Should a school or a student’s parents decide whether the child can be involved in gender transitioning? In Australia, material associated with the gender fluidity Safe Schools program on the Commonwealth government’s Wellbeing Hub tells schools there are times when parents can be kept in the dark.

The question of parents’ rights is news in Florida where an impending Court of Appeals case seeks to overturn a decision that schools can help students gender transition without telling parents and getting their consent.

According to the appeal brief the school concerned met with the parent’s daughter, without their knowledge, and helped her ‘develop...