Arguing that “parental-exclusion policies present one of the most important constitutional controversies in the nation,” a Florida couple has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a battle with the Leon County school system about a child who wanted to express a gender identity and use pronouns the parents didn’t support.

Attorneys for January and Jeffrey Littlejohn filed a petition last week urging the Supreme Court to hear the dispute, after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them.

The petition said appellate courts across the country have taken different stances in cases with similar legal issues and that the Supreme Court should step in to resolve the questions.

The lawsuit stems from the 2020-2021 school year, when the Littlejohns’ child, a 13-year-old student at

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