Judge temporarily blocks New Jersey schools from notifying parents of kids' alleged 'gender identity'

A New Jersey judge last week temporarily blocked three school districts in the state from enforcing rules requiring teachers to notify parents if their children are identifying as the opposite sex at school.

Monmouth County Judge David Bauman issued the preliminary injunction on Friday, declaring that the “state has demonstrated a reasonable probability of success on its claim that the Amended Policies, if implemented, will have a disparate impact on transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary youth,” the New York Post reported.

Bauman’s ruling came after New Jersey’s Democratic Attorney General Matthew Platkin sued three public school districts — Middletown Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan-Englishtown — for implementing rules requiring parental notification if a child wanted to change his or her name, preferred pronouns, and bathroom choice while at school due to an alleged alternative “gender identity.”

An attorney for the Marlboro Board of Education said the board is “disappointed” by the ruling, which blocks enforcement of the rules until a larger civil case pertaining to the matter is resolved.