“As long as I am on this earth, I am going to teach children what I feel they need to know.”
These were allegedly the words of Mt. Lebanon School District first-grade teacher Megan Williams, who earlier this year told the mother of one of her students that she would continue teaching about gender dysphoria and transgender transitioning to 6- and 7-year-old students—even if doing so goes against the parents’ wishes, according to a lawsuit filed in Pittsburgh federal court on June 8 by three mothers over the matter.
The lawsuit targets the school district, as well as Williams, senior administrators, and school board members over what the parents say amounts to “grooming”—a term used to refer to how adults psychologically create emotional bonds with children to lower inhibitions….