This is yet another case (among many) where a school district flouts parental rights by demanding the use of a minor child’s preferred name and pronouns, not only without parental consent or knowledge—but under a policy that intentionally deceives a child’s parents or defies their instructions if they do not affirm the child’s life-altering decision to transition to the opposite sex. The NC Values Institute wrote the brief to highlight the dangerous combination of compelled speech and viewpoint discrimination, in addition to the massive intrusion on parental rights.
Read our brief in full below.
Heaps v. Del Valley Amicus Brief
September 23, 2025
Amicus Brief • Family • Freedom • Issues • Take Action
“As a society, we need to cherish the institutions that bring us into existence, and give our existence meaning. I believe human flourishing starts with the heart and the home.”
“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
“… if we descend still lower and go down to families, it is true even there that the village is composed of families and not that the families are cut from the village. The family was there first, and only then could the village take shape. Finally, if the village vanished there would still be families; but if the households were to disband the village too would come to an end.”
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