The conservative legal aid group founded by former Trump associates has sued a Northern Virginia school district for mandating that students use preferred pronouns and permitting boys to use the girls’ restroom.
According to the Post Millennial on Tuesday, America First Legal sued the district on behalf of an unidentified female student at West Springfield High School, saying its client was compelled “to speak in a manner that violates her sincerely held philosophical and religious beliefs.”
Along those lines, the lawsuit asserted both sex and religious discrimination by the school system.
Read: Florida Sen. Scott’s Dem Opponent Now Advocates Support For Immigration Authorities
Regarding the restroom issue, AFL claimed the district forced its client, who is Catholic, to seek a private bathroom because the school would not make biological boys identify as girls using the facility matching their biological sex.
The lawsuit attacks a district regulation that declares other pupils must call “[s]tudents who identify as gender-expansive or transgender … by their chosen name and pronoun, regardless of the name and gender recorded in the student’s permanent pupil record.”
This district-imposed rule “has knowingly and blatantly violated the Petitioner’s rights by forcing her to accept the ideological viewpoint of the government and the claimed rights and privileges of other students,” AFL said in the lawsuit.
The Post Millennial reported that Fairfax schools, which is the largest district in the state, established the rules and intentionally snubbed Republican Gov. Glenn Younkin’s directives that opposed enforced pronoun usage and that required facilities and activities to be segregated based on biological sex.
In a press release, AFL added, “This rule is dystopian and teaches students the lie that boys can be girls and girls can be boys.”
Read: Florida Gov. DeSantis Warns Criminals Who Expect To Wreak Havoc During Spring Break
“Moreover,” the group added, “it actively endangers female students, discriminates against them based on sex, and forces students to use incorrect pronouns and fabricated language to conform to FCPS’s sponsored ideology.”
In a statement, American First Legal Senior Advisor Ian Prior said, “Fairfax County Public Schools appears to believe that its policies and regulations can override the Virginia Constitution’s protections for religious beliefs, speech, and from government discrimination on the basis of sex and religious beliefs.”
“It is well past time for FCPS to stop sacrificing the constitutional rights of its students so that it can implement a state-sanctioned ideology that demands compliance in speech, beliefs, and conduct.”
“Unfortunately, FCPS has repeatedly demonstrated that it will not voluntarily comply with the Virginia constitution and the Virginia Supreme Court’s rulings, so it will be up to students and parents to enforce their rights through the courts,” Prior added. “We are proud to help them do just that.”
Help support the Tampa Free Press by making any small donation by clicking here.
Android Users, Click To Download The Tampa Free Press App And Never Miss A Story. Follow Us On Facebook and Twitter. Sign up for our free newsletter.