Leominster Public Schools Shocking Secret Gender Plans Revealed

The LPS keeps secrets from parents, and they are not the only ones. Is your district on the naughty list?

An actual page from the book “Be Gay, Do Comics” found in the library of a middle school in Sudbury, MA. This book clearly markets gender-related hormones and surgeries to minor children. Like Leominster, the Sudbury Public Schools also has a secret gender transition policy.

Last week, we told you about three major developments that had hit the world of gender ideology that parents need to know about. First, a NY court awarded $2 million dollars to Fox Varian, a 22 year old detransitioner, for the medical malpractice she experienced as a teen ushered through the “gender transition” process. Days later, two major medical associations backpedaled from their previous support of gender surgeries and medicalization of minors. You can read our full report here.

The Gender Medicine Dam is Cracking. Will MA Schools Pay Attention?

At the end of our report, we posed two questions that every Massachusetts public school parent should ask in light of these wins for Team Sanity:

• If doctors and therapists can be held financially liable for harming a gender-confused child through their advice and interventions, why not schools?

• If schools have affirmed the gender confusion of their students (and sometimes gone even farther than affirmation) based on what they believed to be medical consensus, what will they do now that the consensus is gone?

And by “every parent should ask,” we mean, every parent should ask their SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND DISTRICT LEADERSHIP.

This is because, even though double mastectomies don’t happen in a K-12 classroom, the thought patterns that lead to double mastectomies often start there. Gender medicalization can be part of the lesson, like the curricular examples we showed you last time (we’ll put the one from Lexington here again - it deserves a second mention for how wildly dangerous it is). But even when the lesson doesn’t literally instruct students to check out a gender clinic, the schools can still be seeding the insidious ideas that ultimately can lead a young person to have their own body maimed in order to align with a synthetic trans identity. No 16-year old girl wakes up one morning and suddenly wants her breasts cut off for no reason. The thought patterns that lead to that tragic desire come from somewhere. Far too often the delusion of gender identity begins, or is nurtured, right in the classroom.

An actual lesson from Lexington PS where they instruct kids to investigate clinics, many of which offer gender-related interventions.

This connection between schools and gender surgeries has been dubbed the “school-to-gender-clinic-pipeline.” We know that in many Massachusetts classrooms, even elementary-aged children are presented with confusing ideas about sex and gender, and are told that a boy really might be a girl on the inside and vice versa. We also know that these ideas can come in from other sources within the school as well, a fact often reported to us by parents in the Massachusetts Informed Parents facebook group. Two recent examples reported by MIP members, are gender indoctrination in school libraries:

and during the IEP process.

Now, not all children who become confused about their “gender” learn this in school. Social media and other forms of outside influence can also play a role. While we know that school is certainly an influence (and some detransitioners, like Boston’s own Simon Amaya Price, specifically cite curriculum as a contributing factor in his own transgender identification), rarely does all of the blame rest at the feet of the public school system. However, when the school takes an active role in not only introducing kids to gender confusion, but in empowering them to move toward “gender transition” and actively identifying as a member of the opposite sex (or something else entirely), their culpability greatly increases - especially so when it is done without parental notification or consent. A student’s secret gender transition is the complaint at the crux of the Massachusetts-based court case Foote v. Ludlow, which is currently sitting before the US Supreme Court for consideration (please, Lord, let SCOTUS take it up!). It is also an issue that has cropped up in other Massachusetts towns - and sometimes, in towns that you might not expect.

One such town is Leominster.

Back in early 2024, Massachusetts Family Institute shared the story of a teacher at Leominster High School who had been non-renewed following declining to hide a student’s trans-identification from their parents. As a professing Christian, he could not follow the school’s instruction to deceive the student’s parents without violating his religious convictions. He requested an accommodation from his administration, but it was denied, and he was let go from his position (ostensibly for a different reason) shortly after. You can hear his comments before the school committee here.

The fact that the Leominster Public Schools wanted their teachers to keep gender secrets from parents came as a surprise to many folks in Leominster. Leominster is relatively blue-collar and conservative by Massachusetts standards. It’s not like Cambridge or Northampton, or other Massachusetts cities where one would expect to find progressive policies. And yet, right there in Leominster, a teacher was sounding the alarm: the school district is perpetuating gender confusion and hiding information from parents in the process. We knew we needed to keep an eye on Leominster.

Then in early 2025 as part of MFI’s Sex Ed Map Project, we received Leominster’s sex ed curriculum which had been obtained via public records request. The documents provided by the LPS revealed two particularly noteworthy issues. First, many LPS students were being taught sex ed by an outside organization, Making Opportunity Count, not LPS teachers. Second, that outside organization was using the 3Rs: one of the most graphic and ideologically-driven curricula found in MA schools. See the letter below from the LPS as well as the lesson sequence logs, which can also be found starting on page 107 of MFI’s Report.

The use of outside instructors in a public school classroom is something that should set off alarm bells for parents for many reasons. An instructor who is not a district employee is not subject to the same level of scrutiny or accountability. They likely do not have the same level of vetting or education. Parents probably won’t have a chance to meet them on Meet-the-Teacher night, and the outside instructor won’t have a relationship with the students or their families. The curriculum used by an outside instructor might not have been approved by the school committee, and may not easily be made available to families (this was MFI’s experience - when more information about MOC’s lessons was requested, the school district couldn’t produce it. See page 7 of this report.). And when the outside organization teaching the lessons also offers other services like “reproductive healthcare” (which Making Opportunity Count does), there is a higher likelihood that students will be referred there during the course of the instruction. All of this is unnecessary as the LPS could use their own teachers to teach these classes, which would provide greater accountability. Leominster parents should demand that they do.

The second concern is the 3Rs curriculum itself, which leans in heavily to leftist ideology and contains a great deal of material that religious parents, or parents who lean conservative (or even moderate) would object to. For instance, the lesson “Reproductive Justice - Past, Present, Future” smuggles in progressive ideas such as “ending incarceration” and “decolonization” alongside abortion, all under the heading of “sexual health.”

And while there are many concerns with the 3Rs curriculum being used in Leominster, one issue that stands out is how it discusses gender identity. The lessons are very intentionally anti-biological sex. Almost every one includes some sort of instructions to the teacher regarding “inclusive” language, like these two examples:

This is important because while there is a section of lessons on gender identity, the language above is found in lessons on other topics as well. It is pervasive.

Even the lesson “Blue is for Boys, Pink is for Girls… Or Are They?”, a 7th grade lesson about gender stereotypes (a topic that many parents agree can vary - for instance, a girl can play with trucks and still be a girl), includes a push for transgenderism. See below (or the full lesson starting on page 268 HERE).

We strongly recommend that Leominster parents review all of the documents that MFI received from their sex ed public records request, and then OPT THEIR KIDS OUT.

Given the degree of the gender identity indoctrination in the LPS’s sex ed lessons, and the testimony of the Christian teacher who was instructed to hide a child’s self-appointed transgender identity from their parents, we wanted to dig in more. Has anything changed with the LPS’s policies since that brave teacher exposed their deception? Or are kids still being secretly transed in Leominster? Further exploration was needed.

We took a look in the Leominster school committee’s policy manual and found their trans-the-kids policy, Policy AC-E: “POLICY AND PROCEDURES FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS.” You can read it below (emphases ours).

Based on news reports, this policy appears to have been approved in 2016 (though the LPS online policy manual does not provide an adoption date, a fact not surprising as their manual is not consistently maintained). 2016 was before many of the current school committee members took their seats, before many current teachers (like the one in the video) were hired, and while many of the LPS’s current student were still in diapers. We have to wonder - do all of these stakeholders - especially parents - know about this policy? Do any of them?

Leominster’s Policy AC-E is troubling for many reasons. It allows for any student old enough to “advocate for themselves” to select their own gender. It then allows for a “Point Person” to essentially act in lieu of the student’s parent and help enforce aspects of social gender transition such as a name change, use of opposite-sex bathrooms and locker rooms, and more. The Point Person works with the student and administration to put together a “Gender Transition Plan,” which is a special document “meant to help support the necessary planning for a student’s formal transition of gender from its commonly assumed status to something else.” Parental involvement is not required for the creation of this plan or the installation of the accommodations it specifies.

This made us curious. What does a “Gender Transition Plan” document look like in the LPS? To find out, we submitted the following public record request:

After a request and appeal process that spanned multiple months and including the district initially denying that they had any responsive documents (and us pointing back to the policy that states that they use such a plan), we received a response that contained the following information about how the district manages its “gender transition plans” as described in policy AC-E:

According to the LPS, there is no district-provided blank form or template for their “gender transition plans”. But what they did provide is profoundly troubling.

First, there is the “Leominster High School Student Name Change Request Form.” Despite the district’s assertion that this form is for name-change requests that “may include a gender transition,” the form seems tailored just for that. It references “preferred names” that “reflect who they are,” and asks for their “gender” and “preferred pronouns” - both of which would be unnecessary if a child’s name was being changed for another reason (for instance, adoption).

Everything we marked in red points toward this form being specifically for gender transitions. It’s all gender-coded.

We also noticed that, while there is a spot for a Parent/Guardian’s Signature, it’s not required. In other words, parents don’t need to consent - or even know - if the school is changing their child’s name and gender identification.

You can download the original document from the district below.

LHS Name Change Form

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The gender support plan template that, per the district’s response, HAS BEEN USED IN PAST YEARS in one building, is even more concerning. This document, created by the activist organization Gender Spectrum that promotes “gender inclusive schools” and has worked with the leftwing Biden Foundation and PFLAG, not only allows for parents to be kept in the dark about gender transition, it creates a plan to hide the student’s trans identification from parents who are not “supportive.”

See the plan for yourself here. The sections about keeping secrets from parents are in red.

You can download the entire form received from the district below.

Gender Support Plan from LPS PRR

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The last page, if distributed to students, continues to point students toward a variety of non-related adults instead of those who love them most and know them best - their parents.

Given the testimony of school deception made by the brave former Leominster teacher, the policy that expressly says that parents only need to be involved if the students are “not yet able to advocate for themselves,” the name change form that only requires a parental signature “if available” and the Gender Spectrum template that leads staff to create a plan that lies to parents deemed unsupportive, we think the evidence is clear. The Leominster Public Schools is keeping gender-related secrets from parents.

This is especially troubling given that gender ideology is a part of the curriculum. The school can teach the child gender confusion, and then reinforce that confusion to the degree of the child essentially living as a different person while at school, including using cross-sex bathrooms and locker rooms - all without the parent ever knowing. And then the teachers are told to continue the deception.

The LPS is not the only district that does this, to be sure. A search of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees’ online policy manual reveals many other Massachusetts districts that have similar policies. Lenox Public Schools has an even lengthier transgender student policy taken in part from GLSEN, another LGBTQ activist organization that seeks to influence schools. East Longmeadow’s policy ACB actually contains a link to the same Gender Spectrum plan we found in Leominster. Acton-Boxborough’s online policy manual includes their own form (seen below), which contains many of the same elements as the Gender Spectrum template. Somerville, Framingham, and Newton all have gender policies that call for a support plan. And the list goes on and on.

These policies should concern every public school parent, because while most public school teachers and employees are genuinely goodhearted people who want to help kids, many of them are trained to think that helping kids means lying to parents. And in a system that allows (and sometimes forces) teachers to keep secrets, there are fewer safeguards in place to protect kids from being exploited by the adults who genuinely have nefarious motives.

Another question that comes to mind about the Gender Transition Plans and other forms of secret-keeping is, how do the schools identify the students who receive such plans, when the plans are not initiated by parents?

One answer can be found in the “Using Gender Support Plans” video found on the Gender Spectrum website. While our public records don’t tell us if this video was viewed by Leominster staff, parents should assume that any school district that uses any sort of gender support or transition plan has likely received similar training. In this clip (which starts here around 1:01:14), the presenter is answering the question, “Do you approach every single kid?”

In his response, the trainer describes teachers noticing kids who are dressing differently and viewing this as a sign that they are potentially “navigating gender.” He suggests start a conversation about gender with the child, which can include asking if there is a different name the child would like for him to use. Then later if a parent OR STUDENT comes to school staff and wants to discuss their gender identity, they can inform the child of the “systems in place” that the school district has to “support them” and ask them if they would like more information. This could include offering the child an opportunity to go chat with “Mx. So-and-so in the office who helps us support our trans and non-binary kids.”

This, Mom and Dad, is how your child can be transed at school right under your nose. As a parent, you know that sometimes kids go through phases. They like to try out new styles. They may want to cut (or grow!) their hair. They are trying to figure out who they are and what they like. This is all very normal. And while you might be giving your child space to experiment, knowing that trying new things is a part of growing up, an adult at school might perceive your daughter’s new pixie cut as a sign that she is “navigating gender” differently and needs an impromptu counseling session.

Not only will you not be informed of that conversation, but it may be intentionally withheld from you. And that may be just the beginning.

This is how the school-to-gender-clinic-pipeline can play out in real time. Secret conversations about gender with school officials can lead to social transition at school, which can lead to kids seeking out (or adults offering) referrals to organizations that help facilitate medical transition. Using an alternate name and pronouns for a gender-confused child is not a harmless accommodation, it is a psychological intervention. Given that kids who are socially transitioned are much more likely to maintain a transgender identity and later on go on to make permanent changes to their bodies, this is a five-alarm fire. Gender Transition Plans, and the policies that call for them, are a real danger.

From the Newton North HS nurse’s office. Credit: Parental Rights Natick

Parents, if it can happen in Leominster, it can happen in your town, too. Find out today whether or not your district has a secret gender transition policy. Check your school committee’s online policy manual. Submit a public records request for the phrases “gender support plan” or “gender transition plan.” Let us know what you find. But more importantly, let your school committee know - and then demand better. The tide is turning on the issue of gender identity, and they are no longer protected by “expert consensus.” It’s time for change, in Leominster, and across Massachusetts.

Our friends at Defending Ed also maintain a list of the districts across the US that have gender policies that keep secrets from parents. Is your district on their list? If not, it just might mean that nobody has reported it yet. If you find such a policy in your district and it’s not on their list, be sure to let them know. You can find their list HERE.

As always, in addition to opting our kids out of in-school lessons about sex and gender, we recommend keeping an open line of communication with your child about gender identity. If your child is already grounded in the knowledge that their sex is determined at conception, and if they know that they should tell you if adults at school try to talk to them about sex or teach them something different than what their family believes, they will be much less likely to be drawn into a conversation with “Mx. So-and-so at the office,” or stumble into any other traps that may be put in their path. For more information on how to do this, check out Raising Gender-Confident Kids (the book is free!) or the upcoming release, Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality and Gender Identity. These resources, while written from a faith-based perspective, offer insights that can help all parents who want to keep their kids from getting “Mx’d” up in gender insanity.

Be encouraged, Mom and Dad. Speaking up against gender madness and pushing back on the institutions that continue to promote it is how we create cultural change. It’s how we make room for the truth to come out, again and again, until like lobotomies, the former “settled science” of gender ideology will be a subject of ridicule and remorse. The fight for sanity isn’t over, but it’s trending in the right direction.

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