N.J. Transgender Students Get Rules on Restroom, Name Preference
A gender neutral sign is posted outside a bathroom.
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New Jersey transgender and other students who don’t conform to their birth sex must be allowed to use restrooms of their choice and called by preferred names and pronouns, according to new rules from the state’s education department.
Teachers and other public-school staff in all 678 districts are to treat such individuals as they wish, without parental permission, even if they are minors. Each of 2,516 elementary and secondary schools also were to develop anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies.