Education · Statewide · MD · August 28, 2026
Maryland Schools Divided on Telling Parents About Gender Identity
According to the Baltimore Sun, Maryland school districts are split over whether staff should notify parents when a student identifies as a different gender at school, with some districts allowing withholding of that information from families. Details on which specific districts and policies are involved are still emerging.
Source: Baltimore Sun
Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
Scripture establishes parents, not schools, as the God-given authority over a child's upbringing (Ephesians 6:4; Deuteronomy 6:7). Policies that permit educators to conceal a child's gender-identity expression from parents substitute the state's judgment for the family's and treat parents as adversaries rather than as those primarily responsible before God for their children. Christians should recognize this as part of a broader pattern in public education where gender ideology is being embedded into school practice, often without parental knowledge or consent. Families and churches need to know their district's actual policy, not assume it mirrors biblical or even traditional expectations of transparency.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. — Ephesians 6:4
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They do not call it moral instruction, which would be the parent's domain. They call it comprehensive health education, which is the expert's domain. Then when a parent objects to explicit material, the institution answers that these materials were selected by credentialed experts and the parent is not an expert, so the objection is invalid.
— Chapter 18, “The Expert Against the Parent”
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