Two New Jersey school districts have voted to scrap woke state-recommended policies surrounding transgender issues.
The state's guidance recommended policies that include hiding a student's "gender identity" from parents unless they are given permission to share the information by the child or if there is a risk to their health and safety.
Additionally, the guidance says that transgender-identifying students should be allowed to use bathrooms and play on sports teams that correspond with their chosen gender.
The Franklin Lakes School District voted 5-4 during their meeting on Thursday to stop the adoption of the policies. On the same evening, the nearby Westwood Regional School Board also voted to drop them with a 5-2 vote.
The Daily Wire reports:Franklin Lakes board member Scott Loia, who brought the resolution to abolish the transgender policy, said he does not “buy into this gender nonsense” and said “less is more” when it comes to the policy.
Loia argued that the school districts that have edited the state policy before adopting it have encountered more legal issues than those that just got rid of it.
“What’s important is leaving the window open where a kid could be affected by this if a certain staff member does, for instance, withhold information from a parent. That is more important to me than anything,” Loia said.
The state of New Jersey has filed lawsuits against four school districts that adopted policies of informing parents if a child claims to want a new "gender identity."
According to a report from the New York Post, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin claimed that the state is not seeking to infringe on parental rights but want to reinstate school policies that had “protected the rights of transgender students and permitted schools to inform parents about their children based on individualized and non-discriminatory assessments of a particular child’s needs and circumstances.”
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy claimed the policies are "illegal" and a product of the "culture war."
“But let’s not violate the constitutional and civil rights of precious young folks in many cases, who are coming to grips with life as they grow up and grow older, let’s be respectful of that,” Murphy said.
