Colorado Parents Sue After Daughter Placed in Same Bed as Biological Male Student on School Trip

By: Bonny Chu | Fox News

Lawsuit alleges Colorado district assigns overnight rooms by gender identity without parental consent

Several Colorado parents are suing their local school district after an overnight school trip allegedly tried to place a transgender-identifying male student in a hotel room — and ultimately the same bed — with an 11-year-old girl.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative legal organization that advocates for religious liberty, filed its opening brief Wednesday in “Wailes v. Jefferson County Public Schools” with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on behalf of four families.

The lawsuit alleges that the district, located near Denver, allows biologically male students to share overnight accommodations with girls based solely on gender identity without notifying parents or seeking their consent.

According to the complaint, the district’s policies violate parents’ fundamental right to make decisions about the upbringing and education of their children and places students in uncomfortable or potentially unsafe situations.

During the summer of 2023, Joe and Serena Wailes’s daughter had just finished fifth grade and was reportedly traveling with classmates on a school trip to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

The Wailes said their daughter was assigned to a two-bed hotel room with three other students — two girls from her school and one from another school in the district, the suit stated.

According to the complaint, as the children prepared for bed on the first night, the daughter learned that her bedmate was biologically male and identifies as a transgender female. The girl reportedly went into the bathroom to call her mother, who was nearby and serving as a chaperon.

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