Wisconsin parents will get a chance to hear directly from Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, as well as lawmakers, advocates and a family at the center of a major parental rights fight Monday night as Moms for Liberty hosts its “Giving Parents a Voice” town hall in Richfield.
The free event runs from 7 to 9 p.m. September 21 at Terrace 167, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Organizers describe the town hall as a discussion about education and parental rights.
Among the featured panelists is Congressman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, who will be joined by conservative radio host Vicki McKenna, State Reps. Amanda Nedweski and Barb Dittrich, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty Deputy Counsel Cory Brewer, St. Croix County Moms for Liberty Chair Joleen Degelau and New Richmond student Ella Frei and her mother, Heidi.
Moms for Liberty co-founder and CEO Tina Descovich and local parent-activist Scarlett Johnson will moderate the panels.
Nedweski and Dittrich have both been prominent Republican voices on parental rights issues since joining the Legislature.
Nedweski was a co-author of Wisconsin’s 2023-24 Parents’ Bill of Rights, which sought to enumerate parental rights involving children’s education, health care and upbringing.
Dittrich has repeatedly authored legislation that would require girls’ and women’s school sports teams to be based on biological sex. Her 2023 bill would have prohibited male students from participating on teams designated for females. Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed this legislation each session that it has been introduced.
The panel will also feature a family whose experience has become part of Wisconsin’s broader debate over parental rights and policies governing sex-separated spaces in schools.
Ella Frei is a New Richmond High School student involved with New Richmond Parents for Strong Schools, a group of students and parents that sued the New Richmond School District in federal court this spring. The lawsuit alleges that the district violated Title IX and the constitutional rights of female students through a policy allowing students to use bathrooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex. Frei has publicly described her experience encountering a biologically male student in a girls’ restroom and becoming an advocate for sex-separated private facilities. WILL’s Brewer is representing the plaintiffs.
The issues discussed Monday also highlight differences in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race.
Democratic nominee David Crowley has been endorsed by an organization that has called for taxpayer-funded gender transitions for Wisconsin children while also providing public schools with curriculum that teaches kids as young as five years old about transgenderism. The group has opposed parental rights legislation in Wisconsin, fought to allow biological boys to compete in girls’s sports and invade women’s spaces, and has even instructed educators on how to socially transition elementary school students without their parents’s consent.
Monday’s town hall is free, but registration is required and space is limited.
The event will be held at Terrace 167, 3210 WI-167 in Richfield. You can sign up to attend here.
