Exclusive: The American Parents Alliance (APC) is litigating weights against a Florida middle school that has been accused of secretly transitioning to a 13-year-old girl behind her family.
The group advocates parent and family rights across the country and filed a summary Wednesday with the 11th Circuit to support the Littlejohn family. The APC argues that the so-called social transition is a medical treatment, “Parents have substantial due process rights to inform schools of treatment for minor children and refuse these treatments.”
The girl's parents January and Jeffrey Littlejohn filed a lawsuit against the school board in Leon County, Florida.
In an interview earlier this year, one of President Donald Trump’s guests in a speech at the joint Congressional meeting shared how the school’s actions have had an extreme “destructive” impact on her daughter and the entire family. Little John said her daughter survived gender confusion despite school behavior. But the school’s move created “a huge wedge between us and our daughter” that “had been taking many years.”
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The American Parents Alliance advocates parent and family rights across the country and filed a summary Wednesday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. (Beckett)
She explained that while the girl and her friends focused on their gender identity, the school “deceived self-intervention and social transition.”
Although some people think that social transition is almost harmless, Littlejohn explains that it "gone beyond names and pronouns."
“They sat down the kids, in our case, which was closed by three adults, made up of school counselors, assistant principals and social workers I’ve never met before, who did the formal ‘Gender Support Program’.”
Littlejohn said during the meeting, school staff asked her daughter what bathroom and locker room she wanted to use, what kind of sexual behavior she wanted to have on an overnight trip and whether she wanted her parents to be notified.
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She explained: “Whether their rights to her parents would be decided, which puts a burden on her because she decided that she was the only decision maker to decide whether my husband and I would receive the meeting.”
Littlejohn said when she asked the school meeting, she was told “they could not give me any information about the meeting” and “my daughter is now protected by non-discrimination laws.”
Nevertheless, a three-judge panel in the 11th Circuit ruled 2-1 against the Little Johns, saying the incident did not violate the parents' due process rights.
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After enforcing the ruling, Johns Jr. called for the entire 11th Circuit to hear his case. The American Parenter Colition joined the lawsuit in support of Littlejohns on Wednesday.
The APC noted in its brief period that the Leon County School Board “violated the requirements of substantive due process because it began a minor child on the path to gender transition without the knowledge and consent of the parents of the children.”
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The abstract argues that, in terms of safety and effectiveness of gender transition treatment, “it is clear: social transition is the first step in the psychiatric diagnosis of gender dysphagia, which then leads to pubertal blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery.”
“Even for supporters of this care, the first step cannot be taken easily,” the organization said. However, in the case of Johns Jr., “the local school board decision should not be notified of parents and does not need to agree before middle school-age children are transitioning before social transition.”
“There is no doubt that social transition is a medical treatment,” the organization believes. “Parents should be involved in the medical process from the first step – the challenges they should grow with their children.”
APC executive director Alleigh Marré explained his decision to join the Littlejohns lawsuit, telling Fox News Digital that her group is determined to “raising parents and family and make sure there is no position between parents and children.”
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“No parent should put their children in the dark,” Marr said. “It is not a mistake when schools take steps to transition the daughter of Johns Jr. without knowing or agreeing, it is a deliberate attempt to cut parents from critical decisions while pushing gender ideology toward children.
“This blatant blasphemy of parental rights and authority is simply not acceptable or standardized.”
Leon County School did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News numbers.