The Child and Parental Rights Campaign, Inc. (CPR-C) has announced it has filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the Perez family after discovering their child, a 12-year-old girl, was allegedly having secret meetings with officials from Clay County Schools and Paterson Elementary in Florida, Breitbart reports.

Mr. and Mrs. Perez became aware of the secret meetings after being called to their daughter’s school on January 5. After being forced to wait for 20 minutes, they finally sat down with the principal, assistant principal, a police officer, and the school counselor and informed them their daughter had attempted to hang herself in the school bathroom. And that this was the second such incident in two days.

The Perezes, shocked, asked why this happened, to which the school counselor responded that their daughter was experiencing “gender identity issue[s]” and the family’s Catholic faith prevented her from speaking to her parents. The counselor, Destiney Washington, then informed the parents she “had been secretly meeting each week with the couple’s daughter – for three to four months–regarding the young girl’s gender confusion, all without informing her parents.”

When Mr. and Mrs. Perez pressed to know why they were not informed of the meetings, one administrator cited “confidentiality issues.” Apparently, the “child’s confidentiality is protected from parents until she is determined to be a danger to herself or others.”

Regarding the incident, Mary McAlister, an attorney with CPR-C, said:

“Once again we have Florida school officials usurping the rights of parents because school officials believe they are better equipped to raise children than are the child’s natural parents. Parental rights are amongst our most venerated constitutionally protected rights and are critical to the integrity of our public school system of education.”

Of course, this isn’t the first time schools have decided parents should take a back seat to school staff. Nor is it the first time a child so young has been indoctrinated into one of the left’s favorite social causes.

CPR-C also put out a statement about this case in a press release saying:

“Endorsing a discordant gender identity in conflict with a child’s biological reality is a serious mental health decision that school personnel are neither competent, qualified, nor authorized to make. By its actions the school’s personnel substituted their judgment for that of the parents and in doing so placed this child’s life at risk. School officials showed utter disregard for the rights and beliefs of the parents. The school’s clandestine and unauthorized actions deprived these parents of their right to be informed of what was going on with their daughter concerning a serious mental health issue and of their ability to provide their child the mental health assistance she needed. In short, they deprived these parents of the right and ability to care for and protect their child.”

Clay County Schools responded by stating they believe CPR-C’s statement is “invalid.” But I’m not quick to trust anyone associated with public schools, especially when it comes to their propensity for pushing gender and sexuality indoctrination on young children.

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