The Law Centre of the RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity has filed a complaint on behalf of a Rhode Island mother against a school district that guided her daughter toward “social transitioning,” hiding it from the mother along the way:

According to the complaint, “Unknown to Plaintiff, her daughter (as an 8th-grader) began to socially transition to a boy at school, with the help of school personnel.”

Because of RIDE’s guidance and polices, the complaint further states that “school personnel felt emboldened and compelled to encourage the daughter’s social transition, and to hide this fact from Plaintiff.”

Two years later, in the spring of 2024, as a 10th grader, the daughter attempted to commit suicide. Only then did the mother, Jane Doe, learn of her child’s multi-year transition …

The school district continues to keep secrets from Plaintiff, as it has subsequently refused to turn over the medical records of the daughter, a minor, despite an official release signed by her mother and legal guardian. A separate complaint was filed this past Friday with RIDE seeking the records that the daughter’s mother is legally entitled to.

The country is peppered with such stories.  That doesn’t seem to be the case, though, because this isn’t a story journalists want to tell.  They may, indeed, believe their role to be protecting the vulnerable and holding the powerful accountable, but they have a narrow and radical understanding of who falls on which side when it comes to progressive causes.

The school district and explicit state policy contributed of the estrangement of this daughter from her mother and a suicide attempt. This ought to be the stuff of media inquiry.  And it ought to be the stuff of public outrage.  Unfortunately, the public will not often find out about such events, and when people do catch wind of them, they internally discount the probability of the stories — perhaps assuming there must be more to them than is readily apparent — because they would have expected to receive the news from mainstream sources.

That isn’t how mainstream sources work, and as with the mass rape stories in the United Kingdom, we really must figure out how to repair this broken social nervous system.