A Manhattan school board has rescinded a vote last year that propelled New York City into the fractious debate over transgender youth in American athletics.

The Community Education Council for public school District 2 — which includes some of the city’s wealthiest and most reliably Democratic neighborhoods — passed a measure in late March 2024, asking the city education department to review its policies on trans girls in school athletics.

The effort was driven in part by Maud Maron, a parent and conservative leader in city education circles. In January of 2024, she told Gay City News that she was a member of Moms For Liberty, a group known for its efforts to ban books in American schools that embrace or acknowledge the LGBTQ+ community.

The resolution , which passed in March of th

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