The department announced investigations into gender-identity policies in New Mexico and Pennsylvania on 9 November, and separate joint enforcement action with the Justice Department concerning Pennsylvania’s Pine-Richland district.
The US Education Department announced investigations on 9 November into Albuquerque Public Schools and Santa Fe Public Schools in New Mexico and Pennsbury School District in Pennsylvania. It alleges that the districts’ gender-identity policies violate federal law.
Separately, the department said it was taking enforcement action with the Justice Department concerning Pennsylvania’s Pine-Richland School District. It alleged that district policies direct staff, including nurses and psychologists, to facilitate students’ gender transitions without parental consent.
The Education Department said reports raised concerns that the Albuquerque and Santa Fe districts have policies preventing school staff from sharing information with parents about a child’s gender identity or transition. Gender identity refers to a person’s sense of their gender.
In Pennsbury, the department said parents allege that the district facilitated their daughter’s social transition to appear as a boy for three years without informing them. A social transition concerns how a person presents or is recognized in daily life; it does not itself mean medical treatment.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the administration’s education agenda seeks to uphold parental rights and classroom transparency, and that parents should be the first decision-makers in their children’s lives.
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