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Middle school celebrates ‘Transgender Awareness Week’ with lessons on binding body parts

December 9, 2025 | | Print Article

A Maryland middle school has been accused of indoctrinating children with insanely radical lessons on transgenderism.

According to Fox News, students at Westland Middle School were exposed last month to a 12-slide “Transgender Awareness Week” presentation that included several videos.

“A person’s gender is who they feel that they are,” the narrator in one video produced by Pop’n’Olly said.

Underneath the video was a slide that read, “It is important to understand the difference between sex and gender so that we can better understand ourselves.”

Other videos in the series included one called “Advice for Coming Out” and another called “8 Tips for Being Nonbinary.”

“In the video with nonbinary tips, a ‘nonbinary creator’ named Laurenzo explains what to do if someone uses incorrect pronouns to describe an individual and how to find the best ‘label’ that describes you,” according to Fox News.

“Laurenzo, who has a large following on social media, also explains to students how to ‘bind’ properly, referring to a term used to describe the process of flattening a female’s breasts in order to appear less feminine,” the reporting continues.

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Another slide in the series, meanwhile, contained questions for students to discuss with their classmates:

  • “How do people know if they are a ‘girl’ or ‘boy?'”
  • “The first thing people announce about their new baby is the gender. Why do you think that is?”

The final slide gave students a heads-up about a radical group, Westland’s LGBTQ+ Club, that students could join.

“There isn’t a single justification for this cult-like propaganda being pushed on children at school,” Erika Sanzi of Defending Education told Fox News. “They are presenting a harmful ideology as gospel to other people’s children and manipulating language in ways that would almost be funny if it didn’t come with so much risk.”

“Many kids will rightly scoff and be unfazed by the absurdity of it all, but others may be vulnerable, potentially set down a path from which they can never fully return. These are 11- and 12-year-olds, and nothing about this is remotely appropriate or defensible,” she added.

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Yet in a statement, a spokesperson for the school district defended the radical lessons.

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

“Westland Middle School has used advisory lessons on a range of topics to help students understand differences, treat each other with kindness, and follow school expectations,” the spokespersons said. “These materials were communicated in advance, including clear information about opt-out procedures, which were followed.”

“The lessons were about awareness, respect, and how to support peers in a school community that includes students of many backgrounds and lived experiences. Middle school is a time when questions come up, and schools must reinforce that bullying, harassment, and discrimination have no place in our buildings,” they added.

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Previously seen examples have demonstrated how radical indoctrination, such as that seen in this school district, typically coincides with worsening student performance.

Last year, for example, a San Francisco elementary school that invested $250,000 into “woke” education discovered the hard way that its students’ test scores were plummeting.

Two years earlier, Glassbrook Elementary School paid $250,000 in federal grant money to Woke Kindergarten, a company that indoctrinates children in radically far-left, racial essentialist propaganda.

Why did the school pay for this radical program? “[T]o train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Evidently, school officials bought into the lie that racism is somehow preventing children from learning correctly. But they were dead wrong.

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“[T]wo years into the three-year contract with Woke Kindergarten … student achievement at Glassbrook has fallen, prompting some teachers to question whether the money was well-spent given the needs of the students, who are predominantly low-income,” the Chronicle notes.

“English and math scores hit new lows last spring, with less than 4% of students proficient in math and just under 12% at grade level in English — a decline of about 4 percentage points in each category.”

Surprise, surprise…

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