N.J. school board meeting erupts as district votes to change transgender student guidelines

Editor's note: This post has been updated with comment from the Office of the Attorney General and the Division on Civil Rights. The Middletown School Board on Tuesday night adopted a controversial parent notification policy that sources said would require schools to notify parents if a gender nonconforming student wants to be addressed by an alternative name or pronoun, inquires about participating on a different sports team or wants to use a different restroom. The amendment was to Middletown's policy 5756, which requires districts to accept a student's asserted gender identity without the c…

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