit against her local school district after her 12-year-old daughter was counseled and “socially transitioned” at school without her mother’s knowledge. According to the lawsuit, school employees referred to her daughter with a masculine name and third-person plural pronouns, which conflicted with her daughter’s biological reality