New Jersey public schools have experienced a more than 4,000% increase in students who
identify as non-binary since 2019, according to state enrollment data.
The New Jersey Department of Education state enrollment reports for the 2022-23 school year
reveal that 675 students from preschool through high school identify as non-binary. Of those 675
students, 41 of them are in elementary school (preschool through fifth grade).
Four years prior, only 16 students in New Jersey’s public school system identified as non-binary
during the 2019-20 school year. In 2020-21 that number rose to 85, and the following year it
jumped up to 376 for 2021-22.
These skyrocketing statistics come in the wake of new statewide learning policies which
incorporate gender identity and sex education curriculum in classrooms beginning in second
grade. The standards, which were implemented beginning in the fall of 2022, established
“performance expectations” for second graders that include teaching students to identify “the
range of ways people express their gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior.”
Sample lessons distributed as “resources” in some school districts encouraged teachers to tell
first-graders that you can have “boy parts” and be a girl, and vice versa.
Other proposed teachings emphasized teaching second grade students the names of male and female genitalia
and having them be able to explain “why it is important for them to know the correct names for the genitals.”
Conflict has arisen concerning how LGBTQ topics and students are treated in schools, especially
in relation to parents’ rights. Last month, the Hanover Board of Education instituted a policy that
required teachers to inform parents about anything that could “have a material impact on the
student’s physical and/or mental health, safety and/or social/emotional well-being,” including in
some cases a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation. New Jersey Attorney General Matt
Platkin filed a lawsuit against the school board, alleging that it discriminated against LGBTQ
students. The school board later repealed and reworded the policy, removing references to
gender and sexuality.
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Alongside the exponential rise in non-binary students in New Jersey, the number of transgender
youth nationwide has risen in the past few years. A recent report by UCLA’s Williams Institute
estimates that the number of youth who identify as transgender has nearly doubled since 2017,
jumping from 0.7% to 1.4% of the 13- to 17-year-old population in the U.S. The study also
estimates that nearly one in five people (18%) who identify as transgender are in the 13-17 age
range. Currently, youth aged 13-17 make up 8% of the U.S. population.
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