A New York woman is suing a local school district, alleging officials began treating her middle-school daughter as a boy without her knowledge or consent, and at the same time, hiding it from her.
Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a nonprofit religious rights law firm, are representing Jennifer Vitsaxaki. They filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Skaneateles Central School District and the Skaneateles Central Schools’ Board of Education for its employees’ actions.
According to the complaint, Vitsaxaki had contacted the school when her daughter began struggling with anxiety and depression. She repeatedly asked school employees if they had noticed anything troubling her daughter. She was repeatedly reassured her daughter was fine.
However, while school officials kept telling Vitsaxaki that there was nothing to report, a school counselor was regularly meeting with her daughter and other girls who were the victims of ongoing bullying. The school district reportedly began treating Vitsaxaki’s daughter as if she were a boy, without telling her mother, just as it had done with several other girls in her grade, according to the lawsuit.
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ADF says the same counselor instructed
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