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Utah BOE crafts transgender student guidelines, to face continued review
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah State Board of Education committee has drafted a new set of proposed guidelines governing transgender students and gender-identity issues, an area largely untouched in state education policy. "This is new territory for us. It's what the district and charter schools have been asking of us," said Mark Peterson, the board of education spokesperson. The guidelines — under discussion since last September — will be the focus of debate at a meeting of the Utah BOE Standards and Assessment Committee on Wednesday, though the review process will continue beyond ...
