A New Jersey Superior Court judge has temporarily blocked a policy that would require educators in three Monmouth County school districts to inform parents if their child changes their gender identity after the school districts adopted the policy, the state sought a preliminary injunction. State Attorney General Matt Platkin said the policy violates the state’s anti-discrimination laws. Parental rights groups insist they need such policies to know what’s happening in their children’s lives.
The judge’s decision halts the policy for now, a ruling that leaves some districts without an approved policy before the start of the school year. In an interview with NJ Spotlight News, Michael Gottesman, founder of the New Jersey Public Education Coalition, which has been opposing these policies, said, “So basically, the judge said there’s a reasonable probability that the state will be successful in pursuing those two claims, and that’s one of the reasons why he issued the preliminary restraining order.”
According to Gottesman, “We have a situation in New Jersey now where national groups have entered into the conversation and questions like these, which are really local questions, questions that should be determined by the residents of the school district, are now being made national issues.”
