New Jersey public school second graders will be getting lessons related to gender identity this fall under state sex education guidelines that will take effect in September. The standards listed “performance expectations” for second graders, which include discussing “the range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior.” Educators in the Garden State are preparing to carry out the teaching standards, which were established in 2020 but not required to be enacted until Sept. 2022.

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