Delegate Brian Crosby favored teaching the theory of gender identity and sexual orientation to kindergarteners and didn’t allow parents to opt-out.

ST. MARY’S DELEGATES
Todd Morgan (29C): No
Matt Morgan (29A: No
Brian Crosby (29B): Yes

CHARLES DELEGATES (District 28)
C.T. Wilson: Yes
Edith Patterson: Yes
Debra Davis: Yes

CALVERT DELEGATES
Mark Fisher (27C): No

DEL. MATT MORGAN NAILS IT ON ANOTHER WOKEY BILL TO TAKE AWAY PARENT’S RIGHTS

From Delegate Matt Morgan: “The 2024 session ended at midnight. One bill that generated a lot of emails to my office this session was HB558. As amended, HB558 would have made gender identity and sexual origination its own education curriculum, taught it to kindergartners, and disallowed parents to opt out. I viewed it as a violation of parental rights. I am happy to report that Democratic Senators agree with me and the rest of the Freedom Caucus members. HB558 failed to pass into law.”

Maryland HB558 Requires Teaching Sexual-Gender Identity Without Opt-Out Provision

FROM DELMARVA PARENT TEACHER COALITION:
Last year in 2023, a controversial bill (HB119/SB199) was introduced to force the Maryland Comprehensive Health Education Framework upon local school districts. The bill failed, because it encroached on local control as the state cannot force curriculum down to the counties. This year, the Maryland bill has been reintroduced in the House as HB558, which amends the Comprehensive Health Education Framework requirements. Only this time, the Democrats separated gender identity and sexual orientation from the Family Life and Human Sexuality component. The Family Life and Human Sexuality component had an opt-out provision for parents to remove their child from the teaching. Now that the components have been separated, gender identity and sexual orientation are forced with no opt-out provision for parents.

What does this all mean?

This extreme bill recently passed in the House and in now in the Senate. If it passes in the Senate, your child will be taught gender identity and sexual orientation by force, whether you like it or not.