Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is once again standing with the rights of parents to be able to protect their children from radical transgender ideology being spread in some public schools.

Marshall, who is also a candidate for U.S. Senate, joined a 22-state coalition that filed a brief in the U.S Supreme Court supporting parental rights and in opposition to a Massachusetts school district’s policy that allows the “social transitioning” of children without parental consent.

“Parents do not surrender their constitutional rights when they send their children to public school,” Marshall said. “Nor should government bureaucrats be allowed to hide life-altering decisions from mothers and fathers.”

The case, Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, involves Ludlow Public School in Massachusetts and parents Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri. The school secretly promoted “social transitioning”— actively subverting the parents’ requests for school personnel to keep parents informed about their children and calling their two children by new names and pronouns.

The school counselor even had secret discussions with the students and suggested that they weren’t safe with their parents.

“These actions are especially appalling in light of what Alabama uncovered about the medical industry and radical advocacy groups working to medicalize children,” Marshall continued. “The Supreme Court must make clear for once and for all that parents—not schools with woke ideological agendas—have the ultimate authority over their children.”

The coalition’s brief asks the Supreme Court to grant review of the case and reverse the flawed First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld the 2023 district court’s decision in favor of the school’s policy.

In the brief, the attorneys general argue the First Circuit’s decision should be reversed because hundreds of years of tradition and history recognize the importance of a parent’s rights to direct the care and upbringing of their children, and schools cannot make decisions rooted in parental power without parental consent.

Parental rights are constitutionally protected across each state and cannot be overridden when guiding a child’s health or education. The Supreme Court has also continued to recognize those rights under law.

Marshall has been a strong advocate for the rights of parents on this issue. Earlier this year, Marshall led amicus briefs filed in the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals that defended President Donald Trump’s executive order banning federal agencies from funding sex-change procedures for minors.

He also led the effort in defending Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act in the courts.

Attorneys general from West Virgina, Florida, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, and Guam also joined the brief led by Montana.

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee