In a Bel Air middle school near Baltimore, a 14-year-old boy is using the girls locker room to strip down for gym class. At the magnet school in Greenbelt, the transgender club has staged “walkouts” to protest in solidarity the mistreatment of gays and lesbians in other parts of the country. In Damascus, in semi-rural Montgomery County, a devout Roman Catholic mom is coping with the shock of her 18-year-old son’s decision last year to transition to a woman—even though he, like all of her nine children, was schooled at home.
What many consider horror stories are motivating grass-roots activists across Maryland to campaign for reform of state-mandated “gender-affirming” policies and for new school boards that will focus on core subjects such as reading, science, and math. The transgender statistics to them are alarming.
