Overview
- America First Legal filed a complaint with the Justice and Education departments alleging Montgomery County Public Schools conceal students’ gender transitions from parents.
- The filing targets the 2025–26 Gender Identity handbook directive that staff first assess a student’s home support before contacting a parent.
- The handbook creates student-led Gender Support Plans and uses Form 560-80, which it orders kept outside a student’s cumulative or confidential files.
- It labels a student’s transgender status as confidential medical information and says sharing it with parents can itself violate FERPA, the federal student-records law.
- AFL argues the policy also covers bathrooms, locker rooms, and overnight sleeping arrangements, alleges violations of FERPA and constitutional rights, seeks policy rescission and records access, and the district declined to comment due to pending litigation.