“‘Outing’ these students against their will poses serious mental health risks,' says the lawsuit.
The lawsuits allege the policies violate New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination and put transgender students at risk. | Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesNew Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration has sued three school districts for adopting policies to tell parents if their children show signs of changing their gender identity.
“School policies that single out or target LGBTQ+ youth fly in the face of our State’s longstanding commitment to equality,” Sundeep Iyer, director of the Attorney General’s Division on Civil Rights, said in a statement. “Our laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression, plain and simple, and we will not waver in our commitment to enforcing those protections.”
“We vehemently disagree with Attorney General’s argument that it is somehow discriminatory or improper to notify a parent that their minor child is changing their gender identity or expression,” he said in an email. “It is our position that keeping parents in the dark about important issues involving their children is counterintuitive and contrary to well established U.S.
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