A Florida school district is offering refunds or reprints after a high school yearbook featured a two-page spread dedicated to LGBTQ activism.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Seminole County Public Schools made the offer to students and parents following complaints that Lyman High School’s yearbook included definitions of terms such as “genderfluid,” “aromantic,” and “pansexual.”
The district did so after a parent complained to the state Department of Education. For now, the agency is allowing the school district to settle the issue.
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A school faculty member who assisted with the yearbook defended the pages and denounced both the school district and the parents who complained.
“It is unbelievably unacceptable,” Danielle Pomeranz told the Sentinel. “The county is giving into the bigotry and being very cowardly by offering this as an option.”
“They are definitions,” she added. “They are not teaching anything about sex at all. … Nobody is teaching anybody about sex acts. It is ridiculous.”
She also claimed most people had no problem with the LGBTQ pages, and she likened them to those dedicated to sections of the yearbook devoted to groups representing Black and Hispanic students.
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Yet Jessica Tillmann, chairwoman of the conservative Seminole County Moms for Liberty chapter, noted, “They shouldn’t have any sexual definitions in a yearbook. This is a yearbook that goes to every student as young as 14.”
The Sentinel noted that the controversial definitions in the yearbook came from The Trevor Project and GLAAD — two LGBTQ activist groups.
The New York Post reported last year that a Brooklyn woman who posed as a teenager in the Trevor Project’s online chatroom to learn about help to “detransition” her child found the suite filled with “sexually perverse content, aggressive gender-reassignment referrals, (and) adults encouraging minors to hide their transitions from their parents.”
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