The conflict began in 2022 when two students requested to be addressed by names matching their gender identities, and another student asked for different pronouns, in line with school policy.

Jennifer Lopez supported Emme Muniz's gender identity change to using they/them pronouns in 2022. Emme seems to have changed their pronouns to they/them in 2021 based on their clothing choices.

On the first day of the school year in August 2022, a week before Geraghty resigned ... and that she “wouldn’t be comfortable using preferred names or pronouns because she would know what was behind ...