All parents want is the right to opt their children out of sensitive lessons on gender and sexuality. Let’s hope the Court returns it to them.

The Supreme Court of the United States will take up Mahmoud v. Taylor, the case in which parents are fighting for their right to opt children out of gender and sexuality lessons.

Becket Fund, the law firm representing parents against the liberal behemoth of a school district, Montgomery County Public Schools, announced on Friday that SCOTUS “will hear a case that could protect notice and opt-out rights for parents in Montgomery County, Maryland. A diverse group of religious parents is asking the Court to restore their right to opt their children out of storybooks that push one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality.”

Incredible news. MCPS initially allowed parents to opt their children out of the lessons — which featured pride storybooks and instructed children that at birth, doctors “guess” at a baby’s sex — but reversed that decision months later, quietly, and with no exceptions. A coalition of Christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, liberal, and conservative parents petitioned the district to reconsider. MCPS did not. The district has instead spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer dollars defending its decision to force LGBTQ instruction on children in grades pre-K through eighth grade. Why? Opting out of such lessons would hinder the district’s ability to create “representative” classrooms. Gender and sexuality lessons are “critical for educating children in a diverse society,” district lawyers said a while back, and they don’t “work” unless all children are required to participate.

Read some of our coverage of the case:

Hundreds of Parents Gather outside Maryland School-Board Meeting to Protest Mandatory LGBT Curricula

‘Completely Unjustified’: Maryland District Closes School Board Meeting to Public amid Backlash against LGBT Curricula

Maryland Council Member Apologizes for Likening Muslims to White Supremacists over Opposition to LGBT Lessons

Maryland School District Lawyers Argue Gender, Sexuality Curriculum ‘Doesn’t Work’ If Students Can Opt Out

Parents Should Be Able to Opt Out of Gender Madness in Montgomery County

Gender Ideology Is ‘Radically At Odds with Christian Anthropology’: Amicus Brief Defends Maryland Parents’ Case for Opt-Out

Montgomery County Public Schools Continues to Spend Big on Preventable Legal Fees

Maryland School District Charges Parents Concerned about LGBT Curriculum $18K for Public Records

Maryland Parents Not Done Fighting for Opt-Out

Maryland Parents Petition Supreme Court to Reinstate Parental Right to Opt Out of Gender, Sexuality Lessons

Montgomery County Administrators Will Never Deviate from Progressivism

Kudos to the parents and lawyers at Becket for bringing the battle to SCOTUS. All parents want is the right to opt their children out of sensitive lessons on gender and sexuality. Let’s hope the Court returns it to them.