New Jersey's attorney general is hitting three more school districts for their new policies involving lgbtq students today filing civil rights complaints against Middletown Marlborough and the Manalapan Englishtown Regional Boards of Education challenging allegedly unlawful policies approved by the districts this week they require teachers to notify parents if a student asks to officially go by a different name gender pronoun or use a different bathroom in the school the state is also requesting temporary restraining orders from Superior Court to stop the boards from implementing the policies while the civil cases go through the courts the complaints allege the new guidelines will irreparably harm transgender non-binary and some gender non-conforming students alleging outing those students poses serious mental health risks and threatens physical harm to them it's the latest front in an ongoing going culture War pitting the Murphy Administration against some New Jersey parents fighting for parental rights arguing they're being cut out of the conversation attorney general Matt platkin first filed a complaint against Hanover Township schools for a similar policy and says his office is holding a hard line on the issue these policies that Target people on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity violate our law we've been saying that courts have agreed with us and ultimately they will not stand but what they will do is stigmatize and hurt children who are identifying as openly gay or lgbtq Plus or having gender identity issues and that is shameful and it's going to put kids at risk at a time where we're already seeing a mental health crisis amongst Our Youth and I would ask every board that's considering this to understand a what they're doing is illegal we will not allow it to stand but B what they're doing is most importantly hurting our kids [Music]