The Supreme Court on Oct. 14 turned away a petition from parents whose children were secretly given gender identity instruction.
Justices declined to grant a writ of certiorari, or a petition of reconsideration, filed by parents of middle school students in Colorado.
The decision was not explained.
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, said he agreed the petition should not have been granted but that he was concerned some federal courts are tempted “to avoid confronting a ‘particularly contentious constitutional questio[n].”
That question, he said, is whether a school district violates the fundamental rights of parents “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender or assists in that process.”…