WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
  • Dana Zentgraf, a Maryland special education teacher, urged women to stop giving birth to boys and advocated aborting male fetuses.
  • Zentgraf teaches students with learning, mental, emotional, or physical disabilities at Clopper Mill Elementary School.
  • She called overthrowing the United States government the only answer and portrayed strong displays of American patriotism as racist.
  • Neither Zentgraf nor Montgomery County Public Schools responded to requests for comment.

A special education teacher at a Montgomery County, Maryland, elementary school urged women to stop giving birth to boys and said she would abort a male fetus. The teacher, Dana Zentgraf, also wrote that overthrowing the United States government was the only answer, as reported by The Free Beacon.

Zentgraf teaches special education at Clopper Mill Elementary School, according to a Montgomery County Public Schools district directory reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. She is responsible for teaching students with learning, mental, emotional, or physical disabilities.

Writing on Facebook under the name “Da Graf,” Zentgraf declared that all boys were threats to society. “It's your son too. It's all of them,” she wrote.

“They are all menace[s] to society, and we need to stop giving birth to them.”

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Zentgraf told mothers that raising their sons properly at home would not protect them from what she described as a broader culture controlled by men. She argued that boys entering society would encounter a world teaching men that they possess power over women.

“You can do everything in your power to raise him to be a good man … But once he steps outside your home, he enters a patriarchal world that has taught men, in ways both subtle and overt, that they hold power over women,” Zentgraf wrote.

She then offered mothers a grim instruction. “If it's too late to abort, raise him like your life depends on it because it does. All of our lives depend on it.”

In an Oct. 24 post, Zentgraf went even further, saying she would seek an early blood test to determine the sex of a fetus if she were still having children. She said she would abort the fetus if it were male because she did not want to give birth to her “own oppressor.”

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“I think we should start aborting male fetuses (or not having kids at all right now) and put an end to female oppression once and for all,” Zentgraf wrote. She said she believed fewer men on Earth offered a way out of what she called “this patriarchal hell.”

The Montgomery County district has previously spent heavily on far-left activism. In 2020, it spent more than $450,000 on an “anti-racist audit” intended to produce “equitable outcomes for every student's academic and social-emotional well-being.”

In 2023, the district limited parental access to a board meeting concerning a policy that barred parents from removing their children from lessons about gender identity and sexuality. Neither Zentgraf nor Montgomery County Public Schools responded to requests for comment.

Zentgraf previously posted on Facebook under her full name, including in the comments section of the school district’s official page. She now uses “Da Graf,” while her profile photograph shows a Palestinian flag placed over a child.

Her posts also contain repeated statements about her hostility toward men. In an Oct. 18 post, she wrote:

“Upon meeting another woman, I will almost immediately find a way to say something mean about a man or men in general to figure out whether or not she's a safe person to be myself around. … The last thing I need in my life is a male-centered woman.”

Zentgraf’s online rage extended beyond men to the United States itself. She referred to the country as “AMERIKKKA” and argued that overthrowing the government was preferable to voting.

“You think voting is the only answer; I think overthrowing the government is the only answer,” Zentgraf wrote on Oct. 30. “We are too very different people.”

That same day, she posted a photograph of an SUV displaying two American flags. Zentgraf wrote, “Anyone who loves America this much is racist, and nothing will ever change my mind. God bless AMERIKKKA.”

Zentgraf has also compared circumcision in the United States with female genital mutilation in countries including Somalia. The practice of female genital mutilation occurs in parts of the Middle East and Africa and can cause excessive bleeding, infections, difficulty passing urine, and sometimes death.

“If you have your son circumcised, you’re no different from a mother in Somalia who allows her daughter to undergo [female genital mutilation] because she believes it will make her more 'marriageable,'” Zentgraf wrote on Oct. 23.

She added, “You don't get to condemn genital mutilation in one breath and defend it in the next just because the child being cut is your son instead of someone else's daughter in a brown country.”

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