PARENTS ASK THE SUPREME COURT:
RESTORE COMMON SENSE
NOTICE
&
OPT-OUTS
The Supreme Court will hear the case on April 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM.
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A diverse coalition of religious parents, including Muslims, Christians, and Jews, are asking the Supreme Court to restore their right to receive notice and opt their children out of storybooks that celebrate gender transitioning, pride parades, and pronoun preferences with kids as young as three and four.
In November 2022, the Montgomery County Board of Education introduced new “inclusive” storybooks for students in pre-K through fifth grade. These books cover topics like gender transitions, pride parades, and pronoun preferences. The Board initially told parents they’d be notified and could opt their kids out when the books would be read. But then the Board went back on its word.
By removing the decades-long practice of notice and opt-outs, the School Board defied its own policies and Maryland state law. It also made Montgomery County a national outlier—47 states, plus D.C., have opt-in or opt-out requirements of their own.
Parents, not the state, should be the ones deciding how and when to introduce their children to sensitive issues about gender and sexuality.
