and play for the corresponding sports team of their preference without legal documentation since 2019.according toOver 100 New York City public school students listed their gender as “X” instead of “male” or “female,” after the nation’s largest school district provided the new option for non-binary pupils last fall.
“The first step to making sure a school is meeting the needs of its student body is knowing who is in the student body,” Allie Bohm, an attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, reportedly said.In the 2021-22 school year, 300 of the state’s 2.4 million students identified as non-binary, according to a public breakdown of student demographics.