Seeking mythical case

I was sent on a search last Friday while reading Dana D. Kelley’s whine about how straight, white Christians are being treated unfairly in Florida by Mickey, Cinderella and their sidekicks.

It happened when Kelley asserted that some Florida school districts, without parent knowledge or consent, had “even helped supply hormones to students.” That’s real news. You can’t drop a statement like that and leave us hanging. I needed to know more: Who? How old were the students? Where did it happen?

I checked Google — even Google Scholar — but got zilch. Google couldn’t find any cases where elementary or secondary schools supplied hormones, but did list a couple of university student health centers. Google also turned up a recent Family Research Council piece, “Calif. Schools: Hormones through Homeroom,” but it was all speculation about what will happen if the teachers’ union gets what it secretly wants from the Legislature. Surely that couldn’t be the case cited by Kelley.

Maybe the legislative records for the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” (HB1557) would help me find the cases referenced by Kelley. No luck with the Florida Senate Bill Analysis and Fiscal Impact Statement. It cited no cases where a school had provided hormones. The House of Representatives Staff Final Bill Analysis, however, looked more promising. The first section of the report was titled — I’m not kidding — “Substantive Information.” It was substantive and it had 52 real footnotes.

And that’s where I found a possible case. Footnote 26 provided a link to press coverage of litigation between parents and Leon School District over parental consent. But this couldn’t be one of the cases cited by Kelley because it was a dispute about nickname and pronoun selection with no mention of hormones.

So I had to give up with no clear answers. I suspect that Kelley’s districts supplying hormones are pretty much the same places where the MyPillow guy says Donald Trump’s votes were stolen. Just another case of he heard it from his brother’s co-worker who got it from a cousin’s good friend who heard it firsthand from a neighbor of his ex-wife’s boyfriend.

EARL ANTHES

Forrest City