January and Jeffrey Littlejohn of Tallahassee, Florida, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida last month, seeking to "vindicate their fundamental rights to direct the upbringing of their children" after Deerlake Middle School, where their 13-year-old daughter was enrolled, did not inform them that their daughter had joined a school-sanctioned gender transition plan.
The lawsuit, which calls the school superintendent, the assistant superintendent, and the Leon County School Board as defendants, says the Littlejohns' daughter told them during the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 that "she was confused about her gender and believed she might be non-binary."
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The Littlejohns' daughter, who is cited as A.G. in court filings, "asked her parents to permit her to change her name to 'J.' and to use 'they/them’ pronouns" as the 2020-2021 school year progressed, the lawsuit says.
Her parents rejected her wish but told her she could use the "J" name in school as a nickname.
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"We didn't think it was in the best interests of our child," January Littlejohn told the Washington Examiner in an interview. But, she went on, "we didn't feel like we would stop her friends from calling her a different name."
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The lawsuit says the Littlejohns notified their daughter's math teacher, Rima Kelly, about the teenager's gender dysphoria and continued treatment with a mental health counselor on Aug. 27, 2020.
Kelly offered to inform the school about their daughter's desires to identify as nonbinary, which the parents declined. The teacher is not a named defendant in the case.
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A couple of weeks later, on Sept. 14, while she was getting into the car, the Littlejohns' daughter stated that the school had asked her which bathroom she wished to use, which the lawsuit says she believed was "funny."
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January Littlejohn told the Washington Examiner that was the first time she became aware that the school was meeting with her daughter and supporting the teenager in welcoming a different gender identity in school settings. The school did not promote any transition-related medical procedures.
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The school claimed nondiscrimination law prevented them from informing the parents about the meeting with their daughter, which occurred on Sept. 8, 2020, unless the child allowed them to be there.
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The Littlejohns' attorney, Vernadette Broyles of a nonprofit law firm called the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, said that when the couple asked to see the law the school was relying on, "they could not provide one."
The school district did not respond to a request for comment.
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