NJ School District Faces Legal Threat Over Transgender Disclosure Policy After Supreme Court Order

The Thomas More Society has sent a demand letter to New Jersey’s Westwood Regional School District ordering it to repeal Policy 5756—its rule allowing schools to withhold students’ gender‑identity information from parents and to assist in a student’s social transition without parental knowledge—within 20 days or face litigation. The conservative legal group argues that the policy conflicts with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 6–3 emergency order in Mirabelli v. Bonta, which reinstated an injunction against a similar California policy that barred staff from informing parents of a child’s gender transition at school. Executive vice president Peter Breen told Fox News Digital that the Mirabelli ruling confirms parents’ fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children and warned that individual school officials could be sued personally for defying it. Westwood officials have said locally that they are conferring with counsel but did not respond to Fox’s requests for comment, and Breen says his group is already fielding similar complaints from parents nationwide, framing this as the first of many post‑Mirabelli legal challenges to so‑called “gender secrecy” policies. The case positions a suburban New Jersey district as an early test of how far lower courts will extend the Supreme Court’s emergency reasoning on parental notification in transgender‑related school disputes.