The Poudre records: How a school “safe space” became a five-year parental-rights battle
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
It has been just over five years. No one has been held accountable.
That is how Erin Lee describes what happened on May 4, 2021 and everything since. Federal litigation, Supreme Court petitions and public records battles have produced thousands of pages of emails, court filings and internal policies. "It's been an insane five years," she told RMV in May.
“She came home and excitedly proclaimed she was transgender”
The Lees moved from Florida to Wellington, Colorado in 2020. Erin says she and her husband were "faithless, left-leaning parents" with a close relationship with their daughter.
In spring 2021 that daughter had just turned twelve and was enrolled at Wellington Middle School. Her homeroom and art teacher was Jenn...

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