据查塔姆学区的政策，由学校辅导员决定是否告知家长孩子的性别过渡情况
2026-09-04T05:00:53-04:00 / 福克斯新闻
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发布于2026年9月4日美国东部时间上午5:00
“荒谬的政策”：诉讼挑战新泽西学区的秘密性别过渡规则
托马斯·摩尔学会律师克里斯托弗·费拉拉表示，父母拥有指导子女成长的宪法权利，而“为自由而母亲”组织警告称，类似政策正在新泽西州和全美范围内蔓延。
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新泽西州一所学区因一项允许学生在学校更改姓名和性别认同却不通知家长的政策而被起诉。
根据查塔姆学区的政策，学生可以更改官方学校记录中的姓名，使用符合其性别认同的卫生间和更衣室，而学校辅导员将决定“是否以及在何种程度上”让家长参与相关决定。
提起此次诉讼的托马斯·摩尔学会高级顾问克里斯托弗·费拉拉表示，该学校政策直接违背了最高法院今年3月在“米拉贝利诉邦塔”案中的裁决。该案针对加州将学生性别身份向家长保密的州政策下达了禁制令，相关案件仍在下级法院审理中。
“法院在米拉贝利案中已经明确表态，第三巡回法院也有类似裁决，即父母有权挑战这类隐瞒性别过渡信息的政策，无论孩子是否真的正在进行性别过渡，”费拉拉告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“最高法院指出，父母拥有起诉权的原因在于，这类政策的针对对象正是父母。”
2025年4月22日，在美国华盛顿特区，支持让孩子退出包含LGBTQ相关内容课程的民众在美国最高法院外抗议，当时法院正在审理“马哈茂德诉泰勒”案的口头辩论。此前，马里兰州一所公立学区取消了针对涉及LGBTQ相关书籍的课堂讨论的退出选择权，家长就此提起诉讼。（奥利弗·孔特雷拉斯/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
“该政策规定这些信息将对家长隐瞒，因此家长有权对此提出反对，无论他们的孩子当下是否正在进行性别过渡。当然，始终存在这样的风险：孩子在同伴压力、教师影响或社交媒体的诱导下，会跟风这种荒谬的潮流，认为自己的性别并非父母所认为的、由上帝赋予且不可改变的生理性别，而是另一种性别。”
费拉拉指出，该政策可能对无意进行性别过渡的学生造成重大影响，因为他们可能被迫与异性共用更衣室和卫生间。
“为自由而母亲”组织的首席执行官兼创始人蒂娜·德斯科维奇是此次诉讼的原告之一，她还声称，拒绝使用其他学生偏好的代词的学生可能会违反学校行为准则并面临纪律处分。
“该学区有一项政策，实际上会惩罚那些不使用他人所要求的新性别认同代词和姓名的学生，”德斯科维奇告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“哪怕只是意外用错一次，仅仅因为使用了错误的代词或姓名，即对方自称的性别与生理性别不符，学生就可能被处以最高至停课的处罚。”
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系查塔姆学区置评。
此次诉讼于8月24日提起，除“为自由而母亲”组织外，两名匿名的小学适龄女儿的家长也是原告。原告指控学校违反了父母和学生的第一修正案言论自由权和宗教自由权，以及第十四修正案的正当程序条款。该学区还被指控违反了最高法院在“马哈茂德诉泰勒”案中确认的父母权利，该案裁定父母有权让孩子退出以LGBTQ为主题的课程。
华盛顿母亲因音乐课上未提前通知的骄傲主题课程将孩子带离学校
2024年8月30日，“为自由而母亲”联合创始人蒂娜·德斯科维奇在华盛顿特区举行的2024年“欢乐勇士”全国峰会上发表讲话。（亚历克斯·王/盖蒂图片社）
“最高法院已经就这些问题作出了两次裁决，”德斯科维奇说。“我们知道，父母有权让孩子退出违反其宗教信仰的课程。”
此次诉讼之前，查塔姆学区教育委员会主席安·西卡雷利在2026年6月15日的校董会上表示，该学区不受米拉贝利案裁决的法律约束，而是必须遵循新泽西州教育部2018年关于跨性别学生的指导方针。
马萨诸塞州三年级女孩的父亲 alleged 遭跨性别学生闯入卫生间，呼吁采取行动
2025年4月22日，蒙哥马利县公立学区的家长在美国最高法院外就影响学区的父母权利问题发表抗议。（安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社）
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但据新泽西州 Spotlight 新闻报道，新泽西州总检察长马修·普拉特金承认，第5756号政策并非强制性政策。
“该指导方针既违反了米拉贝利案裁决，也违反了马哈茂德案裁决，这里存在很多重叠和混乱，但归根结底在于校董事会。学校有责任和义务保护其社区内公民、员工、学生和家庭的宪法权利，但它并没有做到这一点，”德斯科维奇说。
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费拉拉告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，自从家长们开始公开反对这项政策以来，他们一直受到威胁和恐吓。他说，其中一个家庭的住宅外已经安排了警察安保。
“当你反对这些政策时，就会遭遇这种情况，”费拉拉告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“你基本上会遭到那些完全不容忍这个问题上正常观点的意识形态分子的恶毒公开抨击。”
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Blue state school district accused of defying Supreme Court, hiding gender transitions from parents
Under the Chathams policy, a guidance counselor decides whether parents are told about a child’s gender transition
2026-09-04T05:00:53-04:00 / Fox News
By Elaine Mallon, Fox News
Published September 4, 2026 5:00am EDT
‘Absurd policy’: Lawsuit challenges New Jersey school district’s secret gender transition rules
Thomas More Society attorney Christopher Ferrara says parents have a constitutional right to direct their children’s upbringing, while Moms for Liberty warns similar policies are spreading across New Jersey and the country.
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A New Jersey school district is being sued over a policy allowing students to change their name and gender identity at school without notifying their parents.
Under the School District of the Chathams’ policy, students are able to change their name in official school records, use the bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity, and the school guidance counselor decides “whether, and to what extent” parents are involved in the decision.
The school’s policy flies in the face of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta in March, which granted an injunction against California over state policies that keep students’ gender identities confidential from parents while the issue works its way through the lower courts, according to Christopher Ferrara, senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, who filed the lawsuit.
“Well, the court has made clear in the Mirabelli case, and the Third Circuit has a decision along the same lines, that parents have standing to challenge a policy like this, which would hide a gender transition from the parents, whether or not the child is actually transitioning,” Ferrara told Fox News Digital. “And the Supreme Court indicated that the reason parents have standing is that the parents are the objects of this policy.”
People supporting the right to opt their children out of classes containing LGBTQ-related content demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in the Mahmoud v. Taylor case in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2025. Parents challenged a Maryland public school district after it ended opt-outs for classroom discussions involving LGBTQ-related books.(Oliver Contreras/AFP via Getty Images)
“The policy provides that this information will be hidden from them, so they have the right to object to it, whether or not their particular child or children is at that moment being transitioned. And there’s always a risk, of course, that the child under peer pressure, or the influence of teachers, or social media, will go along with this ridiculous trend and decide that his gender is not the biological one that parents believe is God-given and immutable, but some other gender.”
Ferrara noted that the policy could have major consequences for students who aren’t seeking to transition their gender because they could be forced to share locker rooms and bathrooms with members of the opposite sex.
Moms for Liberty CEO and founder Tina Descovich, whose organization is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, also alleged that students who refuse to use other students’ preferred pronouns could face disciplinary action under the school’s code of conduct.
“They have a policy in the school district that will actually punish children that don’t use the demanded new gender identity pronoun and name of another student,” Descovich told Fox News Digital. “They can do that just one time on accident, and they can be punished up to suspension just for using the wrong pronoun or the wrong name of someone that is identifying as something other than they actually are.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the School District of the Chathams for comment.
Along with Moms for America, two anonymous parents of elementary school-aged daughters are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which was filed Aug. 24. The plaintiffs accuse the school of violating the parents’ and students’ First Amendment rights to free speech and religious liberty, as well as the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. The school district is also accused of violating parental rights that were affirmed in the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which determined that parents can opt their children out of LGBT-centered lessons.
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Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich speaks during the 2024 Joyful Warriors National Summit on Aug. 30, 2024, in Washington, D.C.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“The Supreme Court has ruled twice on these issues,” Descovich said. “We know that parents have to have a right to opt out of things that violate their religious beliefs.”
The lawsuit follows a June 15, 2026, school board meeting in which Ann Ciccarelli, president of the Chatham School District Board of Education, said the district was not legally bound by the Mirabelli decision and instead was required to follow the New Jersey Department of Education’s 2018 guidance on transgender students.
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Parents from the Montgomery County Public Schools district speak out about parental rights issues impacting their school district outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 22, 2025.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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But New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin acknowledged that Policy 5756 is not mandatory, according to NJ Spotlight News.
“The guidance violates both Maribel and it violates Mahmood and, so you know there’s a lot of crossover and confusion here, but what it comes down to is the school board. The school has a duty and responsibility to protect constitutional rights of the citizens in its community of its employees of its students of its families, and it is not doing that,” Descovich said.
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Ferrara told Fox News Digital that since parents began speaking out against the policy, they have been subjected to threats and intimidation. He said that one family has had police security outside their homes.
“This is what happens when you oppose these policies,” Ferrara told Fox News Digital. “You basically are going to be subjected to a vicious public backlash by ideologues who are totally intolerant of basically the normal point of view on this issue.”
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.
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