A New York teacher is accused of "manipulating" a 5th-grade girl into changing her gender without parents' knowledge or consent, causing "suicidal ideation," a lawsuit claims.
Debra Rosenquist, works at Terryville Road Elementary School & was named along with the superintendent, Jennifer J. Quinn, & the principal, Annemarie V. Sciove, in a suit filed on Jan. 23.
The suit claims the student, who was assigned female at birth & identifies as female, was targeted by her teacher, Rosenquist, throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Rosenquist began to use a male name & pronouns for the student, the suit says.
"Rosenquist pursued her own agenda outside the curriculum, which included persuading her 5th-grade students to try ‘being gay’ or being another gender even when they were not. Rosenquist read & provided her students graphic books about gender & sexuality," the suit said.
One of the books Rosenquist used was "When Aidan Became a Brother."
In the book, Aidan's mother admits she made a mistake misgendering her son, saying, "When you were born, we didn't know you were going to be our son. We made some mistakes, but you helped us fix them."
The parents were supportive of supporting their child discovering their identity, but they did not believe their daughter expressed a desire to change her gender on her own.
"Debra Rosenquist manipulated a pre-teen female into changing her gender identity when the child did not feel any inclination to do so," the parents' attorney says. "The parents did not learn about what Rosenquist was forcing upon their daughter until it was discovered that the child had suicidal ideations."
The 5th-grade girl became so "distressed by Rosenquist’s referring to her as a male that she drew a picture of a girl & referenced suicide," the lawsuit said. In January 2022, the parents were informed that their daughter drew a picture of a girl with the words "I wanna kill myself" & "I feel sad like a lot."
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