Mom’s Damages Claim Over Trans-Student Notification Revived

A Pennsylvania mother can seek damages in a suit over a school district policy that limits parental notification of a student’s gender transition unless the parent is already involved in the process, a split Third Circuit decided.

The mother has standing to pursue damages for her due process claims under the Fifth and 14th Amendments, but her claims for prospective relief were properly dismissed since her child is no longer enrolled in the district, the court said in ...