Maryland school district asks 11-year-olds to define trans terms like 'gender expression' and 'sex assigned at birth'

A lesson at Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland asked 12-year-old students to match vocabulary terms, including “Sex Assigned at Birth,” “Gender Identity,” “Transgender,” “Gender Expression,” and “Cisgender.”

The worksheet, revealed by the group Defending Education, defined “gender identity” as referring "to a person’s internal sense of being male, female, or transgender… How you feel. Girl, boy, both or neither.” The definition for “transgender” read: “When your gender identity (how you feel) is different than what doctors/midwives assigned to you when you were born…”

The matching definition for “sex assigned at birth” stated, “when a baby is born, a doctor or midwife looks at the baby’s body/anatomy and says they are a girl, boy, or intersex.”

The lesson was part of a “family life” instruction conducted last month for middle school students in the district, ages 11-12. 

The revelation of this lesson comes despite the fact that Montgomery County Public Schools has faced scrutiny recently for its emphasis on radical gender and LGBT ideology. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of parents who objected on religious grounds to LGBTQ books being used in elementary schools. The parents sued, arguing they should be permitted to pull their children from lessons that use such books. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of parental freedom.

"Without an injunction, the parents will continue to suffer an unconstitutional burden on their religious exercise, and such a burden unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury,” the opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, stated.