The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Friday that it is challenging a new Massapequa school district policy barring transgender students from using restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity, calling it “hateful” and discriminatory.

The civil rights group appealed to state Department of Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa on behalf of a transgender student “who is being prevented from accessing school facilities because of the new policy,” which violates state civil rights, human rights and education laws and regulations, the group said in a news release Friday.

School officials “are abusing their power and authority to target vulnerable students for who they are,” Emma Hulse, education counsel at the civil rights group, said in a statement. “All studen

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