The Supreme Court on Friday sided with parents in a dispute about whether Maryland’s largest school district could force children to study LGBT storybooks without parental notification or the ability to opt out.
The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, was brought by a diverse group of religious parents – including Muslims, Jews and Christians, who objected to Montgomery County Public Schools’ decision to force children as young as 3 to engage with LGBT books in its curriculum. The books included terms such as “drag queen,” “queer farmers,” “intersex flag” and “pride puppy,” and discussed “gender-neutral pronouns” such as ze/zir and ey/em.
