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Parental Opt Out Letters

The Supreme Court recognizes the fundamental right of parents to direct the religious upbringing of their children. In 2025, the Court upheld parents’ rights to opt their children out of “LGBTQ” curricular content that conflicts with parents’ religious beliefs. On March 2, in Mirabelli v. Bonta, the Court found that school secrecy policies (where schools “socially transition” a child behind parents’ backs) likely violate parents’ religious and parental rights—schools cannot usurp parental rights. Parents of children in a public school should notify the school that they are opting their children out of “LGBTQ” content and expect to be notified if their child experiences identity issues. A template “opt-out” letter, created by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, can be downloaded here.

To view more, see the Person and Identity Project’s “Opt Out Letters” section on the parent resource page.

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“We are grateful for the work of the Person and Identity Project which assisted our leaders in Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis—including priests, Catholic school principals, and other members of parish leadership—to see the depth of gender theory’s influence and the seriousness of what is at stake. Our leaders in Catholic education were able to more deeply appreciate the challenges facing our Catholic educational institutions and more readily prepared to meet the pastoral need of students and families who are struggling with these difficult questions about our created identity as male and female.”

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