School district’s trans policy blasted for fostering 'deception’ under shadow of SCOTUS ruling

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FIRST ON FOX: A conservative legal group called on the Trump administration on Friday to investigate an Alaska school district over a policy that withholds gender identity information from parents. America First Legal asked the Education and Justice departments to open inquiries into the school district, the latest to come under scrutiny for its transgender policies in the wake of a major Supreme Court ruling last month that sided with religious parents on the matter. The high court’s decision applied to California but has continued to affect school districts across the country. AFL's complaint centers on a policy in Hoonah City School District, a small K-12 district in Alaska, that instructs school administrators to use a student's legal name and pronouns when communicating with parents, even if the student is going by a different name and pronouns at school. VIRGINIA MOM PRAISES TRUMP FOR SHINING 'A LIGHT' ON DAUGHTER'S SCHOOL TRANSITION CASE DURING SOTU AFL argued that in practice, the policy "requires school staff to present one identity to parents while facilitating another at school, effectively directing them to deceive parents about their own children." "Hoonah City School District’s nonsensical 'gender identity' policies strip parents of their rights, applaud deception, and brazenly violate federal law," AFL senior counsel Ian Prior said in a statement. The DOJ Civil Rights Division has already signaled it is open to investigating such policies after recently opening a similar probe into Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest school district comprising more than half a million students. CALIFORNIA HIT WITH FRESH SETBACK IN FAILED GENDER SECRECY CASE COSTING TAXPAYERS MILLIONS AFL's complaint mirrors a similar legal threat the conservative Thomas More Society made last month against the Westwood Regional School District in New Jersey. The legal group, which helped bring the California Supreme Court case , said it would initiate lit…