Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a multi-state push for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case examining whether school districts must notify parents regarding changes in their student’s gender identity.

The amicus brief, signed by attorneys general from 21 states and one U.S. territory, asks the Supreme Court to review the case Foote v. Ludlow School Committee.

Parents, Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri, allege in the case that faculty from Ludlow Public Schools violated their parental rights through a school district policy against notifying parents when a child asks to be referred to by a different name or set of gender pronouns in school, without first obtaining the student’s consent.

Foote and Silvestri are parents of two students who attended Baird Middle Scho

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