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FIRST ON FOX: The Connecticut State Department of Education pushed back on watchdog accusations it quietly changed its website to reflect the governor’s debate comments on gender identity instruction in sex education.
Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont said in Wednesday’s debate that teaching gender identity instruction during sex education in schools does not and should not happen.
“It doesn’t, and it shouldn’t,” Lamont responded to the speed-round question on whether gender identity instruction should be included in sex education.
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Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said during Wednesday’s debate that gender identity instruction doesn’t belong in sex education and that it wasn’t present in his state’s curriculum.
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Lamont faced one problem with his answer, though: the state’s education department actually did recommend gender identity instruction during sex education in its “Healthy and Balanced Living Curriculum Framework.”
That problem went away quickly after the debate, though, after the department stealthily changed its website to reflect the governor’s comments, as education nonprofit Parents Defending Education accused.
The education watchdog noted that the changes came from May of this year but said “the link was broken just hours after the debate and that is driving some of the questions and doubt.”
Eric Scoville, spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Education, pushed back on the accusations, telling Fox News Digital the changes came from May 2022 and no other changes have been made since then.
Scoville also said the changes came after suggestions from the school districts in Connecticut and noted the state’s education framework is not a curriculum and that localities choose their educational topics.
Before the debate, the state’s “Healthy and Balanced Living Curriculum Framework” defined “sexual intercourse” as may…
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