100% Support Common Sense Policies Putting Parents FIRST

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The recent national conflagration around gender identity has intruded into the lives of families. It has also highlighted a serious longer-term problem that has grown imperceptibly for some time. That problem being the replacement of families in the nurturing of children by the State.

For time immemorial, it was understood that parents and other family members had the primary responsibility to raise and educate their children. Schools and other entities were established to teach specific skills such as reading and math while serving in loco parentis. That is, the State acted as a parent in situations such as school but was not to supersede or replace the parents. The timeless relationship between the State and the family is being altered by one side in order to advance an agenda which runs contrary to the established wisdom of all previous human history.

All persons, regardless of age or sex should be respected. All should feel safe in school. Allowing the school to facilitate drastic medical and biological changes without the consent of the parents is not wise or just. Allowing biological males into the changing facilities of female students is harmful to the safety all students should feel in school. This is an extremely dangerous and slippery slope; therefore, I support the new pro-parent policies proposed by the Virginia Department of Education.

Thank you,

Elizabeth Hogen-Heath


Strongly support Youngkin


Unfair and Unneccessary

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<p>Trans kids need our support and not our condemnation.   </p>


Model Policies for the treatment of transgender students

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Governor Youngkin is the voice of reason. I am 100% in support!


100% Support

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<p>It's absurd that anyone would object to involving parents in such a consequential decision regarding their children.  Are we to believe that teachers and administrators care more for children than their own parents?  The arrogance!  The people arguing against this policy have totally lost the plot.  There is nothing hateful at all about it.  It simply honors the parent-child relationship and the crucial role parents play in their children's lives.  I wish our schools would stop pretending like controversial issues are "settled science" and that they know better than everyone else.  </p>


Support for Gov. Youngkin

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Children do not belong to the state, but to parents who love them and know them best.


Gov. Youngkin is correct!  Protect ALL of the children.  Stop the madness.

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Our Governor is 100% CORRECT!  Parents must be the driving force in this issue.

Biological males should NEVER be allowed in the bathrooms with biological females.  Biological males should never be allowed to compete in women's sports as females.

No minors should ever receive "gender affirming medical procedures" in the state of Virginia.

Enough with this madness.  Use some common sense.  Protect all of the children, not just those receiving newly granted special rights because they are unique or confused.


Hateful policies!!!!

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How dare you force all of us to live by your “Christian” values! These policies sow hate and division. If that’s Christianity in application and what G-d intended, that’s pure cruelty and evil. Worst governor ever!!


I support Gov Youngkin and his actions

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<p>Thank you, Gov Youngkin, for understanding the rights of parents and the importance of family.  Our country is in a mess largely due to the breakdown of the family caused by the interference of government in trying to control how we raise our children.  It is the parents who have the God ordained right to raise their children.  The schools should support the parents in that endeavor, not control the agenda.  God made two genders, male and female, and they both are wonderfully made and they should have the right to experience the competition of sports with their peers of the same gender.  It's time we returned to a society that honors and supports the family unit as the bedrock of our society.  </p>


Quit forcing Christian nationalism on all of us!!

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From WAPO:

Contrary to statements that suggest otherwise, the 2022 model policies do impose a specific ideology. Christian nationalism is not relegated to churches, extremist groups or religious-political leaders; it exerts control and fosters political violence through public policies and institutions that seek to exterminate non-White, non-Christian, and non-heteropatriarchal thought from the nation.


Vehemently oppose!

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https://richmond.com/eedition/richmond/page-a9/page_177ccd31-4312-5406-99e0-5c4efaec5c9a.html


Youngkin is right!

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Gov Youngkin is doing the right thing. Decisions that should be made by parents, the government and the education department need to stay out of. Enough is enough and righteousness needs to return to our commonwealth and our nation!


Strongly Support Parents Rights, Protecting Children and Preserving Gender in Sports

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I strongly support giving parents the right to speak into their children's lives and help guide them through all life's decisions/challenges - this is NOT the role of the school. I further support the effort to preserve gender in sports - if you have a penis, you are a boy and play boy's sports. If you have a vagina, you are a girl and play girls sports. And a woman is an adult female, or adult girl.  Men can NOT EVER be a woman. To suggest otherwise is insulting to all women.


Support

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Parental rights supersede school initiatives.  Minor children are in the care of a parent or guardian, not a teacher.


YOUNGKIN IS KILLING KIDS WITH THIS POLICY—STRONGLY OPPOSE

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What does a child’s gender vs biological sex have to do with you? Why do you care what is under a child’s pants? What are you planning to do? Is there any political purpose of this policy? Anything that doesn’t have to do with your beliefs or thoughts? If not, then why did you bother us with this and start stripping away children’s rights because of the decisions they make about their own lives? How about you try doing something that actually involves politics? Rather than going after innocent people who are just trying to live their lives, of which you are destroying, thank you very much (that was complete and total sarcasm, if you didn’t pick it up). Stop focusing on your own agenda and focus on the state’s and people’s agendas to make Virginia a better place, rather than a place that everyone has departed from because of you. If this policy passes, I’ll let you know right now that there will be many people committing suicide, or attempting it at the very least, all because of you. Their lives and their blood will be on your hands, governor. Do you want that? No you don’t. You don’t want it, either. You just don’t care, is what you’re telling everyone. You don’t care how many young children you stripped of their lives, after you took away their rights. You don’t care about their family and friends who will mourn them forever. You don’t care about the tears cried or the helpless thoughts running through their heads. You don’t care about the well of grief that they will most surely feel. You don’t care how much you will ruin their lives. You don’t care. You don’t care. You don’t care about anyone but yourself. Think about this, day and night, as you go through your life. Every action you make, think about this. Ponder this. Whenever you pass a bill into a law, or when you put out a new policy, think: is this going to be right for Virginia? Will this keep everyone happy in their own lives or will it destroy them bit by bit until there’s nothing left? Think, governor, just think. Then once you come to the right decision, the decision that benefits the state, not just yourself, make that right decision. Make it after you’ve thought about every life in Virginia and how you will affect them. Make the right decision.


Parents having the right to care for their child

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Being a parent and grandparent, there is no greater responsibility for us to care for and guide our children given to us by God into HIS way and plan for them. The world right now wants to allow an evil government to control our families and to destroy what God has ordained. The family is the most important element in our world and the evil one is doing his best to destroy it by taking away a parent's right to act as the child's parent, allowing just unisex bathrooms and locker rooms in schools.  The US is becoming more and more like Sodom and Gomorrah and we need to return to the truth!


UNFAIR AND HURTFUL

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These policies are extremely discriminatory and will result in CHILDREN being hurt and possibly dying. DO NOT IMPLEMENT THESE POLICIES!


Mandated Racial Equity Meetings - unfair and bullying staff

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<p>Alexandria Social Services, Employees receive a barrage of emails on rRacial Equity and mandates attendance. The meetings are divide and do not promote equality. If you are a minority and do not agree other minorities with the thoughts of being displaced and say let’s focus on unity, you are viewed as too conservative. Every staff meeting in benefit programs , racial equity discussion for the past 3 years and it’s mandatory, it is not helping. If we are to educate schools and serve the public, why are racial equity discussions with the focus of placing blame is being used to divide people in the agency. </p>


Strongly support

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I support Youngkin's actions to protect our children

I support legislation that acknowledges that parents should be their child's primary care giver and as such, should not be excluded from conversations and issues concerning their child.  Parents have the right to know what is going on in school and what is being taught and promoted.  I support transparency.

I also believe it is wrong to allow children to make decisions about their gender and gender identity.   We do not allow children to vote, to drive, etc.   Children are not adults and should not be allowed to make such decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.


Let woke Libs play fantasy games with your kids and eventually they will identify as cats- oh wait!

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We now have kids in Loudoun County at school that are identifying as feline. Loudoun County is the laughing stock of the United States. We have got to get rid of our leadership and the leaderships mob.


In support of the 2022 proposed document / policy

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I support public education policies that begin with the understanding that parents are in control of and have ultimate responsibility for the moral and social training of their children, and that the purpose of public education is to provide students with basic academic skills (reading, writing and arithmetic) from which they can build upon. I do not regard public education as having the purpose of allowing social experimentation by academics upon a captive audience of student subjects.

The title of the document in review is "2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools." To offer comment on the dignity aspect of this proposal, and for the benefit of those discussing such matters, I'd like to point to this article on "The New Dignity: Gnostic, Elitist, Self-Destructive Will-to-Power," by Roberta Green Ahmanson (with highlights added in yellow for emphasis).


I support Youngkin's actions to protect our children

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I support legislation that acknowledges that parents should be their child's primary care giver and as such, should not be excluded from conversations and issues concerning their child.  Parents have the right to know what is going on in school and what is being taught and promoted.  I support transparency.

I also believe it is wrong to allow children to make decisions about their gender and gender identity.   We do not allow children to vote, to drive, etc.   Children are not adults and should not be allowed to make such decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.


Stop this now

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I strongly oppose this horrific legislation. It starts out saying how "we" care about every child and need to respect and care for them and then with a kind and loving voice, snatch all their rights and support away. School is the only safe space for many children, for a variety of reasons. How dare you take it away. It is even more insulting that you do it under the guise of a caring, loving government, free from religious bias. Shame on you!


Stop the lies and deception - Supporting this guideline

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<p>BOE, Administrators and teachers need to stop believing the LIE that they are better parents to our children than we are.  It is the PARENT that has the right to shape and mold our children, not the PS; the audacity of teachers to believe that they have the right to replace the parental/family unit is appalling! </p>


I Support Governor Youngkin

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<p>My family and I support Governor Youngkin’s policies to protect children and their families. Standing up for parental rights is not discrimination, it’s affirmation! </p>


BE FAIR TO ALL STUDENTS SUPPORT THIS POLICY!

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I support Youngkin's policy guidelines.  It is equitable to all the students, not just a select few.


Agree 100%

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<p>I couldn’t agree more with Governor Youngkin’s comments about parent’s rights. </p>


Strongly support!!!

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I homeschool my children but I have countless who are in the school system because they have no choice. The schools need to focus on academic education, not on the issues that should be left to the parents. It’s harmful and wrong. Also parents are the ones with legal rights to their kids until the age of 18, not the schools. Nothing should be hidden from the parents.


I Support Governor Youngkin’s Measure

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We must ensure that our daughters and granddaughters are protected from sexual assault. The very idea that a young man can declare himself a female thereby using female restrooms and locker rooms is absurd and is an insult to the God who created him.


TRUTH

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<p>Who likes to be lied to?  We've followed this "relative" truth idea so far that we will believe anything.  Letting, even encouraging people, especially kids, think they aren't who they were born as is a lie and eventually devastating to them.  Forcing parents to allow someone else juridiction over their own children is what's criminal. Our government has gotten too intrusive and was never meant to control us like this.  There is such a thing as Absolute Truth....and it's always the best way to go.  </p>


Let’s adopt Floridas policy where teachers are not allowed to talk about sexuality at all

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I send my child to school to learn math and science. I don’t need stilts grooming my children. Enough is enough.


Strongly Oppose!!!!

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As a long time Virginia educator who supports all students and their right to feel safe and respected at school,  I strongly oppose the proposed policy and want VDOE to reject it.

This is a terrible and ugly path to go down.  Please do not make this policy.  Let's work to make all students safe at school.  With teachers leaving the profession in droves, do you really want to make this profession more difficult and political? Let us teach and honor our students.  Be on the right side of history.  Please.

Tamara Hill


Strongly support

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I strongly support Governor Younkin’s policy changes.


Support Strongly

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I strongly support Governor Youngkin's initiative and policy.


Governor's Town Hall

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I have no trust in the VA Board of Ed or the Teachers Unions. They have ruined Public Education. I suppor the current Governor's policies.


Teach Tolerance

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<p>Educate yourself on the real issues and stop living in fear. Your straight kid is going to be fine. </p>


Real people

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<p>Stop projecting and start talking to those affected. They are real people. This matters. What if it was your child? What if it already is and they are afraid you won't accept them because of your narrow viewpoint? Time to do some soul searching and be a better human. </p>


Hitler or Lincoln, your choice

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<p>Historically, those who tried to take away rights and silence voices were never remembered well. It's the ones who fought for equality that we honor. Don't be on the wrong side of history. </p>


Strongly SUPPORT Younkin.

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I have 3 actual daughters and this issue brought my claws out years ago. Rainbow terrorists best step back from my babies with this predatory trans bs to either creep on my daughters or destroy them for the clear and obvious end of procurement for pedophiles. Now they want to normalize kidnapping. Unvetted weirdos that are reaching out to sexually confused children in particular and the same who have an inordinate interest in the State sexually confusing more children, dangling $100 bills in their preys faces to come stay the night with them and escape their parents “lack of acceptance” of their child’s objective lies. Eff these people and all of their associates and enablers. Tar and feather and pillory them until they learn. Eff these people forever.


STRONGLY OPPOSE !! Reject these anti-trans policies ! Stop attacking & harming trans students !!

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I strongly oppose these proposed policies because they only serve to target & inflict harm on trans students who already face higher rates of mental health issues such as depression,anxiety,suicidal ideation etc than their cisgender peers do & these kinds of policies are the reason why.Every student should feel safe & welcomed at school without having to worry about facing additional trauma an bigotry from teachers & their peers.It literally hurts no one to respect & honor a students identity an pronouns & by calling a trans student by their chosen name suicidal ideation drops by 29% & risk for suicidal behavior drops by 56%.You will literally be causing the decline in mental & physical wellbeing of trans students & endangering trans students lives if you pass these policies.Trans students will be put in danger & die if these policies are adopted.Trans students deserve to be able to exist fully as their authentic selves & participate in all aspects of public life just as their cisgender peers do.Do the right thing & save lives,REJECT these policies!!

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS !!


Advocate for parental rites

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Parents, above all, have a penultimate say in their children's lives, by nature and human design. Schools in Virginia, and elsewhere in this country are trying to usurp the rights and roles of the parents. For example telling them NOT to tell their parents what they are learning (about CRT, transgenderism, etc) in the classroom, which prior to just a few years ago, focused on development of the person in terms of academic skills. Our governor is just trying to put back those roles and rights in the families hands, not in the hands of teachers or advocates for CRT, transgenderism- like counselors.

I see the trend in students 'wanting' to change gender as a social contagion that is highly destructive and dangerous. The truth about transitioning, for instance, is never voiced, even allowed to be voiced. Many young lives, who have not reached the age of reason, have been destroyed by advocates for unnatural actions such as hormone therapy, double mastectomies (top surgery), and other such actions. Since when is telling a child they were born in the wrong bodies a healthy thing to do? It is psychologially devastating. Also CRT is NOT something that should be taught in school like math. The 1619 Project has been countered in many, many studies. Calling it another name such a equity or what ever, seeks to sneak around the parents, confuse children and teach the same CRT philosophies.

The Governors' policy is correct, righting  wrong in the VA schools . I support it wholeheartedly. Parents have rights over their children! Not schools, not teachers, not counselors, not external advocates for LGBTQI, no. Simply parents.


Adopt 2022. Policy

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<p>Governor Youngkin has given power back to the parents where it belongs. </p>


Pro-life

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If you want to be pro-life that means you should support people post birth.
LGBTQ youth need protections from GOP hate groups.


My girl shouldn’t see naked boys after Sports , nor should she think she is a failure in sports

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I am against this. They should better offer counseling  for those kids that think they are transgender. Usually these are confused kids that see all this trash in tv and want to be special or catch their parent’s attention. My kids don’t have to watch this and w, it is abnormal.
If I come and say my child identifies herself with an adult. Will you give my child alcohol?

the school is no place for this

just as we don’t start discussing religions in school, we don’t discuss sexual orientation.
if their parents decide that their kids should go on this path. Their business. My children don’t have to see this charade


I support! This is Right for Parents and Children.

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<p>I support Gov. Youngkin's changes to the Transgender Policy. </p>


Support parents rights


I support Governor Younkin’s action

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<p>Allowing the chemical castration or surgical mutilation of children is the most horrific child abuse imaginable and I strongly support Governor Youngkin’s actions to take this horrific social injustice out of our schools. </p>


Proposed policy is dangerous to children and violates the right to free speech

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I strongly oppose Governor Youngkin’s proposed policies. Demanding schools create a hostile environment for transgender students is government overreach. Banning school administration from using a student’s preferred pronouns violates their first amendment right to freedom of speech. Outing students to their parents would put many children at risk who have families that are hostile to transgender people. Transgender youth have very high rates of homelessness because of how common it is for parents to abandon their children for being trans. This will put kids out on the streets.


Government overreach —new guidelines infringe upon right to life, liberty, & pursuit of happiness

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I believe that these policies constitute government overreach and infringe upon the rights of students’ rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nowhere in the United States Constitution does it say that harassment is free speech. What logical reason is there for there for a parent to need to know about the decision of their child in regards to something as simple as pronouns? It’s government overreach. Students in many other states are also allowed to pursue sporting activities that align with their identity. This should be the case in Virginia as well. States should be revising their policies to reflect the guidances of the American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics—that people who identify as a gender different than theirs assigned at birth *are* whatever gender they identify as.


I support Governor Youngkin.

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I support Governor Youngkin.


I support Youngkin!

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As a parent, I want to be involved in my child's education.  I want to be notified of any changes in my child.  All children have rights, including the right to use the bathroom with children of the same biological sex.


Inclusiveness at last!

The new policy is much more inclusive of biological gender and trans gender students and, importantly, their parents. It provides for reasonable accommodations for those who need them, while protecting others from the tyranny of the minority. It brings badly needed transparency to the transsexual discussion. The new policy also rectifies the obvious and indisputable injustice inflicted upon girls’ sports, and it provides safety for young women who have been brutalized by a “one-sex-fits-all” approach to restroom access. This is a common sense policy developed by listening to all concerned Virginians and formulating an approach to treatment of gender in our schools that honors everyone and dishonors no one.I am grateful to Governor Youngkin for leading us to this intelligent and comprehensive solution.

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The new policy is much more inclusive of biological gender and trans gender students and, importantly, their parents. It provides for reasonable accommodations for those who need them, while protecting others from the tyranny of the minority. It brings badly needed transparency to the transsexual discussion.
The new policy also rectifies the obvious and indisputable injustice inflicted upon girls’ sports, and it provides safety for young women who have been brutalized by a “one-sex-fits-all” approach to restroom access.
This is a common sense policy developed by listening to all concerned Virginians and formulating an approach to treatment of gender in our schools that honors everyone and dishonors no one.
I am grateful to Governor Youngkin for leading us to this intelligent and comprehensive solution.


Completely agree-Giving rights back to parents

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<p>Parents have legal rights over their children. No governmental agency should be allowed to undermine those rights.  </p>


Strongly support!

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As a concerned Hispanic mother and educator, I strongly support Gov. Youngkin's revisions to the previous administration policies for public schools. It is unfathomable the damage that policies like the one in revision have caused to the mental health of students, teachers, parents, educators, and administrators. Teachers and administrators are quitting due to the ridiculous extra duties and prohibitions they now have to follow due to non-sense political agendas. We are being forced to damage the majority in order to benefit a few. People, please think! Wake up! Or, do you want to loose your children and country to the evil hands of extreme politicians. Respect children. Respect parents. Respect teacher's and administrators jobs. Do not mix education with politics. Gov. Youngkin is doing what is right. We completely support this initiative to correct the previous wrong policies.


I am so happy for leaders supporting family rights

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Thank you to Governor Youngkin and all of the supporters. I think this will foster a generation of children with the best mental health outcomes and children who feel loved.  I hope parents and caregivers continue to have rights on teaching their children about these topics.


Support policy and ending discrimination on girls

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Governor, please give our girls back there sports teams, bathrooms, and locker rooms.


Strongly SUPPORT Gov. Youngkin

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Thank you on behalf of all us parents!


Put kids before political showmanship

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<p>Using vulnerable kids as props for political gain? That’s about what I would expect from this administration. </p>


Proposed transgender policy

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Strongly opposed to the proposed ruling.

The introduction of the proposed transgender policy frequently refers to the rights of parents and students.

But this new policy does not value the rights of transgender students and their parents. The challenges for a transgender student are significant and to have to either hide who they truly are or to be disrespected by faculty and other students does, nothing to aid their mental health.  Their parents are fighting for the rights of their child and the proposed new school policy is not supportive of their efforts. Data suggests suicidal thoughts for transgender student range as high as 82% with as many as 40% attempting suicide.  How will this policy assists these students and parents.

We must learn to be more tolerant of others and not to fear someone who is perceived to be different.  And we must learn to value everyone's rights, not just the rights of those who chose to denigrate those who they view as different.


strongly oppose

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please educate yourself on topics you are unfamiliar with/unwilling to learn about/unwilling to understand before making policies that affect the mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing of transgender students


Respect all people

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Some people are trans. Some people are gay. Some people have dark skin. Some people have light skin. All of them are people and deserve to be treated with respect. Most of us have figured out that separating White bathrooms from Colored bathrooms is wrong. Gay and trans people deserve to be treated with the same respect. If their parents won't do so, at least they should be treated so in public spaces. This proposed rule change deprives them of that respect. Please do not change it.


Strongly Support Model Policy

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<p>I'm glad to see we have an administration here in Virginia which recognizes the importance of parents in the education of their children. It's parents who have to fix whatever mess that radical advocates and their well-intentioned but misguided enablers create with radical school policies. These policies are actually going to protect children, unlike some of those currently in place across the state. We've already seen the consequences of enabling radical agendas in schools and it usually ends in criminal acts and damaged kids -- or worse. Let's implement this across the Commonwealth so we have more time to do things that we expect schools to do, that is, educate and not indoctrinate our children. </p>


Thank you Gov. Youngkin for giving Parents control over their children & for making science real

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Thank you Gov. Youngkin for making it clear that parents should maintain sole primacy over their child’s health, education, and well-being.  I'm glad that he also has defined people based on their sex at birth.  People are born as "male" and "female" based on science and should be identified as such since they are physically different in many ways. Participation in sports should be defined by the sex at birth.  "Birth males" are claiming to be women just to win titles and skew what records real "birth females" have achieved.


Strongly support Gov Youngkin's proposal!

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I strongly support Gov Youngkin's proposal!  Schools need to rid themselves of the notion that they are raising our kids.  Nothing should be done without the parents full knowledge and consent.  Let's focus on reading, writing and 'rithmatic, in the traditional and classical sense.  There are more and more stories of older children regretting the efforts to transition into what is not their biological sex.  There are also more and more stories of the amount of money this new "field of medicine" provides.  We must stop experimenting on our children!

Thank you.


Gov. Younkin is completely correct in his proposed changes

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Parents, not government, are responsible for the upbringing of their children and it is totally unacceptable for the school system or any other governmental agency to try and keep anything they are doing with children hidden from their parents. Allowing male students to compete against female students as female students will undo all of the work done to improve the opportunities for female athletes.

Bravo Gov. Younkin, keep doing what you were elected to do. School boards need to align with the awakening of the parental rights movement or they too will be swept aside by that tsunami.


Strongly Oppose Policy Change

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This policy change is both unnecessary and terrible. It will hurt students and goes against recommendations from experts in the field. Please leave the existing policy in place.


VERY STRONGLY SUPPORT!!!

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I very strongly support the Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools because the updated language:

1) upholds the constitutional rights of students and teachers, including First Amendment and religious freedom protections;

2) removes language that encouraged school officials to follow procedures to essentially deceive parents when their children are making potentially life-altering decisions regarding their gender identity in a school setting;

3) respects the privacy and dignity of all students and the preeminent role of parents in the lives of their children;

I urge finalization of these updated 2022 model policies as written without removing any of the key protections to restore parental involvement in the process and protect children’s privacy and safety rights.


Oppose this!

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Children need to be supported and protected first.


Strongly Support the Model Policy

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I strongly support the new model policy.


I completely support Governor Youngkin

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Our children 's education should be directed by parents not politics. I completely support the Governor's new education directives.


VDOE guidelines for rights of transgender and nonbinary students

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I strongly support maintaining the current guidelines.  This honors what research has shown to be most beneficial for student, family, and community in the long run.


Protect ALL Children

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Honorable Governor Youngkin,

The Virigina Department of Education has recently released a new document outlining the department's updated model policies regarding the treatment of transgender students. The policy outlines a desire for the policy to help state schools “ensure a positive, safe, and nurturing learning environment for all students.” This is a laudable objective and should be the goal of any state educational system. However, the 2022 Model Policies currently outline a set of policies that do not provide that environment for all students whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth.

Transgender youth are a particularly at-risk population, who more frequently suffer from depression, suicidal ideation, and other negative mental health outcomes (Reisner, et al., 2015). Research has shown that the increased rate of these issues results from parental non-acceptance, victimization, and bullying. Therefore, it is no surprise that mental health organizations, as well as the United States Department of Education encourage schools to maintain an environment that is affirming of transgender students’ identities and protects them from harassment and discrimination. This is an approach that not only improves mental health outcomes, but also improves their ability to learn and succeed in an educational setting (Kosciw, et al., 2020). The policies put forth in the new model policies do not fully support this approach. The policies restrict gender affirming language and use of updated names to only those students who can provide written parental permission. This is especially harmful since these students are already at greater risk of parental rejection. Furthermore, the policy limits access to sex-based activities and facilities to students and families who can provide documentation of a legal change in sex designation. Students have a constitutional freedom to learn and freedom of expression that these policy choices simply do not support.

The 2022 Model Policies very clearly outline the fundamental nature of parental rights, as well as your administration’s regard for the key role of parents in a child’s education. While this is as it should be, there are limits to these rights where they interfere with a child’s access to education or with the reasonable functioning of the school system (Parker v. Hurley, 2008). It is the purpose and obligation of public schools to provide a safe and welcoming environment for all students, regardless of how parents may choose to treat or raise their children. The state of Virginia clearly understands that while parents have the right to raise their children in a manner in which they deem appropriate and within reason, that should not always carry over to a classroom environment; Viriginia courts have upheld a parent’s right to employ corporal punishment in Woodson v. Virginia but have banned the practice in schools entirely (§ 22.1-279.1). Furthermore, the policy asserts a right for parents to be informed of information related to their child’s gender identity. This policy risks outing transgender students to their parents, which can have profound consequences for students ranging from psychological harm to physical abuse and homelessness. Studies have found that youth account for 5-8% of the homeless population in the United States. LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented among homeless youth, accounting for nearly 40% of the youth population experiencing homelessness and even more significant, “family rejection is the dominant narrative of the main pathway into homelessness for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness” (Robinson, 2018).

While the new model policies intend to help all students and parents of Viriginia, they do not do enough to support the rights of transgender students as currently proposed. Students (with or without parental support) who assert to educational staff a clear change in gender identity from what is currently on school record should be referred to by the new name and pronouns provided by said student to the extent staff feel they are able. Furthermore, all students should be provided access to appropriate activities, facilities, and supports in accordance with their asserted gender identity.

We urge you to reconsider the overall well-being of transgender students in the state of Virginia and the impact that the proposed policies will have. All students deserve a free and appropriate public education in a safe environment that allows them to reach their fullest potential. We ask you to remove the requirement for written parental permission and allow students to have the right to self-determination and to be recognized by the names and pronouns that they assert for themselves. Additionally, we implore you to protect students’ privacy to better ensure safety for all the students in your care. Thank you for your time and consideration.


Protect Emotionally Vulnerable Children and Parental Rights!

Dear Virginia Dept of Education,

Schools should never secretly socially transition students and keep the child's new name, pronouns and gender identities from parents. I am pleased and relieved that the Virginia Department of Education's revised model policies support parental rights and ensure that school employees don't cut parents out of critical decisions for their children.

The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) issued "model policies" in 2021 that encouraged every school district in Virginia to hide a child's new gender identity from parents who choose to affirm the child's biological sex. Under Governor Youngkin's leadership, the VDOE's revised policies make it clear that all children should be valued and parents' rights and beliefs should be respected. The 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools keep parents involved in major decisions in their children's lives.

The 2021 VDOE "model policies" encouraged schools to create "a plan (that) may include addressing the student at school with their name and pronoun consistent with their gender identity while using the legal name and pronoun associated with the sex assigned at birth when communicating with parents or guardians."

I strongly support the revised policies that end this practice. Virginia schools should not drive a wedge between parents and their emotionally vulnerable children. Virginia school districts, including those who have already communicated their plans to ignore the 2022 revised model policies, should put an end to secret Gender Support Plans now.

Sincerely,
Joyce Lin
787 Dow Rd
Bridgewater Township, NJ 08807

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Dear Virginia Dept of Education,<br /><br />Schools should never secretly socially transition students and keep the child's new name, pronouns and gender identities from parents. I am pleased and relieved that the Virginia Department of Education's revised model policies support parental rights and ensure that school employees don't cut parents out of critical decisions for their children. <br /><br />The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) issued "model policies" in 2021 that encouraged every school district in Virginia to hide a child's new gender identity from parents who choose to affirm the child's biological sex. Under Governor Youngkin's leadership, the VDOE's revised policies make it clear that all children should be valued and parents' rights and beliefs should be respected. The 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools keep parents involved in major decisions in their children's lives.<br /><br />The 2021 VDOE "model policies" encouraged schools to create "a plan (that) may include addressing the student at school with their name and pronoun consistent with their gender identity while using the legal name and pronoun associated with the sex assigned at birth when communicating with parents or guardians." <br /><br />I strongly support the revised policies that end this practice. Virginia schools should not drive a wedge between parents and their emotionally vulnerable children. Virginia school districts, including those who have already communicated their plans to ignore the 2022 revised model policies, should put an end to secret Gender Support Plans now.<br /><br />Sincerely,
<br />Joyce Lin
<br />787 Dow Rd<br />Bridgewater Township, NJ 08807<br /><img src="http://admin.phone2action.com/email/open/leg/657523/148385308" width="1" height="1" />


Getting educators back to education for mental health, Christian, and developmental reasons

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It is essential that we get our educators back to focusing on education instead of social engineering.  Our education system is declining in actual academic outcomes.    1.  Teachers, guidance counselors, etc. are trained and certified by the State of VA for specific ages and topics.  They are not trained in mental health and most only had a few credit hours in educational psychology related to the development of the preadolescent mind.  If they had, they would know that children are "concrete" thinkers for much of the public school years, meaning they are not ready to comprehend many complex issues.  (That is why they want to be firemen or superheroes!) As a mental health worker for Virginia, I see the adult mental results of confusing them and sexualizing them when they were children.  You wouldn't go to a mechanic for counseling for suicidal thoughts, so why send children to educators for issues related to their sexual identity.   2.  Many have said Youngkins policy violates Christian values and standards.  As a highly trained and ordained pastor, let me state clearly that his policy actually support clear Christian teachings.  Jesus ALWAYS called people to repentance and told them to "go and sin no more".   3.  Teachers and educators will not be the responsible party for the medical, counseling, and other expenses of caring for a child that has been manipulated by someone they are told to trust.  Parents will bear the expense, therefore, they should have to full say in the situation.  4.  Every long term study of transgenderism shows a higher than average rate of self destructive behaviors, including suicide.  Leading a child into such a situation is ethically reprehensible and should be considered criminal as a form of emotional abuse of a minor.  5.  There are no rights being violated by this policy.  If a parent wants to abuse their child, they still can with this policy in full place.GK


Strongly Oppose

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I am a public school teacher in Fairfax County and a Virginia resident. I urge you to oppose the 2022 revised model policies and keep the 2021 model policies in place. Please listen to trans and nonbinary students when they tell you that these policies will put them in danger and will lead to increased rates of homelessness, depression, self-harm, and suicide. Please listen to the supportive parents of trans and nonbinary students whose rights are infringed upon by the hoops they will have to jump through to ensure their child will be called by the name and pronouns that align with their gender identity. The top priority of VDOE should be to ensure students are safe and supported in school so that they can reach their academic potential. These policies achieve the opposite. I strongly urge you to reject these policies.


100% Support Gov Youngkin

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I am in complete favor of Gov Youngkins stand for children and parental rights!

Thank you Gov. for your common sense and fair beliefs,  and for standing firm.


Protect Children and Support Parents Rights

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The new policies honor the sacred role of parents in the care of their children during school, athletics and other activities.

Parents know their children’s needs better than anyone. If children are struggling with gender dysphoria, they need guidance and emotional support from parents. Under the new policies, school officials must keep parents fully informed, and require schools to enforce laws, regulations and policies that prohibit and deter bullying or harassment.

Student participation in sex-specific athletics, school activities and events should be determined by sex, e.g., for overnight travel accommodations and locker rooms.

Students should use the bathrooms that correspond to their sex. Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available in accessible areas and provided with appropriate signage, indicating accessibility for all students.

The new policies protect the fundamental religious liberty interests of personnel and students.


Support Governor Youngkin and Parents!

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This should be a no-brainer. Why would anyone oppose parents being involved in their children's lives or girls competing against GIRLS?! Only if your agenda is to destroy families, or ruin girl’s self-esteem….


Thank you!!

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<p>Thank you so much Governor Younkin for standing firm on this matter!  </p>


Strongly support the proposed new (2022) guidelines

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I have read the new proposed policies in their entirety, and I fully support their being implemented in lieu of the previous (2021) policies. They support the absolute right of parents to raise their children as they wish and to protect them from harmful influences at school, in the neighborhood, or elsewhere. Teachers and school officials should not have the right to hide critical information from a parent about their child's social, psychological or sexual development. I also support the rights of students, teachers and administrators to be free from compulsion to speak and address others in a manner that violates their constitutional right to freedom of religion and first amendment rights. And no student should be forced to share showers, locker rooms or overnight accomodations with members of the opposite sex under any circumstances. Parents and local school boards are best suited to determine what is best for their children, and should not be mandated to follow policies that violate their familial and community standards. Please implement these new model policies for the good of all children, their parents, and the Commonwealth.


STRONGLY SUPPORT!!!!!!

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I STRONGLY SUPPORT GOV. YOUNGKIN'S NEW MODEL POLICY as it is a return to sanity, reality, and commonsense. How refreshing to acknowledge parents' rights, and to protect ALL children not just a specific group of kids! Thank you!!!!!!!!


I support Gov Younkin's proposals

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I fully support these proposals to return responsibility for a child's well-being back to the parents and out of the hands of a politicized school district intent on replacing parental authority with the authority of the state. Please keep up the good work


My basketball team doesn’t want to play against Northern VA teams that are stacked with boys.

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Not only is it not safe but it also isn’t fair.


Support Governor’s changes

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I support updating these policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.

I support the new policies’ removal of language that encouraged school officials to follow procedures to essentially deceive parents when their children are making potentially life-altering decisions regarding their gender identity in a school setting. The original policy had language that created a wedge between parents and their child, at a time when they need to have more communication—and I support the new update that removes this barrier.


Support all of what Gov Younkin is doing.

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My family and I are in total agreement with reversing some of the policies put in place by the prior administration and replacing them with policies that give power to the parents and respects women’s sports.


Support the Governor's Policy Revisions

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Thank you, Gov. Youngkin, for updating the transgender policies and restoring parental rights protections and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process, especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are addressed with our kids at school. God bless and stay the course.


Strongly support new model policy to protect children.

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<p>Our family supports the corrected policy to ensure parents have the fundamental right to engage in their children s personal decisions. </p>


Support

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<p>I support the obvious right of the parents over the power of the state. </p>


Support

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<p>I strongly support the proposed changes to the transgender policies. Thank you for these common sense changes which follow the science. </p>


New guidance

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I strongly support the policy of Gov. Youngkin


Support Gov Younkin's pro-parent policy changes

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Northam's policy was based on deceit. Any policy that has to use deceit will bear dishonest results.  Look at what happened in Loudan County where school officials covered up sexual assaults against multiple students so as to cover for a trans kid.  When dishonesty flows down from the top, we all pay the price.


I strongly support the 2022 revised policies

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As a Nurse, woman, and Virginia voter, I strongly support the Governor's revised 2022 transgender school policies with common sense prevailing, as well as returning power back to parents who are entrusted with raising their children.

Thank you for being bold and sticking to your campaign promises, Governor Youngkin.


I oppose the guidance.

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<p>This guidance is more about scoring cheap political points amongst the conservative base than the students.  Transgender and LGBTQ students are frequently rejected by their parents and are at greater risk of self-harm.  These are children.  When will someone care more about the children than their own self-interest?  Let our children be accepted in this world.  Stop stirring up hatred and giving in to the noisy minority who refuse to show empathy to children. Shame on anyone who refuses to look into their heart and think about these kids.  </p>


Support the Policy

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<p>Unless the government schools take financial responsibility if my child does not grow up as a successful, well adjusted human being then the parents have the responsibility and authority over their own children.  Right now, the schools can do as they choose with no responsibility for the results.  </p>


Governor Youngkin comments on CNN

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I 1000% agree with Governor Youngkin on his comments about parents having rights in their children’s education, that only biological women should compete in women’s sports and so much more! I am proud to call him my Governor !


In support of proposed policies

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<p>Parents have the right to protect their children from harmful programs that leave kids vulnerable to statist gender policies. Let kids be kids and focus on core skills like reading, writing, math and science. Back Youngkin's common sense policies. </p>


I Strongly Oppose the Proposed Model Policies

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I am a recent Virginia high school graduate. I've seen improvements in how some Virginia schools have treated trans and nonbinary students, and the benefits this has had for all students. I am ashamed that Virginia is now considering denying the human rights of children.

Trans rights are human rights, and all kids deserve to be safe in school. If put in place, these proposed model policies will actively harm trans and nonbinary students - kids may even die. The proposed model policies must be rescinded.

Please protect all students. RESCIND the proposed model policies.


Support the 2022 model policy

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This is exactly the type of good governance we voted for.  Thank you.


They are OUR (the parent) kids not the govt.

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Are we really empowering kids to hide things from their parents? Upset when it happens with a school shooting and quick to say the parent should have known. The same holds true here, the parent should and has the right to know what is going on with THEIR (not the govt) child.  If this is not implemented we are continuing to support rebellion in children and empowering groomers. Not my kids!


Do the Christian Thing: Support Transgender Youth

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Educators are rightfully concerned with the welfare of children. Children who do not identify with their sex assigned at birth have a right to feel safe at school being their authentic selves - even if their home environments are not welcoming. Unfortunately, not all children have parents who understand the complexity of gender identify and gender expression. They are owed the opportunity to express theirselves at school as they wish, regardless of whether their parents agree.

I have seen a lot of references to Christianity in responses to this Town Hall. As a gentle reminder, the Bible encourages us to love all others and protect those who are most vulnerable. Support transgender youth, not Governor Youngkin.


Absolutely do not support

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Only brings harm. Trans students and kids will start dying if these policies go into action.


Oppose

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Oppose. Nothing good will could from this. Why is it a bad thing that peoples names or pronouns change? What does it matter to you, how does this affect you? Why does this scare you?


Department of Education - State Board

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I agree with Governor Youngkin 100%.


Support! Kids Belong to Their Parents, Not to the State!

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Nothing controversial here, just common sense: parents have a fundamental right to their kids, and kids have a right to their parents. Ok, next.


Strongly oppose

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Can’t think of a single reason of why this would be a good thing.


Do not support these policies

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Only brings harm, nothing good will come if this. Trans youth will die


Oppose, this will only bring harm!!!

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Using correct names and pronouns (not deadnaming or misgendering) is essentially for the mental health of trans students. Suicide rates in trans kids are much higher because of misgendering and deadnaming.


We support the family and Gov Youngkin

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We support the family and Gov Youngkin


trans policy

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I support Governor Youngkin's policy


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This policy actually PROTECTS LGBTQ rights because it brings in parental and legal coverage.


I support this common sense policy.

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<p>I support this common sense policy. </p>


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This directly affects you as a parent with children in public schools and/or how your school district has been directly impacted by the pressure to adopt policies that cut parents out of the process]

• Thank you for updating these policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.

• I support the new policies’ removal of language that encouraged school officials to follow procedures to essentially deceive parents when their children are making potentially life-altering decisions regarding their gender identity in a school setting.

• The original policy had language that created a wedge between parents and their child, at a time when they need to have more communication—and I support the new update that removes this barrier.

• I support the updated language that acknowledges students and teachers can’t be forced into compelled speech that violates their constitutional rights, including First Amendment and religious freedom protections.

• I support the updated language that empowers schools to make their own decisions on how to best protect kids—especially when it comes to protecting vulnerable students in a state of undress in locker rooms or overnight sleeping quarters for school field trips.

• Middle and High School years can be very challenging, so I’m glad we already have comprehensive bullying policies to ensure a safe environment, while still respecting the rights of all students. That’s why it’s important schools have the freedom—as this updated policy allows— to address bathroom/privacy issues on a case by case basis with parents—and not through a one-size-fits-all pressure tool that treats all districts/communities the same.

• Please finalize these updated 2022 model policies as written without removing any of the key protections to restore parental involvement in the process and protect children’s privacy and safety rights.

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100 percent support the family and Gov Younkin

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<p>Thank you we support your efforts may God bless you </p>


Strongly oppose

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This policy does not protect trans and nonbinary people who are already at risk for poor health outcomes! They exist whether you like it or not. This is America, all kids should have equal access at school.


Oppose

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This legislation is a distraction from the things that matter the most to education and keeping children safe in schools. Children should be free to express themselves in safe ways and legislation should follow guidance of science and pediatricians.


Thank you Governor! 100% Agree

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Thank you Governor Youngkin for doing everything you can to protect our parents and the children! God Bless you!


This is a solution in search of a problem, and it harms far more than it helps

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Based on the description of the policies being repealed and the justification for repealing them, I would have to assume that the person writing it has a deep misunderstanding of the policies that are describing, and has also never been in a school, at least no Public School in this country.

None of the supposed injustices to parents described as reasons to implement this proposed change exist to begin with. To begin with, parents have always had entire access to information but what goes on in schools. Barring prior legal action (restraining orders, etc) schools have never been allowed to conceal information from parents, even if we did want to. Any information about what goes on in the classroom available to any parent who cares to ask through either official channels (parent portal to their child's student information database) or unofficial ones (calling or emailing the school.) The supposition that parents are being somehow cut out of the process plays well to an audience eager for a scapegoat in their culture wars, but is ungrounded in reality, as anyone who has ever worked in a school and can attest.

Second, schools do not take a stance on religious issues, as the justification given for this repeal suggests they do. Even if an educator wanted to openly speak against another student's religious beliefs, layers and layers of school policy, professional ethics, and legal precedent would prevent them from doing so.

It is suggested that this policy is put in place to protect students from feeling uncomfortable on the grounds of their religious beliefs. This I will acknowledge to be true, in part. A very selective set of established religious beliefs are being protected here. However, a school's responsibility is not to accommodate the beliefs of some at the expense of the rights and well-being of others. Even if it were, it would be impossible to do. There is no way to protect students' rights while accommodating everyone's individual interpretation of their religious beliefs. For example, there are students in my school whose religious beliefs tell them it is unethical for men and women to mix at all, and we certainly don't repeal coeducational policies so as to prevent the students from being uncomfortable in school. Other students have other religious beliefs that can't be accommodated in a modern school setting. A school's job is to act in loco parentis to educate students and protect them from harm. The policies allowing transgender students to participate their own education under the name and pronouns of their choosing violates no one's rights. Indeed, it has been shown in study after study to have massive positive impacts on the health of the transgender or non-binary students affected, and no measurable impact at all on anyone else. Similarly, the suggestion that allowing students to use the restroom that best matches their gender identity would put other students at risk is not borne out by any research or statistics at all. Compare this to the reams of research showing that non-binary and transgender students become many times less likely to harm themselves or attempt to suicide when they are accepted with their chosen names and pronouns and exist in the spaces that best match their identities. To allow them to do so is to promote all students' well-being. To deny them the opportunity to do so is to prioritize the comfort of some over the mental and sometimes physical well-being of others. Similarly, forbidding schools to do something as simple as use a preferred name without burdensome legal requirements in their way such as legal name changes or documentation of medical procedures is absurd. In addition to being officious, unnecessary, and harmful, it singles out certain students and often has the effect of drawing attention to them, when in my experience, most transgender and non-binary students I have taught want, like most teenagers, simply to be left alone and not made a fuss of.

Where does the line get drawn for this? Who gets to draw the line? If I have a student who goes by Jonathan but prefers to go by his middle name of Steve, am I to be prohibited from calling him that?  If a student asks me to call her by her nickname, will I have to refuse her that? Or is this very obviously just a method of targeting transgender and non-binary students who already are the most vulnerable to bullying, mental health crises, and other challenges by prohibiting their educators and mentors from referring to them by their chosen names?

I think we all know the answer to this, but let's say for the sake of argument that there is a doubt. Let's say that this repeal was put in place through ignorance, and not through deliberate cruelty or as a political volleyball. If an honest mistake was made, I invite any and all legislators and policy makers to visit my school, to see what actually goes on in a real 21st century High School: how teachers and students relate, what requirements are already upon students in communicating with parents, guardians, counselors, and other invested adults, and also what real problems already exist that we could solve instead of deliberately exacerbating pointless  culture wars.


Support the Transgender students in VA

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<p>Youngkin, you're already trying to control women now you're trying to control the children.  Leave well enough alone.  You're not protecting anyone.  Transgender kids have rights. </p>


Support! Parents shouldn’t be left in the dark

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I had to pull my children out of public school because too much was happening in the darkness and in a spirit of deception. The parents of Virginia have lost faith and trust in the school boards, principals, and many teachers as evidenced by the exodus of students and teachers from our schools. If embraced by our school boards and schools, the proposed model policy would go a long way to repair that trust, and bring parents back into the academic lives of our children. Thank you, Governor Youngkin for bringing some sanity back to the DOE. Keep a spine of steel!


100% support Gov Youngkin

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The State should stay out of family's matters. Parent should have 100% of saying and give their children guidance.


School board members that oppose DOE policy must be held criminally/financially responsible

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Loudoun County is terrifying. I fear that Montgomery County is following in their footsteps. I hope the school board members are aware that their actions have legal consequences.


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I disagree with Gov. Youngkin's proposal.


Supporting the family, and our Governor

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<p>There are many good reasons why Governor Youngkin and his team won VA back, and chief among those reasons was promoting families, family rights, and getting common sense back into the Commonwealth's many institutions.  Once again he is doing so, and has our appreciation and support.  We are thankful to him and his entire team working to fulfill the reasons why he was elected, and are grateful to the whole Youngkin Administration for working to restore both common sense and integrity throughout VA's many institutions.  </p>


Trans Rights are HUMAN RIGHTS

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This bill is all supposedly about respecting the privacy of students and their parents, and yet tries to silent the voices of transgender students. What kind of respect is that? So many transgender youth are already endangered. Forcibly outing them, excluding them, and punishing them will only cause more death and fear. So many young lives will be put at risk. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.


Gov. Youngkin parental righrs

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I fully support Gov. Youngkin's restoration of parental rights in regards to their children's health, education and well being.


Strongly Support

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<p>Glad to have a Governor like Youngkin protecting parental rights. </p>


Governor Youngkin

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<p>I strongly agree with Governor Youngkin that our children belong to us PARENTS not the government, not teachers, not school boards! </p>


The first rule of indoctrinating students-is not to tell anyone that you are indoctrinating students

Andrea Weiskopf LCPS latin teacher- direct quote from her twitter page

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If you want to know why the Loudoun County Public School district wants to keep parents in the dark look no further than Andrea Weiskopf's twitter account. The staff at LCPS are proud to be grooming our children. It is truly frightening.


OPPOSE: Keep trans kids safe!

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<p>As a queer person, I strongly oppose these guidelines and plead for Governor Youngkin to reconsider. </p>


This is what happens to parents that dare defy the LCPS agenda

It’s frightening how brazen they have become

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This is what happens tp parents that dare defy the LCPS agenda. It is frightening how brazen they have become.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro&fbclid=IwAR3S8hOqQxs3BORib-MAg6w-EXihXrZGylZeUzrkJqjBWMxgVTYcHLLekrQ


Judge finds transgender teen guilty of Loudoun County bathroom sexual assaults

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There are true consequences to the LCPS agenda. Enough is enough parents!


1,000% agree - protect the children and families!!!!!!!!!!

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<p>Agree, and agree. </p>


Ann Marie Barrett (LCPS counselor) arrested for sexual assaulting her transgender student

LCPS agenda- keep parents in the dark and let teachers/counselors handle it

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Have the residents of Loudoun County lost their minds to entrust our kids to LCPS? The leadership within LCPS has created the perfect storm for sexual assaults. Not only are our children being assaulted in the mixed bathrooms but also by staff entrusted to care for the transgender youth


Transgenders

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<p>What the governor is proposing is a bad idea and should not happen. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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As a parent and voter in Virginia, I strongly oppose these guidelines. This is a clear attack on LGBTQ+ community. I urge the board to NOT adopt them.


Dangerous and ill-considered

These new policies will be harmful to the mental and physical health of transgender and gender non-conforming students, exposing them to aggression at school and in unsupportive home environments.

From a medically reviewed article: "Often, non-cis people are victims of violence because of their genders. That means that even though pronouns aren't necessarily an important topic to cis people, to non-cis people it is a topic that heavily impacts their lives, and the usage of incorrect pronouns is yet one more act of violence against them.
We have a long way to go as a society to make non-cis people feel as safe moving through life as cis people feel. Using the correct pronouns for trans, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and gender fluid people is the easiest first step in this direction that cis people can take. The act of using correct pronouns serves to show others that you see them for who they are, and creates safety for them.The Harm Of Incorrect Pronoun Use
You would never choose a derogatory nickname for a person and decide to call them that instead of the name they told you was theirs. Doing that would be incredibly mean, as well as wholly outside the scope of acceptable social behavior.
You refer to people by the names they go by because everyone deserves that common decency. In that same vein, it's equally unacceptable to call someone by a different pronoun than the one(s) they use... While it may seem like a small matter to you, using the wrong pronouns for a person can be detrimental for their mental and emotional wellness. A person who has been misgendered is invalidated and alienated from others. Additionally, incorrect pronoun use can increase that person's dysphoria, further complicating and even potentially harming their relationship with their body."

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These new policies will be harmful to the mental and physical health of transgender and gender non-conforming students, exposing them to aggression at school and in unsupportive home environments.

From a medically reviewed article: "Often, non-cis people are victims of violence because of their genders. That means that even though pronouns aren't necessarily an important topic to cis people, to non-cis people it is a topic that heavily impacts their lives, and the usage of incorrect pronouns is yet one more act of violence against them.

We have a long way to go as a society to make non-cis people feel as safe moving through life as cis people feel. Using the correct pronouns for trans, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and gender fluid people is the easiest first step in this direction that cis people can take. The act of using correct pronouns serves to show others that you see them for who they are, and creates safety for them.
The Harm Of Incorrect Pronoun Use

You would never choose a derogatory nickname for a person and decide to call them that instead of the name they told you was theirs. Doing that would be incredibly mean, as well as wholly outside the scope of acceptable social behavior.

You refer to people by the names they go by because everyone deserves that common decency. In that same vein, it's equally unacceptable to call someone by a different pronoun than the one(s) they use... While it may seem like a small matter to you, using the wrong pronouns for a person can be detrimental for their mental and emotional wellness. A person who has been misgendered is invalidated and alienated from others. Additionally, incorrect pronoun use can increase that person's dysphoria, further complicating and even potentially harming their relationship with their body."


This change potentially could hurt students.

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This proposed rules change does not make students safer. It could force students who are transgender (or more generally queer) into more uncomfortable, potentially confrontational situations when they do the basic human acts of learning at school or going to the bathroom. I had difficulties and experienced bullying as a school kid, and I as a straight person have seen that go worse for people who are queer.

We need not just to not bully, but to make it more difficult and socially costly to bully. This rule change doesn’t accomplish that.

I send this as a former Virginia resident (1982 to 1992, when I moved to Oregon for college) with family and friends in the commonwealth. Thank you for your time.


Protect Emotionally Vulnerable Children and Parental Rights!

Dear Virginia Dept of Education,

I am pleased and relieved that the Virginia Department of Education's revised model policies support parental rights and ensure that school employees don't cut parents out of critical decisions for their children. Under Governor Youngkin's leadership, the VDOE's revised policies make it clear that all children should be valued and parents' rights should be respected. The 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools keep parents involved in major decisions in their children's lives. Virginia schools should not drive a wedge between parents and their emotionally vulnerable children.

Let us follow the example of other countries who have begun to take a more cautious approach to transitioning children because of the damage a rush to transition can do. We do not yet have all of the answers and parents need to be involved to help make the best possible decisions for their children's future well-being and quality of life.

Sincerely,
Michele Herbert-Morris
259 W 765 S
Orem, UT 84058

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Dear Virginia Dept of Education,<br /><br />I am pleased and relieved that the Virginia Department of Education's revised model policies support parental rights and ensure that school employees don't cut parents out of critical decisions for their children. Under Governor Youngkin's leadership, the VDOE's revised policies make it clear that all children should be valued and parents' rights should be respected. The 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools keep parents involved in major decisions in their children's lives. Virginia schools should not drive a wedge between parents and their emotionally vulnerable children. <br /><br />Let us follow the example of other countries who have begun to take a more cautious approach to transitioning children because of the damage a rush to transition can do. We do not yet have all of the answers and parents need to be involved to help make the best possible decisions for their children's future well-being and quality of life.<br /><br />Sincerely,
<br />Michele Herbert-Morris
<br />259 W 765 S<br />Orem, UT 84058<br /><img src="http://admin.phone2action.com/email/open/leg/657523/148378008" width="1" height="1" />


Men have attacked girls in instances where they were allowed into girls-only spaces.

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This happened in Loudoun and in several other places besides. Here are some examples proving that allowing men into girl's bathrooms is a bad idea: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/man-choked-girl-bathroom-transgender/, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/miguel-martinez-transgender-bathroom-controversy/, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/male-rapist-transfer-womens-jail/, https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/19/lawsuit-female-prisoner-says-she-was-raped-transgender-inmate, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/miguel-martinez-transgender-bathroom-controversy/. All of these instances involve men going into private spaces that should be reserved for women and assaulting them. This could easily be avoided by preventing men from entering the bathrooms, but evidently there are some trans activists who insist on humiliating and endangering innocent girls just so that they don't get their feelings hurt. They call themselves the victims, but they are not fooling anyone who knows what has been going on recently. They willfully endanger others in order to live out a fantasy. That cannot be accepted.


Why are you trying to get people killed??

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These policies don’t protect anyone, not the parents, not the teachers and especially not the kids. It doesn’t matter what gender you decide to be as long as nobody gets hurt. If it makes you uncomfortable that your kid is different then YOU'RE the one who need to take a good hard look at yourself and ask why this bothers you. If you afraid of what your kid might become then why bother having kids at all. If you’re doing this for ‘moral/religious’ reasons then I hope you get a big nasty surprise when you die because I’m pretty sure that any god out there will be ed that your going after kids.  your reasoning, leave them alone. Worst case scenario the kid will die, best case scenario, your kid will never trust you with anything ever.


Strongly Agree!!!! We must protect all children!!!

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This is unthinkable, that we are even debating the issue of (1) parental rights in protecting our own children and (2) this is not about excluding any child at all, it is about protecting minors from abuse when they are MINORS - not adults. All children should be welcome and included in school and ALL children need to be protected.  Leave identity politics and the sexualization of our children out!!!! Thank you Gov Younkin - you are a hero.


Strongly oppose "model" policy

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As the grandmother of a transgender Virginia student, I strongly oppose the changes to the policy designed to protect transgender kids.  All children need, and deserve to have a supportive environment in which to grow, learn and thrive.  Schools that affirm the identity of each student are critical to the health, and often, the very lives of transgender kids, especially when their families do not.


Restore Parental Rights in schools!

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<p>Teachers should not teach social agendas in school.  I am appalled the public school system felt they had the right to do this.  It comes from liberal left wing school boards and administrations and teachers.  We need to begin with replacing them on school boards and work our way through the school system to place people who are just there to teach Reading Writing and Arithmetic!  Leave the social and moral issues to parents.  </p>


Strongly support--teachers can't take on the role of parents

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<p>Teachers should not replace parents. The left wants to divide families and spoon feed kids ideology without parental consent, and that is unacceptable. </p>


Support model policies

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I strongly support VDOE’s newly proposed Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents


Strongly Oppose Model Policy 2022

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Gov. Youngkin, you claim that your Model Policy is designed to ensure "Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools." However, by forcing educators and administrators to use a child's old name, or the gender/pronouns which they were assigned at birth unless they have gone through an expensive (and sometimes complicated) process of having the information changed on the student's birth certificate, you are denying trans an nonbinary students dignity and respect. By requiring schools to notify parents of a student's preferred pronouns, regardless of the student's wishes, you are not only denying that that student privacy, dignity, and respect, you are also exposing them to potential abuse, if not outright expulsion from the home. How many children are taken from their parents due to child abuse? And yet we still insist that "parents know what's best for their children." If a child is afraid of coming out to their parents, there is a good possibility that their fear is justified, and that they are trying to avoid being abused or worse. Outing the child may put them in danger. This will also expose them to bullying from intolerant adults at the school and from their peers, and may drive the students to harm themselves, either through drug use or suicide.

There are measures that can be taken to allow students privacy in the bathrooms - ones that don't target trans and nonbinary students. Look into those instead of finding the cruelest path forward simply because you don't understand what's actually happening.

Again, I strongly oppose the Model Policy Proposal for 2022


OPPOSE: Choose to support our youth: Abandon this misguided, harmful, unnecessary political ploy

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I am writing to STRONGLY oppose Governor Youngkin’s attempt to reverse the much needed protections for our transgender and non-binary youth in Virginia. As a parent of two school age children in Virginia public schools, I am sharing my thoughts in hopes that the Governor will abandon this misguided policy and protect our students – all students – in their schools, a place that we should strive to make as safe as possible.

The reversal of transgender/non-binary protections in Virginia will result in a less accepting environment for students at school. As many parents (and adult former students) can attest, bullying can cause grave psychological stress and potentially self-harm and suicidal tendencies. It reduces mental health, scholastic success, and future academic and social opportunities. The Governor’s policy is harmful and against accepted medical best practices for transgender youth mental health, per research from WPATH, APA, Trevor Project and other reputable medical sources.  Also, it is naïve to think that all children are raised in households that will be accepting of their identities. If parents don’t know how their children identify, there is likely a reason, which is often fear. Students sometimes need protection from parents – teachers/school can provide that to them. Protection for transgender/non-binary students does not infringe upon parental rights – it augments the resources that our children have available to them. Children (ALL children) want to exist peacefully and without harassment in our schools. That should be something that we all support.

The Governor's revision to the standing policy also wrongly assumes that ensuring equity and protection for transgender/non-binary students equates with inherent risk to cis students. This is an all-or-nothing, illogical assumption that is neither true nor equitable. Further, it is unfair and extremely distasteful to equate trans and non-binary identities with being predatory (as many of the comments here indicate). We should be/do better than that.

Finally, there is no call for this policy to be enacted aside from political points. Sadly, however, the Governor has already asserted to news media that he will enact this harmful, misguided, distraction technique of a political straw man – aimed at increasing hate/division and distracting parents from REAL school problems. I hope that our Governor will reconsider – I hope that he will take into account the many parents providing opposition comment on this policy and abandon this misguided, unnecessary effort. The governor is singling out an already vulnerable population for no benefit outside his own political aspirations. Parents and voters do not want this. Tax dollars can go toward so many more worthy pursuits. Transgender and non-binary kids need our support, not adults who work to reduce or remove their safe harbors. I STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS PROPOSAL.

A final message for Mr. Youngkin: Please, Governor Youngkin, PLEASE choose inclusion and acceptance rather than exclusion and hate. Give ALL children the chance to feel safe and empowered to live their best life, despite varying home environments or parental bias. Give our children more tools and resources, rather than less. This does not need to be done. It should not be done. You are on the wrong side of decency and the wrong side of history on this topic. I beg your reconsideration, as a mom and as a voter.


responsible governance

responsible, concerned citizen of the Commonwealth

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Perform your job in the interest of the parents and the children, not your future electiblity.


New draft policy

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As a grandmother with children going to public schools in Virginia, I want to express my support for the new draft policy to protect the rights of our students and their families.  Thank you for taking action to make this policy effective in our Virginia schools.
Joan Layne

Arlington, VA


Protection of children

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<p>Strongly support Governor Youngkin's policy. </p>


This Guidance Document is Contrary to State Law under Va. Code §2.2-4002.1 and VDOE Must Respond

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As a Virginia resident, attorney, former legal counsel for a Virginia public school board, and former Virginia public school student, I am writing to note my opposition to the 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools (“Model Policies”).

These Model Policies are contrary to Virginia law in several respects. As such, Virginia Code §2.2-4002.1(C) requires two actions by the Virginia Department of Education (“VDOE”): (1) a written response from VDOE to this comment, which I request through electronic publication so that other individuals who have provided public comment may read it; and (2) the delay of the “effective date” of this document for “an additional 30-day period.”

I believe that the Model Policies are contrary to Virginia law in the following ways:

The statute that authorizes this guidance document, Virginia Code §22.1-23.3, requires the VDOE to promulgate model policies “that address common issues regarding transgender students in accordance with evidence-based best practices.” The Model Policies do not cite or rely on any “evidence-based best practices.” Although this term is not defined by §22.1-23.3, definitions of “evidence-based practices” or similar terms focus on the need for research-based decision-making.

For instance, Virginia Code §38.2-3556 defines “evidence-based standard” as “the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the current best evidence based on the overall systematic review of the research in making decisions about the care of individual patients.”

In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections defines “evidence-based practice” as “the objective, balanced, and responsible use of current research and the best available data to guide policy and practice decisions, such that outcomes for consumers are improved. Used originally in the health care and social science fields, evidence-based practice focuses on approaches demonstrated to be effective through empirical research rather than through anecdote or professional experience alone.” (https://nicic.gov/projects/evidence-based-practices-ebp)

Nowhere does VDOE mention empirical research of any kind in the Model Policies. This includes Section I, “Purpose,” which describes the VDOE’s general process and rationale for promulgating the Model Policies. Instead, VDOE simply states that it “embarked on a thorough review of the Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.”

Furthermore, the “resources” provided in Section VII are described as resources intended for “parents” and “readers,” not research that was relied upon by the VDOE. These resources cannot be used to point to evidence-based practices or studies that specifically support VDOE’s policies.

Virginia Code §22.1-23.3 also requires that any model policies “include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to: (1) Compliance with applicable nondiscrimination laws.” The Model Policies reference various sources of law, such as Title IX, the Virginia Human Rights Act, and federal case law, but they do not provide information, guidance, procedures, or standards for complying with them. In fact, multiple sections of the Model Policies provide conflicting and confusing information about what a school board must do in certain situations. Section G.4  is a good example of this failure to provide any meaningful guidance, procedures, or standards:

G. 4. Students shall use bathrooms that correspond to his or her sex, except to the extent that federal law otherwise requires. See Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, 972 F.3d 586 (2020)

Grimm v. Gloucester held that the school board’s policy restricting Grimm, a transgender boy, from using the boys’ restrooms at school, violated both Title IX and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Stating in this context, “except to the extent that federal law otherwise requires,” provides no guidance whatsoever.

Virginia Code §22.1-23.3 also requires VDOE’s model policies to address “8. Student participation in sex-specific school activities and events and use of school facilities. Activities and events do not include athletics.”The Model Policies, Section H, specifically includes athletics in direct contradiction to the statute.

Finally, the Model Policies are contrary to the public policy of the Commonwealth as expressed in the Virginia Human Rights Act, §2.2-3900(B)(1): “Safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, or disability in places of public accommodation, including educational institutions and in real estate transactions. . .” Furthermore, under the VHRA, “gender identity” means “gender-related identity, appearance, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth.” Va. Code § 2.2-3901(B).

Thank you for considering my comment and for undertaking the steps required by the Virginia Code.


Missing the mark

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<p>The governor’s new transgender policy may be well intentioned, but it extraordinarily one sided and does not appear to acknowledge that each child is a unique individual and may or may not have supportive adults at home. I have worked with children who identify as transgender or gender fluid and have seen how they try to find their place in the world. I feel this policy is yet another rule put into place that will make some individuals feel they are “less than” just because they are not the norm. I have never seen an educator try to indoctrinate a child into being transgender, the only thing I have seen is respect for the individual child’s desire to be addressed in a way that makes them feel whole and recognized. </p>


I strongly support the Governor's policy

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This revised policy correctly takes government out of the sexuality debate and puts control of children back in the hands of the parents.  They are the ones that have the God-given responsibility to raise their children.  School boards should not be making and enforcing policies that are contrary to or beyond what the legislative and judicial branches have stipulated in legislation or judgments.


Support Parents Rights. Thankful for Youngkin

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I thrilled to see Governor Youngkin leading our schools toward respecting the privacy and dignity of all students and the preeminent role of parents in the lives of their children


Strongly Support


OPPOSE

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<p>Governor Youngkin's proposed policies on transgender youth will violate their rights, freedoms, identities, wellbeing, and safety. Strong NO. </p>


PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS

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The new policies honor the sacred role of parents in the care of their children during school, athletics and other activities.

Parents know their children’s needs better than anyone. If children are struggling with gender dysphoria, they need guidance and emotional support from parents. Under the new policies, school officials must keep parents fully informed, and require schools to enforce laws, regulations and policies that prohibit and deter bullying or harassment.

Student participation in sex-specific athletics, school activities and events should be determined by sex, e.g., for overnight travel accommodations and locker rooms.

Students should use the bathrooms that correspond to their sex. Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available in accessible areas and provided with appropriate signage, indicating accessibility for all students.

The new policies protect the fundamental religious liberty interests of personnel and students.


Complete support for Governor Youngkin school policies

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I am very thankful to the Governor for implementing policies that support the majority parents in the State rather that promoting homosexual and transgender agendas that do not represent the views of the large majority of parents in the State.  In the past, taking an aspirin in the schools without parent approval was not allowed.  Why then would major changes to a child could possibly be promoted hidden from parents and without parent approval?  This is wrong.

Bathrooms and changing rooms must be by birth sex only.  Period.  Period.  If you believe you are a dog, a grandmother, Napoleon or Washington or whatever else, that is your problem.  But to enter a girl's bathroom, you better be a girl.   If you want to put in a single bathroom or change room to accommodate others, that is fine.  But not to expose them to our children.

Crimes in the schools must be reported to the parents and the police.  Too many juveniles are allowed to get away with murder and then we complain that they commit murder.  Prosecute all juvenile crime and maintain order and discipline in all schools.

Library materials must be approved by a parents committee to insure they meet the beliefs of the parents.  No pornography or homosexual agenda materials allowed period.  Period.  No propaganda or gay flags.  The only flags should be the American or State flags.  If you want to fly the homo flag or the Mexican flag, then move to a gay country or to Mexico.  We are in America.


this will kill children

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This is going to kill trans kids. Plain and simple. You will have blood on your hands


Strongly Oppose Gov's Action

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I strongly oppose Gov. Youngkin's proposed ptlicies for Virginia schools.


Model Policies for Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia Public Schools

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<p>I oppose the new policies. Transgender students arrive at the decision to transition after much thought. The 2021 Model Policies support these students so they feel respected and safe at school. The new policies do not respect the student and will cause an increase in bullying, abuse, homelessness, depression and suicide. Keep the 2021 Model Policies. </p>


Model Policies for Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Schools

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I support this policy change.

Thank you, Gov. for some common sense support of parents and children's rights.  All children should be treated with respect and protected from bullying.


Children do not belong to the government

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Parents know their children’s needs better than anyone. If children are struggling with gender dysphoria, they need guidance and emotional support from parents. Under the new policies, school officials must keep parents fully informed, and require schools to enforce laws, regulations and policies that prohibit and deter bullying or harassment.


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Strongly support Governor Youngkin’s policy.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>The new Model Policies are nothing short of transphobic. These policies will not only cause mental and emotional harm to students but also physical harm. Children going through the process of understanding their gender is extremely hard and mentally taxing by its self, they do not need policies put in place to make their formative years any harder. This will not help a single child, instead this will only put trans students in harms way. This will lead to bullying not only by other students but by faculty too, and potential abuse at home. Their grades will drop, their mental health will decline. These policies along with the situations and emotions that will arise from them going into effect will cause children to be depressed and at worst suicidal. </p>


Strongly oppose this.

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As a Student, whose many dear friends would be negatively effected by this passing, I strongly oppose this from being passed.


Policy for treatment of transsexual students in public schools