Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and Republican leaders from more than 20 other states Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a battle between a couple and the Leon County school system about a child who wanted to express a gender identity and use pronouns the parents didn't support.

Lawyers in Uthmeier's office filed a 16-page friend-of-the-court brief backing January and Jeffrey Littlejohn, who filed a petition last month at the Supreme Court after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them.

While Republican leaders from other states—mostly attorneys general—signed onto the Florida brief, numerous conservative organizations also have filed separate briefs in recent days supporting the Littlejohns.

"Parental rights are fundamental and foundational,

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