NJ school district’s secretive transgender policy faces legal threat for bucking Supreme Court ruling
A New Jersey school district is being threatened with legal action unless it repeals a policy that lets schools withhold students’ gender-identity information from parents, setting up what could become...
By Fox News · Fox News
A New Jersey school district is being threatened with legal action unless it repeals a policy that lets schools withhold students’ gender-identity information from parents, setting up what could become an early test of the Supreme Court’s recent intervention in the fight over parental rights and school disclosure rules. The Thomas More Society, a conservative legal group, accused the Westwood Regional School District in a demand letter of wrongfully maintaining the policy, which also allows the schools, in some cases, to aid K-12 students’ "social transition" to becoming transgender without their parents' knowledge. The move comes weeks after the Supreme Court dealt a major victory to conservative parents in Mirabelli v. Bonta by upholding an injunction against a similar policy in California. "I had hoped this would end the practice of secret gender transitions, but what's becoming clear to us is this is just the beginning," Peter Breen, Thomas More Society executive vice president, told Fox News Digital. "This is not an end, but a beginning, our big win in the Supreme Court. We are already fielding requests from other parents across the country, and we anticipate sending a lot more demand letters, unfortunately." CATHOLIC GROUP ASKS SCOTUS TO BLOCK CALIFORNIA LAW AGAINST REVEALING STUDENTS' GENDER IDENTITIES TO PARENTS Fox News Digital reached out to the school district board members who received the letter, as well as the district's superintendent, for comment but did not receive responses. The school board told local media earlier in March that members were consulting with district counsel and reviewing policies. The letter requires the New Jersey school district to repeal its policy, called Policy 5756, within 20 days. Otherwise, Breen said, the Thomas More Society would follow the same path it did in California and begin litigation. "When the Supreme Court decides a case, the logic of the decision is binding on every other court in the country, federal or stat…