A 14-year-old German student faces a fine after skipping out on a pro-LGBT workshop in school.
According to a report by Apollo News, a workshop that addressed the issues of “gender roles and gender identity” took place at a high school about 30 kilometers north of Munich, in the Dachau district, on July 10. The parents of the 14-year-old boy in eighth grade did not want their son to attend the event and kept him out of school that day. However, because the school pointed out that it was a mandatory class and insisted on his attendance, the student now faces a fine.
After the event, the student received a letter from the local district office informing him that proceedings to impose a fine had been initiated.
The parents told Apollo News that their son’s absence was due to the school administration’s failure to properly respond to their questions and concerns about the event. For this reason, they had also filed a disciplinary complaint. Should the fine be imposed, the parents intend to challenge it in court.
The LGBT workshop was organized by the state-funded group “diversity Munich.” According to the organization, it is Bavaria’s “only queer youth organization with a youth center and youth café.” The concept behind the “Diversity@school” workshop is for “queer teens and young adults up to age 27” to educate students on topics such as “acceptance of queer identities,” discuss clichés and stereotypes, and help reduce reservations about these issues.
According to parents whose children had participated in the event, the workshop was led by young individuals who identified as “queer.” One of them is said to have been a woman and the other had a beard but a feminine appearance. Both reportedly shared stories from their lives and spoke about their purported experiences with discrimination. A class teacher was present during the workshop.
“Diversity Munich” is partly funded by the City of Munich and promotes transgender ideology. In addition to the “diversity Café,” it also runs several youth groups. One of those is the “frients” group, which is aimed at “young trans and non-binary people between the ages of 14 and 27” as well as “those who are questioning their gender identity.”
The organization has formulated several policy demands regarding its work with the youth that are directed at the federal government and the Bavarian state government. It calls for birth certificates to no longer refer to “mother” and “father” but rather to “two parents.” In addition, “structural disadvantages faced by queer people (e.g., the gay wage gap)” should be investigated and measures should be taken to address them.
Furthermore, the group called on the Bavarian state government to structurally integrate “queer topics” into the school curriculum, including in the subjects of biology, German, and politics. Diversity Munich also demands that the new names chosen by students who identify as transgender should be used on official school documents.