{"id":351935,"date":"2026-06-08T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:02:36","slug":"chicago-san-francisco-suburban-dc-school-districts-accused-of-hiding-students-gender-id-from-parents-ahead-of-house-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351935\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago, San Francisco, suburban DC school districts accused of hiding students’ gender ID from parents ahead of House hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three major school districts have been accused of letting students conceal their gender identity from parents<\/a> as their superintendents prepare to come before Congress Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Chicago Public Schools, San Francisco Unified School District, and Loudoun County (Va.) Public Schools were all hit with complaints at the Justice Department and Education Department over their gender policies from conservative watchdog America First Legal<\/a> (AFL).<\/p>\n

\u201cThese school districts have constructed elaborate systems to hide what is happening to children from the very people who have a fundamental right to know: their parents,\u201d AFL senior counsel Ian Prior said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cParents are not the enemy, and the era of school districts secretly facilitating life-altering decisions for children behind their parents\u2019 backs must come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n

America First Legal targeted three of the country\u2019s largest public school districts in a series of complaints last week. San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has been cracking down on schools that have kept major details about students hidden from parents. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The complaints argue that all three districts allow students to change the pronouns and names they go by without apprising parents.<\/p>\n

They are also accused of allowing transgender females to compete in girls\u2019 sports and access women-only facilities, including bathrooms and locker rooms.<\/p>\n

AFL is urging the Trump administration to consider yanking federal funding from all three districts, citing their publicly stated policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll students have a right to self-determination. This includes the right to keep their sexuality and gender identity, including transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming identities, confidential at school,\u201d Chicago Public Schools\u2019 policy says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Windy City district\u2019s policy toolkit<\/a> also clarifies that parents are not to be informed of any gender-related changes unless the child consents.<\/p>\n

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is set to grill the superintendents from the three school districts on Wednesday. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Similar to other cases, AFL cites the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars schools that discriminate based on sex from getting federal funds.<\/p>\n

AFL further accused the three school districts of improperly pushing \u201cgender ideology\u201d in the classroom without proper parental input.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese burdens are compounded by the District\u2019s active promotion of gender ideology in classroom instruction \u2026 without parental notice, consent, or an opportunity to opt out,\u201d the group said in its complaint against San Francisco. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd because the policy elevates the interests of some students while offering objecting families no comparable accommodation, it likely runs afoul of the Free Exercise Clause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post reached out to all three school districts for comment. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce is set to hold a hearing with superintendents from all three schools to investigate their handling of parental rights and inappropriate content in the classroom. <\/p>\n

\u201cCongress and the executive branch need to take a serious look at these schools,\u201d Prior said, \u201cand take every action available to remedy these legal violations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three major school districts have been accused of letting students conceal their gender identity from parents as their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4419,19442,15,657,4515,13,101,103,102,104,106,105,40284,48636,3586,14424],"class_list":["post-351935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-chicago","tag-department-of-education","tag-education","tag-exclusive","tag-justice-department","tag-politics","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-rights","tag-us-news","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}