From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM
Broward County Public Schools board member Brenda Fam has been taking heat after she pressed her colleagues to define what a “woman” is at the last school board meeting, speaking on behalf of concerned parents who are weighing whether to pull their children out of the district.
“The parents want to know are the public schools honoring their traditional family values because they feel that they’re being ignored and there are many different examples of that,” Brenda Fam of District 6 told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
“So if this public school is not going to honor their values and respect their rights, then they’re going to leave–very simple. They have a choice now. They do not have to stay where they don’t feel welcomed or wanted or they feel discriminated against or they feel that they’re being censored and silenced.”
Fox News Digital’s interview with Fam came after a heated exchange she had over defining gender terms at a Broward County Public Schools board meeting on March 28.
BCPS has been debating a proposed sex education curriculum since the district reworked the curriculum due to pressure from the Florida Department of Educ ation.
At that school board meeting, Fam of District 6 shared questions from concerned BCPS parents.
Fam told her colleagues at that board meeting: “Some of my parents have had some questions that I actually posed and didn’t get a response for. They want to know what the definition of a woman is for sexual education curriculum in Broward County.”
“They want to know what individuals can get pregnant and what individuals can give birth,” she continued. “They want to know those definitions as well. I think this, especially, with school vouchers and school choice, this is going to weigh heavy on them in whether or not they choose to leave the school system or whether they stay based on some of these responses. And they are very serious, and they want answers to these questions.”
The superintendent responded that there is “no clear-cut answer.”
Fam told Fox News Digital that her question was considered a “political statement.”
“The first thing that was said is that it was a political statement to ask for someone to define what is a man and woman when my parents have every right to know that,” Fam told Fox News Digital. “They have the right to know if they have someone that’s female that wants to be affirmed as a male that daughter [female] is going to be taught that she can still get pregnant. Her body hasn’t biologically changed. She’s still biologically a woman or a female.”… (Read more)
