Family · Santa Fe, NM Metro · August 29, 2026
Santa Fe Schools Add Parental Consent, Still Withhold Facility Notice
Santa Fe Public Schools revised its gender policy on August 20, now requiring parents or guardians to approve any "Gender Support Plan" before it takes effect, according to Washington Examiner reporter Amy DeLaura. Previously, students alone decided whether parents were told about a transition. The plans still let students use restrooms matching their stated gender identity and require staff and classmates to use preferred names and pronouns — and the district still does not notify other families when their children will share private facilities with a student of the opposite biological sex. Liberty Counsel, representing New Mexico parents, filed a federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights in March after the district rejected an earlier demand letter. Founder Mat Staver said the district still risks losing federal funding and DOJ litigation over alleged Title IX violations. The change followed a complaint from Santa Fe mother Kristy Borrero Ojinaga, who said her six-year-old daughter was followed into the girls' restroom and subjected to inappropriate conduct by a male classmate with a Gender Support Plan; a district wellness coordinator reportedly called the behavior "typical and normal."
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Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
This story shows a school district partially yielding to pressure on parental consent while still leaving girls unprotected in shared facilities and shielding that fact from parents under FERPA. Scripture affirms that God made mankind "male and female" (Genesis 1:27), a created order this policy framework overrides by treating a child's stated identity as more authoritative than biological reality or parental oversight. Christians should note that even a partial reform — consent for the transitioning student's own family — still leaves other families in the dark about who shares their daughters' restrooms. Parents and churches in districts with similar policies should not assume "consent" language protects all children; it may only protect the district from one category of complaint.
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. — Matthew 18:6
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From the book
As the Chapter 8b case study showed, the capture of parental authority usually happens by reframing morality as safety. Activists introduce concepts of gender theory or sexual liberation into schools. They do not call it moral instruction, which would be the parent's domain. They call it comprehensive health education, which is the expert's domain. Then when a parent objects to explicit material, the institution answers that these materials were selected by credentialed experts and the parent is not an expert, so the objection is invalid.
— Chapter 18, “The Expert Against the Parent”
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