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Trustees edit gender identity policy language to remove age-specific line and clarify disclosure rules
Summary
The board reviewed edits to the student gender identity policy (policy 7552), agreed to remove an age-specific reference that children "typically" understand gender identity by age 4, and clarified that disclosure to parents will be handled case-by-case with the child's safety a critical factor; staff will send the redline to legal for first-read status.
Trustees and staff spent part of the meeting redlining Policy 7552, the district's student gender identity policy, and agreed to remove age-specific language and to add clearer guidance on parent disclosure and staff communications.
The group deleted a sentence that read, in the draft, that "children typically begin to understand their own gender identity by age 4." Trustees and staff instead agreed on wording that does not assign a…
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