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Seattle Public Schools Caught Pushing Free Chest Binders, Tucking Underwear to Kids"Parents must be vigilant, engaged in local schools, and unafraid to advocate for their child's innocence. Silence in the face of this kind of moral confusion is not neutrality. It's complicity. Parents also need to enthusiastically champion their children and their education, because reclaiming it is not just about policy or politics. It's really about the stewardship of souls that God has trusted to us." -David Closson, director of Family Research Council's Center for Biblical Worldview
Launched quietly earlier this year, the program emerged from a collaboration between SPS and Seattle Children's Hospital, aiming to equip middle and high schools with complimentary "gender-affirming" items tailored for young students. According to documents uncovered by the watchdog organization Defending Education through a Freedom of Information Act request—and subsequently provided to National Review—the effort, known as the "Community Health Locker Project," involved SPS personnel procuring these supplies and working closely with staff at the Garfield High School Teen Health Center to make them readily accessible on campus. The products, as written in the emails, included the following:
These recommendations originated from the SPS Health Education Office, where the email's author identified themselves using "they/he" pronouns and emphasized that the selections were "based on student input." The project was described as "grant-funded" and spearheaded by the "SPS LGBTQ+ Project-Program Coordinator"—whose identity was redacted in the released files. Yet, the correspondence also reveals delays, with one note explaining that rollout had been "pushed back a bit as our office has been busy navigating some of the federal changes affecting LGBTQ+ communities." Notably, it did not clarify what specific "federal changes" it was referring to. Adding another layer to the program's framework, an email before the locker program began included a curated list of "mental health resources" from the "LGBTQ+ support coordinator," featuring organizations like the Trevor Project, the Trans Lifeline, and the Northwest Network—groups and resources known for promoting LGBT-related ideologies. This guidance extended to identifying "safe places for LGBTQ+ youth," particularly in light of seasonal challenges. The sender wrote, "Holidays are hard for everyone, but they can be especially hard for queer and trans folks. Remember that this time won't last forever, and that there is a huge community waiting on the other side-people who will love you just as you are." Additionally, a post on LinkedIn from someone who claims to be a "Seattle Public School (SPS) Community Health Locker Advocate" read, "These health lockers throughout SPS middle and high schools includes chest binders, condoms, and makeup for free!" the post reads. "This helped inform over 25,000 SPS students receiving a secondary-level education, and (hopefully) many more students to come!" Although the "Community Health Lockers" initiative is said to be temporarily halted, evidence of SPS's commitment to such efforts persists online. The district's official website maintains an "LGBTQIA Resources" section, complete with hyperlinks to "Free Access to Gender Affirming K-12 E-Books" and the "Safe Access Restrooms App for Transgender, Intersex, and Nonbinary Individuals"—otherwise referred to as "REFUGE restrooms." The site also spotlights a comprehensive directory of local "supports" in King County, showcasing 17 youth-focused groups, clinics, and programs. Among them:
Erika Sanzi, senior director of Communications at Defending Education, characterized this as "evidence of a district that has been captured by gender ideology and is complicit in harming other people's kids." David Closson, director of Family Research Council's Center for Biblical Worldview, also weighed in. "President Trump's executive order," he told The Washington Stand, "rightly recognizes that the state has a duty to protect children from ideological indoctrination. Scripture teaches that government exists to promote good and restrain evil (Romans 13)." If this is the purpose of government, Closson added, then they have an obligation "not to blur the moral order that God has established." Part of this, he noted, means they "must respect the creative distinction between male and female and ensure that schools are places of genuine learning, not ideological grooming." "When government officials ignore this responsibility," he continued, "or when they allow activist educators to redefine truth, they fail in their God ordained role, and they place an entire generation at risk of moral and spiritual confusion. If our leaders will not enforce these protections, we risk raising children who will no longer know who they are or Whose image they bear." Closson critiqued how programs like SPS's "treat confusion as identity." They "treat rebellion against the created order as therapy." Scripture is clear that "God forms each person with intentionality and design," Closson stated, meaning "our bodies are not accidents but testimonies of divine design." To combat the secular pressures from districts like SPS, he insisted that "the church must take seriously its role in discipling parents to see through the false ‘compassion' of gender ideology." Deuteronomy 6 underscores that parents are the chief disciplers in their homes, Closson emphasized, and "that responsibility is not lost just because children attend school." The path forward demands "Biblical literacy" and "courage" from families, alongside churches delivering expositional preaching to equip parents for their core duties. As Closson stressed, initiatives like SPS's—particularly when pursued covertly—"undermine the parents' responsibility. We need to realize that when public school distributes binders or tucking underwear, this is not a health resource. This is the state catechizing children in a false gospel of self-creation," which "represents a direct assault on the Biblical truth that our identity is received, not invented." For all Believers, Closson stated, "We need conviction to call such programs out for what they are"—"spiritual deception." However, he added, "we also need compassion to reach these confused students with the hope of the Gospel." He pointed out that students log roughly 16,000 hours in classrooms, where each "class either reinforces or undermines" God's truth. "Education is discipleship," he asserted, and "if we're going to safeguard the next generation, parents and churches need to take ownership of the moral and intellectual formation of children, whether this is through homeschooling, Christian school, or active engagement in the public education policy." Because, ultimately, "teaching truth begins in the home." Closson closed with a word of caution and encouragement: "Parents must be vigilant, engaged in local schools, and unafraid to advocate for their child's innocence. Silence in the face of this kind of moral confusion is not neutrality. It's complicity. Parents also need to enthusiastically champion their children and their education, because reclaiming it is not just about policy or politics. It's really about the stewardship of souls that God has trusted to us." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand. 
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