Parents Perturbed About Maryland’s Transgender Guidelines for Public Schools

Parents Perturbed About Maryland’s Transgender Guidelines for Public Schools
A poster showing third-grade pupils how to write in printed and cursive letters runs across the top of a blackboard at an elementary school in Ellicott City, Maryland on October 15, 2013. Robert MacPherson/AFP/Getty Images
Douglas Burton
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Maryland parents and politicians are pushing back against a new health curriculum that allows schools to shield from parents the fact that their children have an alternative gender identity or are transitioning to the opposite sex.

A federal court on August 18 dismissed a lawsuit from an anonymous group of parents who attempted to block the implementation of the new guidelines in Montgomery County.

Douglas Burton
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Douglas Burton is a former U.S. State Department official who was stationed in Kirkuk, Iraq. He writes news and commentary from Washington, D.C.
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