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Stafford schools’ newly proposed transgender policy just took a backseat

STAFFORD -- Once a main priority for the Stafford County School Board, setting a new transgender bathroom policy will have to wait.

The issue in recent weeks has gotten pushed aside as the School Board instead focuses on making and approving its 2020 budget and tries to make good on a promise to redistrict and every elementary school in the county.

Talk of a setting a division-wide transgender policy came after a transgender female at a county middle school in October wasn’t allowed to go into either the boys or girls gym lockerrooms during an active shooter safety drill, where students are to go during the drills.

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