Post by M. Hawbaker on Sept 2, 2023 11:12:04 GMT
A school district in north-central California has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a mother who claimed school officials convinced her child to identify as bisexual and transgender and concealed the information from her.
The Spreckels Union School District agreed to the settlement with Jessica Konen in June, and a federal judge approved it in July, NBC News reports. Under the terms, the district denies any wrongdoing. The judge dismissed the suit “with prejudice,” which means it cannot be refiled.
Konen filed the suit in June 2022 in Monterey County Superior Court, and it was transferred to the U.S. District Court for Northern California three months later. Besides the school district, defendants included the principal and two teachers at Buena Vista Middle School in Salinas. Konen’s child attended the school from the fall of 2018 until the spring of 2021.
In 2018, a friend invited the child to a meeting of the Equality Club, a group for LGBTQ+ students and allies. Konen’s suit alleged that the club would “introduce and push identities on students, and the students resisted.” When Konen’s offspring went to a school counselor about depression and stress the following spring, the counselor and a teacher who advised the Equality Club said those problems were due to “not being who she was,” according to the suit.
They encouraged the student to wear boys’ clothes and adopt a male name and pronouns but “not to tell her mother about her new gender identity or new name, saying that her mother might not be supportive of her and that she couldn’t trust her mother,” the suit said. Eventually, the principal and a teacher called Konen in and told her about the matter. She was “taken aback,” the suit claimed.
www.yahoo.com/news/california-mom-claimed-school-coerced-183409130.html
The Spreckels Union School District agreed to the settlement with Jessica Konen in June, and a federal judge approved it in July, NBC News reports. Under the terms, the district denies any wrongdoing. The judge dismissed the suit “with prejudice,” which means it cannot be refiled.
Konen filed the suit in June 2022 in Monterey County Superior Court, and it was transferred to the U.S. District Court for Northern California three months later. Besides the school district, defendants included the principal and two teachers at Buena Vista Middle School in Salinas. Konen’s child attended the school from the fall of 2018 until the spring of 2021.
In 2018, a friend invited the child to a meeting of the Equality Club, a group for LGBTQ+ students and allies. Konen’s suit alleged that the club would “introduce and push identities on students, and the students resisted.” When Konen’s offspring went to a school counselor about depression and stress the following spring, the counselor and a teacher who advised the Equality Club said those problems were due to “not being who she was,” according to the suit.
They encouraged the student to wear boys’ clothes and adopt a male name and pronouns but “not to tell her mother about her new gender identity or new name, saying that her mother might not be supportive of her and that she couldn’t trust her mother,” the suit said. Eventually, the principal and a teacher called Konen in and told her about the matter. She was “taken aback,” the suit claimed.
www.yahoo.com/news/california-mom-claimed-school-coerced-183409130.html
This would be so hard to grapple with, as a mom. 
... and that poor child. She's gonna need time, space, and appropriate professional support to sort out her thoughts and emotions, I'm sure. 
