An outspoken mom fighting back against a Florida school district after her daughter experienced gender confusion is on a mission to help other parents maintain their rights.
“This started for my family at the height of COVID in 2020,” January Littlejohn told CBN News. “Our daughter fell prey to the lies of gender identity ideology and that she was born in the wrong body in May of 2020. And so this was shortly after three of her friends at our local middle school had also started suddenly identifying as some form of transgender.”
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At the time, Littlejohn, who was recognized by President Donald Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this month, said “very little” was known about this “social contagion.”
She said she and her family, who were aware their daughter was struggling, initially trusted the school and officials with the Leon County school system.
“Like so many parents, I trusted the school,” she said. “I had no reason at that time not to, and, in fact, I was volunteer of the year at the school. I was a huge proponent for public schools and teachers. I dedicated hundreds of hours to volunteering in the classroom.”
Littlejohn said she reached out to her daughter’s teacher and disclosed what was happening with her daughter. She told the educator she was “not affirming any kind of false sexual identity” and that she was engaging a counselor to assist.
“We did know that our child was struggling and we were very concerned as her parents, because nobody loves and knows their child more than a parent does,” she said. “So we were handling this as a family.”
Littlejohn has been embroiled in a legal challenge rooted in what she claims happened after her initial email to the teacher. She said her daughter met with the school without her knowledge and was asked questions about restrooms, among other issues.
“I thought what we were discussing was my child using a nickname,” Littlejohn said. “Two weeks later, my 13-year-old daughter got into the car and told me that she had a meeting at school, and they asked her which restroom she wanted to use.”
She continued, “I immediately emailed the school counselor because I was very alarmed. No. 1, that they had a meeting with my daughter that I was not invited to attend. But, No. 2, why were they asking her which restroom she wanted to use?”
Littlejohn said a transgender transition plan was essentially created “behind closed doors” with a social worker, school counselor and assistant principal — and that she had no idea.
“When the guidance counselor called me back that same day I had emailed her with the assistant principal, they initially told me they could not give me any information about the secret meeting they held with my daughter,” she said. “They told me my daughter had to be the one to consent to giving me any information. So, you know, that’s really what propelled us down this pathway.”
Littlejohn said it was weeks before she and her husband were able to see the support plan in question — something she said went well beyond choosing a nickname.
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