Strongly Oppose

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I am a Virginia school psychologist who also serves on my state's professional board and is a member of my national professional organization.  I strongly oppose this guidance document.  As it essentially forces us to out trans students to their parents, we are breaking our ethical responsibility of confidentiality.  It is my job to support and protect all students, no matter their race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, etc.  As a member of the National Association of School Psychologists, I support their position on safe schools for transgender and gender diverse students:

"The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) supports efforts to ensure that schools are safe and inclusive learning environments for all students, family members, and school staff, including those who are transgender or gender diverse. NASP respects a person’s right to express gender identity, and the right to modify gender expression when necessary for individual well-being. In addition, NASP supports all students’ right to explore and question their gender identity. NASP is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and the promotion of equal opportunity, fairness, justice, and respect for all persons (NASP, 2012).

Research suggests that gender diverse children are at higher risk of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and are at higher risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adulthood, with about a third of the higher risk of PTSD accounted for by being abused as a child (Roberts, Rosario, Corliss, Koenen, & Austin, 2012). Coming out to family members often results in physical assault and expulsion from the family home (Ray, 2006). In one study, more than half of transgender youth reported initial parental reaction to coming out as negative or very negative (Grossman, D’Augelli, & Frank, 2011). Young adults who experience low family acceptance of identity are more likely to be at risk for depressive symptoms, substance use, and suicidal ideation and attempts (Ryan, Russell, Huebner, Diaz, & Sanchez, 2010).

Despite these challenges, many transgender youth are resilient, and there are a number of factors that may help them guard against the worst outcomes. Resilience in children and youth appears to depend on personal characteristics like being outgoing, resourceful, and having a positive self-concept. In addition, social relationships, such as having an emotional bond with at least one adult over a period of time, and having a supportive community are associated with resilience (Werner, 1995). Specifically for transgender and gender diverse children, attention has been focused on family acceptance and school acceptance. LGBT youth from families rated high in acceptance (e.g., they discuss their child’s gender identity or sexual orientation openly, integrate their child’s LGBT friends into family activities, express appreciation for their child’s clothing choices even if the clothing was gender nonconforming) reported better self-esteem, better health, lower levels of depression, lower rates of substance abuse, lower rates of suicide attempts, and lower rates of risky sexual behavior (Ryan, Russell, Huebner, Diaz, & Sanchez, 2010). These findings suggest that similar acceptance in school environments is recommended."

Furthermore, I agree with NASP's stance that school psychologists "should be welcoming and supportive of transgender and gender diverse staff and parents, and he or she should be able to foster a climate of acceptance and security for all (Case & Meier, 2014). A student’s transgender status or history must be kept confidential and within the student’s control. In all cases school psychologists must be sensitive to the needs and welfare of all individuals at their school sites, including transgender and gender diverse students and staff. School psychologists must advocate for the civil rights of all students, including those who are transgender or gender diverse."

I believe that this guidance document directly violates the following ethical principles I work to uphold as a school psychologist:

Standard I.2.6: School psychologists respect the right of privacy of students, parents, and colleagues with regard to sexual orientation, gender identity, or transgender status. They do not share information about the sexual orientation, gender identity, or transgender status of a student (including minors), parent, or school employee with anyone without that individual’s permission.

Standard II.1.2: Practitioners are obligated to pursue knowledge and understanding of the diverse cultural, linguistic, and experiential backgrounds of students, families, and other clients. When knowledge and understanding of diversity characteristics are essential to ensure competent assessment, intervention, or consultation, school psychologists have or obtain the training or supervision necessary to provide effective services, or they make appropriate referrals.

Principle I.3: In their words and actions, school psychologists promote fairness and justice. They use their expertise to cultivate school climates that are safe and welcoming to all persons regardless of actual or perceived characteristics, including race, ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, immigration status, socioeconomic status, primary language, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, or any other distinguishing characteristic.


I support Governor Youngkin.

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Like I’ve been told many times in the recent past, if you don’t like the policies and regs, home school or send your child to private school. I too am a taxpayer and support the Governor.


Absolutely Approve of Gov Youngkin's policies

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<p>Strongly approve of the policies set forth by our Governor as pertains to transgender students and parental rights. </p>


Transgender in Schools

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I support our Governor and his policies, protecting young female students from possible assault by poser should be a priority. As I am apart of the LGBT community myself I feel young children should be free to express but feel that young girls should not have the added stress of having M2F in their personal bathrooms or changing locker rooms. If M2F need a safe space from other males to change or use the restroom then they should have their own allotted space even if it means using teachers lounge areas. But our young girls have been assaulted in restrooms by male to female transgender thus creating a highly unsafe environment for them and no safe space of their own with out causing undo fear. Males who wish to Transgender to female should have their own spaces free from distraction of other males and or females. Co mingling these 2 have dangerous consequences as we have seen in other areas of Virginia schools. Say NO to the radical left policies that have caused our poor female students undo stress and even some to violent assault and rape!


Strongly support the Governor's proposals

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<p>Having raised three grown children, and impacted on the education of six grandchildren, we fully agree with the governor's proposed actions for the participation of parents in their children's education.  It is the parents right and obligation to ensure the proper education of their children. </p>


If liberal women weren’t so intolerable, there would be a dad helping to raise these kids.

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If these kids were raised in a nuclear family with a strong father figure, these would be non-issues. Trans kids raised by woke women are shown off like woke trophies that they can present to their woke friends.


STRONGLY DISAGREE

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I am strongly against this. We all should be living a Christian life and follow Jesus.


Governmental support of parents

Fr. Robert Renner, St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception

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This proposed legislation is fantastic.  It is proper to subsidiarity that parents know and make decisions regarding the various medical and psychological health of their child.  For a parent not to be notified by the school and teachers regarding gender dysphoria or any behavioral, physical, or psychological concerns about their child is a great overstep in governmental involvement.  To legislate the concealing of concerns for the wellbeing of a child is an offense to basic human relationships.  Concerns should be presented and the schools should partner with the parents to best address these concerns.  To be a casuist, children are not allowed to be married before 18 unless emancipated.  Gender-reassignment surgery is a far weightier decision as it is irreversible and likewise should not be done before 18, especially without the parents consent.

Thank you for your time.


Strongly Oppose Governor Youngkin's policy

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Students deserve love, support, and trust at school. they should be free to express themselves and have their identities validated.


Transgender is not a political ideology

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Strongly opposed to this narrow minded and dangerous policy


Strongly Oppose

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I strongly oppose the Governor’s new model policy.  It is contrary to medical guidance and state law.  It promotes discrimination and “othering” of an already marginalized group of kids and is certain to result in increased bullying and danger to those kids, in addition to increased rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide among trans and nonbinary youth.  As the parent of a senior in high school who came out as transgender just prior to entering high school, my greatest and most immediate fear for my child was that she would be bullied and discriminated against at school by students and/or teachers.  Every morning that I dropped my child off at the bus, I worried for her safety.  I am so grateful that my child attends a very diverse school that truly believes in and promotes the respect, dignity and civil rights of all of its students no matter their differences in race, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, learning differences, appearance, etc.  What I have discovered is that when a school does not make an issue of gender identity, but simply respects every child’s differences and choices, including choices about how they would like to dress, be referred to, express themselves, where they feel comfortable using the bathroom, etc., gender identity truly does not become an issue in the school (with students or faculty), and every student is able to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.


Strongly oppose

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Youngkin’s cruel proposal to put at-risk youth at even higher risk is madness. Parents rights are important, yes. However! A subset of parents should absolutely NOT have more say over other parents! LGBTQ kids need advocates not attackers! They need our protection! Not all kids have a supportive network at home and now to propose they be denied a supportive network in their school environment is taking away all safety measures for them. People who are afraid of what their child may be, do so much damage to that child - and under this proposal, damage to others’ children as well. Please don’t do this!


And I SUPPORT- to oppose would be cruelty for "political points"

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Any ADULT LGBTQ has the right to vote.  Children cannot vote.  They are under their parents' care.  Children also cannot smoke or drink, get a tattoo, drive, own property .... and yet you think a child can make such a life altering, irreversible damn-aging decision before age 18?  Cray-cray, people.  PARENTS RIGHTS PROTECT CHILDREN.


Strongly support

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This is why we pulled our son out and put him in private school.


These policies need serious review.

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I go to a private school in Charlottesville, so I won't be affected by these laws. However, I do feel very strongly that public school students should enjoy the same privileges that we do. They should not be forced to come out to their parents. This could be outright dangerous for those with unsupportive parents. They should be allowed to use their name and pronouns, even if those pronouns are not she/her or he/him. They should be allowed to use the bathroom that they are most comfortable in - and also the bathroom that others are most comfortable with them in. As someone who was assigned female at birth, trust me when I say that most girls are more comfortable sharing a bathroom with another girl who happens to have a penis than with a boy, even if he does have a vagina.

Additionally, you should not have to file legal paperwork in order to have these rights. A lot of students may not have the means to get these papers filed, whether it's for monetary reasons, or because they don't have supportive parents who would be willing to sign name change papers. If it's the case that the student doesn't have their parents supporting them, it is even more important that their school supports them so that they have a safe space that may not exist at home.

I recognize that some of these policies have merit. For example, providing counseling services, provided that the counselor in question is unbiased and non-discriminatory and does not undermine the student's journey of self-discovery, would be very helpful to most students, especially those who cannot afford to hire a therapist outside of school. However, while some of these policies are actually helpful to transgender students, many more are harmful, and I suggest that the state carefully reexamine these policies and revise them based on public comments before ratifying them.


This is cruelty for political points

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<p>My niece is trans. She is still a full citizen and she votes. Her extended family will vote to support her. This bill is bullying by law & benefits no child. </p>


I support parental rights

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I support parental rights


I support the pro parent policies

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The policies of Gov. Young kin and the VDE are absolutely the right thing at the right time. Sanity and common sense must triumph over the lunacy of those who attack the innocence of children.


I strongly support the Governors proposed new education policies.

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We have allowed the minority to dictate to the majority for far too long.  These measures are common sense practices designed to allow parental rights to be maintained and still allow those with differing beliefs freedom of expression.  Schools are arenas of education, and should not be used to indoctrinate our children. Parents are still in charge of how their children are educated.   They dictate how it is accomplished, not the administrators.  These measures allow parents to stay in charge.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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Trans people and children should be protected, not discriminated against. There is no legal reason to justify this treatment of CHILDREN. Furthermore, these policies will also harm "non-gender conforming" cisgender children. What happens when a cis girl loses a race to a slightly taller cis girl, and decides that she's going to accuse the tall girl of being trans? Who will protect those children? Will they be forced to submit to humiliating medical examinations to "prove" their girlhood? And what of boys who happen to be a little short for their age? These policies will hurt trans people, yes, but they will hurt cis people more simply because there are more cis people than trans people.


I support Gov. Younkin

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God bless this man and his policy to protect out children from perversion.


Get suicidal kids mental health care; not new pronouns and a pass to the little girl's bathroom.

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Go back to parenting 101. Or get married and let a man raise those kids.


Bathroom policy in schools

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<p>Children should have to use the bathrooms matching their gender assigned at birth. Period. End of story. </p>


I strongly oppose the proposed 2022 policy for trans youth in schools in Virginia

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The proposed policy does not provide a safe environment for students. If using the bathroom is the issue that concerns people, let's make sure all bathrooms everywhere have stalls and working doors. After all, ALL students deserve their right to privacy, regardless of whether they are transgender/non binary or not. We all know bathrooms and lockers create all types of issues.


School board members that defy DOE guidance- get your personal checkbooks ready; You're getting sued

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When you vote to eliminate parental involvement in our children's sexuality and a child commits suicide on YOUR watch, you will lose every dime you have ever saved. Not if but when the next bathroom sexual assault occurs because you voted against DOE guidance, you will lose every dime you ever saved. I hope you are ready to deal with the consequences of your vote.


Children will die because of Youngkin's Transgender Policy

I strongly oppose Youngkin's Transgender Policy.  Transgender youth are at a high risk from suicide when their gender identity is not respected.  When they are supported, the attempted suicide rate drops to be comparable with the rest of the population.  I am a retired Virginia high school teacher, and have known several transgender students.  Having teachers who do not respect their gender identity makes an already stressful situation worse.This policy will result in needless deaths and suffering.

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I strongly oppose Youngkin's Transgender Policy.  Transgender youth are at a high risk from suicide when their gender identity is not respected.  When they are supported, the attempted suicide rate drops to be comparable with the rest of the population.

I am a retired Virginia high school teacher, and have known several transgender students.  Having teachers who do not respect their gender identity makes an already stressful situation worse.

This policy will result in needless deaths and suffering.


Strongly support Gov. Youngkin’s policy!!

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His policies are in line with a normal family!!  We expect the privacy but there is a limit!!


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

School board wants to remove parental rights and let counselors handle it?

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Start the lawsuits! Hold Loudoun County responsible along with holding school board members personally responsible. They can't remove parental involvement and then claim they aren't negligent.


I support these model policies

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Please do not bow down to the idle threats, emotional assertions and unsubstantiated claims of those speaking against the model policies in Richmond today.  The destructive policies of the Northam administration must be rescinded.  Biological sex matters and Governor Youngkin's policies return sanity to our schools and the appropriate authority to families.


Strongly Support

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<p>Rights are for all children. </p>


Congratulations Governor! You were elected on parental rights issues; please follow through.

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The voters of Virginia have spoken. We send our children to learn from teachers- not to think like them. We do not want woke ultra left women grooming our children. Please follow through on your election promises. Protect our children from political engineering. Let kids be kids.


Strongly support

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<p>I strongly support this regulation.  Over the last several years parents' rights have been trampled by the administration when it comes to our involvement in our children's education.  </p>


I support Glenn Youngkin

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He is doing the right things!


Restoring Parental Rights

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Restoring parental rights is not only important for our children’s welfare, it also benefits our nation in the long run and helps maintain the freedoms we enjoy.


Why are you congratulating Youngkin?

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After reviewing these comments over the last 3 weeks now, nothing has changed my position of being unalterably opposed to this proposed DOE policy. Reading the comments, as difficult as that has been, gives me more clarity than ever. I urge the DOE to actually review the comments as the superintendent publicly stated in a radio interview that they would-on substance. If you were honestly doing that, you'd filter out the hate, the obvious misinformation, the bot generated duplicates, and the political. I expect that the eventual legal challenge to this policy will in some way consider these comments as in "how could you have decided to proceed with this policy in the face of these substantive comments that credibly raise important unaddressed issues of constitutionality, rights of minors, rights of all parents, and the facts of childhood development?"

One has only quickly scan the subject lines of these comments to quickly deduce that support is firmly rooted in ideological partisan politics, not the welfare of all children in our public schools. What does Youngkin have to do with it? He did not propose it, ostensibly the DOE proposed the policy.  This support smells more like a cult of personality rather than a reasoned policy to support privacy, agency, and education of transgender and non-binary students free from fear.

Those in support also exhibit a disproportionate expression of hate and authoritarianism. Transgender people do exist, have since the dawn of time, and are not a trend or fad. Children will need to live in a world with all other people, regardless of their identity. We aren't educating them very well on socialization skills, a prime directive of schools because you can't learn in groups if you are socially stunted, if we deny that some people just don't exist and are unworthy of respect and dignity.

This absurd bathroom debate has been going on for most of a decade now and this policy is not going to change it. Transgender people using the restroom they identify with most often do so with the same modesty most kids have. Transgender people use bathrooms all across the nation, all the time. The difference is that most often you don't know them so you don't recognize them as transgender. In schools the transgender child has most likely transitioned socially while in school. So, the problem is the failure of cis students to recognize the existence of transgender people-that is their socialization issue to deal with as they learn to function in a real world. Their discomfort is something they need to deal with. Spare me those hyperbolic hysterical recitations of rare incidents. I've heard enough of mischaracterization of a pair of 14 year olds behaving as some stupid 14-year old's do. Sexual predators exist across the entire population and sexual predation perpetrated by a transgender person does not represent all transgender people. There are plenty, plenty of predation incidents in schools between cis people. This is an intellectually dishonest distraction from the real issues-the welfare of all the students of all Identities.

Parents do not control what their children think, feel, believe, or experience. It has never been true in history and this policy won't make it true. Childhood development is, well, development. There is no steady state of unrecognized childhood privacy and agency that somehow magically changes to full privacy and agency at the age of majority. There is ample constitutional law to support that minors do in fact have rights independant of their parents. Smart parents recognize this and factor it into their parenting, other parents need help along the way of figuring this out, some parents persist in the belief that they control. Show me the parent who thinks that they control their 14-year-old and I'll show you a delusional person who most likely doing developmental damage to their child. The U.S. is widely recognized as a culture rife with sexual dysfunction borne out of denial of sexual expression and sexual repression. This dysfunction expresses itself in all manner of social ills from disproportionate societal violence among developed nations. Do we really think doing more of the same is going to result in a different outcome?

This proposed policy is nothing more than an attempt to legislate away the privacy, agency, and rights of an identity class of people. This is precisely the same thing that was done in 2005 with the state constitutional amendment found to be unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. Did we in the Commonwealth learn nothing? If transgender students' rights or LGBTQIA rights can be legislated away, anyone's rights (people of color, people of faith, women, non-property owners take notice) can be legislated away.

My most visceral opposition to this ill-conceived proposal is the harm that already results from making the policy absent any current public testimony or discussion prior to publishing it. At least when my rights were legislated away in 2005, there was some ability to testify in the legislature, over two years, and to work in subsequent electoral referendum. As an adult, I also had a support system in place to help me to withstand the obvious discrimination and illegality of the constitutional amendment which remained in place for 8 long years. What support system do young transgender students have, many of whom have not yet formed the language to express what they experience and feel? Who do they turn to. How many years will they have to wait for legal recognition during their developmental years and how much damage are you creating by this uncertainty?

I urge the DOE to rescind this current proposal and to rethink it. It's not ready to be implemented if the volume of comment has told you nothing else.


Restore Parents' Rights in Education!

Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,

I am happy about the new guidelines that will restore Virginia parents' rights to direct their children's upbringing. This is long overdue!
Elizabeth M. Moyer

Regards,
ELIZABETH MOYER
2140 Military Rd
Arlington, VA 22207

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Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,<br /><br />I am happy about the new guidelines that will restore Virginia parents' rights to direct their children's upbringing. This is long overdue! <br />Elizabeth M. Moyer<br /><br />Regards,
<br />ELIZABETH MOYER
<br />2140 Military Rd<br />Arlington, VA 22207<br /><img src="http://admin.phone2action.com/email/open/leg/657466/148585056" width="1" height="1" />


Strongly SUPPORT - NO GROOMERS!

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Parents are the final arbiter of what is in the best interest of THEIR child, and the schools have ZERO authority to interfere with or contradict the wishes of the parents. Schools are NOT a co-parent!

Any teacher who manipulates children to believe they are something they are not are groomers, and have no business teaching children.


Loudoun County- Judge finds transgender teen guilty of Loudoun County bathroom sexual assaults

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Sexual assault is real.


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The Muslim Community 100% Supports- please read and help governor.

For some of our daughters and women in our Muslim community, wearing a hijab is the core culture and a strict religious practice. Our daughters have been observing this for modesty and privacy, and they do not feel safe changing their clothes in the presence of biological males, since they remove their hijab only in the presence of other females.

We demand segregated washrooms, change rooms and field trip accommodation for biological males and females use be clearly written in details in the Code of Conduct and strictly implemented to ensure safety for all school students. Our daughters must not only be safe but feel physically, emotionally, and morally safe when they use washrooms, change rooms and field trip accommodation


Strongly Oppose

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I strongly oppose the draft guidance, speaking as a parent, foster parent and grandparent of Virginia students.

The proposed policy would deprive students of their inalienable dignity and improperly vest their inherent worth in the control of others, rather than under the compassionate guidance and counsel of informed and trusted adults. A transgender person’s worth is inherent to their person; it does not reside in the mind of, or by force of, another person, even a parent. The proposed policy is contrary to the evidence of the science of human development.

No Virginian student has been harmed by the existing policy for the respectful treatment of transgender students. In contrast, this proposed policy is very likely to cause elevated suicides among transgender youth, family dysfunction, displacement of transgender youth from their homes, and social alienation by transgender youth.


SUPPORT Governor Youngkins policy-protect kids from the ultra woke that don’t understand science.

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<p>Please stop allowing the far left woke progressives from playing fantasy games with our children. </p>


I support Governor Youngkin

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<p>I support Governor Youngkin on this issue.  Thank you Governor for standing up for parental rights.  It is the responsibility of the parents to raise their children in the way they see fit.  The school systems and government  should not be imposing liberal or sexually explicit curriculum on our children.  Transgender and LGBTQ ideas should not be taught in the school system at all.  History should be taught as it happened and not eliminated certain parts to be socially correct. The parents should have the largest percentage of say in how their children are educated.  </p>


This proposed policy will kill children.

I am the mother of two young transgender adults who both went to high schools in Fairfax county, and the wife of a retired teacher who taught in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.  This proposed guideline is mean-spirited, contrary to the intention of the law, and will kill students.  As the mother of transgender children, I am all too aware of the horrifying suicide statistics for transgender youth.  Over 80 percent of them have considered suicide, approximately 40 percent have made suicide attempts.  (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/).  However, a supportive community drops those numbers to approximately the same rate as heteronormative youth.  Rejection by family and community drive transgender youth to kill themselves.
By defining a transgender student as "a public school student whose parent has requested in writing, due to their child’s persistent and sincere belief that his or her gender differs from his or her sex, that their child be identified while at school.", the policy effectively denies protection to nonbinary or transgender students whose parents are not supportive or cannot communicate in writing.  These students are the most vulnerable of our students; they are not being supported at home and this policy effectively denies them support in school.  These are the students who are considering suicide, the students who will be attempting suicide.  They need a school's support, not to be ratted out to parents who may well be not only non-supportive, but abusive in their lack of support.I have seen this play out in Fairfax County.  When my oldest son came out to us as transgender, we contacted his school before the start of the new school year.  They invited us to come in to talk, which we did.  A note was sent to all of his teachers about his new name and pronouns (this was prior to completion of his legal name change), and he was told that he could use "whichever bathroom he felt comfortable in" and also informed that the counseling office had a single stall bathroom that was available to him.  Even with full school support, it was not an easy road for my eldest; while his closest friends were supportive, many of his classmates shunned him for the remainder of his high school career, refusing to acknowledge his presence.  Imagine for a moment, yourself back in high school, walking through the hallways, with no casual "hellos" or "how are yous" from your classmates.  It hurt.  My younger son is "found family," who joined us shortly after he turned 18 and could leave an abusive situation.  His single-mother parent was non-supportive and his high school, a different public high school in Fairfax county, told him there was ONE bathroom in the entire high school that he could use - and it was shut down for renovations during part of his high school career, without any substitute bathroom being offered.  School staff were not supportive of him and would report his actions to his abusively non-supportive mother (physical, financial, and emotional abuse).  Essentially, the school was contributing to his abuse. Lack of access to bathrooms is a genuine problem for transgender youth.  In the case of my younger son, the layout of his school was single story so even when the ONE bathroom was available to him, it was not possible for him to visit it in the 5 minutes between classes when classrooms were far away.  Holding urine for too long places people at risk for urinary tract infections, a painful condition which can progress to uncontrollable bladder spasming.  Treatment for urinary tract infections is a profoundly dysphoric experience for transgender persons; they are being forced to out themselves to medical personnel to get treatment and the questions they face are often not focused solely on their medical issues.  This policy will place any transgender student who is not receiving parental support (or whose parents lack the ability to communicate with the school in writing) at risk of urinary tract infections.   The portion of the policy which allows teachers and other students to refuse to use a student's identified name and pronouns is contrary to the Commonwealth's anti-bullying stance.  I have a stronger position on this:  a teacher who will place their religious beliefs above their obligation to treat their students with respect should not be teaching in the public schools.  If a teacher is from a religion which demands that women dress modestly and not show ankles or forearms, and that teacher berates their female students for dressing immodestly, would our school system support that?  Would our school system support a teacher who insists that students cannot be in mixed gender work groups for team work because their religion demands the separation of sexes?  Certainly not.  Teachers should not bully students.  Period.  This policy is also not consistent with other policies in place in Virginia which make our public schools safe places for students.  We tell kids over and over that if they are being abused, they should tell a trusted adult.  This may well include a teacher or school counselor.  Virginia Code § 63.2-1509 requires schools to contact authorities, not the student's parents, in cases of abuse or neglect.  What exactly is a school supposed to do under this proposed revised model policy if a student tells a school employee that they are transgender and their parents are abusing them?
Please revert to the existing policy rather than putting our most vulnerable students at further risk.  Transgender people are here to stay and they have the right to use the bathroom and be treated with respect at school, whether or not their parents support them at home.

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I am the mother of two young transgender adults who both went to high schools in Fairfax county, and the wife of a retired teacher who taught in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.  This proposed guideline is mean-spirited, contrary to the intention of the law, and will kill students.

As the mother of transgender children, I am all too aware of the horrifying suicide statistics for transgender youth.  Over 80 percent of them have considered suicide, approximately 40 percent have made suicide attempts.  (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/).  However, a supportive community drops those numbers to approximately the same rate as heteronormative youth.  Rejection by family and community drive transgender youth to kill themselves.

By defining a transgender student as "a public school student whose parent has requested in writing, due to their child’s persistent and sincere belief that his or her gender differs from his or her sex, that their child be identified while at school.", the policy effectively denies protection to nonbinary or transgender students whose parents are not supportive or cannot communicate in writing.  These students are the most vulnerable of our students; they are not being supported at home and this policy effectively denies them support in school.  These are the students who are considering suicide, the students who will be attempting suicide.  They need a school's support, not to be ratted out to parents who may well be not only non-supportive, but abusive in their lack of support.

I have seen this play out in Fairfax County.  When my oldest son came out to us as transgender, we contacted his school before the start of the new school year.  They invited us to come in to talk, which we did.  A note was sent to all of his teachers about his new name and pronouns (this was prior to completion of his legal name change), and he was told that he could use "whichever bathroom he felt comfortable in" and also informed that the counseling office had a single stall bathroom that was available to him.  Even with full school support, it was not an easy road for my eldest; while his closest friends were supportive, many of his classmates shunned him for the remainder of his high school career, refusing to acknowledge his presence.  Imagine for a moment, yourself back in high school, walking through the hallways, with no casual "hellos" or "how are yous" from your classmates.  It hurt.  My younger son is "found family," who joined us shortly after he turned 18 and could leave an abusive situation.  His single-mother parent was non-supportive and his high school, a different public high school in Fairfax county, told him there was ONE bathroom in the entire high school that he could use - and it was shut down for renovations during part of his high school career, without any substitute bathroom being offered.  School staff were not supportive of him and would report his actions to his abusively non-supportive mother (physical, financial, and emotional abuse).  Essentially, the school was contributing to his abuse.

Lack of access to bathrooms is a genuine problem for transgender youth.  In the case of my younger son, the layout of his school was single story so even when the ONE bathroom was available to him, it was not possible for him to visit it in the 5 minutes between classes when classrooms were far away.  Holding urine for too long places people at risk for urinary tract infections, a painful condition which can progress to uncontrollable bladder spasming.  Treatment for urinary tract infections is a profoundly dysphoric experience for transgender persons; they are being forced to out themselves to medical personnel to get treatment and the questions they face are often not focused solely on their medical issues.  This policy will place any transgender student who is not receiving parental support (or whose parents lack the ability to communicate with the school in writing) at risk of urinary tract infections.

The portion of the policy which allows teachers and other students to refuse to use a student's identified name and pronouns is contrary to the Commonwealth's anti-bullying stance.  I have a stronger position on this:  a teacher who will place their religious beliefs above their obligation to treat their students with respect should not be teaching in the public schools.  If a teacher is from a religion which demands that women dress modestly and not show ankles or forearms, and that teacher berates their female students for dressing immodestly, would our school system support that?  Would our school system support a teacher who insists that students cannot be in mixed gender work groups for team work because their religion demands the separation of sexes?  Certainly not.  Teachers should not bully students.  Period.

This policy is also not consistent with other policies in place in Virginia which make our public schools safe places for students.  We tell kids over and over that if they are being abused, they should tell a trusted adult.  This may well include a teacher or school counselor.  Virginia Code § 63.2-1509 requires schools to contact authorities, not the student's parents, in cases of abuse or neglect.  What exactly is a school supposed to do under this proposed revised model policy if a student tells a school employee that they are transgender and their parents are abusing them?

Please revert to the existing policy rather than putting our most vulnerable students at further risk.  Transgender people are here to stay and they have the right to use the bathroom and be treated with respect at school, whether or not their parents support them at home.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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THESE POLICIES WILL BE DETRIMENTAL TO TRANSGENDER CHILDREN. REJECT THEM NOW.


Strongly oppose

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I have two kids in high school and I oppose this draft policy.
These policy changes are pretty devastating to family’s with transgender children and will cause so much harm for transgender kids. Public schools are supposed to create an inclusive environment and protect our children. These proposed changes create a hostile & potentially dangerous school environment. Do we want more children to harm themselves? Research has shown that transgender children are at significantly higher risk for suicide.
These draft claim to be about parental rights but they are really discriminatory practices. I have a daughter and I am not worried about a transgender female using the same bathroom as her.


Transgender policys

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Boys should use the boys bathroom and girls the girls bathroom. Boys should not be allowed in a girls locker room. We need to stop bowig down to the left and use common sense.


Policy green lights intolerance and cruelty and ignores science

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Heterosexual males, with no doubt about their gender, are the ones who pursue girls.

Demonizing children whose genes and biology are in conflict, as if this makes them dangerous, is wrong and is a green light for bullies to target vulnerable children.

I'm 78 and was raped, at age 14, by a boy 2 years ahead of me in school, a trauma I've never overcome! Thereafter, I was grateful for friendships with boys who were gay, although I did not know, at that time, what made them different. I was safe with them. It was awful to witness these good kids targeted for ridicule by male schoolmates and even teachers.

Your policy is a wink and a nod that says that cruelty and bullying is okay and deserved by any child who is different.


WOMEN ARE ING SEXY

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Women are hot. I am gay. Yo probably wouldn't understand that women are hot considering nobody ever wants to get in your pants, so you decide to ban people. You're a very dumb bitch and I hope you fall into a ditch and die. :)


Support- be yourself- just stop forcing all this nonsense on everyone else- use your own bathroom

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No one is asking you to comply and be female and become someone you aren’t. AllI am asking is that you stop forcing this nonsense on everyone else. Stay in your lane and don’t involve my kids. If you have a penis, get out of my daughters locker room. It is creepy and makes other people feel uncomfortable. In the same way that you wish to feel comfortable please allow others that same respect. If you are a male, don’t take a roster spot on the girls volleyball team. Be yourself but don’t selfishly impact other people.


Protect all individuals who do not fit neatly into outdated molds.

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Having worked in a NICU, I can tell you first-hand, that gender is not necessarily clear-cut at birth. Infants are born with ambiguous genitalia, with both sex organs or with genitalia that is not easily determined to be either male or female. I HAVE SEEN IT WITH MY OWN EYES. Often times there are factors unknown at birth, if ever, affecting a person's life that control how they feel because they have an unknown teste that is undescended, or an ovary in their abdomen, that is providing their body with testosterone/estrogen levels that cannot be readily explained. Only medical doctors and families should make the decisions for what kids determine their individual gender identity to be, WITH OR WITHOUT THESE OTHER FACTORS. If they choose to make changes on the outside to match who they are on the inside, it's their decision alone. The lack of compassion for someone else's feelings, feeling which you thankfully may never feel or comprehend, is nothing short of inhumane.


Strongly Oppose

These policies are illegal and violate the Virginia Human Rights Act. People are people, and this model policy treats trans people as lesser. Strongly oppose!
-Brock Landers

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<p>These policies are illegal and violate the Virginia Human Rights Act. People are people, and this model policy treats trans people as lesser. Strongly oppose! </p>
<p>-Brock Landers </p>


Arlington parent who supports this bill

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Governor Youngkin,

I am an Arlington, VA parent who has already lost a child to transgender ideology.  It has been the most painful experience of my life.  I hope to help prevent this further pain for other families.  This guidance document is a start to giving parents and families their rights to raise their own children back.

Thank you.


I support Youngkin!!

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<p>I support Youngkin!!  Protect our babies!!!  Parents have the right and responsibility to teach our children moral beliefs and protect them from harm!  </p>


Support 2022 policy and Parent Rights

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<p>I support Governor Youngkin and the 2022 Policy.  </p>


Proposed policy

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The proposed policy violates the inherent worth and dignity of all people. Would you propose signaling out your child?


Human rights should apply to all humans, Christians oppose

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Dignity should not be parceled out only to those who fit one ideology. True Christian ideals reach out to those who seem "other" and find common ground and respectful care. Kids who are offered dignity make choices that support both themselves and others. Kids who are shown hate and fear will reflect that back in the world. Please, make Virginia safe for all people so that we can have a legacy of respect instead of fear. You get to choose the world your young people grow up in. Is it a society of decency and dignity or hate?


Violation of Privacy - Oppose

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This violates the privacy of many students and puts them in danger of being killed or abused. Even kids who aren't trans will be hurt by this policy, as some students like to have nicknames while still feeling like their assigned gender.


Support Parental rights & protect the innocence of children

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<p>Acknowledging basic biology is not spreading hate. We must protect children from harmful ideologies and protect parental rights. </p>


Please read if you support this bill

As a child who has been groomed, I will say this now; They are not "forcing" me to be trans it's the opposite. The "leftists" often question if I'm genuinely sure about not being a girl (My Assigned Sex)Do you want to know who IS grooming and forcing me? The alt-right/anti-trans groups. You are Sexualising me by saying that a (CELIBATE) child who doesn't feel entirely like a girl is inherently sexual for simply feeling like I'm not a woman. I grew up in an alt-right area and they would constantly force me to be something I'm not; a woman. I am not a woman, I lack any "gender" I do not have a gender and never will. Stop forcing me to be a woman.If you aren't convinced here is my final statement: Forcing a trans child to be the "Cis" is the same as (if not worse) forcing a "Cis" child to be trans. Both can kill a child.

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As a child who has been groomed, I will say this now; They are not "forcing" me to be trans it's the opposite. The "leftists" often question if I'm genuinely sure about not being a girl (My Assigned Sex)

Do you want to know who IS grooming and forcing me? The alt-right/anti-trans groups. You are Sexualising me by saying that a (CELIBATE) child who doesn't feel entirely like a girl is inherently sexual for simply feeling like I'm not a woman. I grew up in an alt-right area and they would constantly force me to be something I'm not; a woman. I am not a woman, I lack any "gender" I do not have a gender and never will. Stop forcing me to be a woman.

If you aren't convinced here is my final statement: Forcing a trans child to be the "Cis" is the same as (if not worse) forcing a "Cis" child to be trans. Both can kill a child.


Totally Opposed - Just love your kids!

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If your kid is LGBT and doesn’t feel safe coming out to you, that’s not their fault, the school’s fault, or the media’s fault. It’s your fault, and yours alone. It’s a parent’s job to love and accept their children unconditionally. Love your kids.


Support 100%- no boys in my daughter’s bathroom

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<p>good start to protect children </p>


OPPOSE the 2022 Guidelines for Model Practices for the Treatment of Transgender Students

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Whatever opinions one has on the rights of transgender children, teachers should not be forced to take actions that would actively harm a child. Reporting to parents that their child has chosen a different name and uses different pronouns may be harmful to some transgender children. Teachers know to which parents they can safely report such information.

The new 2022 guidelines on the treatment of transgender students is a political stunt designed to score point among certain voters. The parents' right movement is a smoke screen for creating policies that are harmful to students from marginalized groups. Let's not pretend it's anything different.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Please do not force transgender kids to use a different bathroom than everyone else. Gloucester County paid millions in damages for forcing Gavin Grimm to do it. It is discriminatory and harmful. </p>


I have mixed feelings

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<p>I 100% support our LGTBQ+ community. I want everyone to grow up and blossom into whoever makes them happy. On the other side, I think it is selfish to make other people feel uncomfortable in the bathroom and locker room facilities at school. It does more harm than good for our cause to push sexuality upon straight kids in the restrooms. It is unsafe and uncompetitive to allow trans females to play on girl's sporting teams. If you agree that it is unfair, then we are creating enemies wrongfully. Creating this fight does not help our movement. </p>


School trans policy

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THANK YOU Governor for common sense policies. Keep up the good work!!


Proposed anti Transgender youth policy

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<p>There is plenty of data showing that many transgender youth are not accepted at home and have a much higher rate of suicidal thoughts. Forcing schools to out these kids to their parents takes away any feeling of safety and security these kids might find at school. </p>


Governor, can you please not let the adults let boys into our locker room after band practice.

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Governor, we have band practice each morning before school. We then need to change from our band uniform into regular clothes for school.  It isn't fair that adults let boys come into our locker rooms while we are changing.  It is weird and creepy. Can you please help the girls on my marching band team?


Please Do Not Erase Our Children

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I am the loving, accepting, and proud parent to a transgender student in the state of Virginia. Trans affirming school policy is the ability to achieve success in school for my son. When he feels safe, accepted, worthy he is ready to participate. He is ready to learn and achieve. Acceptance is nourishment. When we are full we are able to learn. There are staff and administrators that understand equity and offer it to every student that logs in or walks into their classroom. Those students are able to do the work of a student.

I oppose Governor Youngkin’s draft policy.  It is rooted in transphobia and seeks to further harm trans and nonbinary students. The policy seeks to erase trans and nonbinary youth from the classrooms. It creates a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment. It creates bathroom and sports policies that prohibit access and/or participation in activities consistent with their gender identity. This policy requires teachers and school staff to forcibly “out” students to their parents against their will in some circumstances. It prohibits teachers and school staff from supporting trans and nonbirnary students, such at using a student’s affirming name and pronouns.  All of this with little to no scientific support like the VDOE’s original policy.

Identity formation is critical to youth development. This policy will summarily erase my child. It will erase all of the work he has done to be who he is.  It will erase everything our family has been through to grow in love and acceptance.

This policy avails our educational system to harm the developing psyches of our trans and nonbinary children. Instead maintain the existing policy and seize this opportunity to teach all of our students about identity and respect for others.

Kindly,


Trans phobic extremest agenda

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<p>I love that Youngkin’s new transphobic public school policy begins with this statement “The Department supports efforts to protect and encourage respect for all students”.  He knows full well that this new policy is an attack on trans students.  It’s a public denial that they even deserve to exist.  This policy will weaponize teachers against trans students and cause them more pain and suffering then they are already experiencing.  Shame on him and this administration for attacking these children and their families and for trying to use teachers to hurt some of our most vulnerable youth. </p>


parent rights

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Thank you for supporting parent rights and standing with our children.


Thank you Gov Youngkin

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Thank you Gov. Youngkin for taking a stand in support of families and their children.  I support your policies and the help you're giving to Virginia!


Support Youngkin

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<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Governor Youngkin is a voice of reason in a clamor of fear mongering </p>


I support Governor Youngkin's policies

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And my support is 100%!  Parental Rights trump school boards and past VDOE policies!


Keep up the good work Governor Youngkin!

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Stay strong Governor! Parents of VA elected you to support and protect their parental rights and stop these crazy gender ideology policies of the last administration (Northam) that put kids at risk. Stay strong!


Parents and nonTrans kids deserve privacy and their rights also

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Definitely support Youngkin’s policy.  There are other ways to accommodate those who think they are trans.


Protect kids from far left child grooming- Restore parent rights.

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This is a start but does not go far enough.


Yes to parents

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"Parents should be at the forefront of all of these discussions."

Take a minute and SPEAK UP! Your voice matters.

The public comment period for the Virginia Public School’s “2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents” (2022 Model Policies) closes next Tuesday, October 25th.

I support the 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools (2022 Model Policies) which withdraw and replace the highly objectionable Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools. Among many other positive changes, The 2022 Model Policies make it clear that “[p]arents have the right to instill and nurture values and beliefs for their own children and make decisions concerning their children’s education and upbringing in accordance with their customs, faith, and family culture” and that “[p]arents are in the best position to work with their children and, where appropriate, their children’s health care providers to determine (a) what names, nicknames, and/or pronouns, if any, shall be used for their child by teachers and school staff while their child is at school, (b) whether their child engages in any counseling or social transition at school that encourages a gender that differs from their child’s sex, or (c) whether their child expresses a gender that differs with their child’s sex while at school.


Oppose these awful guidelines

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<p>These guidelines will do active harm to an already marginalized group of kids-trans and non binary. Pediatricians, Psychiatrists, endocrinologists-everyone agrees that body dysmorphia is harmful. Follow the experts advice and leave these kids alone. Pronouns aren’t hard. Nobody wants to be misgendered. I’ve worked in jobs where we dealt with a lot of internationally based clients. I discovered that non native English speakers see my first name and because it isn’t common they just assumed I was male and used male pronouns. As a woman, it bothered me. Dealing with someone who is trans or non binary can make the situation even worse than what I experienced. Ask yourself, if my kid was trans or non binary, how would I like them to be treated? You’d want them to be treated respectfully. So treat our trans and non binary kids with respect. Allow them to use the bathroom they wish. The only thing a girl has to fear in a bathroom is a predatory boy. Trans and non binary kids are there to just use the bathroom in peace and quiet. </p>


Protect Trans Students!!

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I am writing as a concerned citizen about the recently proposed Model Policies would which severely roll back transgender rights in Virginia. It would deny transgender youth the ability to use the facilities they identify with, create an arduous process to be acknowledged with proper pronouns, force teachers to expose one's gender identity to their parents (which can be very unsafe for many youth), and no longer require school employees to not discriminate against trans youth. Transgender youth have already extremely high rates of suicide, self-harm, and mental health crises, and this will only make that worse. Please revoke support for the Model Policies and refuse to implement these policies.


I Support  Governor  Youngkin  on the K -12 2022 Policy

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Thank You Governor Youngkin for caring for our Children and their Parents. I Support  the 2022 Policy.


Parental rights for their children in public schools

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Thank you Governor Youngkin for protecting the parents’ rights for their children in public schools.


any educator who opposes this 2022 policy must be fired, they are not a good influence for kids

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Any educator who disagrees with this policy needs to join the woke religion in another building, not in schools. Your "kindness" is brainwashing kids who don't understand what it all means. Just leave the kids alone, let them lean academics which is what  we parents send them to school for.


YEs to 2022 Policy

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Please restore parents rights, remove woke cult from schools.


Parental rights! 2022 policy approval!

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Thank you, Governor Youngkin for standing in favor of parental rights.


I support 2022 policy. Brainwashing children to be something they are not is already harming them

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Can we stop with the entitlement of many to "educate" children is woke ideology?

Stop lying to these children, they can not change genders, they can only pretend, and your insistence plus over sexualization of them is what is harming them.


In opposition to the proposed 2022 Model Policies

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I respectfully submit comment in opposition to the proposed 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools (the “2022 Model Policies”). These policies are not only in direct violation of state and federal law1 , but they also deny the rights of students, parents, and school personnel to recognize the inherent dignity and worth of every child. All children have the right to learn in a safe and supportive environment that respects their humanity and upholds their dignity. However, the 2022 Model Policies send a dangerous message that some students do not belong, and in fact, should not exist. Discovering oneself is an important part of growing up, and every child deserves to have support and guidance as they learn about themselves, their family and friends, and their place in the world. Studies have consistently shown that policies like those proposed result in more frequent and escalating harassment, discrimination, and physical violence toward trans and nonbinary students. These policies also lead to significantly higher rates of depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts relative to cisgender students. The consistent misgendering of a student has a profoundly negative impact on their ability to learn in the classroom. Contrary to what is recommended in the proposed model policies, consistent use of a student’s affirmed name can reduce suicidal behavior and suicidal ideation. Furthermore, denying trans and nonbinary students from using facilities that match their gender identity increases the prevalence of sexual assault victimization. The evidence is clear – students will experience higher rates of sexual assault, peer victimization, and suicide if policies like these are adopted in Virginia. I recognize that sexual and domestic violence is linked to other forms of harm and that supporting equality and respect for ALL people, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, is integral to creating a Virginia free from sexual and domestic violence. The 2022 Model Policies will significantly and irreparably harm Virginia’s students and families and as antiviolence advocates; we firmly oppose their adoption.


Yes, thank you governor. Protect Parents Rights. Wholeheartedly Supporting this Policy!

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You can't change the lives of everyone else to fit your beliefs. You can't go behind parents back to indoctrinate them. Not cool. Enjoy your life as it is, fight for trans bathrooms and locker rooms, fight for trans sports. Stop teaching us the science of your mind. Stop being inappropriate with our children sharing information we don't agree with and didn't send the kids to learn about such as gay romance, masturbation, talking about kids genitalia, confusing them about gender and pronouns that you have created......stop with that.


Thank You!


Yes I support governor. Return parent's right in education.

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<p>More children will suffer if this continues. Stop the woke agenda in school, we are tired of it. Let kids have their innocence, stop sharing adult opinions on gender, influencing children to make choices they do not understand. </p>


Thank you for protecting parental rights

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Thank you, Gov. Youngkin, for protecting the rights of parents. Our duty and privilege is to care for our children, and we have the right to be informed of what is taking place in their lives at school as well as any consequential decisions that are made in regards to them in that setting. If parents are not free to act in the best interest of their children because the state is withholding information about them, that represents a gross violation of the sacred relationship within families and between Virginians and our schools. This policy corrects its fatally flawed and indefensible precursor, and should be fully enacted swiftly.


Opposed. These policies are simply cruel.

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I lend my voice in opposition to the proposed policy. It is so painful to live with the truth of being transgender, I cannot imagine how anyone would wish to endorse terrorizing these children. These policies are mean-spirited and, frankly horrifying.

Please read the published commentaries from professional organizations that have made research based, non-biased statements in support of trans-health. These Virginia school policies will inflict so much harm and, without hyperbole, they endanger the lives of trans-youth.


Support of all things normal

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Keep sexs as male and female to protect girl sports bathrooms rights.


Thank you Governor Youngkin

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Thank you for supporting parental rights and protecting our children!! As a grandparent, parent ,and state licensed child care provider for the last 30 years I want to say how much I support your common sense decisions to protect our children!!


Parental Rights


Thank you!

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Thank you for standing up for our children and Virginia's! Thank you for standing firm. We are blessed to have you. Please fight to keep mask off of our children and no mandated covid vax!


Support for the Governor

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<p>Stop indoctrinating our children!! Schools are supposed to support PARENTS by educating their children. Parents pay taxes and should be served by the schools. When I was young I wanted to be a pirate. Good thing the school didn't help me by cutting off a leg and poking out an eye! Stop the insanity! Thank you Governor Youngkin for doing what you said you were going to do. I support you. </p>


I support 2021 Model Policies

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Search for understanding and perspective of ALL students. The confusion you have is the fear of the unknown.


Support Governor youngkin

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<p>Thank you Governor Youngkin! </p>


I support the Governor!

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SUPPORT! Parents expect their children to be educated @ school NOT indoctrinated!


Thank You for this Common Sense Approach

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My family is in full support of these new proposed policies, which allow parents to remain engaged and informed. We are still speaking of children, not adults, so let’s allow parents to remain in their rightful place. Additionally. these  are common sense policies Gov. Youngkin is proposing that also protect the privacy rights of all students, not just a select few. Thank you, Gov. Youngkin, for following through on the promise you made while campaigning.


I support the governor. Maybe make new lockers, bathrooms and sport leagues for trans, not w/ girls

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Maybe it is too late to save the already transitioning kids, maybe we need to acknowledge the need to open their own lockers, bathrooms, and create their sport league. But you can't mix biological genders. We need to protect the girls sports and bathrooms.

Restore parents rights before it is too late for yet more kids.


Proposed transgender policy

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This proposed policy restores parental rights and lists legal basis for changes. Excellent changes that promote respectful treatment for all students.


While you work silently to change my children's gender--------I SUPPORT GOVERNOR

an immigrant who cooks your food, builds your homes and cleans your s**t

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While 90+ percent of us poor immigrants and parents work our butts off , some mentally ill, with clear sickly intentions, are acting to influence our vulnerable sons and daughters to become something they will never be. RESTORE PARENTS RIGHTS. I send my children to school for academic education, not gay or sexual education.

Protect our children, please.  We are too busy working endless hours while others spend all day finding ways to groom our children and pass through loopholes of the system to put yet another pornographic book in school. We have had enough of it.


SUPPORT! No child is born int he wrong body, so just stop the stupidity

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<p>Where is the body positivity? why is this ideology pushing for gender confusion making children feel they need to go through life changing mutilations? Why are they trying to change science? Everything has to conform their sick beliefs, and we have had enough! </p>


New Transgender Policy

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Fully support this new policy. Focus on education for kids in Virginia regardless of their personal beliefs or choices. Fair and equitable treatment for everyone.

Thank Gov Y!

Tom


FULLY SUPPORT! PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THIS SATANIC CULT SEXUALIZING THE INNOCENT

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Restore parental rights and protect children from this whole trans nonsense.


Boy’s locker rooms are gross

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<p>My concern is that kids are being force to share a locker room with those they are not comfortable with. That applies to both sides, I think that most girls don’t want the share a locker room with biological boys. I haven’t heard much about biological girls wanting to use the boy’s locker room (I don’t want to go in there myself and I am a man). If a trans student is not comfortable in the locker room for their biological gender they need to make other arrangements until the school can provide individual accommodations, the school should not have the right to force kids to share their locker room with kids of the opposite biological gender. School should have fund raisers to build facilities for trans kids, then parents and other groups can support if they want to but won’t be forcing anyone to pay for it if they don’t agree. </p>


STRONGLY SUPPORT! Restore parent's rights, protect the children

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Ideologies must be kept out of school. Restore parents trust in schools, protect kids from Trans and Alphabet Mafia , looking to sexualize them. Beliefs of Flat earth, multiple genders, babies born in the "wrong body", the need to teach highly sexual inappropriate content to kids............ these are cults and has no place in our schools..... Do Not force your pedophilic beliefs onto us and say it is normal, because it is not.


Strongly Opposed!!!

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These guidelines are crap and specifically targeting the LGBTQ+ community. No one took away your parental rights. Quit trying to claim them back. You have them. Just stop being homophobic/transphobic and there’s not an issue!!! Strongly oppose these misguided guidelines!!!


Strongly Oppose

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aren’t these proposed policies are illegal?


This Policy Endangers Children

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I vehemently oppose this policy.

BLUF: the only reasons a child would avoid telling their parents is because they are either unsure or feel unsafe. A child that is unsure must be free to explore themselves in an environment where they feel comfortable until they are ready to bring it home, same as with any other interest. Forcing a child into an unsafe situation is inhumane.

Being LGBTQ+ is not an "ideology", it is an immutable state of existence that just happens and is not spread like some sort of infection. Parents seeking to force their kids to be something other than they are through various forms of inflicted corporal punishment, neglect, or other tortuous methods are the primary beneficiaries of this policy. LGBTQ children in such households will be forced to shelter in place for 18 years or more, which has been clinically shown to cause PTSD and other depressive conditions.

If you want to increase the chances of children attempting suicide, then enact this policy. If you want to stifle the nation's future by further reducing exposure of the next generation of students to the differences that have historically made us collectively undefeatable, enact this policy. Just know that, if you do, you aid and abet a patently anti-American agenda.


"Transgender" issues/ Effort to protect children as normal

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<p>God made us male or female. Our organic-personal and psychological make-up should be kept as such.  I support the Governor's efforts to protect both parental responsibility and proper care for their children. </p>


Support

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I support Governor Youngkin’s revisions to the “Transgender Model Policies”.

may God protect him and all our kids, teachers that teach and respect God’s creation.


Support!!

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You don’t have to sacrifice one groups safety for another. And parents need to know what’s going on! Fully support!


Restore Parents' Rights in Education!

Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,

Over the past two years, schools across the United States have excluded parents from vital matters regarding the education and wellbeing of their children.

Former Governor Ralph Northam's 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia's Public Schools did just that. Those policies said: "There are no regulations requiring school staff to notify a parent or guardian of a student's request to affirm their gender identity, and school staff should work with students to help them share the information with their family when they are ready to do so."

But your new Model Policies On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools return to parents the right to direct their children's upbringing.

Thank you for supporting parents and parental rights in education. It's vital that you move forward with these policies and restore parents' rights to direct the education and upbringing of their children.

Regards,
Gary Potkay
2937 Espana Ct
Fairfax, VA 22031

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Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,<br /><br />Over the past two years, schools across the United States have excluded parents from vital matters regarding the education and wellbeing of their children.<br /><br />Former Governor Ralph Northam's 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia's Public Schools did just that. Those policies said: "There are no regulations requiring school staff to notify a parent or guardian of a student's request to affirm their gender identity, and school staff should work with students to help them share the information with their family when they are ready to do so." <br /><br />But your new Model Policies On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools return to parents the right to direct their children's upbringing. <br /><br />Thank you for supporting parents and parental rights in education. It's vital that you move forward with these policies and restore parents' rights to direct the education and upbringing of their children.<br /><br />Regards,
<br />Gary Potkay
<br />2937 Espana Ct<br />Fairfax, VA 22031<br /><img src="http://admin.phone2action.com/email/open/leg/657466/148571371" width="1" height="1" />


From a parent who cares

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<p>"I respectfully submit comment in opposition to the proposed 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools (the “2022 Model Policies”). These policies are not only in direct violation of state and federal law, but they also deny the rights of students, parents, and school personnel to recognize the inherent dignity and worth of every child. All children have the right to learn in a safe and supportive environment that respects their humanity and upholds their dignity. However, the 2022 Model Policies send a dangerous message that some students do not belong, and in fact, should not exist. Discovering oneself is an important part of growing up, and every child deserves to have support and guidance as they learn about themselves, their family and friends, and their place in the world. Studies have consistently shown that policies like those proposed result in more frequent and escalating harassment, discrimination, and physical violence toward trans and nonbinary students. These policies also lead to significantly higher rates of depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts relative to cisgender students. The consistent misgendering of a student has a profoundly negative impact on their ability to learn in the classroom. Contrary to what is recommended in the proposed model policies, consistent use of a student’s affirmed name can reduce suicidal behavior and suicidal ideation. Furthermore, denying trans and nonbinary students from using facilities that match their gender identity increases the prevalence of sexual assault victimization. The evidence is clear – students will experience higher rates of sexual assault, peer victimization, and suicide if policies like these are adopted in Virginia. I recognize that sexual and domestic violence is linked to other forms of harm and that supporting equality and respect for ALL people, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, is integral to creating a Virginia free from sexual and domestic violence. The 2022 Model Policies will significantly and irreparably harm Virginia’s students and families and as antiviolence advocates; I firmly oppose their adoption."</p>


Strongly Support

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It is the parent who gave life to their children and not the government.  It is time to restore the rights of the ones who love their children .


Restore Parents' Rights in Education!

Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,

Policies for transgender students implemented in states and school districts across the United States have sought to exclude parents from vital conversations about their child's education and wellbeing.

Former Governor Ralph Northam's administration chipped away at the rights of Virginia parents with its 2021 model policies for transgender students. Those policies explicitly stated that school officials were not always required to tell parents about their child's decision to use a new name and pronouns at school.

I'm writing in support of the Youngkin administration's new model policies, "On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents In Virginia's Public Schools," which enshrine the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their child while respecting all students across the Commonwealth.

Thank you for your commitment to parents' rights in education. I urge you to implement the policies as written and restore the right and responsibility of parents to make the best decisions for their child.

Regards,
Hyunjoo Reed
1008 Frederick St SW
Vienna, VA 22180

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Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,<br /><br />Policies for transgender students implemented in states and school districts across the United States have sought to exclude parents from vital conversations about their child's education and wellbeing. <br /><br />Former Governor Ralph Northam's administration chipped away at the rights of Virginia parents with its 2021 model policies for transgender students. Those policies explicitly stated that school officials were not always required to tell parents about their child's decision to use a new name and pronouns at school. <br /><br />I'm writing in support of the Youngkin administration's new model policies, "On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents In Virginia's Public Schools," which enshrine the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their child while respecting all students across the Commonwealth. <br /><br />Thank you for your commitment to parents' rights in education. I urge you to implement the policies as written and restore the right and responsibility of parents to make the best decisions for their child.<br /><br />Regards,
<br />Hyunjoo Reed
<br />1008 Frederick St SW<br />Vienna, VA 22180<br /><img src="http://admin.phone2action.com/email/open/leg/657466/148564914" width="1" height="1" />


Wholeheartedly support 2022 model policies

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Pass the model policies as written to protect children and to acknowledge the parents have the right to decide about their children-not the schools


Strongly Oppose

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As an elementary educator, I strongly oppose the proposed model policies. My job as a teacher is to love and respect all students within my classroom and these proposed policies would prevent me from doing my job. Regardless of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc., ALL children deserve the chance to be themselves. ALL children deserve the opportunities to be happy. ALL children deserve the right to live. The topic of trans rights in the classroom should not be a political issue - it is a human rights issue. Research proves that the SURVIVIAL of trans youth in this country is dependent on the support from the communities in which they live in. 56% of transgender youth have reported suicide attempts and 86% have reported suicidality. These statistics are sobering and speak to the importance of saying no to the proposed model policies.

Source: Austin, A., Craig, S. L., D’Souza, S., & McInroy, L. B. (2022). Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(5–6), NP2696–NP2718. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520915554


Please protect our children from overbearing schools! Thank you for your efforts

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Governor Youngkin, thank you thank you thank you for your efforts at re-prioritizing parents’ rights over their child’s upbringing! And thank you for providing an out for the school systems across the state who are already pushing strong sexual ideologies on children. I live in Montgomery County, and the new renovations to a local high school will include completely genderless bathrooms and locker rooms unless the school board changes its mind. Thank you for providing this revised model policy to help us in Montgomery County provide back-up to protect the innocence of our children. Thank you for prohibiting biological boys or men from participating in girls or women’s sports within schools.
Please take this further and help us remove all sick and perverted sexual ideologies of any kind from being forced upon our children in any manner. We must reclaim our schools and we must protect our children from adult perversion. We must also return to “In God we trust” who created only male and female and stated they were “very good”. We must get back to honoring and glorifying the obviousness of what God created in male and female and remove the perversion and abusive harm to our children by giving credence to anything else.


Oppose -This is a poltical stunt by Youngkin who uses transgender kids’ safety for political gain

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<p>As a white, middle-aged cisgender woman and parent, I oppose this. It is easy for Youngkin to convince parents that they have parental rights in this matter. What parent wouldn’t want rights to know how their child identifies. However, we cannot just think of ourselves and our own children. We must think about everyones children. Some transgender children do not have parents that support them. Some transgender children only have a safe place to be themselves at school. They might be abused or disowned if they are out with their parents and as such needs the school to keep them safe. Please oppose this measure and protect kids who are just trying to be themselves. The more we protect and empower the most vulnerable in our community, the more we can all be accepted. </p>


No Brainer Policy

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Education & in particular young education should be about math, science, reading, writing, & history. That is all! Not indoctrination by a bunch of groomers that believe they know better than parents because they were indoctrinated by colleges to believe so. Every child who brushes their teeth and combs their hair & dresses a certain way does so because their parents taught them to. So what do we think will happen when nefarious groomers inject sexuality into our kids for 6-8 hours a day? Follow the science- biological science- at school & let parents handle their child’s cultural development!


Restore Parents' Rights in Education!

Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,

Over the past two years, schools across the United States have excluded parents from vital matters regarding the education and wellbeing of their children.

Former Governor Ralph Northam's 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia's Public Schools did just that. Those policies said: "There are no regulations requiring school staff to notify a parent or guardian of a student's request to affirm their gender identity, and school staff should work with students to help them share the information with their family when they are ready to do so."

But your new Model Policies On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools return to parents the right to direct their children's upbringing.

Thank you for supporting parents and parental rights in education. It's vital that you move forward with these policies and restore parents' rights to direct the education and upbringing of their children.

Regards,
Irene Terrill
225 Muse Dr
Winchester, VA 22603

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Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,<br /><br />Over the past two years, schools across the United States have excluded parents from vital matters regarding the education and wellbeing of their children.<br /><br />Former Governor Ralph Northam's 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia's Public Schools did just that. Those policies said: "There are no regulations requiring school staff to notify a parent or guardian of a student's request to affirm their gender identity, and school staff should work with students to help them share the information with their family when they are ready to do so." <br /><br />But your new Model Policies On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools return to parents the right to direct their children's upbringing. <br /><br />Thank you for supporting parents and parental rights in education. It's vital that you move forward with these policies and restore parents' rights to direct the education and upbringing of their children.<br /><br />Regards,
<br />Irene Terrill
<br />225 Muse Dr<br />Winchester, VA 22603<br /><img src="http://admin.phone2action.com/email/open/leg/657466/148563516" width="1" height="1" />


Oppose. This will increase self-harm & suicide rate

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This policy goes against best practices for supporting transgender and non-binary youth. Policies which affirm transgender and non-binary students decrease suicidal ideation and mental health crises. Policies like this, that deny transgender and non-binary students' experiences and rights increase suicidal ideation and self-harm. I've been a Virginia School Counselor for ten years and have worked with a number of students who are transgender, non-binary, gender fluid, agender, or who are questioning their gender. Every student had a history of self-harm and suicidal ideation, many had been hospitalized prior to enrolling in our alternative school. Once the student experienced gender support with us, whether it was support by using their pronouns and names or support by reassuring their acceptance, their self-harm and suicidal ideation decreased. Research shows that just by using a student's pronouns and name, suicidal ideation and planning decrease by about 60%. If we can decrease someone's suicidal thoughts and feelings by 60% just by saying a different name, that's a really easy way to save lives. These are our highest need, most at-risk students, both for mental health crises and for violence against them. Would you rather call someone by a different name or watch them hate themself, possibly to the extent that they try to kill themself? Those really are the stakes here. Call Kayla, "Kyle" because it's how they feel, or visit Kayla in a mental health facility, or worse, attend Kayla's funeral.

Based on this policy as it's written, requiring teachers and counselors to deadname students and out students to guardians, restricting students from playing sports on teams they feel more a part of, requiring students to use bathrooms that make them feel uncomfortable and vulnerable, I'm inclined to think Governor Youngkin wants transgender, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, and gender questioning individuals to kill themselves so there will be fewer people that will vote against discriminatory policies like this one.

True stories follow.

One student I worked with transferred in after years of treatment at residential facilities. Their pronouns are They/Them and their name is different from their birth certificate. They had a long history of self-harm, substance abuse, and suicide attempts. They relapsed with self-harm several times, typically following arguments with their parents about their transgender identity. When they turned 18, they were able to change their name in our school's system, which meant their birth name no longer appeared on the computer when they signed in and their diploma would be in their name. The change we saw was remarkable. They reported less depression, less suicidal ideation, and fewer urges to relapse into self-harm or substance abuse. They started planning for their future for the first time in their life and I'm happy to share that they are currently thriving in college.

Another student I worked with had a long history of years of treatment in and out of mental health facilities for self-harm and suicidal ideation. Once her parents supported her decision to go solely by her nickname, wear a binder, and date girls, her self-harm stopped and she started doing much better in school. She graduated a full year early and is currently living with her girlfriend and working full-time to save money for school.

Another student I worked with had a history of school interruption due to mental health crises. She would bring a bag of clothes and makeup to school every day and get ready in the school bathroom so she could be herself during the day. She then changed back into boys' clothes and washed off her makeup at the end of every day before she got on the bus, so her parents wouldn't know. She was afraid they would kick her out. When she turned 18, she changed her name in our system and came out to her parents. They immediately kicked her out and she had to move in with her sibling, requiring her to transfer schools her senior year. Since we are a school set up to help students catch up when they fall behind and she was still behind when she had to transfer out, I don't know if she graduated on-time, or at all.

Another student I worked with struggled with depression and making social connections. She painted her nails and when people noticed, she would claim her little sister had painted them. She had numerous mental health crises related to her suicidal ideation and planning. When she found a safe space in our school's LGBTQIA+ support group, her suicidal ideation decreased and she didn't need as much support during the school day. She became an honor student and was able to successfully transition back to traditional education. She also no longer hides the fact that she paints her nails.


Support. There is no dignity in sexualizing children. No respect for groomers.

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<p>More and more children are being victim of this ideology. It has to be stopped NOW. What kind of world are we living that a group of people’s lives depend on sneaking behind parents  to indoctrinate children? What kind of world write books of porn, sex, masturbation, genitalia designed specially for children ? This is crazy! And Not okay! </p>


We dont want boys in girls bathrooms in the city either-School board will be ousted if they fight it

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The school thinks they represent the parents in the city? They talk like they are against this legislation? Have they talked to us parents? I don’t know one parent or family member that supports having boys up in our girls bathrooms. The school board is in for a rude awakening if they be trying to fight this.


SUPPORT THIS policy , please make more to protect our children from sick ideologies

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<p>Protect women and girls from Virginia. Protect children from this ideological cult that are terrorizing everyone with their ever changing identity and pronouns, wasting our time, wasting our children’s time, who go to school for academics not learning how to be gay or masturbate. Enough is enough with this mental disorder destroying our educational system in every single level. Let them live their lives as they wish but don’t drag us all with you. </p>


Support

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<p>Protect Parental Rights and put groomers in jail. </p>


PARENTS RIGHTS FULLY SUPPORT. NO respect to Anyone sneaking behind parents to groom kids

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<p>This woke and trans agenda has been extremely sneaky and disrespectful to all of parents and children. There is no place for this cult in our schools. Protect parents rights! Protect our children from pedophiles and groomers. Protect all children from sexual exposure and exploration. These groomers need jail time, not respect! </p>


PARENTAL RIGHTS

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<p>This comment applies to every board in the whole United States of Americal. Parents not the schools nor the government have the sole God given right to make decisions concerning the well being of their child. This is a right that needs to be protected and fought for. There should never be any violation of parents rights. This is America. Parents rights have always been respected. Speak up parents and do not let this right go unchallenged for one minute. Growing up I was taught that in Communist countries the government dictated what was good for the children of their country. Their schools decided what they wanted the children to believe and the children were indoctrinated from little on to think as the government decided was best for the country. Here we have family values which differ depending on the culture families bring with them from the old country. Live and let live. Each family lives the way they want always respecting the differences they see in others. The government must NEVER be permitted to brain wash our children. My message is: Don't let the government erode parent's rights not even in little ways anywhere in the USA. </p>


Absolutely treat ALL with dignity and respect

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Treating all with dignit7y and respect includes my children who don't want a confused boy in a skirt competing for the same scholarships, showering in the same locker rooms, etc.  What about my kid and HER right to DIGNITY and RESPECT?   Wow you peopel are crazy on here.


When my kid is raped by a boy in a dress, get ready to be decimated. I SUPPORT

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If a child is raped by a trans kid you better believe the courts will hear about it.  Those who support keeping parents in the dark, check out what happened in Fairfax County.  REPEATED RAPES b/c you wanted to keep things a secret from parents.  Those girls' trauma is ON YOU.  no one else.  You want to scream support for the trans, well look around at the kids who are abusing the system 0 or the kids that are truly mentally ill - and abusing other innocent kids .  Their blood, their abuse is on you.  all of it, on you.


Oppose - Treat All Individuals with Dignity

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<p>I strongly oppose any policy that sends the message that a person should be ashamed of who they are in their gender identity, race, or religion. This policy does exactly that. America’s children are suffering enough. Our goal should be to support every child in who they are and not stigmatize any child for who they are. History will view policies such as this proposal as in line with school segregation policies. </p>


I Support Governor Youngkin’s 2022 Model Policies

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I have read this document fully, and support Governor Youngkin’s model policies for the well being of ALL students. This document protects the rights of all, including parents, teachers, and school staff. Thank you Governor Youngkin!


Those who oppose are misguided.  Support!  for all the children to be safe

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Support this for all children to be safe.  FOr all parents to be informed.  Where parents  don't support their trans kid there is PLENT OF COUNTY, TAXPAYER FUNDED support.  More people are screaming for these trans rights than there are trans kids.  So leave the rest of us alone.


Support Gov. Youngkin's Policy

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Everyone knows, whether they will acknowledge it publicly or not, that gender is a matter of biology.  Even our newest Supreme Court Associate Justice--who is liberal and supports the transgender movement--unintentionally admitted that truth when she was asked to define what a "woman" is, and her response was that she couldn't because she wasn't a biologist.  No matter how many hormones a person may take or how many surgeries they may have to add or remove healthy body parts, someone can never change their DNA or their chromosomes, and XX will always be female, and XY will always be male.  Nature itself supports the concept of only two genders, because it takes--and will always take--a sperm cell from a biological male and an egg cell from a biological female to produce a baby.  And when we allow biological males to use bathrooms with biological females, we are asking for trouble, as has already happened in Virginia public schools, and will undoubtedly happen again if Gov. Youngkin's policy does not go into effect.


School boards that vote against DOE policy will be held personally responsible.

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When trans a child commits suicide under your staffs supervision you will be held liable. When you keep parents out of your loop when parents could have sought mental health care and something happens to them you will be sued. Make no mistake about it.


support

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I support any policy that lets me be the dad I want to be.  I support any policy that doesn't keep secrets from parents.  it may be information we don't want to hear, it may be information we disagree with.  But it is our right to RECEIVE that information and entitled, wealthy Northern VA parents have no right to take it from me.  I work hard to feed my family and put food on the table, keep the heat on.  I am faithful to my wife and I tri to understand what is happening with each kid.  Where I can't understand I vow to love them no matter what.  So don't take my rights away.  let me be the dad I want to be.


Bless you Governor! Support Parental Rights!

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<p>I strongly support transparency in all matters between the school and parents! Hiding nothing from parents is what is right. If one in the school is doing nothing wrong, there is nothing to hide. You assume ill will on the part of the parent, when/if there is disagreement on this topic. Disagreement is not equivalent to hate or abuse. Those are verbal offense tactics that have sadly made people stay quiet. That is bullying. Disagreement is a hallmark of the childhood years. It’s only after they become adults and have kids that they actually start to have the light bulbs go off. </p>


Support

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Thank you for not being silent/not letting silence be legal about what happens to my child during school hours.