The Thomas More Society has issued a demand letter to the Westwood Regional School District Board of Education in New Jersey, calling for the repeal of its gender policy and arguing it violates constitutional protections.
The letter, sent on behalf of a parent with a child, challenges the district’s Transgender Guidance Policy 5756, which requires school staff to use a student’s asserted name and pronouns without mandatory parental notification. The law firm called the policy a “flagrant illegality.”
If the district does not comply, the Thomas More Society said it will seek an injunction similar to the one it obtained against California in Mirabelli v. Bonta.
“No school district has a right to secretly ‘transition’ children to another gender,” Christopher Ferrara, senior counsel at Thomas More Society, said. “Parents send their children to school every day trusting that the district is in partnership with them, not working around them. Policy 5756 destroys that trust.”
District officials confirmed it received the demand letter but declined to comment further.
