Montgomery County may teach students in as early as the eighth grade lessons about homosexuality, gender identity and, for older students, the use of condoms under a legal ruling by the Maryland State Board of Education on Tuesday.

“[T]here may be disparate points of view on whether homosexuality or transgender issues are appropriately included in the way [Montgomery County Public Schools] has chosen to do so,” the board’s ruling said. “Yet that decision is a local decision and this Board, acting in a quasi-judicial capacity, will not second guess the appropriateness of the local board’s decision governing curriculum, unless, of course, that decision is illegal.”