Sixteen state attorneys general filed an amicus brief opposing parents’ rights and supporting policies where schools hide information about children’s sexual identity confusion from their parents.

The brief was filed in support of school officials in a Massachusetts case where parents had sued the officials and the school district for concealing their children’s struggles with accepting their sexual identity.

In the lawsuit, Foote v. Ludlow School Committee, the parents also alleged that school officials ignored clear warnings to the school by participating in conversations with their children about mental health issues.

The parents had already engaged help for their children, who were only 11 years old at the time. The parents lost their first round, when U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni dismissed the case last December, but they have appealed their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

The parents said the school violated their constitutional rights by meeting secretly with their children to engage in counseling and advocacy related to mental health and discordant gender identity without parental notice and consent; deceiving parents by using one set of names and pronouns when communicating with them and another at school; directing children to speak untruthfully by instructing them to use alternate gender pronouns and names for their peers; and nurturing distrust for parents through secret meetings.

Since they can’t win on the facts, Leftists frequently employ an alternative approach: shame, defame and slander their ideological opponents.

Just ask Brett Kavanaugh. Ask Clarence Thomas. Ask Alliance Defending Freedom.

And now, ask Moms for Liberty.

Glenn Altschuler is an American Studies professor at Cornell University. He’s also the author of a recent op-ed in The Hill disparaging Moms for Liberty as an “extremist” organization.

In reality, Moms for Liberty was founded to combat something actually extreme: the ideological indoctrination of young children occurring in schools around the nation.

Though some — like Mr. Altschuler — may try to deny such programming occurs, the Daily Citizen has well documented this fact.

To be clear, there are many good teachers in the United States.

But that doesn’t mean that in numerous places — especially more liberal enclaves — ideological indoctrination is not taking place.

It is.

Moms for Liberty was founded in 2021. Its mission is to “fight for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.