Local parent Heather Romeri and her son Nico, a high school student who is trans, wrote in support of the school's policy in a friend-of-the-court brief filed by GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and the ACLU of New Hampshire, which represented the district. Nico said at the time that "it was important for me to have the support of other people I could trust to help me feel ready to talk to my parents, especially people who could help make it easier for me to talk to my mom."
The state's highest court ruled today that the mother's claim did not have merit, writing in its decision that the district's policy "places no limits on the plaintiff's ability to parent her child as she sees fit." The ruling further states, "The Policy does not prevent parents from observing their children's behavior, moods, and activities; talking to their children; providing religious or other education to their children; choosing where their children live and go to school; obtaining medical care and counseling for their children; monitoring their children's communications on social media; choosing with whom their children may socialize; and deciding what their children may do in their free time."
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