High School Biology Teacher Says Biological Sex Can Be Easily Changed, Tells Students Not To Use ‘Gendered Terms’

A Massachusetts high school biology teacher taught students that biological sex is fluid and easily changed, encouraging them to stop using “gendered terms” that marginalize groups who have been “persistently discriminated against,” according to a report from Parents Defending Education (PDE).

A biology teacher at Needham High School in Needham, Massachusetts, told students that “humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary” and instructed them to use “language that removes gendered terms to talk about bodies” to make sure “people with diverse (a)sexualities, (a)genders, bodies, and (a)romantic orientations are included and respected,” according to the PDE report. Some students reportedly thought the lesson was an effort by the teacher “to show kids that wanting to change your sex is a feeling that is common throughout nature.”

One slide showed to students said that intersex people make up nearly 2% of the population, which the teacher said is “comparable” to the number of people born with red hair, the PDE reported showed. The teacher also reportedly told students that using male and female as the only two categories of biological sex “marginalises intersex people, who have been persistently discriminated against.”