Maryland middle schools Transgender Awareness Week lesson gave kids as young as 11 binding tips, coming out advice

FIRST ON FOX: A Maryland middle school presented a slideshow to 6th graders celebrating “Transgender Awareness Week” where the children were given a lesson that included “advice for coming out” and “8 tips for being nonbinary.”“A person’s gender is who they feel that they are,” middle schoolers at Westland Middle School in Bethesda, Maryland, were told last month in a video that was contained in a 12-slide presentation obtained by Fox News Digital.“It is important to understand the difference between sex and gender so that we can better understand ourselves,” the slide says beneath the video, a video that was produced by the LGBT educational resource provider Pop’n’Olly.Multiple slides in the presentation provide information on “what it means” to be transgender and students are then quizzed about what they learned.In another slide, students are told to discuss questions with their neighbor in class, including, “how do people know if they are a ‘girl’ or ‘boy?Another question reads, “The first thing people announce about their new baby is the gender, why do you think that is?” Students were shown a video titled “Advice for Coming Out” along with a video titled “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.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 last slide of the presentation informs students that they can attend meetings for “Westland’s LGBTQ+ Club” called “SAGA,” which stands for “Sexuality and Gender Acceptance.”“There isn’t a single justification for this cult-like propaganda being pushed on children at school,�...