2025: Year At A Glance: This has been a big year for parents. We have seen President Trump enact policies protecting parental rights and empowering parental authority through various executive orders and policy actions, and we have seen states adopt policies that protect children and provide the necessary tools for parents to navigate everyday life. Our work is not done – far from it. We are still seeing attacks on girls’ sports and spaces, indoctrination of our kids through activist organizations, and online platforms that put our children in harm’s way. American Parents Coalition will continue to advocate for parents across the country and work to ensure parents are in the driver’s seat of their child’s lives.
Stopping Attacks on Girls’ Sports and Spaces:
In 2025, American Parents Coalition worked tirelessly fighting for the protection of Title IX enforcement for women and girls. Through various campaigns, we repeatedly emphasized the damages inflicted by the Biden Administration’s radical rewrite of Title IX, which allowed biological men to invade women’s sports and spaces across the country.
In an effort to inform parents of the breadth of this problem, APC launched an interactive map plotting instances where boys have been allowed to participate in girls’ sports and have access to private spaces such as locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers. This map serves as a resource for those who want to ensure their communities, schools, and sports leagues have policies that protect women and girls. There is also a Share Your Story feature where additional examples can be submitted for inclusion on our map.
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At the start of the year, Maine became ground zero in the fight for girls’ sports when Maine
State Representative Laurel Libby sparked national attention after being censured by the Maine Speaker of the House for defending Title IX. American Parents Coalition stood by elected officials like Laurel Libby for defending girls’ sports and spaces, and released a poll highlighting support in Maine for protecting girls’ sports.
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We also exposed other organizations that threatened the safety and privacy of girls and women. We launched a campaign exposing the YMCA for allowing males to use female spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms or cabins, often without even notifying parents. In response, the YMCA quietly scrubbed and restricted webpages in an attempt to hide the evidence. American Parents Coalition continued to put the pressure on the organization and sent a letter to the Secretaries Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Department of Energy, and Capitol Hill calling for an investigation into the YMCA’s federal funding for alleged Title IX violations.
Advocating for Healthcare Price Transparency
This year, American Parents Coalition launched Parents Need Prices, a campaign demanding clear, upfront healthcare pricing so parents can plan care without getting hit with surprise bills. APC published a Healthcare Price Transparency Lookout, and shared simple action steps for parents, then urged the Trump Administration, HHS, Treasury, and Labor to strengthen policies that let families know what insurance covers and what they will owe before care, backed by a new TV ad and ParentsNeedPrices.com.
Pushing Back Against Radical Activists:
In 2025, parental rights were on the docket at the Supreme Court. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, parents won in a landmark case to determine whether schools can prevent parents from opting their children out of sensitive courses and material. APC Executive Director Alleigh Marré explained in her op–ed in Real Clear Education that parental rights should not be optional, and activist school administrators or board members should not be allowed to erode parental authority.
Parents deserve to be in the driver’s seat of their children’s lives, especially with their education. The Our Children’s Trust Lookout exposes Our Children’s Trust (OCT) for emotionally manipulating children by promoting climate hysteria. OCT does this via the distribution of free instructional materials to schools that are designed to indoctrinate students with a specific climate worldview, including lesson plans and activities tied to climate litigation. But OCT doesn’t stop there; they go so far as to convince children to sign their names to lawsuits that push radical environmental mandates and dictate national energy policy.
We also revealed how associations like America’s largest teachers’ unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) push radical political agendas that undermine education fundamentals and parental rights. These unions divert resources away from classrooms while endorsing and financially supporting left-wing political candidates and causes, including large campaign contributions. The Trump Administration has proposed reforms that would restore parental control and “depoliticize” education, but NEA and AFT have vehemently opposed these reforms because they currently operate more like left-wing activist organizations rather than education advocates.
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Similarly American Parents Coalition exposed how the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA), is quietly influencing institutions to defy federal law by promoting gender ideology in schools. American Parents Coalition proved how ATIXA is a network of over 13,000 Title IX officers, DEI activists, and administrators who embed gender ideology into school policies—especially in higher education and K-12 institutions receiving federal funding.
Protecting Children Online:
It is imperative parents understand the radically changing technological climate as it becomes more intertwined in everyday life. Through various campaigns, American Parents Coalition raised awareness on the dangers various social media platforms pose to children and what parents can do to protect their children online.
Chinese-owned apps like Lemon8, RedNote, and TikTok raise similar concerns with problematic algorithms that promotes videos that glamorize self-harm, eating disorders and other inappropriate content. Following a 2024 campaign named TikTok is Poison, amid a potential TikTok deal for U.S. ownership, APC launched a mobile billboard outside the White House with an accompanying letter to Vice President JD Vance asking him to consider American children and families as the TikTok deal nears completion.
The rise of social media is paired with the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Doubling down on an explosive Wall Street Journal report, American Parents Coalition blasted Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, for harming children through its promotion of AI chatbots or digital companions that participate in intimate conversations, share pictures, and conduct “romantic role play” with children and adults. Accompanied with the Lookout, APC launched a new website, sent a letter to various House and Senate Committees to investigate Meta’s child protection standards and product safety controls, and ran mobile billboards at Meta’s California HQ and the D.C. office.
Like Meta’s AI chatbots, AI presents itself on other platforms. APC’s AI Lookout explores how these platforms can be accessed without parental oversight, erode critical thinking, isolate kids from real relationships, and expose them to harmful content. Parents must empower themselves with a proper understanding of AI so they can set appropriate guardrails for their children.
Amid concerns that online platforms could have played a role in numerous recent acts of violence, APC launched a Lookout alerting parents to how online gaming platforms could be radicalizing, grooming, or sexually exploiting their kids. Children on gaming and social media platforms are regularly exposed to online environments that offer unrestricted access to mature, harmful, and extremist content which they are not emotionally equipped to process. Huge wins took place in both Florida and Iowa in December, with both states’ Attorneys General suing Roblox for misrepresenting the platform’s safety and endangering children.
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OTHER NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
GOP LAWMAKER INTRODUCES PARENTAL RIGHTS RELIEF ACT: Rep. Harriet Hageman introduced a bill allowing parents to sue schools in civil court for violating federal laws on access to student records and opt-out rights for surveys on sensitive topics. Read more here.
HHS MOVES TO CUT OFF FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR HOSPITALS PROVIDING GENDER PROCEDURES TO MINORS: HHS proposed rules that would bar hospitals providing certain gender interventions for minors from Medicare and Medicaid, and block Medicaid and CHIP coverage for those services. Read more here.
HOUSE SUBCOMMITEE ADVANCES 18 BILLS TO PROTECT KIDS ONLINE: Lawmakers advanced a package of online safety bills, including KOSA and COPPA 2.0, sending them to the full House Energy and Commerce Committee. Read more here.
FLORIDA AG SUES ROBLOX OVER CHILD SAFETY CLAIMS: Florida filed suit alleging Roblox misled families about platform safety and failed to protect kids from graphic content and predators. Read more here.
Thanks for reading the latest edition of the American Parents Coalition’s The Lookout. If you have a troubling story to share about a school, doctor, company, or other institution working to usurp parents’ rights, please let us know by emailing us at outreach@americanparentscoalition.org.
