Parents Defending Education, a national grassroots organization, recently published at an article titled “Upper Dublin School District has policy to keep gender identity of students secret from parents.”

The article outlines a “Gender Expansive and Transgender Students” policy which states, “However, in general, the prerogative to assert the rights of the transgender and gender non-conforming students belong to the student and do not require additional parental/guardian consent unless the assertion of a right delineated in this guidelines implicate parental/guardian rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or other applicable law.”

The policy also adds:

Therefore, school personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender expansive presentation to others, including the student’s parents/guardians and/or other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure.

For the full article, which contains other policy forms, you can click here.