Moms for Liberty goes ballistic over mention of LGBTQ+ students in yearbook

They got the school to offer queer-free reprints of the yearbook, but they still called for the principal to be fired.

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When Florida’s Lyman High School distributed yearbooks this spring to graduating seniors, it wasn’t just students who were racing through the 256 pages to find their favorite pics.

Seminole County Moms for Liberty Chair Jessica Tillmann was also scouring the yearbook, but for content that Christian mothers like her might find “inappropriate” for high schoolers.

She says she found some.

Tillman objected to two pages of the yearbook highlighting the school’s LGBTQ+ club. The pages included a glossary of terms defining about a dozen words, among them “cisgender,” “nonbinary,” and “queer.”

None of the words were sexual in nature.

“They shouldn’t have any sexual definitions in a yearbook,” Tillman told the Orlando Sentinel. “This is a yearbook that goes to every student as young as 14.”

Tillman says the LGBTQ+ pages violate Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Law, which was expanded earlier this month to prohibit…

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