LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launched investigations into three Michigan Public School Districts looking to see if they included sexual gender ideology into pre-K-12 grades.

The districts are Detroit Public Schools Community District, Lansing School District and Godfrey-Lee Public Schools in the Grand Rapids area.

“Embedding sexuality and gender ideology.”

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The DOJ will investigate whether parents were notified of their ability to opt-out of gender-based instruction and if the districts limited access to single-sex spaces such as locker rooms and bathrooms based on biological sex.

“This Department of Justice is fiercely committed to ending the growing trend of local school authorities embedding sexuality and gender ideology in every aspect of public education,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a press release. “Supreme Court precedent is clear: parents have the right to direct the religious upbringing of their children, which includes exempting them from ideological instruction which conflicts with their families’ sincerely held religious beliefs. And Title IX demands that we guard the safety, dignity, and innocence of our youngest citizens—our children—by ensuring that they have unfettered access to bathrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex.”

Specifics spelled out.

The DOJ’s Feb. 18 letter to the Detroit public school district gives an insight to what the federal government is looking for.

The letter asked the district to “identify and describe with particularity, in the form of a spreadsheet, every single club, support group, organization, alliance, association, or extracurricular program or activity, whether in-school or after-school, referring or relating to ‘sex,’ ‘human sexuality,’ ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity,’ ‘gender diversity,’ ‘gender spectrum,’ ‘gender expression,’ ‘gender fluidity,’ ‘gender nonconformity,’ ‘transitioning,’ ‘queer culture,’ ‘LGBTQIA+,’ ‘Pride Month,’ ‘Pride Week,’ ‘drag queen,’ or ‘drag performer’ for all grades pre-K-12 from September 1, 2023 to present.”

The letter also asks for similar terms that appear in “every document, correspondence, communication, contract, agreement, memorandum of understanding, invitation for bids, request for proposals, request for quotations, or procurement solicitation referring or relating to toolkits, workshops, curricula, class materials, guest speakers, lecture series, task forces, initiatives, partnerships, associations, alliances, best practice recommendations, model policies, reports, white papers, teacher or staff training, professional development, technical assistance, capacity building, or other programming or support.”

“We expect DPSCD to cooperate fully with this compliance investigation,” Dhillon’s letter to the Detroit district stated.