On October 14th, the Liberty Justice Center released an official warning with two demands on Illinois High School District 128.
Illinois High School District 128, which includes both Libertyville High School and Vernon Hills High School, includes two policies that directly violate the rights of students and parents under the Constitution.
These two policies are:
In these policies, overnight sleeping arrangements are determined on the basis of someone’s self-prescribed gender identity– not on biological fact. In addition to this, the Gender Support Guidelines do not require full disclosure of any transgender students to either parents or students.
In essence, the parents are not told whether or not their daughters will be forced to share sleeping arrangements with a biological male, and the female students are also left in the dark.
The guidelines also require gender-affirming literature to be included in the libraries and the curriculum without any need for parental notice and without providing any type of “opt-out” option for parents.
According to the press release from Liberty Justice Center,
“Together, these policies undermine parents’ constitutionally protected right to make informed decisions about their children’s safety, welfare and upbringing—rights the Supreme Court reaffirmed in Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025) and Mirabelli v. Bonta (2026).”
Families who have been directly affected by policies like this joined with the Liberty Justice Center to form a PARENTS Initiative. Kathryn Cosgrove, counsel at Liberty Justice Center, told The Daily Signal,
“We’re aware of several families whose daughters were directly affected by these policies, meaning not only exposure to unconstitutional curricula and ‘secret gender transition’ policies, but also being forced to share overnight accommodations with a biological male.”
Cosgrove also noted that policies like this directly violate the 14th Amendment, under which parents have the exclusive right “to direct the health, safety, and welfare of one’s own children.”
“District 128’s policies put school administrators in the role of deciding what parents can and cannot know about their own children…
Parents have a fundamental constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their children—that includes knowing who their child is sharing a room with on an overnight school trip. Teachers also have the right to speak in accordance with their sincerely held beliefs. And biological girls have a right to privacy and protection from sex discrimination in locker rooms and school bathrooms. These are not optional protections, and District 128 will be held accountable if it ignores them.”
In its official warning, the Liberty Justice Center is calling on District 128 to:
- Provide written assurance that it will amend its written policies to comply with parents’, teachers’ and students’ constitutional and statutory rights; and
- Provide written assurance that it will notify all staff of the revised policies and provide appropriate training.
District 128 is in gross violation of the rights of students and parents. As a mom to a little girl, I cannot imagine how these parents feel knowing their school district cares nothing for the protection, privacy, and safety of their daughters.
If you have a child in District 128 and would like to learn more about the PARENTS Initiative, click here.
In the meantime, parents it is time to get your kids out of government schools. They have proven time and again that their first priority is political correctness– not the health, safety, and proper education of your children.
Choose differently next semester.
