School district in the hot seat amid fresh allegations of hiding students' gender transition
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Trump labeled Fairfax County Public Schools 'high risk' over bathroom policies. Now a new complaint says the district also conceals students' gender transitions from their parents.
In particular, AFL is taking issue with some of the district's guidance that tells educators to refrain from "out[ing]" a student to their parents in district-wide information systems that they have access to, while requiring name and pronoun changes that students request to be made in the district's information systems that are faculty-facing only. The guidance even goes so far as to tell educators in certain instances where a student feels unsafe to leave any pronoun or nickname information out of district-wide databases altogether, and only use a student's alternative name or pronouns while at school.
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