Under the guise of a school climate survey, Fruitport Community Schools in Muskegon County is asking students if they are transgender and other information related to sexuality and ethnicity.

A question about gender identity is the first question under demographics, followed by a question about sexuality. The survey went out to middle schoolers.

Libs of TikTok shared images of the survey and called out the district in a post on X early Tuesday: “Why is @FruitportSchool asking middle schoolers if they’re transgender and what their s*xuality is?? These schools need to start losing their funding. This insanity must stop.”

Fruitport Community Schools has a link to the School Climate Survey on its website, but when you click on the various surveys, it states the school is no longer accepting responses.

The question about gender asks students to mark one response, with the option of female, male, transgender, or I prefer not to answer.

The second question asks “Which of the following best describes you?” Students are told to mark only one oval: Heterosexual (straight), Gay or lesbian, bisexual, or I prefer not to answer.

Replies to the post outing the survey expressed dismay:

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@gilbjk “I live near here and this just blows my mind.”

@griffitovic “This is so inappropriate. What is the point of the question about gender and then about sexuality? Is this something a middle school child’s survey should include? If so, explain why please.”

@mymomcare “I am telling you to get your kids to a small rural school or home school.”

@LilSisGreenTrea “If this was going on when my kids were in school, I’d be in jail.”

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@dutyccm “Fruitport already has the reputation of being a little fruity. They just confirmed it. Why are schools trying to force sexuality on kids who don’t know any better?”

@juskom95 It will stop when these school boards, admin staff and teachers start getting fired.

In a related story, Howell Public Schools and 49 other school districts in the state gave students a survey that included questions about their sexual and gender identity, sexual history, and alcohol and drug use, Michigan’s Capitol Confidential reports.

The 2025 Michigan High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey included the following questions:

• Have you ever had intercourse?
• Over the course of your life, how many sexual partners have you had?
• How many sexual partners have you had in the past three months?
• The first time you had sexual intercourse, how many years younger or older than you was your partner?

The survey also asked students in grades 7, 9, and 11 about the food they ate, their suicidal tendencies, and their weight “without shoes.”

High school officials believed that the state education department required the survey, but this was not correct, according to Thomas Gould, director of communications for Howell Public Schools, who confirmed that the survey was administered to six classes at Howell High School.

An opt-out form was sent home to parents, Gould told Michigan Capitol Confidential, but the survey was not conducted according to the district’s standard process.

The survey has been given to select schools nationally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 25 years, Bob Wheaton, director of public affairs at the Michigan Department of Education, said in an email to CapCon.

Last month, independent journalist Dave Bondy reported that Eaton Rapids School District had ‘non-binary’ as an option on its kindergarten enrollment form. According to Bondy’s website, the school district quietly revised the form after parents’ backlash.

In 2022, FOX News reported on similar surveys being used in school districts across the country. The surveys include questions about being transgender, whether students have used drugs, and if they have ever made a plan to kill themselves.

The database, complied by parents rights group Parents Defending Education, includes surveys from 37 states and the District of Colombia, along with a federal survey.

“No matter how children answer on these surveys, schools will consistently manipulate the results, so they can claim that requests for more funding for social emotional learning, equity directors and diversity training are ‘data driven,’” said Parents Defending Education Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi in the FOX News report.