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Multiple New Jersey school districts approve measures to out trans & nonbinary students to parents
This week, three New Jersey school districts approved measures that will force school officials to out transgender and nonbinary students to their parents.
School boards in Middletown, Marlboro, and Manalapan-Englishtown, New Jersey, all adopted similar parent notification policies on Tuesday, according to NJ.com.
...Inside the meeting, ahead of the Tuesday vote, one transgender student told board members that they were “disgusted” that trans students’ rights and privacy were being endangered. “You guys clearly don’t understand the amount of harm you are putting young trans kids in with this policy,” they said.
“By outing students to their families, you are doing a huge disservice to their mental and physical well-being,” another student said. “This may subject them to physical or emotional abuse from unsupportive parents. Being stripped away of the choice of when to come out is traumatizing in and of itself.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/multiple-new-jersey-school-districts-approve-measures-to-out-trans-nonbinary-students-to-parents/School boards in Middletown, Marlboro, and Manalapan-Englishtown, New Jersey, all adopted similar parent notification policies on Tuesday, according to NJ.com.
...Inside the meeting, ahead of the Tuesday vote, one transgender student told board members that they were “disgusted” that trans students’ rights and privacy were being endangered. “You guys clearly don’t understand the amount of harm you are putting young trans kids in with this policy,” they said.
“By outing students to their families, you are doing a huge disservice to their mental and physical well-being,” another student said. “This may subject them to physical or emotional abuse from unsupportive parents. Being stripped away of the choice of when to come out is traumatizing in and of itself.”
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Arrrrgh!
