Rochester Public Schools is formalizing guidelines crafted last fall aimed at helping transgender and gender-nonconforming students navigate school.
Last week, the school board said it would write the guidelines into district procedure, essentially codifying what up until now was advice to school administrators on everything from using preferred student pronouns at school to providing comfortable changing rooms and bathrooms for kids.
The move comes as the U.S Department of Education releases updates to Title IX, a federal regulation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities.
