NEWSWEEK/ KHALEDA RAHMAN-
A California school district has reportedly settled a lawsuit brought by a mother who said her daughter was “socially transitioned” without her permission for $100,000.
Jessica Konen sued the Spreckels Union School District, claiming teachers at Buena Vista Middle School had secretly encouraged her daughter Alicia, then 11, to change her gender identity.
The school “fostered her identification as a boy, gave her articles on how to conceal her new gender identity from her family, and put her on a ‘Gender Support Plan’ that instructed school staff to refer to her by a male name and male pronouns,” according to the Center for American Liberty, the legal group that represented Konen.
They also let her use the unisex teachers’ bathroom, without informing Konen.
According to court documents, Konen said her daughter began returning to her “old self” when schools turned to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
