AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - DOJ gives Maryland school district seven days to stop hiding gender transitions from parents
The Trump administration handed Anne Arundel County Public Schools a blunt ultimatum, rescind your policy of concealing student gender transitions from parents within a week, or face federal litigation and the loss of federal funding. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent the demand letter on July 29, invoking the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, […] The post DOJ gives Maryland school district seven days to stop hiding gender transitions from parents appeared first on American Almanac .
The Trump administration handed Anne Arundel County Public Schools a blunt ultimatum, rescind your policy of concealing student gender transitions from parents within a week, or face federal litigation and the loss of federal funding. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent the demand letter on July 29, invoking the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the federal law that guarantees parents access to their children's school records. The letter targets a district policy that lets students adopt new names and pronouns at school without parental knowledge or approval, and that classifies gender-identity records as confidential medical information staff should reveal only when "legally required." Dhillon's letter lays out what…Open