sure, let's talk about "your reps" liking kids. enjoy. anyways oppose the policy, protect trans kids

Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html
Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/
Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/
Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_GiordanoRepublican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.http://archive.easyreadernews.com/archives/news2001/0621/rb%20Shortridge.php
Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.htmlRepublican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.d7ebcbf4f92b
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=43Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
https://www.westword.com/news/randy-ankeney-suit-that-could-free-thousands-of-prisoners-headed-to-state-supreme-court-6054115
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step d
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.htmlRepublican congressman and anti-ga

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Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html

Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/

Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/

Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giordano
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
http://archive.easyreadernews.com/archives/news2001/0621/rb%20Shortridge.php

Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.d7ebcbf4f92b

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=43

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.

https://www.westword.com/news/randy-ankeney-suit-that-could-free-thousands-of-prisoners-headed-to-state-supreme-court-6054115

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step d

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html
Republican congressman and anti-ga


Support Kyra is a Williamsburg hack

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<p> Support the bill  </p>


100% Oppose

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<p>Schools should be safe places for kids with support from teachers. This policy is isolating vulnerable kids, placing their lives at risk. </p>


Support 100%

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<p> This is a mental illness. Somehow needs to be addressed parents need to step up.  </p>


Support! How could anyone do otherwise?

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<p> I can’t believe anyone is against this! Have Americans lost their minds?  </p>


Strongly oppose this dangerous policy

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I am a teacher and I believe Youngkin is creating divisive policies that do absolutely nothing to help our kids.  Oppose this discriminatory plan!


Strongly opposed. All children deserve respect and support.

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This policy would make life harder for so many students. It is unethical, unkind, unfair, and un-Christian. It works against the kind of environment we want and need for our children.


I support this

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<p>I very much support this. </p>


Fully support! CHILDREN need their parents.

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<p> This is not about adults</p>


Guidance Document


Against this policy

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<p>This policy does not support students it does not support parents rights. All this will do is increase mental health issues and suicide attempts within our youth. This is an attack on trans and non-binary students. This is an attempt to keep trans and non-binary students out of sports and just keep them feeling like they cannot be themselves. These kind of policies are making parents pull their kids from public schools all together. My oldest has just started kindergarten but if Virginia wants to continue with these kinds of policies I will pull her and homeschool my children until they are done with school all together instead of subject them to this kind of bigotry. </p>
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Fully support

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<p> I fully support this policy. I’ve taught for 10 years in Northern Virginia</p>


STRONGLY SUPPORT!!!

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<p>trans rights are human rights </p>


Without parental consent, it's grooming.

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They don't have kids, they have yours....


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I am Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque NM. I oppose this policy


To Parents who Support this hate: Your children will hate you

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Anyone who supports this bill that themselves has a trans kid is just going to ruin their kids life. You're not going to belligerently convince them to not be trans, you're just going to ruin any potential relationship you'll ever have with them. They're going to cut ties with you the second they turn 18. This policy will do nothing but destroy families and kill kids.


Oppose- You live in fear of what’s different and these kids WILL a change the world!!


I fully support this bill !!

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The ignorance is deafening

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As a parent and an educator, I was under the impressions that it is the purpose of the public school system to provide a safe environment where all students can learn.  That includes LGBTQ+ students, and yet we are turning a blind eye to their safety.  LGBTQ+ students who report high levels of parental rejection are eight times more likely to attempts suicide and six time more likely to report high levels of depression (Ryan et al., 2009).  A 2021 peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of  Community Psychology found that greater experiences of minority stress experiences are associated with increased odds of attempting suicide. LGBTQ youth who reported experiencing four types of minority stress — LGBTQ-based physical harm, discrimination, housing instability, and change attempts by parents — were 12 times at greater odds of attempting suicide compared to youth who experienced none.  Just because a parent cannot accept a child's reality is no reason to abandon that child to misunderstanding, depression, and feeling unloved.   Schools can make the difference.

Even is you are too unaware or unwilling to stand up for the rights of LGBTQ+ students, at least be self aware enough to see the direction we are heading.  Realize that unless you are a white, male, American to fits into a perfect cis-gender box, you are being eliminated from the narrative.  If you fail to stand up for those who need you, there will be no one left to stand when they come for you, and they are coming.


I strongly support this legislation


Gender freedom is not for kids

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Children should not be pushed with gender freedom.  Just like we don't give children guns or alcohol or drugs, gender choices are not a child's decision.  Parents are to guide them in a loving, nuturing home, and schools should too.  Schools are an extension of the home, not a way to brain wash the kids.  I support this model policy!  Please continue to support the family and kids of VA.


You cannot erase trans kids

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Trans kids will always exist. This legislation is not going to change that, but it will create an unsafe environment for them. Trans kids need support, validation, and to be confident in who they are. They need safe restroom access and safe people to confide in. This proposal actively puts trans youth in harm’s way.


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IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY GROOMERS HAVE POKED THEIR LIL HEADS UP OVER PARENTAL RIGHTS.


Oppose those dehumanizing policy

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<p>This proposed policy dehumanizes trans kids and increases the likelihood they will experience violence. The suicide rate among trans kids is astronomical, but evidence shows that once they receive gender-affirming care, their suicide rate plummets. We know that trans kids need our support, and sometimes the only people they feel safe speaking to about what they are experiencing are teachers and school staff. This policy is abhorrent and will directly harm children. </p>


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The proposed 2022 model policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids. All kids deserve to be fully supported, respected, and safe in their schools. As a parent, I strongly oppose these transphobic policies.


Support Kyra is a Williamsburg hack

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<p> Support the bill  </p>


i can't believe ANTI-MOLESTO CONTESTO identifies as a MAP. ewwww. oppose this policy

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protect trans youth. make transphobes mad


It's not the schools responsibility to affirm a mental disorder.

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<p>Schools exist to teach reading, writing, arithmetic and science. Not to affirm mental disorders in kids whether real or perceived. Teach the subjects above and send the kids home after it's done. Schools need to stay in their lane on this subject. </p>


I strongly support


Support saving our children


I support parents rights

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<p> I fully support the proposed policy which restores parents rights to guide their children’s moral values and remain fully informed of any changes that involve their children. Thank you for not allowing a very vocal - and radical - minority to force their views upon all of us.  </p>


So, you are a groomer and you don’t love your kid for who they are.


Trans rights are Human rights.

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If this policy were to be put in place, trans students would not be safe. For many, including me, they are not out to there own family. How will they get permission to be called by their preferred name if their own parents do not support them? Many do not realize how much things such as this harm trans-youth’s mental health. This pains me to see that someone, like me, might not be able to live their own life without the consent of their parents. If a child were to say that they were using a different name because it is a nickname, things would be so different. At the end of the day, this boils down to transphobia.


Strongly support

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<p> Let parents to parent their children! Teachers should stick to academics  </p>


Making a parental rights argument is admitting you are an abuser - Strongly Oppose This

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<p>This policy protects sexually , mentally and physically abusive parents.  Guess what, you don’t have anything to worry about if you aren’t abusive to your kid.  If you are loving and welcoming then they won’t need to “hide” things from you.  </p>


Oppose - these regulations are offensive and harmful.

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<p>Governors are supposed to represent ALL Virginians. These new regulations deny the basic humanity of your own constituents. Repeal these hateful rules and support trans rights. For ALL Virginians. </p>


typo in the chat for ANTI-MOLESTO CONTESTO lol. anyways, oppose the policy

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<p>imagine thinking that supporting trans kids is grooming. couldn't be me. oppose the policy. protect trans youth </p>


Support


Strongly Support

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<p> Strongly Support this.  </p>


People who support this have children who hate them - OPPOSE

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<p>start actually loving your children as they are and not what you attend to force on them after binge watching fox news </p>


Oppose this policy

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I absolutely oppose this policy!  Trans kids are people just like you.  They deserve equal rights and respect!  You have no right to tell someone they don’t matter!  By passing this law you are intentionally causing people mental anguish and that could cause them to consider or attempt suicide.  Please do NOT pass this policy!!


I completely support.


Trans identities won’t be erased!


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Research "MAP's"

Minor attracted persons.

You would be suprisde at how many of your reps support it.


100% agree

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This is a good start but so much more needs to be done to stop the communists infiltrating our schools??


I absolutely SUPPORT and agree with this policy

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Right Wing Bots Shouldn't Help Kill Kids

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Many of the "support" comments are clearly from bots spamming the same thing over and over. This law will kill children, people on the internet with a comment bot shouldn't get to decide if kids live or die.


Kids have the same rights as YOU

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Trans kids need support NOT HATE. THEY DO NOT NEED TO BE TOLD HOW THEY ARE ALLOWED TO LIVE!!!! This policy is only going to support the rise in suicide among trans kids. Trans kids struggle enough as it is without being told our whole identity is invalid. I had barely any support when I was in Virginia public schools and attempted to take my own life many times because of it. I’m not the only one either. I had friends who did the exact same thing. If you support this policy, your kids may be next!!! YOUR KIDS MAY BE THE NEXT SUICIDE!! YOUR KIDS need support! If this policy passes it does not give parents more rights it simply strips the little rights that trans children have. It strips away the last bit of hope we are hanging onto when we don’t have a supportive household. It strips away the last prevention of suicide amongst trans kids. If you support this bill and pass it THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS! YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE REASON FOR COUNTLESS DEATHS! YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE REASON YOUR CHILD TAKES THEIR OWN LIFE. YOUR FAULT NOT THEIRS, NOT THE TEACHERS, NOT THEIR FRIENDS, YOU AND ONLY YOU!


I Agree and support our Governor

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This law is disgustingly disrespectful of the rights of the trans community. Oppose!

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This law is disgustingly disrespectful of the rights of the trans community. Forcing trans kids to come out to potentially dangerous environments and a clear political statement of anti-trans actions, it’s terrible. Trans rights are human rights! Stop the dangerous dehumanization.


Fully support

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Activists are probably going to try to manipulate a student to kill himself, as a sacrifice to ideol

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ogy. They will stop at nothing to promote Left-Wing Woke agenda. They do not even care about the young people they pretend to care about. I Hope this DOES NOT happen, but they don't care if it creates bad press for conservatives.

No Honor Among Thieves (and T.G. activists).


Would Vote Against If This Were A Democracy

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<p>People will look back on this document the way people look back on civil rights documents 50 years ago.  99% of the time you are going to be on the wrong side of things when you are saying we should discriminate against people.  To have a statement like if they have a persistent and sincere belief that his or her gender differs with his or her sex is so condescending.  Imagine having to prove a sincere belief about who you are whatever that characteristic may be that is defining to your self.  You are saying somebody else decides who these people are and whether they are sincere about who they are.  I really cannot put into words how ridiculous that statement is and I am embarassed to be a Virginian for the first time in my life based on the text of this document.  </p>


FULLY SUPPORT

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<p> Crazy we are even debating the fundamental rights of parents to raise and love their kids. Neither federal</p>


Support the bill - Support parental rights

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<p>I support a parents right to be involved with their child and not have a school district or other bureaucrat be involved a life altering decision without their knowledge or consent.   </p>


trans rights


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Support this! My children shouldn't be groomed. Thank you


parents who support this probably have kids who need therapy because of them. oppose the policy

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protect trans kids. especially protect them against crappy parents


100% SUPPORT the proposed transgender school policy changes

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<p> I fully support the governor's proposed transgender policy changes in our public schools.  </p>


Opposed fully


Oppose. Trans rights are human rights.

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Gay professor here. The kids are our future. If they have abusive parents that dont understand or closed minded or hate anything relating to the lgbt community they may only have mentors and teachers that can look to for help. Youngkin is only using this as a political chess piece and the students and schools as pawns in a political game to score points with the fascists he cavorts and pals around with just as he made up CRT into a thing. Btw CRT is only taught in a few select law schools. That is it. As an independent ive seen the far right fascists destroy our educational system since the day i was born. The results are now we have a whole population of closed minded, suspicious, myopic people who get riled up about issues that never needed to be issues. 80% of Americans read on a 6th grade level at best and thus are easily duped and suckered by political propaganda since they havent got a clue. We have learned a great deal about sexuality and sexual identity over the last 55 years and we now know that there are more gray areas on the scale than previously thought. What we have here in america is a class war being pitted against the haves and have nots and this is just a convienient political distraction. I stand with anyone who is transgender. Trans rights are human rights.


Strongly Support Governor Youngkin’s Transgender School Policy

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<p> I strongly support this policy as it protects parental rights and protects sports programs for girls. Thank you</p>


Oppose creepy and hateful Youngkin policy

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Youngkin wants to embarrass and humiliate trans students.  He also seems okay with endangering their lives if they are subject to abuse at home or school.  The solution seems simple to me:  just use the facility that matches whatever your new sex is.  Regarding sports, consider compromises that don't make life miserable for transgender people.


Oppose


Without parental consent, it's grooming.

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They know, that we know, that they know it's groming.


Fully support the proposed policy

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<p> A civilized societycannot survive without guiding principles that remain timeless. Parents have the right to remain fully aware</p>


I support this regulation.

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Parential rights should not be circumvented by the state, and a parent should be kept informed of their child's status.  As long as we hold parents responsible for their childrens' actions, there is no other sane way to conduct business.

If a parent subsequently abuses their responsibility, they can be handled by the legal system.


Strongly support changes!

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<p> I don't want my grandchild to have any upbringing or influence which is against nature and God!  </p>


Vehemently Oppose these harmful policies!!!

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As someone who transitioned during high school, there are so many more nuances to the process than onlookers have any knowledge of. These policies are completely dehumanizing and targeting an already marginalized population of MINORS. While parents fear for the inability to control their child's every move, their child is suffering and trying their hardest to just be their authentic selves. Stop the hate toward transgender individuals. It is reprehensible for the Governor of this great Commonwealth to attempt to police people on the basis of hate.

I hope all of the parents who have hindered their child's growth and identity are happy when their children grow up wanting nothing to do with them.


New legislation

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This new legislation is extremely detrimental to the mental and physical health of transgender students in Virginia. This legislation is restrictive of personal privacy and freedom of expression.


Anti-Molesto Contesto says  grooming is OK as long as parents consent. gross. anyways, oppose

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protect trans kids from creeps like them. make transphobes mad


Educator who supports this policy

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<p> Parents should always be informed when something involves their child… always  </p>


Support

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I have just downloaded, printed and read the policy. I wholeheartedly support this policy and look forward to seeing it implemented as soon as possible, even though it is too late for me. As a result of seeing what was passing for education over the 18 months my daughter sat with her 12 and 15 year old children, her family moved out of state the very day after school closed in June 2021. It’s now a 4 hr. trip to see my grandchildren rather than an 8 mile drive.


Absolutely support this

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It is sad that we have to even consider this sensible guidance.  Parents' concerns and rights should trump anything a school board wants to put in place.


I support the 2022 model policies.

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<p> I support the 2022 model policies. Thank you Governor Youngkin!   </p>


Fact- Younkin and DeSantis are groomers.


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See all these people that oppose you having rights as a parent?

Who would actually oppose that???

Groomers.


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<p> I strongly support this - this is common sense  </p>


Support for parental rights

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<p> My support for this new policy primarily based on the fact that schools must not be diminishing or restricting parents’ rights and undermining the parent-child relationship. It’s time we get back to basic school’s role -- teaching Math</p>


Thank you! I fully support!

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<p> This should have been done sooner.  </p>


I support


Support


Fully support the proposed policy


michele how about you support these nuts in your mouth. oppose the policy

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protect trans youth. make transphobes mad


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Don't let them groom your kids while youre at work.


I support this policy-

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<p> I am in support for this policy because it is right in line with Code of Virginia 1-240.1 Rights of Parents: A parent has the fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing</p>


Strongly oppose

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As a mental health practitioner and a licensed teacher in the Commonwealth of Virginia, I am strongly opposed to this proposal. It does not follow best practices for the psychological or physical well-being of our young people established by medical, educational, and psychological experts who have researched this topic for decades. Our young people are at already in the midst of an unprecedented mental health crisis. Nothing about this would lessen that pressure.

Secondly, this policy is incredibly disrespectful to educators. To put education professionals in the role of gatekeeping or policing a child's identity development is impossible not to mention demoralizing for individuals that are already feeling alienated, demoralized and under attack.

Finally, I would respectfully encourage anyone with an opinion on matters related to transfolk to make sure they actually know at least one transperson. Transpeople are just that - people - humans (in this case, kid humans) trying to navigate a complicated world. A little more compassionate respect and a little less judgement feel really in order.


I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH THIS BILL!!!

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I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH THIS !!!!


Support 2022 Model Guidance for Transgender Students

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I fully support the proposed 2022 Guidance Document (Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools).  We need to ensure that parents have a say and are fully informed about their child.  Virginia has long supported parents rights in connection with their children's education, and codified these rights into law.  As such educators need to ensure that these parental rights are not ignored.  We must remember that we are dealing with children whose brains are not yet fully developed (they are not yet adults) and who are very impressionable.  Therefore it is imperative that parents are involved in every aspect of their child's life.  It is a parent that knows what is  best for their child and not a teacher or the government.


Strongly support

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<p> Stop the exploitation of our children  </p>


Strongly Opposed

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<p>This will increase teen suicide rates and is a serious safety risk. We should focus on keeping our kids safe instead of upholding outdated values </p>


I support this change.

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<p> Schools should stay out of gender identity and sexual preferences. They should be respectful of all students while sticking to providing education. Parents should provide legal documentation of name and/or gender change to require school staff or students to address a student by biological/legal name/pronouns. No biological male should be allowed to compete in female sports or enter bathrooms/locker rooms; vice versa for females participating in male sport or enter bathrooms. I certainly don't want schools teaching gender/transgender topics or casually discussing with students. Teachers are not there to be a friend . Students don't need to know what staff do on weekends or in relationships. It's called boundaries. In the end</p>


I very much OPPOSE!


Strongly Support Protecting Straight Students Too

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As a recently retired teacher, it is clear to me that this change in policy is essential to protect ALL students’ right to privacy. Thank you, Governor Youngkin.


Completely support this policy

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<p> I completely support this policy. Thank you for restoring parental rights  </p>


I support these policy changes.

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These changes do not go far enough but it is a start. Thank you.


Strongly oppose

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This is a direct attack on trans kids by a grown man


Strongly Support

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<p> I strongly support the involvement of parents with their children’s choices  </p>


This is a bad policy

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<p>It is stupid and transphobic </p>


I oppose these policies

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I am writing from Charlottesville, VA to oppose these model policies. If implemented, they would severely harm transgender students.

These policies do not protect parental rights - forcing counselors and teachers to out students to their parents has only the effect of causing harm and stress to students, not increasing the agency of parents over their children. In fact, these policies are likely to endanger students with unsupportive parents, and encourage bullying from teachers and peers.

The model policies will create direct harm to transgender students and violate their privacy and liberties. Forcing kids to use names, pronouns, and facilities which do not reflect who they are causes long term negative effects, and studies show that transgender students who are not able to safely express themselves at school are at much higher risk for depression and suicide.

Overall, these policies are set to create immense harm to an already vulnerable group of students. I oppose these measures wholeheartedly, and believe they should not be implemented.


Transgender policies in VA  public schools

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Disagree with the governor’s proposal. Transgender youth need support and acceptance.


This policy is bad

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These policies are very harmful to people who are most need of help and I don't think it will be beneficial but only harmful so I don't think we should implement it.


Turn off Fox News you low lives! Oppose!


Strongly oppose


I Agree and support our Governor

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<p> I Agree and support our Governor</p>


Youngkin's new policies

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How does this make sense to anyone? What does this accomplish other than discrimination? Strongly opposed.


I STRONGLY OPPOSE-  this


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED

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You have no right to put this bill forward and to treat these kids so cruelly. If you have anything close to a heart in your chest, oppose this bill!


I support the 2022 model policies.

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<p> I support the 2022 model policies. Thank you Governor Youngkin!   </p>


shoutout to Dr. Alan L. Hart for speaking the truth. oppose this policy


I completely support this

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I completely support this bill


Support

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<p> Let’s get back to STEM. Allow parents to raise their children.  </p>


2022 Model Policies

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I am in AGREEMENT with the new proposed policy guidance.

It is long overdue in giving direction to the schools and also to the parents to

guide each culture in understanding the limits of their responsibilities.


Fully support this Bill

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<p> Great work Gov. Youngkin !  </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE.  THE BILL!!!! Youngkin sucks!!!!!!

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OPPOSED! NOT GONNA HAPPEN YOUNGKIN


This is very very bad

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I’m in charlottesville and I think that trans people don’t need politics to decide their gender, that’s why they’re trans. I’m against this proposition.


I Oppose this Policy

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 I am writing from Charlottesville, VA to oppose these model policies. If implemented, they would severely harm transgender students.

These policies do not protect parental rights - forcing counselors and teachers to out students to their parents has only the effect of causing harm and stress to students, not increasing the agency of parents over their children. In fact, these policies are likely to endanger students with unsupportive parents, and encourage bullying from teachers and peers.

The model policies will create direct harm to transgender students and violate their privacy and liberties. Forcing kids to use names, pronouns, and facilities which do not reflect who they are causes long term negative effects, and studies show that transgender students who are not able to safely express themselves at school are at much higher risk for depression and suicide.

Overall, these policies are set to create immense harm to an already vulnerable group of students. I oppose these measures wholeheartedly, and believe they should not be implemented.


Support this Proposal to Restore Sanity to Virginia and Protect All Students

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<p> My 13 year old daughter became convinced she was transgender after attending a school presentation. Then the school changed her name and pronouns without our knowledge or permission and treated her like she was actually a boy. Several others in her class believed the same thing</p>


I OPPOSE THIS!

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I oppose this discriminatory and unjust bill!


Protect trans kids ??????

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the fact that this is even being debated and a lot about the world i am about to graduate into shame on anyone that supports this bill


I oppose


I fully support the new policy

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<p> I fully support this policy. Parental rights and input are critical</p>


Support thank you


Lamont Jenkins smells like wet dog and has no idea what they're talking about lol. anyways, oppose

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go wash your crack mate, probably needs a good scrubbing after all the crap you're spouting. support trans youth. oppose this policy


STRONGLY OPPOSE


People who support this are into incest.


This policy is extremely ty strongly opposed


Thank you! I fully support!

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<p> This should have been done sooner.  </p>


this ! I oppose. No means no


I support the bill

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<p>Education is education. Teacher need teach student math science, etc. Teacher should not charge student. Parent should have much more duty and responsiblities for kids. When kids are failed in the future, parents would try to help. The previous teacher would not come to help. That's why parent should have more notification. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this guidance document as it is opposed to Virginia state law and will put our children in danger. Every child in Virginia deserves to feel safe and respected at school, particularly if they are not afforded that same privilege at home. This guidance will enable teachers and administrators to target and discriminate against trans and non-binary students who are simply trying to be themselves and get the education to which they are entitled. This document is hatred, pure and simple. </p>


Oppose - Too many kids kill themselves already

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<p>These policies are a clear attack on trans youth. Already, 56% of trans youth attempt suicide nationally and 86% are suicidal. The best way to reduce this is to make those children feel welcome and accepted; the exact opposite of what the policies entail. Forcing teachers to out their students as trans, non-binary, etc. will only exacerbate this problem. Given how clearly misinformed and prejudicial so many Virginians are towards trans people, many trans students are clearly right to be incredibly fearful of parental reaction to their identity. School represents a both a place for kids to learn and a place to learn who they are and how they fit into the world. This is about so much more than pronouns. I do not and will never support any policy that prioritizes supposed parental rights over the safety and well being of children. This policy WILL kill kids. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>the kids deserve all of our support and this guidance is saying to them “we don’t support you”. Simply incorrect. </p>


Stongly support

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<p> Thank you Gov Youngkin for protecting our daughters. Female students have felt uncomfortable in the locker rooms and using the bathrooms due to the previous policies put in place.  </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>I am a resident of Prince William County and strongly oppose Governor Youngkin’s proposed policies that infringe upon student’s rights to exist as the individuals they are, deny the use of certain pronouns in schools, limit access to sports and bathrooms and limit student privacy and access to resources such as counseling. As a former teacher and current parent I feel strongly that schools are places for students to develop as individuals and should be places for ALL students to feel safe and accepted as they are. This proposal is transphobic, homophobic and incredibly intrusive into the lives of teachers and students. . </p>


parents who support this probably have kids who need therapy because of them. oppose the policy

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imagine not supporting your kid by just accepting who they are. big yikes. protect trans youth.


OPPOSE

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Out of fear for my safety and being retaliated against I am posting this anonymously. I have lived in VA for quite some time and cared for trans and gender-diverse kids and adults. I strongly oppose this proposed policy. This proposed policy will be extremely harmful to children, along with freedom and liberty across the Commonwealth.


No just no

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<p>I’m sorry but this is messed up. Let people be who they want to be. There’s nothing wrong with that and I personally respect people who are able to admit and brave enough to be honest and say if they think they were born in the wrong gender. Trying to police that or diminish that is disgusting. If a trans person feels more comfortable using something other than what society thinks is “correct” or “godly” as some would say then let the trans person do what they are comfortable with . That’s what matters . Not what anyone else thinks and using god as an excuse for your obvious “homophobia” or just plain horribleness as a human is extremely overused and overrated at this point. If you really wanted to follow what god thinks you would realize that every person is made different and uniquely amazing in their own way. Or that god loves all of his children equally and without judgment. Trying to blame mistreatment of people on god or your political beliefs is just a pathetic excuse to try to cover up the truth which is you are just a judgmental jerk.Trans people and honestly everyone deserves so much better than trying to fight past those idiotic opinions. Be who you want to be.the amazing person you are. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise </p>


Know YOUR history: Albert Cashier (1843 – 1915) was a Civil War hero - and a transgender man

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TO YOU WHO ARE SO PROUD OF YOUR AMERICAN HISTORY, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE:

Public Universal Friend, nonbinary American Preacher: 1752 - 1819

Charlie Parkhurst, FTM Frontiersman and Stagecoach driver: 1812 - 1879

Frances Thompson, MTF ex-slave and key witness in Memphis riots: 1840 -1876

Murray Hall, FTM New York Politician: 1841 - 1901

and not to forget the HUNDREDS of Civil War soldiers who were assigned female at birth and died to defend your democracy!

IF YOU are truly an AMERICAN then HONOR YOUR HERITAGE and know that we are part of YOUR history whether you like it or not!!! Ignoring your history is UN-AMERICAN - Jesus said to love everyone, NO EXCEPTIONS! If you are against children being their true selves you are being UNCHRISTIAN


Strongly support this common sense guideline

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<p> Since we already KNOW that at least one child was raped in a school bathroom</p>


Oppose!

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<p>Sorry that trans people make you uncomfortable. Oh wait, no I'm actually not. </p>


I strongly support these policy changes

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<p> I strongly support these policy changes.  </p>


Support

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<p> I support the Governor of VA in his stance on parental rights. Govt was not formed to dictate to parents how they should raise their children</p>


Protect our children from trans activists.

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Thank you Gov. Younkin and VA Legislators for trying to protect kids from predators who encourage genital-mutilation and sterilization.

Indeed, everything in the life of "Trans Activists" centers around their narcissistic & sociopathic obsessions; namely, tearing down normal, decent society & turning it into their own vile, hedonistic fantasyland.


Support: What about the rights of girls abused by males?


Without parental consent, it's grooming.

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It's so obvious they are opposing the parents, and not the bill itself.

They would cut you out if they could.

Thats why they are using the state to try and force this on your children.


Policy on Transgenders

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Appreciate your wisdom on this issue and strongly support your stance.  Thank you for always wanting to do the right thing on the matters that confront you.

DCB


100% SUPPORT

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<p> 100% SUPPORT More parental rights!  </p>


I STRONGLY support this!

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<p> Focus on academics ONLY!!  </p>


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Support!  It's the parents who are responsible for their kids, no one else.


Fully support this and Governor Youngkin

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Our Governor is doing what’s right for everyone whether you agree with it or not and that’s the leadership we ALL need!


Support Youngkin

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<p> I fully support Governor Youngkin. Transgender students NEED the help of their parents. They do not need to be further secretive about their identity crisis. Childten’s brains are not fully developed so why would any responsible adult allow a child to make a change as drastic as trying to switch genders or wanting to dabble in using new pronouns? How does being secretive benefit anyone? Being secretive is what people do when they’re being DECEITFUL. When we are honest</p>


Anti-Molesto Contesto is a groomer

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<p>It sure sounds like you are saying that grooming is OK as long as parents consent.  I bet you are one of those people who consented for your teenage daughter to marry an already married youth pastor.  </p>


Strongly Support

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<p> I strongly support the involvement of parents with their children’s choices  </p>


Oppose

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Children's rights are human rights. Children should feel safe at school to be themselves. Parents, when you were growing up, your parents did not know EVERYTHING you were doing or saying or reading or playing with when you were not at home, and you turned out OK. This heavy policing of other humans' choices (parodied as "parent rights") is just homophobic, anti-trans, backwards, and hateful. That's it. Nothing comes from this except Youngkin gets attention on the national stage.


The "grooming" accusation has a long history that feeds off fear


I support


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There is a reason they hate the term groomer.

What else do you call teaching sexualized content to minors?


oh noooo the groomer is mad i told them to suck my nads. anyways, oppose the policy

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die mad lol. protect trans youth


Hateful and horrible policy

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This entire concept is flawed from the start. Learning can only take place if the student feels that they are safe and respected. A teacher's primary goals are to ensure the safety of their student and ensure that the student learns. If a student is worried about being misgendered and scared of being outside to unsupportive parents, they cannot learn and their education will be forfeit.  In these circumstances, You're also operating under the flog notion that all people who are parents deserve those children. This turn students and teachers against one another also puts undue stress on a teacher's relationship that they have to form with a student in order to maintain the classroom. Part of how schools work is there is a unspoken sense of order in that teachers are listened to and students are supposed to listen. It does not have to be this way. Teachers maintain that order by ensuring that they have a positive relationship with their most of their students. All this does is turn teachers into snitches and target kids for bullying. School has to be a safe place to explore not only learning but also a sense of identity. This generation is attempting to explore their identity through gender. It hurts absolutely no one. You have to operate as though the person who is saying that they are being misgendered or misnamed is the authority on themselves. Anything else is just pure chaos.

All this is is a opportunity to try to put individuals that The governor feels are undesirable back in the closet so he and like-minded people do not have to deal with them anymore. I can assure you that everyone is entitled to an education and to feel safe and protected in an educational environment and if you can't even manage that then you don't deserve to serve the people in any capacity and certainly not in government.


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Strongly oppose this hateful, harmful policy


FULLY SUPPORT - THANK YOU!

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<p> Thank you for supporting and reaffirming parents’ roles in their children’s lives. It is essential that our state recognize and respect the role of parent</p>


OPPOSE

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Y'all are gross. Stop spending so much energy worrying about what is in a child's pants. OPPOSE this harmful policy and respect ALL children!


Support

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<p> It’s parents rights on the line not the school board who only follow the dictates of those who think they know best. Biological you are either male or female. There’s no in between! We are walking a precarious line that borders on rebellion to God Almighty!!!  </p>


people who support this smell like wet cheese. oppose the policy

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and i bet they sexualize teens too. gross. big oppose. protect trans youth


Save the suicide of kids and support this policy


Fully support this Bill

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<p> Great work Gov. Youngkin !  </p>


Without parental consent, it's grooming. Nads or not.

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GROOMING IS NOT TEACHING!


I support this change.

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<p> Schools should stay out of gender identity and sexual preferences. They should be respectful of all students while sticking to providing education. Parents should provide legal documentation of name and/or gender change to require school staff or students to address a student by biological/legal name/pronouns. No biological male should be allowed to compete in female sports or enter bathrooms/locker rooms; vice versa for females participating in male sport or enter bathrooms. I certainly don't want schools teaching gender/transgender topics or casually discussing with students. Teachers are not there to be a friend . Students don't need to know what staff do on weekends or in relationships. It's called boundaries. In the end</p>


Support! Studies show increase in sexual assault when bathrooms aren't sex segregated

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<p> Please check out the scholarly journal article Gender-Inclusion Policies and Sexual Violence: ALongitudinal Analysis of Media Reports at Target Stores to see that sexual assault INCREASED BY 70% when public restrooms allowed people to use them based on their self identified gender. Women and children were victims 99% of the time. Protect women and girls!  </p>


School policy

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Parents should always be involved with their childrens education. The state has no right to take that away from the parents.


Best thing I’ve seen yet! Fully support!! POTUS approved

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<p> Fully support. I need more ice cream  </p>


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You're winning!!!!!

Keep up the fight!


I absolutely SUPPORT and agree with this policy

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<p> As a 'birthing parent'</p>


100% approve the 2022 verbiage

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<p style="text-align: center;">So glad we have a governor that uses common sense and keeps our kids safe.  </p>


Support this policy for open communication

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<p> I fully support this policy! Parents should always be informed when it involves their child and school. Parents should not be shut out when it comes to their children's health and well being  </p>


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Don't be afraid to speak!!!

That's what they want.

Drowning you out with the media, and the threat of a raid by the state.


OPPOSED- Supporters are groomers


Support Our Governor

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<p> Strongly Support  </p>


Grandpa says support please save my grandchildren


I support this!

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<p> This law promotes the dignity and respect of ALL children and recognizes the rights of parents. Fairfax County Public Schools have completely overstepped their bounds in this area.  </p>


This is about the rights of parents

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Any fair reading of the new policy clearly shows that parental rights are at the forefront of this issue.  Children do not belong to the state.  Even if the state, acting through teachers and schools, disagrees with a parent, the state has no right to interfere unless the health or safety of a child is at issue.  Pronouns, bathroom use and sports do not involve health or safety concerns that justify state interference with parental rights.  This new policy is common sense.  How can anyone oppose empowering parents and families ?


the person saying it's grooming can suck my nads. strongly oppose

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probably some old white goon who probably abuses their kids and calls it "discipline." get your head out of your religious echo chamber and actually listen to children. protect trans youth


Support!

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<p> Stop mutilating kids  </p>


The supporters here are based on fear and dehumanizing Trans youth.

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Making decisions based on fear and not actual facts is dangerous to vulnerable populations.


Support - parental rights are important too!

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<p> I fully support this policy because parental rights are important too. Parents have a right to know if their kids are having identity issues.  </p>


Without parental consent, it's grooming.

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Don't let your kids be victims.

Coming from a survivor, it can happen to any of them.

It happens while you are at work.

Look how many teachers are coming out, and getting busted diddling kids lately..

All of them recieving light judgement.

There is a reason it's happening.......


I support this very strongly!!!I

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<p> I believe this is what we need. Makes good common sense. Parents need to be aware of what is being taught to our children.  </p>


Very Strongly Support!!

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<p> Stop the grooming and brainwashing of our children!  </p>


Absolutely oppose. All students should be protected and nurtured in our schools.

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We should be protecting all of our children in schools. This includes transgender students. Schools should be a safe place, a place of inclusion where children can feel accepted and be allowed and encouraged to develop their sense of self. Transgender students already so often are bullied and singled out, often developing mental health issues for simply trying to be who they are. Suicide rates can be high. Too many people are quick to judge, to make assumptions about what is their best interests...without doing the "work" to educate themselves about the issues. I am afraid the Governor promotes this largely as part of his political agenda and aspirations, without understanding the fall out for these students.  This is a huge step backward. The harm to transgender students could be catastrophic. How about the students who already live in abusive households? Where do they turn? How is a teacher to establish a trusting relationship with their students if they must police rather than teach?  Aren't they asked to do enough already? Don't target our children. Schools should support all of their students and respect their preferred gender. If a student is straight, isn't their gender supported and respected? Education should include empathy and compassion and human rights must also apply to the transgender population. Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion.


Very strongly support

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<p> Parents have the right to know what is going on at school with their children.  </p>


Great idea! Support the whole family

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<p> These are the right direction for the commonwealth! Keep supporting families!  </p>


Do not support.

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<p>This is only going to lead to higher suicide rates among trans kids who aren’t accepted by their families. This will take away the one place they can feel like themselves. Good luck. I’m proud of these kids for walking out and they’ll continue to do so. You can sign all the papers you want. </p>


Strongly support this common sense guideline

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<p> Since we already KNOW that at least one child was raped in a school bathroom</p>


Do NOT support. Policies that have 0 to do with furthering education should not even be considered.

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Heavily oppose this bill. These sugar coated anti trans policies do nothing but HARM ALL STUDENTS trans or not. How is this furthering a child education? How is this improving public schools? If your policy has nothing to do with bettering student's education than it should not even be considered. All it does it let bigots get away with harassment and punishment. Kids wanting to go by different names or pronouns HARMS NOBODY. Let people be themselves. </p>


Parent involvement

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Parents are the first and primary teachers.  No student gender discussions without parental involvement.  Let’s get back to reading, writing and arithmetic please.


I strongly support Governor Youngkin's support of parental rights

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<p> Governor Youngkin has shown a great concern for the rights and welfare of all students and their parents. I strongly support these documents.  </p>


Support this bill

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Good afternoon. I know there are individual accommodations for kids wether it is a nickname for example but I don’t understand all these pronoun names. It is confusing for teachers. Same thing with the bathroom. If someone is uncomfortable going to the bathroom in general in front others again make individual accommodations. Not policy for all.
thank you for for looking into this issue.
lauren


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Support the new policy and return to sanity!!!


I support the Dept. of Education's transgender student guidelines

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<p> The Virginia Department of Education will issue guidelines for schools in dealing with transgender students that are common-sense guidelines and will keep students of both sexes safe at school. I believe this to be a fad and not one to destroy every precept just to make one or two students happy. As a mother</p>


I SUPPORT parental rights in our schools.

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I am in agreement with the new proposed policy guidance.


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You are the only thing standing in the way of your kids being completely molested.


Fully support too


Support

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<p> I support anything that allows parents to be fully involved in every aspect of their children’s education.  </p>


Protect our children support this policy

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<p> Stop the abuse by sickos  </p>


Opposition comments are AstroTurfing. I support this policy wholeheartedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing - There is no rabid, or even moderate, support of Trans sophistry. It's a very, very small group of people masking themselves to seem like a legit influence. They have cajoled and bullied our State and Nation because they've made it their life's goal to spread this poison to the youth of America. (Sadly, many people have sat back and let it happen.)This comment platform is under an automated attack. (Bots are leaving the comments.)The Governor's policy follows the VA Constitution. There has never been such a thing as a "right" to hide life-changing procedures/ideology from parents, that scientifically, WILL harm minors throughout their lives. There is no (real) data to suggest that by society accepting this particular form of mental illness, that life will improve with those inflicted with gender dysphoria. Many who played this out, have massive regrets.Childhood is hard enough w/o these kinds of predators in schools and online furthering confusion and disgrace. Nobody loves a child like their own parent. This is obvious."Trans Kids" simply just wait until they are 18 to move out, and live their lives however they wish. Until that point, Parents are responsible, and thusly, should be informed.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing - There is no rabid, or even moderate, support of Trans sophistry. It's a very, very small group of people masking themselves to seem like a legit influence. They have cajoled and bullied our State and Nation because they've made it their life's goal to spread this poison to the youth of America. (Sadly, many people have sat back and let it happen.)

This comment platform is under an automated attack. (Bots are leaving the comments.)

The Governor's policy follows the VA Constitution. There has never been such a thing as a "right" to hide life-changing procedures/ideology from parents, that scientifically, WILL harm minors throughout their lives. There is no (real) data to suggest that by society accepting this particular form of mental illness, that life will improve with those inflicted with gender dysphoria. Many who played this out, have massive regrets.

Childhood is hard enough w/o these kinds of predators in schools and online furthering confusion and disgrace. Nobody loves a child like their own parent. This is obvious.

"Trans Kids" simply just wait until they are 18 to move out, and live their lives however they wish. Until that point, Parents are responsible, and thusly, should be informed.


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Look at all these fine parents coming out in support!

More of you than there are of them.

Their majority is an illusion brought on by the media.


Support

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<p> I support parental rights. I support biology. I support Governor Youngkin. I support common sense. I support a biological female's right to privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms. I support a biological female athlete's right to participate in sports and to compete against other biological females.  </p>


Critical thinking is a basic life skill.

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The proposed changes will result in the abuse and murder of trans children in Virginia. The Virginia Department of Public Health has a responsibility to the people of Virginia to properly educate the public on gender and sexuality. The fact that so many adults in Virginia do not have a basic understanding of Biology, sexuality, or gender is why the abuse and violence that trans children in Virginia suffer is justified and even condoned.
The proposed changes are based on nothing but bigotry, religious violence, and outdated pseudoscientific “facts” like chromosomal gender. The people championing bigotry in Virginia will suffer consequences for eternity. Every child that suffers because of anti-trans legislation will be avenged by their Creator, Who loves them and made them in His image.
This new policy will accomplish nothing more than legislating and condoning violence against children.
It would behoove the Committee to consult licensed therapists who specialize in treating children with gender dysphoria and other relevant needs as to how Psychologically abusive this policy is and the potential it creates for increased violence against vulnerable children.
This is the same calibre of garbage as Germans turning in their neighbors for being Jews or Americans turning in their neighbors for being gay or communist. This is the lowest, most obvious, and undeniable form of violent bigotry, condoned and legislated by the Commonwealth.
The fact that this policy was even proposed is a mark of shame on our entire nation.

Please consider instead:

-consulting certified, licensed educators and clinicians who specialize in teaching facts and awareness about gender identity and human sexuality.

-prosecuting people who abuse trans children by trying to force them to be one gender or the other under the same laws that ban conversion therapy.

-educating the public on the realities of Biology, gender, and sexuality so that people have the facts instead of wild, dangerous ideas that lead to bigotry and violence.

-establishing task forces between licensed therapists, educators, law enforcement, and experts that can plan and respond to crises involving transgender and nonheteronormative children and teens.

-funding and holding to the highest standard more emergency housing resources and counseling for trans kids in crisis.

-contracting educators to work with public school teachers and other Commonwealth employees to ensure that, at least, ignorance is not the source of bigotry toward trans people of all ages.

PROTECT TRANS KIDS. STOP CODDLING BIGOTS AND ABUSERS.


I support this proposal

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<p> Parent’s rights have been ignored and this will place them where they should be. Schools are not responsible for our children and should not have more rights than parents. This proposal does not take away children’s rights.  </p>


A Former FFX Co. student actually stood up at SB mtg. & said he wished he'd been taught anal sex.OMG

A Virginian for Common Sense Policies that actually foster education

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in school when he was attending. This ind. was very disturbed, could barely talk, and described cutting himself. And to think that he thought this speech was forwarding his cause. Who would want their kids to follow that path? OMG!


Excellent policy.  Read it and support it.

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<p> This is an excellent policy</p>


OPPOSE

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<p>I  am against these changes. </p>


Revised Transgender Policy

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Please keep parents involved.


strongly oppose, when will people leave trans kids alone?

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you have no idea how many more trans kids are going to kill themselves if this gets enacted. stop using children as political pieces you sick SOB


I fully support the revised policy

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<p> A review of the guiding principles illustrates the shift in focus to parents rights</p>


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They try to use your religion against you while not knowing one thing about it.

They use the deathsd of children to frighten you.

They use the threat of state powers to silence you.

They use the media to drown out your voices.


protect all students

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I believe that all children in Virginia schools should be protected and respected. It is not the job of the schools to out children to their families, school should be an inclusive and supportive environment. Keeping trans kids from school sports is a horrific situation, how is that verified? Why would the schools ever need to check a child's genitals? How would this be applied? How would you ensure kids who happen to have a physique or looks different from gender norms wouldn't be targeted? In addition, there is little evidence hormone differences create an advantage in sports and the gender binary attached to them is also scientifically false. All the research shows that transgender individuals are not a risk to others while conversely they are at great risk from our society and often their own parents. If a child is a girl despite being assigned a boy at birth, what kind of horrible situations is she set up for if she is forced to use the boys bathroom? If inclusive policies can do anything to lower the suicide risk of trans students than why wouldn't we have them?

And everyone using the term "groomer" for a person who supports trans kids needs to educate themselves because it's going to make them miss the actual people preying on their children.


STRONGLY SUPPORT this policy!

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<p> Thank you Governor for all you do! Couldn’t agree more with the direction you are taking us.  </p>


I Strongly Support and Thank You

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<p> Thank you for fighting for parent's rights. Often times the educational system and educators need to be reminded that they are our employee</p>


Support for Youngkin!

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<p> These are children. Don’t the parents already see how their children are living. Conversations need to happen.  </p>


Fully support

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<p> I fully support parents' rights to know everything going on with their child/children and for the parents to be the sole parties that choose how their children are raised.  </p>


SUPPORT

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<p> Let's get back to teaching academics in Virginia!!!!  </p>


Strongly oppose this policy

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<p>Extremely harmful to youth. </p>


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No updoots here!

No dopamine for the groomers.

Parents rights all the way.


I Fully Support This

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<p> I fully support the model policies you have put in place. Schools have zero right to indoctrinate kids with their woke garbage. They also have zero right to pressure kids to change their identities and take drugs without telling the parents. Thank you for standing up for the rights of parents. These policies are long overdue.  </p>


This Policy is Morally Reprehensible

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This proposed change is evil, likely unlawful, and going to get children killed. It flies in the face of all medical research and established best practices regarding trans youth. It will drastically increase the suicide rate among trans children (which is your intention, no doubt) and expose them to parental abuse, homelessness, and unsafe learning conditions. That, too, is your intention, I suppose.

This policy will not survive legal challenge, it will be expensive to defend, and at the end, all you will have done is drive more trans children to suicide in service to a moral panic that even you will no doubt find yourselves embarrassed by in the future. School is a mandatory environment no child can escape. Using that to directly bully children with the force of law is antithetical to any mission of education. You should be ashamed of yourselves.


Strongly SUPPORT

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<p> This is so commonsensical; no rational</p>


Great Bill! Fully support!

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<p> Thank you for your continued hard work for our children!  </p>


Full Support

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Our family fully supports the proposed changes to the legislation and the forts to provide a safe restroom for our girls.  We believe this legislation will help mitigate the ability of predators to gain access to restrooms for girls.  Thank you for implementing this is a soon as possible!


I fully support this bill !!

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<p> I fully support this bill!  </p>


This is a danger to our youth...I STRONGLY OPPOSE!!!

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School is sometimes the only place a kid can be who they are. Some children cannot talk to their parents about these types of things without retaliation.  This will only end up with our children having more mental illness because they are forced to be what they don't believe they are. Who is the government to tell anyone who they are? This will no doubt cause more teenage suicides as well. We are a diverse nation and we should be left to make our own decisions and not have government what we can or cannot be called. These trans/non-binary kids will only be hurt in the long run. I strongly disagree with tis!!!!


YES! SUPPORT!

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<p> It’s about time we stand up for what is right! The world says everything is acceptable! Really?? You better think again! Pass this and we will start to get a backbone again instead of letting anything fly! That’s what’s wrong with the world today - especially the school system! Don’t give them a teddy bear and a coloring book - teach them right from wrong they need discipline!  </p>


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Adult subject matter is being introduced to your children!


I strongly support this policy.

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<p> I am a parent and a grandparent. I expect the school system to teach reading</p>


I'm a School Counselor. ALWAYS best to include parents in a plan to support the students!

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Even when family members disagree it is best to help them resolve the issues and work towards a good plan! Even in the most disfunctional situations supporting the student means supporting the family sorronding that student. Educators are only on their life briefly, family is forever.


Strongly opposed

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This guidance is a political play by an absent governor who is trying to make a play for the national political stage by pandering to an ultra right wing base.

This is not the will of Virginians.

Every kid deserves to be safe at school. Let's address the real safety issues at school... bullying, guns.

Strongly oppose.


OPPOSE

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<p>The policy is harmful to vulnerable students. Oppose. </p>


Left Wing Idelogies are literally ruining childrens lives FOREVER

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Fully support the updated policy changes!!


I strongly support these policy changes

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<p> I strongly support these policy changes.  </p>


Without parental consent, it's grooming.

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"The right is ruining childrens lives!"

I'm not even politically motivated.

I have no party.

They both want this in our schools.


Support

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<p> I have recently had friends who were teachers in the VA public school system leave their positions due to the 2021 Model Policies. I have also known students that left the public school system and enrolled in private Christian schools because of the current document in effect. The governor's proposal is sound and I am in support of this change.  </p>


Keep Child Abuse Illegal

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Transgenderism is predatory by nature and design, by adults upon children. Transgenderism is nothing but lies. "Gender identity" was pioneered by a pedophile, child molester, child abuser, and child murderer named John Money (google it). No one can "pause" puberty, transition surgery is NOT reversible, and the hormone blocking medicine children are being put used to be used to CHEMICALLY CASTRATE rapists and pedophiles!!

We support the Governor and his plans.


Oppose!

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If you want more kids to run away, do drugs or commit suicide, this is the policy to use.


I fully support this.

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<p> I fully support this.  </p>


Oppose!!!

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Don’t take VA backwards!


SUPPORT

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<p> Let's get back to teaching academics in Virginia!!!!  </p>


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Opposing comments here are mostly attacks/no substance. Trans isms take girls’ rights away. And others. Protect our girls. Help troubled kids without harming everyone. Protect our speech.


Opposed- If more parents supported LGBTQ kids we wouldn’t be in this mess


I support this.

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<p> I support this proposal. Parents have the right to know what is going on with their child. If a child fears that their parent will abuse them because of this then they need to speak up and report it to child protective services. A living parent will not condemn their child because they are gender confused or homosexual… or for any reason whatsoever. But I would imagine living with this secret from your family</p>


100% agree.  Fully support.

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<p> Parents have every right to know what is going on with their children while at school.  </p>


The VA DOE should be ashamed

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It is appalling to me that the government can simultaneously promulgate a policy of discrimination and exclusion and in the same breath virtue signal about the importance of preventing bullying. This policy will have the direct effect of increasing bullying in schools, on its face.

The stark reality is that transgender people exist. This fact is unavoidable. Enacting a policy which effectively isolates, marginalizes, and excludes people (especially students) based on their identity is immoral. One is entitled to their own feelings regarding transgender people, but one is not entitled to prevent them from expressing their identity in a reasonable manner.

This policy is garbage and should be thrown in the trash. Modify it to remove the discriminatory language or enact a previous guidance.


Strongly oppose Younkin's attack on Transgender students

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Many examples of parents not accepting gay children and throwing them out of the house. I imagine transgender students would be rejected at a higher rate. This policy would "out" students to abusive parents. Younkin is just trying to score points with his right-wing supporters to further his political ambitions.


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Have you figured out, that they don't have a peaceful solution in mind?

They want your kids, their way!


Support the governor


Focus on the teacher shortage

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<p>Governor Youngkin, please focus your attention on solving the teacher shortage problem. The Northam policy has been working fine. </p>


I Strongly Support and Thank You

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<p> Thank you for fighting for parent's rights. Often times the educational system and educators need to be reminded that they are our employee</p>


This is stupid. I support the students who are our future.

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<p>Scared people make rules  to regulate & control. I’ve never seen so many people worried about others generals. </p>


Parent's should be making decissions

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This should be common sense that parents make the decisions for their children and should be fully informed by the education system concerning the care of their child. This is not a socialist state where children belong to the state. School systems should not be indoctrinating children with gender ideology potentially putting them on a path they may not fully understand the full weight of their decision. It has been documented that transitioning is very difficult for adults. Why would we push and encourage this decision on young children when growing up is already so difficult. Those that are truly trans should be treated with the same respect and kindness as everyone else and this policy is in agreement with this. What the opposition wants is to encourage this on young developing minds when they do not bear the responsibility of seeing the child through the whole process. They are not responsible for the mental health


Right wing Christian parents are ruining their kids lives FOREVER


We support the governor!

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<p> Great policy!  </p>


Boys are boys, girls are girls.

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Totally agree, send them to get the psychological help they heed!


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The system is trying to break the mothers with guilt, don't let them!

You won't have any children left to protect if you don't.

They will become enemies in your own home.


100% SUPPORT the proposed transgender school policy changes

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<p> I fully support the governor's proposed transgender policy changes in our public schools.  </p>


Support!!

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<p>The previous policies put girls at physical and psychological risk as seen in the rapes that occurred in Louden County public schools bathrooms. Thank you for considering the safety of all students. </p>


Strongly Oppose

This is a discriminatory and dangerous policy. Children need to have as many trusted adults as they can and most especially teachers should be among them. As the mother of two and close to both my children, there were still some issues they preferred to run by others before approaching my husband and me. Children need to get thoughts out of their head and say them out loud. Some of these experiments last a lifetime, but many don't. When kept inside they fester, shame, and can have long lasting consequences--including suicide.This is a clear case of politicians trying to drum up fear and score political points by endangering the lives and happiness of children. Enough.

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This is a discriminatory and dangerous policy. Children need to have as many trusted adults as they can and most especially teachers should be among them. As the mother of two and close to both my children, there were still some issues they preferred to run by others before approaching my husband and me. Children need to get thoughts out of their head and say them out loud. Some of these experiments last a lifetime, but many don't. When kept inside they fester, shame, and can have long lasting consequences--including suicide.

This is a clear case of politicians trying to drum up fear and score political points by endangering the lives and happiness of children. Enough.


Strongly Opposed


Strongly support this

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<p> This is a great first step in restoring parental rights in the midst of this storm of denial of biological reality.  </p>


Strongly Support!

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<p> I strongly support this bill. Stop normalizing mental illnesses.  </p>


Fully SUPPORT

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<p> “The Department also fully acknowledges the rights of parents to exercise their fundamental rights granted by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to direct the care</p>


I fully support Governor Youngkin's K-12 policy.

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<p> I fully support Governor Youngkin's New K-12 pixies. That's one of the reasons I voted for him. Parents have every right to determine what their children will be taught in school.  </p>


Oppose.

STRONGLY OPPOSE!! forcing teachers to rat on kids is not a good idea. some parents will literally beat their kid or worse if they found out how their kids truly feel.As with most right wing laws, this is dangerous to kids.

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STRONGLY OPPOSE!! forcing teachers to rat on kids is not a good idea. some parents will literally beat their kid or worse if they found out how their kids truly feel.

As with most right wing laws, this is dangerous to kids.


Strongly support this


Support Gov. Youngkin

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<p> SWVA needs attention on the educational front. I feel like there is a lot of wasted time in school.  </p>


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You would be quite suprised at how surrounded your children are....


Support for Governor Youngkin’s Department of Education proposed transgender policies

A Prince William County Schools Employee

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Parents have the final say in the way they raise their kids. It is important that they are aware and understand how the school systems are treating their kid, and the type of information they learn from the employees in PUBLIC education.

School employees should never have any say in the "transitioning" of the kid, and it should be criminal to do so behind the parents back. Allowing it risks the stability of the child's mental fortitude, and alters their ability to make their own determinations as they age into adulthood. Being a child in today's age can be very confusing trying to navigate these new gender ideologies, especially when they are not yet aware of what it truly means to be a man or woman as they have still not yet developed into one.


Strongly support impeach Biden


Support

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<p> Fully support  </p>


Protect Trans Rights

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Protect trans rights!! These suggested policies are horribly demeaning to someone who is try trying to be their true self. These policies are also discriminatory and should not be allowed to go through. Every person is entitled to be themselves and no policy or law should prohibit that. School should be a safe place for every child to learn and grow, not a place that they should be frightened of


100 %  approve

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<p>Single-sex spaces are important !! </p>


Strongly support parental rights

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<p> This should be common sense that parents make the decisions for their children and should be fully informed by the education system concerning the care of their child. This is not a socialist state where children belong to the state. School systems should not be indoctrinating children with gender ideology potentially putting them on a path they may not fully understand the full weight of their decision. It has been documented that transitioning is very difficult for adults. Why would we push and encourage this decision on young children when growing up is already so difficult. Those that are truly trans should be treated with the same respect and kindness as everyone else and this policy is in agreement with this. What the opposition wants is to encourage this on young developing minds when they do not bear the responsibility of seeing the child through the whole process. They are not responsible for the mental health</p>


Strongly oppose targeted discrimination by the government

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Can’t uphold parental rights in one area while taking parents rights away in another area.  Our kids health is not a zero sum game.


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They use "what about the children!?" as an out to protect this behaviour.

Much like when it's used for war, or any other politicied situation.

Mothers, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!


I fully support the revised policy

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<p> A review of the guiding principles illustrates the shift in focus to parents rights</p>


Strongly Support

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<p>Any policy that preserves the parents' fundamental rights to raise their child without unwanted involvement from the government must be enacted.  It is wonderful to see a Governor and his administration implementing common sense policies that protect and defend ALL children in our schools. </p>


We support you Youngkin!

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<p> I applaud your efforts to remove the silliness enacted by Northram “protecting” the LBGT” students.  </p>


I support the policy and support not forcing staff to alter pronouns at child's request.

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This may be the best compromise available in today's environment, but it is still in violation of the First Amendment to force staff to call a boy she, or a girl he, just because the parents request it.  A delusion doesn't become fact just because your parents go along with it.

Thank you for separating by biological sex for sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, etc.


I Strongly Strongly Support This


Support for Youngkin!

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<p> These are children. Don’t the parents already see how their children are living. Conversations need to happen.  </p>


FULLY SUPPORT!!!

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<p> FULLY SUPPORT!!!  </p>


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Take a gander at "LibsofTikTok" on twitter, no account needed.

Exposing them on the daily.

Mainly teachers celebrating their new found fetish.


Fully Support

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<p> Parents should have an active role.  </p>


Trans lives matter

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<p>I oppose Youngkin’s hateful trans bill against trans students </p>


Fully Support


100% Oppose


I fully support the new policy

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<p> I fully support this policy. Parental rights and input are critical</p>


Absolute support for parental rights, not state-mandated conversion therapy

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Only would modern statists consider the destruction of parental rights and family ties to be a positive and necessary goal. It's what every evil authoritarian regime in history has done. "Hitler's Youths" et al. were intended to subvert family, community, and friendship in service to the State, the regime.

This bill is absolutely critical to ensuring that government bureaucrats and taxpayer-funded activists can't prey on, abuse, and gaslight children with immunity. Parents have absolute rights over their children as caretakers and guides, not the State or its minions. Conversion therapy is vile in any form, and brainwashing children into hating and destroying their bodies is particularly horrifying.

Biology and anatomy and genetics are immutable. Children should not be convinced that countless people have "the wrong bodies," based on psychological or emotional "feelings" heavily influenced by today's social and cultural standards, peer pressure, and indoctrination.

No child deserves for a government school system to enable or mandate dangerous ideologies that are intended to result in a neutered, physically unwell, and uneducated populace. Any "gender" decisions should be made by individuals as adults, after full physical development. Names and pronouns (basic language) should not be abused by government systems to brainwash children into "new identities," particularly when specifically done in secrecy without parental consent or knowledge.

In any other context, convincing children to accept new rules, tenets, attitudes, "identities," etc. would be recognized, correctly, as religious or cult indoctrination, which is not acceptable for government schooling in the U.S. This bill must ensure parents aren't being deceived by radicals, with their children at risk for permanent harm and lost futures.


I support our Governor.

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<p> I fully support Governor Youngkin.  </p>


Support involvement of parents or guardians in critical areas of youth's lives

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Schools must be aware that identification with being non-binary or trans is a very new phenomenom in terms of the sheer numbers, with an over-representation of girls, consistent with social contagion (much like anorexia, e.g.).  Many children and teens struggle with sexuality and gender expression, but, parents must be aware of a desire or plan to fully social tranition as this amounts to a serious psycho-social intervention. Further, there are safety and privacy implications such as being in opposite sex washroom or other facilities.  As well, research indicates that intense social transition may deepen rather than resolve gender dysphoria and leave other mental challenges unresolved.  These matters demand guardian/parent support and involvement - unless in very narrow instances there is concrete evidence of guardian/parent threats or abuse (not just a child or teen being uncomfortable or reluctant to engage in a private matter with their guardian/parent, which is another matter and typical/understandable).  My own child is trans-identified, she and other children and teens must have dignity and help and love but parents and guardians ought NOT be excluded and in effect pitted against their own child.  The policy proposed is reasonable and will help both child and family.


Fully support this Bill

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<p> Great work Gov. Youngkin !  </p>


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While you are at work, they plot against you.

Get involved locally.


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<p> Fully support try he policy by Youngkin!  </p>


Support: What about the rights of girls abused by males?


TRANS LIBERATION NOW!


Strongly Support-Thank you!

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<p> It's time to put common sense back in schools. This policy does exactly that. Thank you for recognizing that parents play an important role in their children's lives. Thank you for supporting all students with common sense policies that put biology back into decision-making. It never should have been left out of the equation to begin with.  </p>


I strongly support

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<p> The family unit is the fundamental organizing principle of our society. No government has the right to break up the family unit except under the most extraordinary circumstances. Schools that set themselves up as “substitute parents” are grossly out of bounds. Schools have no right to transition students’ gender without parental consent. They cannot give students Tylenol without parental consent! This policy also protects young women and girls from biological boys with serious mental health problems and preserves women’s right to fair and equitable completion in sports. Thank you to the Youngkin administration for protecting girls and families from the craziness of the trans movement!  </p>


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PEDOPHILES HIDE AMONG THEIR RANKS, AND RECIEVE SUPPORT.


Support for this policy

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<p> It seems like everyone feels this will cause suicide rates among trans students to increase. Suicide is the result of a mental health problem. Sane rational people do not commit suicide. Perhaps get mental health help for these students. But keep this nonsense out of the schools!  </p>


Bathroom crime is always CIS gender NOT Trans


Oppose this cruel policy

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I am a Virginia public school parent and I strongly oppose Governor Youngkin's policy. These changes will make trans youth even more vulnerable to discrimination, social stigma, and mental anguish. Please prioritize the safety and well-being of students.

Also, I resent that the policy pretends to put parents wishes first, but actually has the opposite effect by overturning the wishes of parents who want to protect trans children's right to education and safety.

I am one of those parents who prefers to send my child to a public school where students are allowed and encouraged to use the bathroom that reflects their own identity. There is absolutely NO harm in that. To try to suggest there is--nonsense. This policy is about trying to legislate (and politicize) theocratic morality.


Fully support the Governor

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<p> Thank you Governor!  </p>


Completely support this.

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<p> Those who don't support it just don't understand it.  </p>


Protect Children- Oppose this Guidance

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I oppose this proposed policy. It will do harm to all children. It will be particularly and extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary children. All kids are harmed when adults enact harmful policies like this. We should be doing more to protect vulnerable children, not removing what few protections they have.


I strongly OPPOSE this guidance

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This will negatively affect trans and non-binary students.


Protect our children support this policy

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<p> Stop the abuse by sickos  </p>


Protect trans kids

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Kids are humans, too, and they have human rights. Their parents can't abuse them or deny them food and shelter and the ability to live. But denying them the ability to be themselves and learn who they are is abusive, and in too many cases, results in suicides. Schools should be safe for kids to be themselves and learn, not a tool of abuse. Sports and clubs in schools are for fun, restrooms are for bodily functions, and every student deserves access to all of those facilities and chances for enrichment. On top of everything, the kids who you don't completely crush with this policy will grow up to see the state as an enemy and leave. As an LGBTQ student, I didn't feel free to be myself growing up in a state that didn't support me. And when I was an adult, I fled that state — taking my talent, and my income, with me. Don't make your best and brightest leave your state.


Reject Youngkin's cruel guidance document on trans student

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The new policy guidelines on Trans students in our schools deeply offend me, because they treat students as if they were less than human,.  Many trans students have stated that they see their schools as refuges from an uncomprehending world, and frequently the lack of comprehension and sympathetic support extends into the parent-student relationship.   There are documented cases of parents using social isolation and  even physical violence in ignorant efforts to negate and change the student's real orientation.  Moreover it becomes increasingly clear that governor Youngkin has political ambitions beyond Richmond, and in the light of this, very likely is using the trans student issue to get potential support from the most backward elements of the MAGA hatted electorate.  This guidance document should be REPUDIATED AND REJECTED.


Nobody is teaching your kids to be trans.

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<p>If you think respecting other people is harmful to your child, maybe consider homeschooling. OPPOSE. </p>


Protect trans youth

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<p>As a parent of a transgender young adult who came out as a child, I can’t stress enough the importance of supporting and affirming trans youth. Without this support, my child would be dead right now. They have told me this and this is common in a marginalized community, based on my work with PFLAG. </p>


Definitely in support

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Parents should definitely be in control, and school can never be allowed to hide anything from the parents. However, I'll just give one caveat that a parent should never be allowed to assent to the psychological destruction of their child. Just as a parent should never be allowed to convince their child that he or she is actually a cow, parents should be compelled by law to recognize basic biological reality with regard to sex/"gender".


Without parental consent, it's grooming.

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Get involved at the local level, it's the only way to make an impact.


100% Support Policy

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<p> I support the policy change 100 percent. Parents should make decisions for their under age children.  </p>


I support


Oppose Any Policy That Endangers Trans Youth


Support

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<p> I support anything that allows parents to be fully involved in every aspect of their children’s education.  </p>


Fully Support

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<p> I fully support the update of these policies that rebalance the education system in the State of Virginia. The current push of transgenderism by teachers</p>


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Start monitoring your kids social media.

If you can't, they shouldn't have access to it.


MOM HERE- FULLY SUPPORT

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As a mom of 3 I FULLY SUPPORT this. Please keep fighting for parents and our rights Gov Youngkin. Thank you!


Strongly support changes!

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<p> I don't want my grandchild to have any upbringing or influence which is against nature and God!  </p>