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✊🏽Desi Rainbow and allied organizations are issuing a call to action for New Jersey based community members to show up on Tuesday, May 20 at 7 pm at Edison High School and speak up for retaining Policy 5756. The Edison Board of Education is planning to repeal this policy, which ensures that transgender and gender nonconforming students feel safe, supported, and respected in schools. 💪🏽Let’s show the BOE that trans kids deserve to be protected. Sign up here https://tinyurl.com/TransInEdison 🌆Edison, NJ, is a metropolis with one of the largest school districts in NJ, and has one of largest Desi and Asian American populations in the US. What happens here can happen in any place with similar demographics!� ✊🏽We need Queer and trans Desi’s, Parents of LGBTQ or cis-het children, mental health providers, teachers, religious leaders and allies of all sorts to show up and speak up. This is the second time that the BOE is attempting to repeal the policy, and only a grassroots community response will make a difference ✍🏽Can’t show up? Sign our open letter to the NJ Board of Education - If you’re an Individual: https://tinyurl.com/NJBOEOpenLetter If you’re an Organization: https://tinyurl.com/NJBOEOrgLetter #edison #protecttranskids #DesisStandUpForAllOurKids #desirainbowally #safeschools (fb)