Westland Middle School in Bethesda, Maryland, celebrated "Transgender Awareness Week” with a lesson for sixth graders, reports Fox News. It included a slideshow that gave "advice for coming out," and "8 tips for being nonbinary."
Trey Dellinger is senior legal fellow with AFA Action. He said that it is very tragic that children are being taught these falsehoods in school.
“The very concept of an education is to teach kids the truth, and at the very heart of this gender ideology is that there is no objective truth and that every person gets to decide for themselves who they are, even down to the level of the reality of their sexuality," says Dellinger.
He pointed out that this is in conflict with both biology and science.
"Any person that follows the Christian worldview knows that, as Jesus says in Matthew chapter 18, anyone who misleads a child — it would be better for that person to have a millstone tied around their neck and to be thrown into the depths of the sea,” informs Dellinger. “We have a duty as adults to teach children the truth, and that applies doubly for, for people who are in a position of trust like educators."
In terms of the legal ramifications of this, Dellinger said that parents need to know that they have a federal right under the Protecting Pupils Rights Act, or the PPRA.
"You as a parent have a federal right to be notified of any curriculum that your child is being taught. So, you need to be vigilant to be on top of what is going on in your schools because, sadly, many school districts do not comply with that,” states Dellinger.
He addressed another right under the federal Constitution, the First Amendment Free Exercise Clause.
“As the Supreme Court declared in the recent Mahmoud v. Taylor case, if any curriculum instruction in the school violates your religious beliefs, you have a right to opt out of that instruction," says Dellinger.
