The California Justice Center joined the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Policy and Liberty Justice Center in filing an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County, Florida.
The Leon County School District — like over a thousand other school districts around the country — had a policy to secretly facilitate gender identity transitions of students at school and hide it from their parents. The Littlejohns sued after a district school secretly created a gender transition plan for their child without informing or involving them.
CJC’s amicus brief was filed on behalf of Dr. Erica E. Anderson, a transgender, clinical psychologist practicing in California and Minnesota with over 45 years of experience.
As the amicus brief explains: “The District in this case openly ignored the Littlejohns’ decision about what was best for their young daughter, did the exact opposite of what they had decided, and then attempted to keep secret from them what they were doing at school.
And the District knew, because the Littlejohns had told them, that their daughter was struggling with serious mental-health issues and was in therapy for them. The District had no basis to conclude that the Littlejohns were unfit in any way—it simply disagreed with their decision.”
“Schools cannot give children a Tylenol without parental consent; facilitating a secret gender transition is far more serious. This Court should grant the petition and reverse,” the brief argues.
Status: The U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari on April 27, 2026.