N.J. school board to file ethics charges against member suspected of transphobic tweets

The school board of Hunterdon Central Regional High School voted unanimously to file ethics charges against a sitting board member.

school board voted unanimously Monday night to file a complaint with the state School Ethics Commission against a fellow board member suspected of owning a Twitter account condemned as transphobic and discriminatory.

“I have nothing but empathy for LGBTQ students here in the school and what they’ve endured the past few years — all the students. I’ve never made a decision nor would I ever made a decision contrary to that, and I believe anyone who knows me, knows this to be true,” Petersen said. Concerns about the Twitter account with transphobic rhetoric were raised at a March 20 board of education meeting by a member of Flemington QTs, a group that supports the local queer and trans community and youth from surrounding towns.

Flemington QT’s later sent a letter to the school board which presented social media content the group said linked Petersen to the Twitter account.

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