A Colorado School District is being sued for allegedly intentionally placing children to sleep with the opposite sex on school camping and overnight field trips. 

Jefferson County School District policy of “Transgender Students” that requires all students be housed by gender identity, not biological sex. This policy was mailed to the transgender-identifying students and chaperones involved but not shared with other students or their parents.

The Wailes, Rollers, and Perlmans are the families suing the school district over their children. Both families cite school trips as the point at which they discovered their children were being placed in same-sex rooms, however claim that was unknown to them until after it happened.

For example, the suit points to 2 incidents in which a transgender-identifying boy was assigned as roommates with an 11-year-old girl. In one, a 15-year-old boy who was identified at the time as male but now lives as female -allegedly spent five nights in Wolf s Creek cabin with six and seven year olds.

The 11-year-old girl called her mother, who was a chaperon on the trip, and was taken out of the room. Because they were so remote with no cell service, the boys used sleeping bags as changing rooms and went without showers for a full week.

The parents have been in Colorado district court, asking that the school board not “violate our rights as parents or the rights of students.” 

The district did not take their children out of the situation afterward, according to the complaint.

“JeffCo violated parents’ fundamental rights by refusing to give them truthful, pertinent information about their children’s overnight accommodations, thus frustrating their ability to make informed decisions about their children’s education and related matters,” says the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a Colorado district court. “This constitutional violation also threatens the children’s right to bodily privacy, which is implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.”

At the time, one of the parents in that lawsuit Joe Wailes told The Daily Wire, “All parents should be concerned when information is hidden from them,” Joe Wailes told The Daily Wire. “We love our school and the people who work there, but no school district should have a policy that overrides parental rights and puts children’s privacy and safety at risk.”

“We want all children to be comfortable when sleeping overnight on school-sponsored trips,” he added. “We are grateful that the other parents are standing with us and hope more parents will stand up against these bad policies and ensure parents’ rights are protected.”

Courtesy of the Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which has had some high profile religious liberty cases in the U.S. The district families are represented by Kate Anderson, who is a Senior Counsel at ADF and said about JeffCo’s move to solicit information from parents this way.

The school district in Jefferson County has been criticized in the past for its policies and actions, including an episode where an elementary school teacher posted on Facebook that she wished a would-be presidental assassin had probably missed former President Donald Trump, as well as reports of students who identified themselves as “furries,” despite initial denials by the administration.