Wisconsin Court Backs Parents in Suit Over School’s Trans Policy

A Wisconsin school district violated parents’ fundamental right to direct their children’s medical care by implementing a policy that required teachers to refer to students by their preferred pronouns, a state trial judge said.

The Kettle Moraine School District couldn’t give a student medicine or allow them to participate in a sport without parental consent, and likewise couldn’t “change the pronoun of a student without parental consent without impinging on a fundamental liberty interest of the parents,” Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael P. Maxwell said in an opinion filed Tuesday.

The decision concerns a subject that’s caused a great ...