After her daughter goes through gender confusion, an outspoken mother who is fighting Florida school districts is on a mission to help other parents maintain their rights.
“This started for my family at the height of Covid in 2020,” Little John told CBN News in January. “Our daughter acquired the ideological lies of gender identity and was born in the wrong body in May 2020. So this is after three friends from a local middle school suddenly began to identify them as a form of transgender.”
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Little John, who was recognized at the time when President Donald Trump attended a joint Congress meeting earlier this month, said “very little” about the “social contagion.”
She said she and her family, who knew her daughter was struggling, initially trusted the school and officials in the Leon County school system.
“Like so many parents, I trusted the school,” she said. “At the time I was volunteering at school.
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Little John said he reached out to his daughter’s teacher and revealed what was going on with her daughter. She told educators she “doesn’t affirm any kind of false sexual identity,” and that she is attracting counselors to help.
“We knew our kids were struggling. We were very concerned as parents because we loved no one more than our parents and no one knows their children,” she said. “So we treated this as a family.”
Little John was caught up in a legal challenge rooted in claiming that it happened after the first email to the teacher. She said her daughter met with the school without her knowledge and among other issues she was asked about the toilet.
“I thought what we were discussing was my child using the nickname,” Little John said. “Two weeks later, my 13-year-old daughter got into the car and said she was having a meeting at school, so I asked which toilet she wanted to use.”
She said, “I immediately emailed the school counselor.
Little John said the transgender transition plan was created essentially “closed room” with social workers, school counselors and assistant principals.
“When the guidance counselor called me that day, I emailed her with the assistant principal, but they told me they couldn’t give me any information about the secret meeting that we had held with my daughter,” she said. “They said my daughter had to agree to give me information.
Little John said it was a few weeks before she and her husband could see the support plan in question.
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