<p>Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a> school districts voted to get rid of their state-recommended transgender school policies last week.</p>
<p>The board for the Franklin Lakes School District about 20 miles east of New York City <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/franklin-lakes/2023/12/15/franklin-lakes-nj-elementary-school-board-transgender-policy/71934511007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 5-4 on Thursday to scrap its adoption of a transgender school policy recommended by the state.</p>
<p>Just a few miles away and on the same day, the Westwood Regional School Board voted 5-2 to toss the state&#8217;s transgender guidance as well.</p>
<p>The state&#8217;s version of the transgender policy <a href="https://www.nj.gov/education/safety/sandp/climate/docs/Guidance.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that school staff should keep a student&#8217;s new gender identity hidden from their parents unless the student gives permission or if there is a risk to the student&#8217;s health and safety. The policy also says trans-identifying students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and play on the sports teams that correspond with their gender identity.</p>
<p>It also includes a page of definitions for terms like transgender, gender expression, assigned sex at birth, and sexual orientation.</p>
<p>Franklin Lakes board member Scott Loia, who brought the resolution to abolish the transgender policy, <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/franklin-lakes/2023/12/15/franklin-lakes-nj-elementary-school-board-transgender-policy/71934511007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he does not &#8220;buy into this gender nonsense&#8221; and said &#8220;less is more&#8221; when it comes to the policy.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8220;What&#8217;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,&#8221; Loia <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/franklin-lakes/2023/12/15/franklin-lakes-nj-elementary-school-board-transgender-policy/71934511007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
<p>However, the Franklin Lakes school board is about to get two new <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/franklin-lakes/2023/11/10/franklin-lakes-elects-incumbent-two-newcomers-to-school-board/71528767007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">members</a> in January. The transgender policy is <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/franklin-lakes/2023/12/15/franklin-lakes-nj-elementary-school-board-transgender-policy/71934511007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduled</a> to be read and voted on again at a January 23 meeting, and it is not clear yet whether it will be reinstalled.</p>
<p>The Westwood district is also set to get new board members next month after four members who emphasized parental rights <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/westwood/2023/11/08/parents-right-slate-defeated-in-westwood-nj-school-board-race/71472982007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> their races earlier this month.</p>
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<p>Board member Irene Fenarjian <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/westwood/2023/12/15/parental-rights-board-in-westwood-nj-repeals-transgender-student-policy/71924081007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that the policy has a &#8220;presumptive guilt&#8221; regarding safety concerns for students at home and said the district already has &#8220;other systems in place for safety.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Franklin Lakes district serves more than 1,100 students, while the Westwood school district serves nearly 2,800 students.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, another school district, Roxbury Public Schools, <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/local/morris-county/2023/12/14/roxbury-school-board-nj-votes-against-scrapping-transgender-protections/71906009007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to keep their adoption of the transgender policy, at least for the time being.</p>
<p>Board member Anne Colucci opposed keeping the policy, saying it &#8220;encourages keeping secrets from parents.&#8221;</p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Over the summer, New Jersey sued four school districts over their new policies requiring schools to notify parents if their children adopt a new gender identity.</p>

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