Parents suing over LGBTQ club claims regarding teachers and their daughters

Two Colorado families are suing their children’s school district over allegations that teachers and administrators encouraged their daughters to join an LGBTQ club and keep the activities “secret” from them.

America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Poudre School District on behalf of Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich, whose sixth-grade daughters attended Wellington Middle-High School, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by the Daily caller.

The activities of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) were not known to parents and those running the club meetings actively encouraged students to have conversations about polyamory, puberty blockers, transgenderism, gender identity, sexuality, suicide, and name and pronoun changes an secret from their parents.

Teachers also invited Deputy Teacher Kimberly Chambers, who is the executive director of the organization Supporting Pride Learning and Social Happenings (SPLASH) that aims to “educate school-aged children about topics such as sexuality and gender identity,” to speak at one of the GSA meetings. , which Lee’s sixth-grade daughter attended, according to the lawsuit.

Chambers reportedly “told the kids that if they’re not completely comfortable in their bodies, that means they’re transgender,” while giving a speech to the school club on May 4, 2021.

Pictured: Kimberly Chambers, left, poses next to Supporting Pride Learning and Social Happenings (SPLASH) Youth of Northern Colorado members. Teachers invited Deputy Teacher Chambers, who is the executive director of the SPLASH organization, to speak at one of the GSA meetings, which Lee’s sixth-grade daughter attended, according to the lawsuit

The teacher also had kids discuss what sex and sex they are attracted to and gave students “LGBTQ paraphernalia like toys, flags and other swag” if they “came out” as transgender.

The teacher told the students there was “a higher chance of suicide by transgender youth,” but the Lee family said their daughter didn’t even fully understand what suicide was at the time.

Chambers also repeatedly told students that it “might not be safe to tell their parents what happened at the GSA meeting or talk about transgender issues,” and instead suggested they talk to her or other teachers. She offered students her phone number and told them to contact her on Discord so they could contact her at any time.

The Lees were thrilled that their ‘shy’ daughter had been asked to participate in school activities as she hadn’t had many opportunities to make friends, but were alarmed to find that upon returning home from the meeting she was told she ‘would be ‘. transition, despite the fact that I had never thought about transgenderism before the meeting’.

Their daughter has since given up her desire to transition, but, according to the lawsuit, endured a “month-long emotional downturn of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts.”

In the photo: Wellington High School. The daughters of Johnathan and Erin Lee and Nick and Linnaea Jurich attended the school

Pictured: Erin Lee. The teacher told the students there was “a higher chance of suicide by transgender youth,” but the Lee family said their daughter didn’t even fully understand what suicide was at the time

The Jurich family are suing because their daughter received much of the same treatment as the Lee’s daughter, where students were told by WMS art teacher and staff sponsor of the school-sponsored GSA club, Jenna Riep, “that if they don’t like their bodies they most likely did not have the sex they were ‘assigned’ at birth’.

In addition, Riep “encouraged secrecy, confidentiality and suspicion about whether her parents could be trusted with these discussions” and invited Jurich’s daughter to a meeting with SPLASH, the organization Chambers was affiliated with.

After the meeting, their daughter had “her first suicidal thoughts” and began leaving notes for her parents about transgenderism, stating that she was “aromantic” and “asexual.” In the fall of 2021, she began questioning her gender identity.

“After her experiences at the GSA club, her relationship with her friends deteriorated and she was uncomfortable with the idea of ​​possibly taking classes with Riep,” the lawsuit said.

Their daughter’s well-being “underwent a significant decline” to the point where she asked to be homeschooled.

She eventually attempted to take her own life by drinking bleach and has since “stated that her disturbed emotional state began when she attended GSA at WMS.”