This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A school district that lost at the U.S. Supreme Court when it demanded it had the right to push deviant sex ideologies, such as transgenderism, onto children without their parents' permission still is imposing its lessons on the young and impressionable, according to a report.
It is the Federalist that confirmed that schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, continue to push leftist agendas.
It now is forcing children as young as 12 to "decipher numerous gender ideology terms in a vocabulary lesson, without parental knowledge, permission, or the ability to opt out," the report said.
WND had reported when the Supreme Court decided Mahmoud v. Taylor, ruling that schools are not allowed to force their own religious beliefs onto young children, through mandatory lessons and a ban on opt-outs, because that infringes on the religious rights of the parents.
The case came out of Montgomery County where school officials adopted that mandatory LGBT indoctrination for children as young as three years old. Originally, schools offered an opt-out for parents who didn't want the school's religious ideologies taught to their children, but the school district, faced with a flood of such demands from parents, soon decided to force all children into the lessons.
A commentary after the decision at the Federalist noted the dissenters were Sonio Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Jackson, who famously established her place in history by telling her Senate confirmation hearing she was unable to define "woman."
"The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, sided with the parents, saying, 'A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses 'a very real threat of undermining' the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill … And a government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on parents' acceptance of such instruction.'"
But, the commentary noted, "That is not how the three leftists see it. In fact, they see parents — especially religious ones — as roadblocks to education."
The new report said, "Even after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating the district had to allow parents to opt their children out of the coursework, the county is still trying to force-feed young teenagers and preteens 'transgender' propaganda."
The evidence is from Defending Education which obtained from a parent the school's own lesson.
"This vocabulary lesson requires that students buy into an ideology that many reject," DE Senior Director of Communications Erika Sanzi told The Federalist. "Does MCPS require that students subscribe to gender ideology in order to fulfill the district's family life requirements for middle schoolers? Because if so, that seems like viewpoint discrimination in a public school."
The assignment for seventh-graders from last month was part of a "sexual education" lesson and required students to define "sex assigned at birth," "gender identity," "transgender" and more.
There is no apparent opt-out available, "ostensibly so that parents did not find out about the content," the report said.
Experts warned that the agenda ordered discontinued had teachers "correct" students if they "expressed errant or opposing views of gender."
That agenda had teachers telling students they were being "hurtful" if they questioned how a boy could become a girl.
Scientifically, they can't.
