It is legitimate for a reporter to do some investigation on a story like this, rather than simply publish the whole laundry list of allegations.

The school is obviously going to be banned from commenting because of privacy issues -- you can't discuss a student.

But it would not be hard to talk to a few people to see if someone at a board meeting actually made a suggestion to castrate transgender people, or look into whether there was religious content in the abstinence education program, etc.