A special education teacher at a Montgomery County, Maryland, elementary school urged women to "stop giving birth" to boys because America's "patriarchal hell" means they're all "menace[s] to society," a Washington Free Beacon review found. The teacher, Dana Zentgraf, also called to overthrow the U.S. government.
"It's your son too. It's all of them," Zentgraf wrote in a Facebook post under her online name, "Da Graf." "They are all menace[s] to society and we need to stop giving birth to them."
"I have news for the mothers of boys who believe they raised their sons 'right': In the world we live in, raising a boy right at home does not guarantee that he will be seen or treated right outside those doors," she continued. "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."
"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."
Zentgraf was even more explicit in an Oct. 24 post, writing, "If I was in my reproduction era, I would have one of those early blood tests to see if the fetus is a boy or a girl and I would abort it if it was a boy. I don't want to give birth to my own oppressor and I feel like the only way out of this patriarchal hell is for there to be less men on this earth. 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."
The comments are particularly shocking for someone tasked with nurturing young boys. Zentgraf is a special education teacher at Clopper Mill Elementary School, a part of the Montgomery County Public Schools district, a district directory reviewed by the Free Beacon shows. There, she is tasked with instructing students with learning, mental, emotional, or physical disabilities.
Far-left activism is commonplace in the district. In 2020, it spent more than $450,000 on an "anti-racist audit" intended to create "equitable outcomes for every student's academic and social-emotional well-being." Years later, in 2023, it limited access for parents at a board meeting discussing a policy barring parents from opting their children out of lessons on gender identity and sexuality.
Zentgraf previously posted to Facebook using her full name, including in the comment section of Montgomery County Public Schools' official page. She now goes by "Da Graf," and her profile photo shows a Palestinian flag emblazoned over a child.
Zentgraf has discussed her hatred toward men in other posts. In an Oct. 18 missive, 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."
Neither Zentgraf nor Montgomery County Public Schools responded to requests for comment.
Zentgraf's rage is not confined to men. She has also railed against the United States, dubbing it "AMERIKKKA" and arguing that violent resistance is preferred to voting.
"You think voting is the only answer, I think overthrowing the government is the only answer," Zentgraf wrote Oct. 30. "We are too [sic] very different people."
That same day, Zentgraf posted a photo of an SUV bearing two American flags and 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 to female genital mutilation in countries like Somalia. The archaic custom, which occurs in parts of the Middle East and Africa, is done to discourage sex outside of marriage and causes numerous medical problems such as 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. "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."
