listed"performance expectations" for second graders that include discussing"the range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior." One school district in the state distributed sample lesson plans indicating first graders could be taught they can have"boy parts" but"feel like" a girl.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks during a Get Out The Vote rally Oct. 28, 2021, in New Brunswick, N.J.,"Purple, Pink and Blue," instructs teachers to talk to their first graders about gender identity, and its first objective is to have the students be able to define"gender, gender identity and gender role stereotypes."
"Gender identity is that feeling of knowing your gender. You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl," the lesson plan."You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts.