More 6th Grade Transgender Curriculum Uncovered, Fort Worth ISD Caught Lying About Transparency

The Dallas Observer reported on July 3 that a Fort Worth ISD spokesman said, “Parents are notified at the beginning of the school year that they have the opportunity to review all of the materials. They can review anything they want. All they have to do is let us know.”  This is false.

Starting in April, numerous parents let the District know they wanted to review the 6th grade human sexuality curriculum.  In fact, in at least one email exchange, a parent requests to see their child’s health workbook after being initially provided with an unused copy of the workbook.

Then the teacher admits to trashing the student workbooks instead of providing them to concerned parents.  These emails were dated May 25…more than a month after parents had first raised concerns in April and ten days after Stand for Fort Worth first reported this matter on May 15.

We have not been provided a copy of any student workbook.  However, we have obtained a copy of one page of the workbook.  The page details an assignment to visit one of three “health” websites and evaluate its content.

Two of the three websites contain explicit sexual orientation and gender identity information that parents were not given notice of and did not consent to their children being exposed to.

One of the websites highlights a link to “Sexual Attraction and Orientation.”  Here are some excerpts from the page:

It’s common for teens to be attracted to or have sexual thoughts about people of the same sex and the opposite sex.

Some people might go beyond just thinking about it and experiment with sexual experiences with people of their own sex or of the opposite sex.

Transgender isn’t really a sexual orientation — it’s a gender identity. Gender is another word for male or female. Transgender people may have the body of one gender, but feel that they are the opposite gender, like they were born into the wrong type of body.

Although not everyone is comfortable with the idea of sexual orientation differences and there’s still plenty of prejudice around, being gay is getting to be less of a “big deal” than it used to be.

If 11 year-old students click on “Transgender,” here are some of the selections they will find:

Some transgender people know they feel “different” from the time they’re young kids. Others start sensing it around puberty or even later.

Some people decide to physically change their bodies — through surgery or taking hormones — to match the gender they feel they really are.

As with any group, not all transgender people think or want the same things. It all depends on what that particular person needs to feel most comfortable in both body and mind.

To consider that nearly 18,000 eleven and twelve year-olds have been exposed to this content without parental notice and consent is shocking.  Denying parental access to this material is against the law.  And the Fort Worth ISD is lying when they say parents can review anything they want.

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