NJ parents fight Gov. Phil Murphy’s gag on schools from telling them kids are trans

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New Jersey parents fight Gov. Phil Murphy’s gag on schools from telling them kids are trans

By Kirsten Fleming
August 8, 2023

A grassroots fight over parental and transgender children’s rights is brewing in New Jersey—right in Governor Phil Murphy’s backyard.

The dispute will explode in court next week, when New Jersey’s attorney general tries to block guidelines put in place by three school districts to tell parents if their child is changing gender identity.

Among the districts is Middletown, the Monmouth County town where Gov. Murphy, a father of four, lives.

The three districts’ new policies would require the school to notify parents if their children formally wanted to change their gender identity, pronouns or name, use different bathrooms, or change the gender of teams they play in.

The shift puts the districts, which between them have 18,000 students, at loggerheads with New Jersey state guidelines, which say “there is no affirmative duty for any school district personnel to notify a student’s parent or guardian of the student’s gender identity or expression.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/new-jersey-parents-fight-gov-phil-murphys-gag-on-schools-from-telling-them-kids-are-trans/