Three families are suing the Williamson County Board of Education and Legacy Middle School principal Alicia Justice after a transgender student was admitted into a girls-only sex education course. The plaintiff’s lawyer, Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood), is now fundraising off the case as he runs for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District seat.
According to a complaint filed in Williamson County Chancery Court, the seventh-grade course — also known as Family Life — took place at the school on May 15 and 16. The complaint, which can be read in full at the bottom of this post, characterizes the transgender student’s acceptance into the course as “reckless and intentional conduct” by the school and district that “caused emotional harm to the young ladies whose trust and innocence they betrayed.” According to the complaint, 13 girls did not participate on the second day of the course because they were uncomfortable with trans student's inclusion.
Two parents — Greg O’Brien and Vikki O’Brien, whose unidentified daughter is now in eighth grade — were named in the complaint, while two other sets of unidentified parents, both with eighth-grade daughters, are referred to as John and Jane Doe No. 1 and John and Jane Doe No. 2. The suit asks the court to find that the school and the district violated the law, and to not allow the trans student, or anyone aside from "biological female students," to take part in the girls-only sex education course.
The complaint also names LMS counselor Kristen Trudeau, though she is not listed as a defendant. According to her LinkedIn profile, Trudeau has worked for WCS for more than nine years and describes herself in a Psychology Today profile as “an LGBTQIA+ advocate and ally.” Trudeau is the owner of Franklin Teletherapy, where she specializes in “treating sex issues, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, the First Responder population, and everyday stressors life brings.”
The lawsuit takes issue with Trudeau's professional views, specifically the idea of fluid sexuality, claiming Trudeau's view “flies in the face of Tennessee’s statutory policy of abstinence-based sex education.”
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The complaint also argues that LMS and WCS violated the 2021 Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act. The plaintiffs take issue with Justice's statement to one concerned seventh-grade girl, in which she allegedly responded, “Her parents love her as much as your parents love you.”
The lawsuit states, “Defendants are not at liberty to ignore Tennessee’s statutory law and — in the presence of an impressionable seventh grader — refer to a boy as ‘her.’” State law defines “sex” by anatomy and genetics at birth. That language was amended in 2023 with a bill sponsored by Bulso — also the lawyer representing the parents in this lawsuit.
This is not the first time Bulso has sued WCS. Previously he represented plaintiffs calling for the removal of "obscene" books from school libraries, which drew criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. The self-described “culture warrior” sponsored failed legislation aimed at banning Pride flags and successfully passed the Baby Olivia Act, a medically inaccurate fetal development video now shown in schools. He also sponsored a bill that prohibits transgender athletes whose biological gender was assigned male at birth from competing on girls' sports teams in private schools, along with legislation restricting shared locker room access based on gender.
Bulso Fundraises Off Lawsuit
During an Aug. 14 GOP 7th Congressional District forum, Bulso told Scene sister publication the Williamson Scene that the lawsuit’s potential impact, either in hurting or helping his campaign, is “not something that I really gave any consideration to.”
“The issues with the case that was filed all came up long before I ever thought about jumping into this race, so the two are not directly related,” Bulso said. “But certainly, I think the response that I’ve received has been overwhelmingly supportive of these parents for having the courage to seek redress for what happened to their daughters when they couldn’t get any satisfaction from the principal or the Williamson County Schools administration.”
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While the case is centered on the May 2025 sex-ed course, Bulso filed the complaint in court on Aug. 4 — just one week after he filed to run in the congressional race. Bulso is now capitalizing on the lawsuit in a fundraising text that reads in part: “I just SUED Williamson County Schools for letting a BOY in GIRLS s*x-ed!”
A link in that text brings viewers to a more lengthy argument from Bulso in which he asks for campaign donations to “take this fight to Washington” and stop “the madness.”
“I will not sit by while the Transgender Mob tries to erase what it means to be a woman — or a parent,” the post reads in part. “That’s why I’m not just suing, I’m running Congress. ... It’s not just about a seat in Congress — it’s about saving our daughters and granddaughters from a future ruled by confusion and chaos.”
A previous version of this article was published by our sister publication, the Williamson Scene.
