“Students have a constitutional right to privacy”: An ACLU of Kansas response regarding AG Kobach’s letters to schools
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“Students have a constitutional right to privacy”: An ACLU of Kansas response regarding AG Kobach’s letters to schools
Kansas Attorney General sends letters to six school districts, pushing for parents to be notified of ‘socially transitioning’
By Tori Whalen
Published: Feb. 9, 2024 at 1:54 PM CST
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (WIBW) - The ACLU of Kansas has released a response regarding the Kansas Attorney General’s letter to six Kansas Public School districts allegedly not disclosing a student’s pronouns shared in school to the student’s parents.
The ACLU of Kansas’s executive director, Micah Kubic, offered the following statement:
“Notably absent from Attorney General Kobach’s letter to school districts about their policies protecting transgender students is a meaningful legal analysis, so we are glad to provide one.”
The ACLU of Kansas says it believes “students have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to information about their sexual orientation or gender identity.” Further claiming “it is unlawful for school officials to disclose that information, and outing transgender students “likely violates federal privacy laws in addition to students’ constitutional privacy rights.” The ACLU even claims that “denying the students the right to use the name and pronouns that affirm their gender identity likely violates Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.”
Kansas Attorney General announced on Thursday, Feb. 8, that he has sent letters to several Kansas school districts challenging them over their school policies to not conceal to the parents a student’s “transgender” or “gender non-conforming” status. The Attorney General believes parents should know of this change.
On Thursday, Feb. 9, Kobach said, “A child changing his or her gender identity has major long-term medical and psychological ramifications. Parents should know, and have an opportunity to be involved in, such an important aspect of their well-being.”
The Attorney General notified the districts that their policies violate parental rights and asked whether the district collected parental input prior to adopting the transgender notification policies.
You can read the ACLU of Kansas’s full statement HERE.
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