Maryland middle school shows transgender slideshow to 6th graders

FIRST ON FOX: A middle school in Maryland presented a slideshow to 6th grade students celebrating “Transgender Awareness Week”; where kids were given a lesson with “coming out advice” and “8 tips for being non-binary.”

“A person’s gender is who they feel they are,” middle school students at Westland Middle School in Bethesda, Maryland, were told in a video included in a 12-slide presentation obtained by Fox News Digital last month.

“It’s important to understand the difference between sex and gender so we can better understand ourselves,” reads the slide below the video, produced by LGBT education resource provider Pop’n’Olly.

Numerous slides in the presentation provide information about what it “means” to be transgender, and students are then asked questions about what they learned.

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Another slide tells students to discuss these questions with their classroom neighbors: “How do people know if they are a ‘girl’ or a ‘boy’?

Another question is, “The first thing people announce about their new baby is the gender, why do you think that is?”

Students were shown a video titled “Coming Out Advice” and a video titled “8 Tips for Being Non-Binary.”

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Slide from Transgender Awareness Week presentation

inside video With nonbinary tips, a “nonbinary creator” named Laurenzo explains what to do if someone uses the wrong pronouns to describe a person and how to find the best “label” to describe you.

Laurenzo, who has a large following social mediashe also explains to students how to properly “bind,” referring to a term used to describe the process of flattening a woman’s breasts to appear less feminine.

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A slide from a Transgender Awareness Week presentation at a middle school in Maryland. (Fox News Digital)

The final slide of the presentation informs students that they can attend meetings of the “Westland LGBTQ+ Club” called “SAGA,” which stands for “Sexuality and Gender Acceptance.”

“There is no single justification for this cult-like propaganda being forced on children in school,” Erika Sanzi, senior communications director at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital.

“They present a harmful ideology as gospel to other people’s children, and they manipulate language in ways that would be almost comical if it didn’t pose so much risk. Many children will rightfully scoff at the absurdity of it all and be unimpressed, but others may be vulnerable and potentially go down a path from which they may never fully return. “These are 11- and 12-year-old kids, and nothing about this is even remotely appropriate or defensible.”

A spokesperson for Montgomery County Public Schools defended the lesson in a statement to Fox News Digital, explaining that it was the district’s responsibility to ensure “every student feels safe, seen and respected at school.”

“Westland Middle School utilized counseling classes on a variety of topics to help students understand differences, treat each other with kindness, and follow school expectations,” the spokesperson said.

“These materials were delivered in advance, including clear information about opt-out procedures followed. Lessons were about awareness, respect, and how to support peers in a school community that includes students from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. Middle school is a time when questions arise, and schools must reinforce that bullying, harassment, and discrimination have no place in our buildings.”