Fri Feb 24, 2023 – 3:23 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Eight of the largest school districts in the nation, representing two and a half million students, require parents to consent for a child to receive over-the-counter medications such as aspirin but not for staff to indulge a student’s gender dysphoria, according to a new report.
This week, the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI), a nonprofit “focused on providing thoughtful, conservative solutions to challenges in the areas of education, workforce, labor, and employment policy,” released a report authored by former U.S. Department of Education press secretary Angela Morabito, which finds that “[a]t least three million K–12 students in 25 districts are given free rein to choose their gender identity at school by changing the name and pronouns used by school employees without parental consent, even though their schools require parental permission to dispense over-the-counter medication to those same children.”
Out of the school districts with the 20 largest enrollment numbers in the United States, eight “have readily available policies or guidelines that direct school employees to address a child by the child’s preferred name and pronouns without obtaining permission from the child’s parents and
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