The Liberty Justice Center, alongside the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the California Justice Center, has filed two amicus briefs on behalf of Dr. Erica E. Anderson in Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County. The case involves Florida parents January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, who allege that their local school concealed from them critical conversations with their child about gender identity and proceeded to socially transition the child with a new name and pronouns without notifying or involving the parents.
On April 30, 2025, the Liberty Justice Center and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed an amicus brief on behalf of Dr. Erica Anderson, PhD with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. A three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision siding with the school district, but the parents petitioned for the full twelve-member court to hear the case en banc.
On October 6, the Liberty Justice Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and the California Justice Center, filed an amicus brief on behalf of Dr. Erica E. Anderson, PhD in Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dr. Erica E. Anderson, PhD, is a transgender clinical psychologist with more than 45 years of experience counseling children and adolescents on gender-identity-related issues. Drawing on her decades of practice, Dr. Anderson emphasizes that proper care for children experiencing gender incongruence ultimately requires the involvement of their parents. The filing argues that excluding or deceiving parents in this decision violates longstanding Supreme Court precedent protecting parents’ right to direct their children’s upbringing, most recently reaffirmed in the Court’s 2025 Mahmoud v. Taylor decision. The brief further explains that the deliberate deception of parents crosses a constitutional line that “shocks the conscience.”
“These secrecy policies unlawfully strip parents of their fundamental right to guide their children’s upbringing and health decisions,” said Dean McGee, Senior Counsel and Director of Educational Freedom at the Liberty Justice Center. “With courts nationwide divided on this critical issue, the Supreme Court must step in to provide clarity and reaffirm parents’ fundamental rights.”
The Liberty Justice Center has been a leading advocate for transparency and parental rights in education and is currently challenging California’s AB1955—a law that prohibits school districts from adopting transparency policies that ensure parents are informed about major decisions concerning their children—in Chino Valley v. Newsom, currently pending before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Liberty Justice Center’s most recent amicus brief in Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County is available here.
(FOX News)—Nearly two dozen states have banded together, filing an amicus brief to defend the constitutional rights of a Florida family, whose public middle school is accused of secretly “socially transitioning” their 13-year-old daughter without their consent. The brief, filed on April 30, involves January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, parents in...
(The Center Square)—A parental rights group and two constitutional liberty groups have filed “friend of the court” briefs in a case involving a Florida family suing a school district over the “social” transition of their daughter without their knowledge or approval. The case, Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County,...
(Legal Newsline)—On April 30, 2025, the Liberty Justice Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), and Dr. Erica Anderson filed an amici brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The brief supports two Florida parents, January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, who allege that their local...
(Just the News)—Does it “shock the conscience” for a Florida school district to withhold a 13-year-old’s gender transition from her parents and treat her as a boy even after her parents object? A divided panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set off alarm bells in March by...
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) and Dr. Erica Anderson, PhD, has filed an amici curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The brief supports the legal battle of two Leon County, Florida parents...
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