Support for Gov Youngkin and DOE

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<p>I strongly support Governor Youngkins and DOE plan.  Any school unwilling to follow the laws of our Commonwealth, especially as it relates to the Parent/Child relationship, should immediately loose their accreditation. School are for teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, correct history, not sexualilty and graphic porn.  Teachers and school counselors are NOT qualified mental health providers either.  </p>


Do not do this.


Strongly opposed- First Do No Harm

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This is most harmful bill for our kids. Kids are still trying to figure out who they are-

Segm.org- look at this science-


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Sham “guidance”

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I oppose this 2022 Proposed Guidance document. Schools are places to nurture and teach our children. Whether or not a child is male, female, has an X or Y chromosome is not the business of the school system. And, apart from notifying social services if a child is clearly being abused at home, it is really none of the school’s business what the parents are teaching their children about sex, religion, gender or whatever. What business is it of the school system to know a child’s biological sex? Or if their preferred name is different from their legal name? What does that have to do with education? And teachers do not have an obligation to tell parents everything about their students - if a child wants to be called a certain name in school, so what? Teachers don’t have time to call home and check every nickname their students want to be called! What a complete waste of their time! Aren’t teachers busy enough? Aren’t they already burdened with enough responsibilities without having to police their students’ gender??? This “guidance” is a complete sham!


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


I am completely opposed.


An uneducated & harmful policy

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<p>This is a policy intended to garner publicity and favor. It does not at all take into account the research around best practices for our students. Do not pass this law. </p>


I oppose this in every possible way.

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This is will harm children, it is not the government's place to say who can and cannot use the bathroom. I will no longer be voting for Youngkin or the Republican party for the foreseeable future


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


I OPPOSE this guidance

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I OPPOSE this guidance.


Strongly oppose.

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This is a dangerous proposal that will cause harm.


I fully oppose this.


This proposed policy puts vulnerable children at risk

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All reputable heath and physician organizations recognize that transgender children need care and affirmation to have healthy mental and physical futures.  Being transgender is not a fad, but a medical condition that requires appropriate attention as put forward by the medical community.  Transgender children need proper counseling and affirmation.  Current standards of care are not dangerous and do not put children at risk.  On the other hand, refusing to accept trans children (and adults) puts them at mental physical and psychological risk; this is what the proposed policy will result in.  Children need support, not fear in schools.


Do not harass or bully transgender students. Respect them!

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<p>I strongly oppose this policy. The policy specifically calls out keeping students safe from bullying and harassment and treating all students with respect — and yet, that’s the opposite of what you propose to do. If you really want to succeed as a national leader, you must stop pandering to the loud national minority and focus on the quiet majority of Virginia families who love all our children. </p>


Destructive and sickening policy

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For an administration who ran their campaign with education at the forefront they should realize how horrible this is for k-12 students. School should be a place where ALL students feel welcomed. Governor Youngkin should be ashamed!


I disagree with any parts of the legislation that would out queer people without their permission

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I strongly disagree with any policies that would out queer/trans/non-binary people without their explicit permission. They should 100% be able to talk about their sexuality or gender identity at school, at any age, as well as to teachers and other authorities, without it being disclosed to the parents without their consent.

I also think pronoun practices should be kept at minimum (according to child development experts) as both trans and cisgender people should not be constantly forced to say what their pronouns are every single class. This may be putting kids “on the spot” too much. I think for very young grades (4th grade and under) gender identity pronouns also may be to complex and ideological of a topic to teach in a classroom (not meaning that the kids can’t use other gender pronouns themselves). I don’t think it’s something they need to be taught as a formal lesson (I.e. on a worksheet or test) at such a young age (4th grade and under). However, I believe everyone at school should be accepted for who they are.


Body positivity means helping kids see they don't need to change their body to match stereotypes

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<p>Conversion therapy used to be illegal. Now it's being used to change gay and lesbian teens into straight teens by changing their gender in the name of being progressive </p>


Oppose!


I am strongly opposed.


Disagree

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<p>I do not support this. </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Strongly oppose.


I am completely opposed.


Governor Youngkin's Harmful Policies For Transgender Students in Virginia Schools

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<p>I strongly oppose and condemn these policies.  They have serious potential to harm children  who have nobody to trust and nowhere to turn, putting them in a position of possible abuse and despair.  What if these children are already being abused at home? These policies slam shut what may be the only open door. Many will run away and be in danger of being trafficked. </p>
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I OPPOSE the guidance

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I completely oppose the guidance. Our children should feel comfortable and safe at school, and be able to flourish. Trans affirming policies are the only way trans students are able to thrive at school. We owe it to our kids to do what’s best for this, and the guidance is the absolute opposite. We must protect our trans kids.


Completely opposed

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<p>I am completely opposed to this close minded, politics statement. This effects real children. Shame on you. </p>


Oppose this policy: Transgender children need protection

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I am a parent, a teacher, and a transgender nonbinary Virginian and I strongly oppose this policy.  It is blatant discrimination against transgender students who have just as much right to an education in public schools as their cisgender peers.

I have transgender students who have already expressed concerns about their own well-being should this policy take effect: they selectively disclosed their transgender or gender-questioning status under the current policy, with the understanding that their personal information would be kept in confidence.  These students all plan on having these very personal conversations with their parents at some point, but the mode and timing of that discussion should continue to be at the discretion of the students themselves.  Teachers and schools should not be inserting themselves into these private family discussions.

Some of my students are not ready to have these conversations because of their intimate knowledge of how their parents or caregivers have responded to other matters in the past, while others want to take the time to really get to know who they are themselves before sharing that self with other people.  Virginia's students have autonomy over their own beings, and if we are truly trying to prepare them for a society where they will be the decision makers for all of us, we need to continue protecting their right to explore and discover who they are while they are in K-12 school.

As a parent myself, the way that this new policy supposedly supports parents' rights is abhorrent.  I do not condone using transgender children as pawns for a political game or visions of White House grandeur ever, and especially not under the guise of protecting parents or our "rights".  If a parent is bothered that their transgender child revealed their transgender status to a teacher or other trusted adult before having a conversation with that parent, it is the parent who needs to search their soul and question what has transpired that their relationship doesn't foster the safety and trust that a child needs in order to feel safe sharing.  The blame does not fall on the school, and certainly not the teachers who are supporting students in whichever course of action the student chooses to take.

Transgender children deserve to be protected and loved for who they are.  They are not "less than" or unworthy of the same level of care that cisgender children take for granted.  Trans girls are girls, trans boys are boys, nonbinary children exist, gender is a spectrum, and the only person who knows themselves enough to make these determinations is the person in question.


Do not do this.


I oppose this fully.


I oppose!

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This proposed change will cause  harm to children by targeting gay and trans students in our schools. This policy change offers no educational benefit, but makes it so that LGBTQ+ students do not feel safe in schools. Such proposed changes will negatively impact the quality of education that can be offered in Virginia. I strongly oppose this proposed change in the strongest possible terms.


Dumb policy


I am fully opposed to this.

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<p>I am fully opposed to this. </p>


Do not support proposed policies about trans youth

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<p>I do not support the administration’s proposed policies concerning trans and non-binary youth. Our family supports these children to be able to live authentically and be themselves. We cannot adopt policies in our commonwealth that would erase transgender and non-binary youth from the classrooms, creating a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment.  This is not acceptable. Virginia should be a leader in our country in supporting all children, no matter their identity, not moving backwards. </p>


I fully oppose this.


Strongly opposed

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This will harm trans and non-binary kids. If you actually care about protecting kids then you won’t pass this


Religious freedom?

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I am deeply concerned about the clause in the guidance that allows school personnel and other students to refuse to address a child by the name and gender their parents have specified in writing if their sincerely held religious beliefs are in opposition.

This means a teacher’s beliefs are more important in determining how the teacher interacts with students than the parents’ preferences, the students’ preferences, or evidence-based best practice — in any given instance.

Where does this end? Why would we cater to the teacher’s faith in this one specific area of gender identity and not in any other area? Will we have to allow teachers to insist that girls wear head coverings, or allow them to refer to non-Christians as “lost souls” or to non-Muslims as infidels? Some religions disapprove of girls preparing for professional adult jobs; shall we allow teachers to transmit that belief?

This is a very dangerous slope to start rolling down.

I also note that the cases cited in support of parental control over what’s taught in public school are not relevant to that question. You can’t use cases that are about allowing parents to pull their kids out of public school and put them in religious schools or no school at all to support the idea that parents get to call the shots in public schools.

the primary beneficiary of public education is not parents — it’s the community at large. Parents should have as much information as they wish about what goes on in school, but no more input into the curriculum than any other members of the community. The purpose of public schools is to prepare the next generation to take over running society, not to provide customized experiences for every parental taste.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


An infringement of the right to privacy

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This policy will dictate how young queer people who feel unsafe in their homes to express their identity, feel more unsafe in a world that already tries to deny them of expressing their true selves. If no where else is to be a safe place for a child outside their home, it's their school. Already students cope with the fact that at any second they could be the next mass shooting headline which is a whole other issue. Why is the name students are addressed or the pronouns they choose to go by considered an issue by the Governor for reasons other than appeasing Republican supporters? Are parents more threatened by a student going by a name other than their birth-name or should parents be more concerned as to why their kid doesn't feel safe enough at home not to communicate their thoughts and feelings at home. Regardless, these issues are family matters and should be discussed between child and parent at their own time. "Children do not belong to the state, they belong to families." So the state should allow transgender children have a say when it comes to their own family matters.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


I strongly oppose the proposed 2022 standards

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<p>These standards will be extremely harmful to trans children. </p>


Strongly oppose.


Strongly support!!

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Parents should definitely be the ones giving permission for this kind of major change.


New Common sense Policy Comments

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"The new policy puts parents front and center, ensuring that schools can no longer keep secrets.

Parents must be informed if their student wants to be treated as a gender other than their biological sex.

In addition, the policy puts an end to biological boys who identify as female rooming with girls on school trips, and vice versa.

The policy also takes steps to protect women’s sports by ensuring that boys who identify as girls cannot compete against biological females.

*** I'm all for this common sense of policy that is constitutional does not oppose impose restrictions and mandated reporting requirements for kids to call other kids by certain pronouns with a punishment of suspension if they don't.....

This makes no sense at all this is the most common sense policy the radical left is now planning to have walkouts and high schools around Virginia looking at their their narratives and what they're saying it just shows you that just so radical and over the top and ideological....

Prior to this decade when I had children and Loudon county public schools in the 90s if any issues came like up like this we always dealt with it at the particular county or even at the school so everybody was appraised and privacies were protected sensitivities were protected and everybody understood....

I'm not even sure why we're having this discussion but obviously the last administration slipped all of this under our noses during the covid lockdowns what a lack of integrity that was but it doesn't surprise me we need to put parents and children's rights and education front and center again


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Do not do this.


I oppose this fully.


This is a terrible policy decision.


I strongly oppose this discriminatory bill.

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<p>This bill discriminates against an already marginalized group of children.   Please don't harm them further. </p>


Stop making children a political pawn

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After reading the true work and research put into the 2021 version of this policy, the 2022 policy is laughable attempt to cash in on the waning influence of right-wing conservative viewpoints in Virginia-- all at the expense of our kids. As much as the Youngkin administration wishes otherwise, LGBTQ+ people are due the same rights and privileges as his white, nationalistic administration. That includes protection under the First Amendment (freedom of expression)-- and choosing what to wear, and which gender any particular clothing might align with-- seems one of the clearest, simple-stupid examples of the rights this policy is attempting to violate.

If VA Department of Education thinks its gender-non-conforming children won't remember this-- as they choose colleges, choose professions, and choose where to spend their future tax dollars- I think you are mistaken. We, as a state and a nation, have enough to address in our education system without this policy that is clearly a solution seeking a problem. Keep/re-instate the 2021 policy.

Respectfully,

Suzanne Dougherty


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Strongly oppose

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I am strongly opposed to these new directives which are in direct contravention of a 2020 law passed,on a bipartisan basis, that required the Department of Education to develop model policies — and later required all school districts to adopt versions of them — for the protection of transgender students. The law states that these policies should “address common issues regarding transgender students in accordance with evidence-based best practices” and that they should prevent bullying and harassment of transgender students. The Northam administration’s 2021 guidelines were issued in accordance with this law.

This new proposal will serve only to increase bullying and harassment and will remove the protections that so many young Virginians have grown to rely upon.


I am strongly opposed.


I oppose

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I strongly, vehemently and fully oppose. Trans kids are kids. Do not try to legislate who they know themselves to be to make headlines at their expense.


I am completely opposed.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Get your politics out of the schools

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No one is forcing pronouns on trans kids in schools. Youngkin’s proposal does nothing except puts trans kids at risk. Let children be their authentic selves. Targeting children with legislation does nothing productive for our society.


Support! How could anyone do otherwise?

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


Strongly oppose.


Fully Support

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


This will harm children. I strongly oppose.

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Nearly 1 in 5 transgender and nonbinary youth have attempted suicide. This rate is cut in half for TNB youth that feel supported by their families. Students who feel supported by their schools also attempt suicide at a lower rate, as well as LGBTQ youth that feel supported by their communities.

Transgender and nonbinary youth in unsupportive families, however, are at greater risk of homelessness (when their parents kick them out), self harm, abuse, and sexual exploitation.

The science is clear that supportive families, schools, and communities save children's lives when they affirm children's gender identities, and that unsupportive families, schools, and communities drive children to harm themselves. Forcing children to out themselves to unsupportive families will only lead to harm. The 2022 Model Policies do not protect these vulnerable children.


This bill is illegal

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All students should be able to identify themselves as they wish without being controlled by government officials who have no direct contact with or information about trans kids and their identities. I hope you're fired sir. I will not vote for you in the next election!! Please remember: Trans lives > Gov. Youngkin's life.


This guidance, if enacted, will harm children. I oppose this guidance.

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The previous guidance, put forth in 2021, proposed a set of guidelines doing what we would consider a school's primary responsibility: protecting children in their care. The current proposed guidance, however, seems designed to do harm to at least some of those children. The previous guidance sought to protect transgender children while still involving parents, taking pains to, on a case-by-case basis, weigh the dangers of outing children to their parents with open communication with the parents. For example, "school staff should work with students to help them share the information with their family when they are ready to do so." We know that LGBTQ students are more at risk for homelessness than are cisgender, heterosexual children. Outing children to unsupportive parents is what increases that risk.

Further, the proposed guidance pays lip service to preventing bullying, but the section on allowing students and staff to misgender and deadname trans students allows and even encourages bullying. Being misgendered and/or deadnamed is correlated with higher levels of depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide. Endorsing this behavior, and giving pretexts to defend it, harms trans students. If it is the goal of this guidance to have trans students die, this is a powerful weapon. And short of death, it will cause them depression and anxiety.

The law that requires you to put for this guidance, § 22.1-23.3, has requirements that stand in stark contrast to the proposed guidance. I do not see how an honest appraisal of "evidence-based best practices" for the treatment of transgender youth bear any relation to the proposed guidance. It undermines the law's requirement for the guidance to promote "prevention of and response to bullying and harassment" in line with support for transgender students. As noted above, allowing and encouraging misgendering and deadnaming is bullying and harassment. The state law also requires the guidance to "[maintain] a safe and supportive learning environment free from discrimination and harassment for all students". The new proposed guidance, instead, promotes school systems that undermine and endanger transgender students.

The current guidance seems more designed to take the gains for transgender students that were in the previous guidance and strip them away without regard to the harm to transgender students, the legal ramifications, or the overall environment in Virginia's schools. I suppose this is also designed to invite lawsuits when this guidance is put into effect, with the goal to find a court that is hospitable to the harm this guidance is designed to inflict upon transgender children. These machinations ignore the horrible cost to trans children and their supportive families, and will increase pain and suffering. This is hardly the work of a compassionate government agency, and flies in the face of the law that requires this guidance to protect, rather than harm.

I oppose this guidance as a parent, as a lifelong Virginian, and as a compassionate human being concerned for vulnerable students who this guidance will harm. Withdraw it, and create new guidance that protects, rather than harms. That brings parents and children together, rather than putting them at odds. That lets trans kids be who they are, rather than what some strict hierarchy demands they be for the comfort of some third party. That actually follows the Virginia law. This guidance can be so much better. Make it so.


Support 100%

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This is a mental illness. Somehow needs to be addressed parents need to step up.


Hello Dark Ages

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<p>Have we seriously stepped back in time?  Because these new model policies are ridiculous.  We worry as educators about how are students are doing socially and emotionally.  The policies set forth are utter ridiculousness.  We should be supporting our youth as they are the ones who will be the leaders of the future.  Do we really want these asinine policies to be the groundwork?  No.  Absolutely not.  Sheer and utter ridiculousness.  Do you sense a pattern?  </p>


Opposed

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Your potential policy will harm many based an unfounded fear.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


I oppose this suggestion.

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This change in model policies will fuel more hate and mistreatment of children who differ from the status quo. Please do not change the policy


Protect Trans Youth

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Dear Governor Youngkin,

The proposed policies would result in unimaginable harm to young people. As an educator, I believe in allowing my students the freedom and safety to grow in my classroom. This includes using their preferred name and pronouns, and ensuring that they have access to the facilities and educational experiences that match their own interests and gender identity.

Our students are already suffering from anxiety, depression, and mental health challenges at a higher rate than previous generations. LGBTQ+ students are already at a higher risk than their peers.

We owe it to the children of Virginia to support them and to keep them safe, not to turn schools into environments that will restrict and harm them. Do not pass your proposed policy. It will not make students safer, and the consequences would needlessly cause pain and suffering.

-A Teacher


I fully oppose this.


Opposed

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Trans youth make up the majority of minor suicides. This policy aims to take away what little privacy these kids have by outing them to parents that could be opposed to who the kid is. Trans people are more likely to be abused, kicked out, and worse. Stop this policy before it goes into effect and save trans lives.


Fully support

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While the majority of comments are negative, the last gubernatorial election demonstrated a majority of parents desire this issue to be in their hands rather than dictated by school boards and teachers unions enthralled by woke politics.

schools should provide a non-political environment to educate children.  Parents need a strong say in that process to avoid conflicts with their values.


Do not do this.


let trans kids be kids, stop forcing them to grow up early.

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anything less than unequivocal support for trans children being supported and affirmed in who they are is child abuse. plain and simple.

there are a lot of bad actors who will try to equate being LGBTQ with being inherently dangerous to children, a lot of them will try to argue from a manipulative framing of “protecting” children, or “deciding what my child is exposed to,” but those arguments are predicated upon the idea that LGBTQ people are dangerous to children. would we entertain somebody arguing they want to protect their children from Black people? should we tolerate somebody who decided “they don’t want to expose their children to Asian people?

NO WE SHOULDN’T!

fact of the matter is that anti transgender hysteria is manufactured, and based entirely on lies and misrepresented data. most people support a trans person’s right to determine their own path, most doctors agree the best treatment for gender dysphoria is transitioning. the push to discriminate and marginalize transgender people (and the broader LGBTQ communities) is similar in nature to Jim Crow or the Nuremburg Laws. we are currently living in the prelude to a genocide against LGBTQ americans, our neighbors, our families-, if decent people continue to let far right extremists dictate the conversation and muddy the waters. REJECT THEM. TRANS CHILDREN MATTER.


I oppose this fully.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Virginia resident who strongly opposes the proposed document, kids should be protected by adults not bullied. The intent of this document is misguided & mean spirited. Shame on the Youngkin administration. </p>


I am strongly opposed.


Support our Kids

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<p>I hope that any politician will truly look at their responsibilities to support families and children wiyhin the Commonwealth. This should include trans kids and non-traditional families. Please reconsider and refrain from enacting policies which exclude children of any stripe as this creates an atmosphere that supports bullying and leads to mental and physical trauma and suicide. Support all of our children! </p>


Strongly Oppose

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I strongly oppose this policy change.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Strongly Opposed.

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I am strongly opposed. Words cannot begin to express how wrong this is.


Strongly oppose

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Dear Governor:

Trans-gender children and their parents need our support.  The medical community is strongly against your policies as this is likely to increase the risk of suicide and depression in these children. Trans-gender children attempt suicide at a rate of more than 24% vs heterosexual children at a rate of 6%.  In addition 80% of trans children thought about suicide in the past year.  The contributing factors include micro aggressions, adverse childhood experiences, an unwelcoming school experience and an unloving or unsupportive family. While you and many others appear fearful of these children adversely influencing other children this is very unlikely. Reading a book about gender identity or even homosexuality does not make a child trans or gay.  It’s not catching like a virus.  Please support these children as you would want your children to be supported.  Thank you.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


I oppose this policy,

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<p>Trans kids need support especially in schools. As a parent and Virginian, I ask you to reconsider this policy. </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


OPPOSE


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose this in an effort to keep kids safe. Trans Kids are Sacred


I oppose Governor Youngkin's egregious new policy on trans students in Virginia

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<p>This policy will hurt our children whose right to privacy will be violated by this policy and who may suffer mental anguish and even thoughts of ending their lives in response se to disapproving parents. </p>


Protect Trans Kids

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<p>I STRONGLY  disapprove of this Governors policies towards our youth. With LGBTQ young people already at such high risk of suicide, how is this helping them? For some kids, school can be the only safe place for them. Please reconsider. Our children deserve to be safe, validated, and be themselves. </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.


I fully oppose this.


Strongly oppose

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<p>We should create inclusion for trans children. Kids in general are already going through hell. Let’s surround them with love and oneness. </p>


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Concentrate on real issues - like your son voting illegally


Passing this will lead to more teen suicides

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Glen youngkin can shove a hot piece of pipe up his ass


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Fully OPPOSED

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<p>This is a cruel and sadist policy. Children will die because of it. Have compassion. </p>


Strongly opposed

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<p>Strongly opposed </p>


I am completely opposed.


I oppose this fully.


I FULLY OPPOSE THIS

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<p>I FULLY OPPOSE THIS </p>


-10/10 terrible policy

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This is an egregious attack on vulnerable LGBTQ+ youth. Part of what drew me to live and build a life in Virginia was what I perceived as a culture that accepted and embraced diversity—this attack on trans youth is not only vile in nature but will discourage young people to raise families and start businesses in our state. Please address the teacher shortage you want to show you care about Virginia’s schoolchildren.


OPPOSE


This is crazy!

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Please save the rights of our trans youth!!


Strongly oppose.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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This proposed change will cause immediate harm to children by targeting the trans students in our schools. This policy change is unthinkably cruel and offers no educational benefit whatsoever—rather, by making it so that LGBTQ+ students do not feel safe in schools, these changes will seriously negatively impact the quality of education that can be offered in Virginia. I condemn this proposed change in the strongest possible terms.


This is COMMON SENSE

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Anyone who opposes this has clearly not read the entire document or needs professional help. Thank you Gov. Youngkin for trying to maintain sanity.


I am strongly opposed.


Strongly Oppose this Harmful & Hateful Guidence

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This policy change is harmful and hurtful. It does nothing to protect children.


I Very Strongly Oppose This

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While this policy doesn't mainly affect me, it still affects the people around me. Plus, even I see how this is harmful to people like the trans community. It just makes no sense to go through with this policy in any way you view it. There's little to no good point of view with this. Just stop mistreating trans people, stop trying to silence them, stop forcing them to be what they are not, and just stop trying to pass this policy.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Full Support/Thank you

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<p>I agree.  Schools are not the authority on children, and parents know their children better than anyone else.  I support the LBGT community, but I do not support making children to conform to gender pronoun enforcement or furthermore being punished for any confusion. </p>


I support

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This is not something that should be pushed in schools. No little girl should have to feel uncomfortable because men can go into same restrooms as them. If we allow this than in the future pedophiles will be able to demand same rights and that is unacceptable!


I fully oppose this.


Do not do this.


I strongly oppose this policy

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<p>Implementing this policy would be a complete waste of government resources, an unnecessary burden to our already stretched-too-thin public schools, and extremely harmful to CHILDREN. This policy blatantly ignores research showing the harm done to children by exclusionary policies like this. Please spend your energy and influence on policies that will actually improves the lives of the citizens you are sworn into serve. </p>


I'm a nonbinary student who just wants to be myself, is that so much to ask?

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This policy puts trans kids in danger. It will drive even more students to suicide or self-harm, and puts them in danger at home too. Why is this policy even necessary? What is so bad about trans students being able to be themselves in a place that is often their only safe place?


I OPPOSE This Transgender Policy Change

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I fully oppose this policy change. The new policy opens an additional door for parental abuse of children and for children to have NO trusted adults to turn to when they are confused and afraid. Staff will resist reaching out to help students for fear they will have to violate their privacy.

Parents who are attending to their children and paying attention to them will know the status of their children’s  orientation. If they claim not to know it is probable that they have created an environment that makes their child afraid to communicate with them about orientation and other issues.

If staff at schools are required to divulge private conversations with students to parents, children will have no one to talk with when they are frightened and confused.

Life is hard enough for children without having a safe space. For many, school is their safe space. This policy will take away that safe space. It will also drive a wedge between students and staff that will additionally harm children’s wellbeing.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


I oppose this fully.


Women's rights are human rights!

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<p>Girls deserve a safe space free from intrusion of males (no matter how the males identify). The majority of violence towards trans folks comes in the form of intimate partner violence, not random strangers in bathrooms. Women and girls however are victimized by trans identifying men in womens spaces. Please do not subject girls to autogynephillia and allow trans identifying males to use women's spaces for their own validation or kink. </p>


Strongly oppose.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Oppose. Grow up.

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<p>Opposed. Grow up and get current. </p>


VA Voter Strongly Opposed

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As a parent of a student in public school and a voter, I strongly oppose this policy. It will harm vulnerable children, families, and is of no benefit to anyone.

Vote no.


I strongly oppose this

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Do not make our kids suffer. Do not pass this.


Taking away constitutional rights of children, parents, and educators opens legal liability

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<p>As a parent, I most definitely would take legal action against a teacher, administrator, counselor, school district, Dept of Education, and any other individual or organization involved in taking away my constitutional and God-given rights to care for and parent my child, and for endangering my child by hiding vital information about my child from me.  As an educator, I would take hold liable any administrator, school system, Dept of Ed, and anyone else involved in taking away my 1st amendment rights, while trying to use me as an accomplice to taking away the 14th amendment rights of a parent, that gives them the freedom to be in charge of the care, education, and upbringing of their own child. Attempting to push these policies and agendas onto children and encouraging them to ignore or override the wisdom, authority, care, and guidance of a parent is directly endangering children and putting them in a dangerous and destructive situation and mindset. The government, school districts, and the Dept of Ed DO NOT own our children. </p>


Absolute No!

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<p>There are “No” reasons that a child is to hide any information from their loving parents. With true love, comes honest standards and discipline. Parents who raise their children have a God given right to know what they are doing with their lives. As the parents invest in their children, their children also need to invest in their relationship with their parents.  Teaching children to keep things from their parents only strains and separates the parent child relationship. Our children are our tomorrow! </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.


A new low

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<p>Actively encouraging teachers to bully students and forcing teachers to put children in harm's way by outing them to their parents? How low can you go? </p>


I fully oppose this.


State-sanctioned bigotry

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Especially over the past year, the trans community in the US has faced an unprecedented assault on their rights by reactionary activists and far-right politicians. This policy represents just one of the many legislative attempts to discriminate against them. Trans rights must be protected, and these policies must be shot down and called out for what they are - state-sanctioned bigotry.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

Albemarle County Public School Counselor. Mom of 3

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<p>People need to read the 2021 Model policy carefully - the policy does not exclude parents. The goal of education is always to partner with families in the best way possible. It is so unfair to put kids in the middle of a political battle. Any adult can understand the vulnerability of a child. Our job as adults is to protect children from harm. I’ve been a public school educator for nearly 20 years, and I can say without a doubt that Youngkin’s new proposed policy will cause harm to kids. </p>


I am strongly opposed.


Do not do this.


Protect our transgender students

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We should Protect our transgender students not tear them down. They have a right to define their identity and use the names that they choose. Why is it anyone else’s business.


Strongly opposed to policies harmful to transgender students

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Policies such as requiring parental consent to use a child's preferred pronouns or gender put many transgender individuals to great risk, as were such information leaked to the parent, and the parent happen to be transphobic, they may exert physical or psychological violence on the child. Not letting the students have a safe place such as school to present as their preferred gender also puts the student in a place of not being allowed to exist as themselves, which typically leads to self-destructive behaviour and/or depression, in worst cases suicide, in later life.


Completely oppose


I vehemently oppose this policy

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I’ve been an educator for 15 years and I can tell you that this policy is deadly for a vulnerable population of students. I’ve learned in my career that the best way to foster learning in the classroom is to create a safe and respectful environment for every one who walks through that door. I have seen first hand what a difference it makes in the attendance, behavior, and engagement of a student when they feel safe to be who they are in the classroom and are supported by teachers and peers. Treating students with respect and allowing them to exist as their true selves is good for their education. It keeps kids from missing school out of concern for being misgendered, and it keeps them alive because they are shown the decency and respect that all people deserve. Transgender teens face the highest risk of death by suicide. A study done by the Journal of Adolescent Health showed that there is a 34% decrease in thoughts of suicide and 64% decrease in attempts when teens are able to use their preferred pronouns in school, home, work, and with friends. The ability to use preferred pronouns in even one of those categories decrease chances by 29%. We have the chance to save lives here by simply showing decency and respect.


Fully Support

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I fully support the Governor's new policy. The policy put forth by the prior admin. is nothing more than a far left indoctrination tool that disregards parents rights and each child's right to privacy.


I vehemently oppose this policy


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


I support this Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools

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I support this policy change, Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.  The teachers have way to much work with teaching to deal with this social issue.  Parents are THEIR kids first teachers and have every right to know what is happening with THEIR kids in school.  The students who are not transgender have a right to use restrooms and locker room with only their sex. The current policies a student can randomly use whatever space they want is not fair to the larger number of students that do not have this issue.  Teachers and staff celebrate when students come out as something it is encouraged. Lets just get back to basic education.


Strongly opposed

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Treatment of transgender students: I am strongly opposed to this policy. This is nothing but a political stunt. As an educator, it is my job to make sure all my students are welcome to my class. This policy endangers my students.


Strongly oppose.


I deeply oppose these harmful “guidelines”

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All kids deserve protection, and trans kids as a vulnerable population especially need and deserve our care and compassion. These proposed guidelines do everything they can to roll back the already meager protections we offer trans kids in schools, and are just another tally mark of showing them we don’t value and serve them like we would any other child. Trans children are not dangerous, strange, or in any way a threat— they are JUST CHILDREN and are making their way through this world as best they can. On the contrary, this world is already much more dangerous to them than other children, and guidelines like this only serve to further amplify the fear and worry they live with as part of this intolerant society. I strongly oppose the adoption of these policies in our schools.


Against the proposed policies

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I completely oppose the ideals that this proposed policy represents. This ill-intentioned attempt to give parents rights regarding gender identity instead takes away the rights of students. Students should be able to form their own identity without the fear of rejection or indifference from the school system. Consider the ramifications of this policy on our students and make the decision to put them first.


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Support Youngkin in keeping parents informed and involved


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Do not do this! Strongly oppose!

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<p>This is disgusting and dangerous! Children deserve safe places to learn who they are and feel supported! I strongly oppose this bill and it’s sentiment! </p>


Multiple duplicated comments

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There appear to be those anonymous individuals who are in support of this that might be commenting multiple times to run up the support of their viewpoint.  Are you tracking IP and email addresses?


Strongly condemn and oppose this policy

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Religion continues to be used to justify hatred and bigotry and in this case directing it towards children! Children need a supportive environment where they feel safe and not chastised and outed by teachers.

Pronouns, really? They’ve always been a part of the English language. Are the right going to champion the abolishment of a literal part of speech?  Rather than truly being concerned for the welfare of children in Virginia, the governor is using them as political pawns - despicable.  How is going to comment and try to destroy a whole educational state system when he’s never sent his own children to public school? Must be nice to be so rich that you’re completely removed from the average Virginia residents experience.
Support our students and nurture them to have respect and understanding for each other. What happened to love thy neighbor as thyself?


Strongly condemn and oppose this policy


Fully support

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I fully support the policy regarding transgender in the public school system. If there needs to be change:

Create transgender bathrooms. Do not subject other children and force them to share restrooms with transgender without acknowledging their comfort or beliefs. Being uncomfortable or not supporting social issues does not make someone close minded. It’s sad seeing children being gaslighted because they don’t agree with the lifestyle of another.

Open sports for all genders and allow them to try out to determine if they have the ability to make the team. That is called inclusion.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Our kids deserve better than this

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Stop doing things that hurt the mental health of our students. It is not the government's business.


I absolutely support this policy.

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I wholeheartedly agree with these proposed changes and the sentiment that children belong to parents/families; not the state.  I strongly urge those in a position to make this decision to make the necessary changes to ensure that parents are notified by schools when a child requests to be called by a pronoun that differs from their sex or their given name.  Furthermore, I completely support requiring school children to use bathroom and shower facilities that correspond to their birth sex and not gender identification.  As a parent of 4 school-aged girls I demand that their right to privacy be protected and upheld.


Fully Support

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<p>I fully support this model. </p>


Please don’t pass this

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The “indoctrination” is in taking someone’s rights away because you can’t be open-minded and compassionate.  It’s disgusting that some people would rather see innocent trans children kill themselves because they don’t feel like they belong than allow them to make their own choices and feel loved and accepted.  It’s too bad so many so called Christians don’t understand the concept of “love thy neighbor.”


Strongly oppose

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<p>Kids should be free to love their lives. Not live in fear. </p>


Strongly Opposed

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I am strongly opposed. A previous comment stated we shouldn’t be using our children as political pawns and I agree 100%. Acknowledging and providing a safe space for trans students is not stepping on the religious freedoms of any other child or parent, and it’s a shame that some in this state believe that. This type of guidance is harmful and bigoted, and I don’t agree with it at all.


I fully oppose this bill. We need to love and support each other.

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<p>One of the beautiful things about living in America is that we are free and we do not have to live in fear. Passing bills that directly impact the lives of students is inhumane. We are better than this. Do not pass any bill that makes others live in fear. This is incredibly upsetting. We should not be the country that makes CHILDREN afraid to be themselves. </p>


Don't take rights away

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This administration cannot claim to be pro parental choice and individual choices when it comes to masking, content of historical representation of marginalized communities in social sciences, family life in health sciences and then impose religious viewpoints on other families and children. These policies are infringement on my parent's rights and my children's rights to self express their identity. This infringes on freedom of speech. The religious believes and cultural norms of a few cannot be imposed on others.

Nobody is forcing families who are holding on to traditional viewpoint of gender to change. They get the full freedom to remain who they are and continue to express themselves as they are. We shouldn't remove this freedom from others who hold different values.


I oppose this harmful action.

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This change will lead to harm for so many students. I oppose this action completely. Schools should be a safe space for ALL students.


Strongly oppose.


I strongly oppose this


OPPOSED! Save all lives!

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<p>Please protect all lives, especially trans kids who are incredibly vulnerable. Protect their right to live. </p>


Do not do this.


Trans kids exist, get over it

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Trans kids do not want to assault your cis kids in the bathroom. Get over yourself and stop inventing false fear-based justifications for hating people who are different than you.


I oppose this fully.


For The Trans kid

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Strongly disagree with this new rules for trans kids.


Keep the government out of people's pants

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<p>The government has no business in our bathrooms or in our pants. If you're truly against the government overstepping bounds, stop this. </p>


Save our rights

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This is the land of the free. Don't make parents have to jump through ridiculous and expensive hoops just to respect their child's wishes.


100% Opposed

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I strongly oppose the Governor's draconian orders and question the legality of his action to thwart settled law and circumvent the legislature to impose his political ideology on our communities. I do not understand why this governor seems to have a vendetta for trans kids. He needs to stop using them to score political points and understand that above all, our children deserve to be treated with respect and humanity. Many parents are loving and wish to support their children, including trans kids.  Of course these parents should be the first choice for a child to turn to in times of angst and confusion. However, this isn't always possible. There are times when these children have no support at home and need community support, including trusted teachers, to protect, respect and support them. The governor needs to FOLLOW THE LAWS as set forth by the legislature and stop pretending that he is a dictator or a king.


Treat all kids well including trans kids!

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<p>Virginians are better than - again in our history - to let fear and bigotry define how we treat vulnerable people; I strongly oppose this proposed policy for its impact on trans kids. This proposal would create a hostile and I fear dangerous school environment for Virginia transgender and nonbinary youth, requiring teachers and staff to forcibly “out” students, prohibit staff from supporting trans and nonbinary students such as using a students affirming name and pronouns, and prohibit access or participation in activities consistent with their gender identity. All students deserve a supportive and affirming school environment, especially our vulnerable and marginalized populations like our transgender and nonbinary youth. </p>


I am strongly opposed.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly Oppose

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Do not roll back guidelines that support the LGBTQ+ community, and in particular trans kids. It is ignorant and backwards.


100% Opposed

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I cannot object strongly enough to this mean, hateful, misguided policy. It causes nothing but harm to trans students. Do better, please, Governor Youngkin.


Oppose


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


This will harm children - strongly opposed

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<p>As many others have expressed, I must strongly oppose this misguided attempt to harm trans youth. Students who do no identify the way Governor Youngkin wants them to should not be put at risk because he has certain beliefs that are harmful. Trans youth need protection and school should be a safe space for them. </p>
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I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


This will gravely harm vulnerable children

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If this policy was really about parental rights, a parent would be able to request how the school addresses their child (by which ever gender and / or pronouns the parent and their child prefers). If this policy was really about parental rights, parents would not be required to provide a legal document to have their child addressed by a chosen name at school.

This proposed change has nothing to do with parental rights. It will, however, put already vulnerable children at further risk. The data is clear on this. When trans and non-binary children are not allowed to be treated in a way that comports with their identity, they are a higher risk for suicide. What Governor Youngkin’s proposes will lead to higher death rates among children. We shouldn’t have to wait to compare the before and after adolescent death rate data to know it’s a bad policy.


Strongly support

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Strongly supposed protecting all children and our constitutional laws


Strongly support changes!

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


I fully oppose this.


Strongly oppose.


A huge step backwards

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This change will take the state of Virginia backwards in the area of student and parents rights. If this were about parent rights then they wouldn't need a legal document to have their child called by their preferred name. Susan doesn't need a legal document to be called Suzie, and William doesn't need a legal document to be called Billy. Why not? Because that would be ridiculous! Why can't they be called what they want? Do we want the state to repress our right to be called what we like? We don't force Billy to go by William, and this is equally ridiculous. I stand for the rights of students and parents to decide what they want and to exercise their rights as Americans without big brother telling them what they are allowed to be called. It is disgraceful and makes Virginia look like an oppressive backwater state full of ignorant people who don't respect basic rights.


Do not do this.


Strongly oppose

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<p>You are not pro life when you legislate to harm trans children. This is political theater and made up culture war politics. Trans children are among our most vulnerable. We must support and protect them. </p>


Opposed

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<p>This is just another attempt to "other" a subset of people. </p>


Do NOT do this to our children

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<p>This change in policy will set Virginia children and our state back 50 years. There is no objective data that supports this move and it is a patent and shameful attempt to cater to an ignorant and hateful view of the needs of trans-people. Please do NOT support this terrible and harmful policy change. Do not turn the clock back on progress in this state. </p>
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I strongly oppose these as this will endanger Trans Youth.

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<p>These proposed policies would make it an open season on trans youth. Due to the amount of hate these policies will allow towards these children alone should not allow for their passage. Think as if this would be affecting your own trans child, how would these proposed policies actually provide them with a safe learning environment. </p>


Atrocious, needlessly cruel politics

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The war you are fighting against teachers and public education is reprehensible. Children will be suffer and teachers will leave our state. Have some compassion for others and consider that we are called to protect the most vulnerable among us, not hang them out to dry. Shame on you Governor. You are dragging Virginia backward.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Families, not government choose children’s names

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Stop playing politics with children’s lives.


I oppose this fully.


Cowardly

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And yet once again we see the GOP has nothing, no ideas, no plans, for actually doing something that is helpful.  It is devastatingly evident there is nothing the GOP has to offer the country and society as a whole.  Instead they choose to sow hate and division amongst the population they pretend to serve by leveling attack after attack on the most vulnerable members of society.  The GOPs whole agenda revolves around finding something, anything, different and turning it into the latest boogieman that will drive people to vote for them.  Their entire playbook is like reading a history of the rise of Hitler and the Nazi movement.  And here it is done at the expense of an already marginalized segment of society that sees attempted suicide rates some 75% higher than the rest of the population.  This proposed rule is nothing short of cruelty and utter cowardice on the part of a political party bankrupt of ideas to benefit anyone but the most wealthy in our country.  So with nothing left they're reduced to demagoguery in order to find the votes needed to keep them in positions of power they've more than amply demonstrated they've no position being in.  Beware though, you may not be LGBT, an emigrant, a refuge, or whomever the GOP has decided to demonize today, but eventually, they'll get to a point where it's you and yours they're coming after and because you didn't stand up to protect those being demonized today, well, you'll look around and find there's no one left to stand and fight for you.


Support

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<p>Strongly support affirming parental rights of parents and not the state! Thanks for common sense. How many of the other people actually read what these policies do? Hiding life altering decisions from parents is criminal and extremely arrogant and pretentious of the state to think they could have those conversations better. </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Someone

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Strongly disagree with this new rules for trans kids.


Protect Our Kids

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<p>We need to protect our children!!! Legislation that prohibits them from living their lives in a body and identity they are comfortable and with that accurately represents them does not do that. This outdated legislation is devastating, harmful and counter to the safety of people everywhere. Keep your laws off our bodies. </p>


Opposed to this bill

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<p>Legislative bullying of an already targeted group of children is unconscionable.  Act like an adult and withdraw this abomination. </p>


Opposed to this change

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This change hurts kids and punishes teachers. As a government, we should be protecting all lives and not just the ones we agree with.

Suppers and protect ????? kids.


A "solution" in search of a problem.

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The ethos of the Republican party is government intervention, policies, and laws are a last resort, to be used only when the weight of the government is needed to address a critical issue addressing involved stakeholders. Please consider the number of Virginia public school students, parents, faculty, and staff, and then the infinitesimally small number of incidents involving transgender students. To suggest there is a "problem" which needs to be addressed with the might of the government is disingenuous. Anyone with the smallest understanding of the current political climate is acutely aware this is a wedge-issue leading up to the mid-term elections and our current Governor has political aspirations in the GOP. Fomenting division, discrimination, discontent, and a dangerous environment for a vulnerable population for political gain is sickening.


Strongly oppose.


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>


Strongly oppose this

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The only thing that will come of passing this is harm to trans and nonbinary kids. These group are already at risk of mental health crises due to bullying and being made to feel “other” or unheard. Why on earth would we pass legislation to further that?

i don’t understand why parents would support this. Calling a student by their chosen name hurts no one. It’s no different than changing from Michael to Mike; it gives the person some autonomy in how they present themselves to the world and should be no one’s business but their own.

Using a student’s chosen pronouns similarly affects no one but them, and NOT using their chosen pronouns also affects no one but them—but the difference is that the latter is affirming and makes them feel heard and cared for, while the former just intensifies those feelings of being unheard and othered.

I’m ashamed as a Virginian and an American that we’re even having this discussion in 2022. Do better, people.


Strongly Support Youngkin’s Policy

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Strongly Support Youngkin’s Policy. Fight for our kids.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


When in doubt, err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion.

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It is clear that Americans are divided on this issue. Virginians are divided on this issue. It is clear that this culture war will continue.

But here is my perspective as a transgender student who has gone through the Virginia public school system:

There are many important issues in Virginia Public Schools that should be addressed. Amending the Code of Virginia, § 22.1-23.3  is not one of them.

Please read § 22.1-23.3 once more. It is not a controversial piece of policy. It is a code of nondiscrimination, of anti-bullying, of protecting students. It is a simple guidance put into place to protect our kids in Virginia.

For a moment, let's put down the sensationalist stories that the media likes to push upon us, and the fears, the anxieties that politicians use to exploit us. Let's just talk, Virginian to Virginian, American to American.

When I went to school, not once did my identity as a transgender student cause trouble. Not once did I push my identity upon anyone else. Finally figuring out that I wanted to live as the opposite sex was what made me happy, what made me feel safe, and what made me feel free.

You can call me mentally ill, an oddity, "queer", or perverted, but it doesn't faze me, because that's exactly what other kids called me, what other families called me, and what my own family called me as I went through school.

You see, it was not the other student's rights that needed protection, it was not the other families' rights that needed protection, it was not my parent's rights that needed protection. It was mine.

I cannot predict with certainty what the consequences of codifying this new 2022 Model Policy will mean. But all I can foresee, is harm. As a proud Virginian, as a proud American, I ask that we reconsider.

This is not what our great state is about. This is not what our great country is about. We live in a state, a nation, founded on the principle of loving thy neighbor. We cannot do so until we choose to love our transgender neighbors as well.

I am among the many transgender neighbors that you have and will have throughout your life. Will you give me the love that I and every other Virginian deserves?


Strongly Oppose

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I oppose the guidance. As a nonbinary individual, I want children who are nonbinary to not be erased from their community. Requiring strict adherence to given names and assumed pronouns is not going to improve educational outcomes for anyone. Forcing trusted individuals such as teachers and counselors to expose their students in unsafe environments will only teach children that there is no safe way to seek support. This guidance only promotes harmful practices and endangerment.


Oppose


I am strongly opposed.


Transgender Pandering

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I am so tired of bigots like Youngkin and his feeble-minded minions developing “education standards” that only fit the desires of people who pray to a nobo-daddy in the sky. Idiots from top down now run the store. What happened to turn Republicans into such despicable hate-mongers?  Oh yeah…the narcissist carnival barker appeared on the scene and convinced them that stupid was good! So sad.


Yes! Strongly Support

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This policy empowers parents.  Fully support.


Support Kyra is a Williamsburg hack

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<p>Support the bill </p>


I fully oppose this.


Support Kyra is a Williamsburg hack


Bullying children is Not a Good Policy

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Our child knew that he felt more settled as a male when he was very young.  There had always been a dissonance that left him unsettled and unhappy.  After transition time the bullying started but he was happy with himself.  This meant an end to self harm and suicidal thoughts.

If there is any compassion or empathy in the souls of those setting policy, you will choose to stop creating huge roadblocks for transgender people so that they may find peace and contribute to our society. Take a minute and have a conversation with a trans person.  Even the young ones could teach you a thing or two.

Also, stop the misinformation!


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly opposed

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We should be supporting our students and not telling them their very existence is wrong. These rules disrespect our students and their very well being.


Absolutely YES!

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Great Bill! Back to normalcy. Moving in the right direction. Away from looneyville!!


Strongly oppose.


Strongly oppose

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I am an ally of the trans and non-binary community and I strongly oppose this proposed policy. This will only hurt students. We should be supporting LGBTQ + students, not enacting policy that will hurt them.


We support you and will fight alongside you!

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We support you and will fight with you!


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Please keep previous admin policies

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For the love of God, enact and maintain policies of inclusivity, kindness, and love. Please do not pass such regressive measures as the Youngkin administration is considering. Please open the doors of our schools, our public offices, our public squares to all children, trans and cisgender. Please help those on the margins of society to feel safe. Do not give in to fear, or be driven by the desire to score cheap political points. Please know the children upon whom you place these restrictions hope for a world of broader inclusion for their non-binary fellows. Please consider the world they hope to create, and help them to create it.


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: A Longitudinal 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>


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Keep the government out of such issues. Let the students be themselves  without judgement . </p>


I oppose this fully.


Strongly oppose, this is biased towards trans youth.

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<p>I don't even understand how this is not viewed as biased. It's specifically targeting a minority group of students. Seems like a complete waste of time to me. </p>


Support !,!,


Trans kids deserve support. Shame on Youngkin and all those in support of these proposed policies.

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<p style="text-align: left;">The fact that adults and especially elected officials (looking at you Youngkin) want to make life more difficult, isolating, and scary for children, is absolutely disgusting. If this were to come into effect and be enforced, lives will be lost. The lives of innocent kids. These kids deserve support, privacy, autonomy, and to be safe in school and in the world. </p>


I am strongly opposed.


Strongly SUPPORT

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<p>This is so commonsensical; no rational, unindoctrinated person has any basis to oppose this. </p>


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


I support

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I support this new policy.  All children and students are precious and made by God.


I am completely opposed

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<p>This is giving selective rights. You’re giving rights to the parents, but completely disregarding the children and acting like children are incapable of understanding themselves. I completely oppose this guidance. </p>


We awe family and we support


Do not do this.


Vehemently opposed to this cruel and harmful policy

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This policy harms some of the most vulnerable children in our schools and benefits no one except politicians looking to curry favor with their most bigoted constituents. I vehemently oppose this cruelty on all levels.


Hate has no home here!

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<p>The hatred, discrimination and bigotry this piece of legislation would invoke has no joke in VA or anywhere else in the United States. Governor Younkin, why does anything or anyone that looks different from you scare you so much?! This bill has nothing to do with what Birginia wants and everything to do with the white supremacist narrative being pushed down from your idol, orange man. Stop listening to hate and start being a human if that’s possible. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>Keep the government out of such issues. Let the students be themsel without jusgement. </p>


Strongly Oppose


Do not do this to our children

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<p>By reversing this policy you are not only putting childrens emotional health at risk but possibly their physical safety. So many children unfortunately do not have parents as loving/open/safe to go to as we’d like to think. Please reconsider this. Don’t trans children and adults have to deal with enough hate? </p>


Fully support too


I oppose this fully.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Oppose the changes

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Trans kids have enough to deal with and going backward from affirming policies is no way to provide support!!! Poor decision and backwards progress for a community that is already marginalized.


Oppose


I am completely opposed.


I support


Great Bill! Fully support!

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Thank you for your continued hard work for our children!


Opposed


Strongly oppose.


Strongly opposed to transgender policy proposed- it will harm children.

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The transgender policy proposed by Gov Youngkin will harm children. I am strongly opposed. Vote no.


Strongly oppose any effort to bully trans children

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Please do not legislate to remove protections for trans children - why would you not want to offer support for the vulnerable?

If your concerned with sports - how often is there a big kid or a naturally gifted kid turning the tide of a team? Would you punish them? Is that the worry here? What kid is going to fake being trans to bolster up a team’s wins? I ask this for real - what is the concern here? A boys team losing or a girls team winning because you think trans kids are all gifted sport stars trying to rig the system?

overnight field trips? Give me a break, how many over night field trips have happened?  Also no matter trans or not, kids will get in trouble and have been doing it way longer than trans kids has been an issue. Please create a chart of instances happening over the last 50 years by gender identity. With records to back it up.

Locker rooms are a terrible place for kids no matter the gender, but I would guess it’s harder for a trans kid. So again, not seeing what we should be fearing here besides not providing a safe space for trans kids by supporting their gender identity.

do not pass this legislation. It will hurt vulnerable children. Beyond that it will make VA look less inviting to incoming businesses looking to locate to a forward thinking, supportive state with good schools.

There is nothing to fear but fear mongers and politicians trying to make a splash.


Support thank you


Queer kids are not your political pawns

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<p>This legislation is discriminatory; you should be ashamed for having proposed it to begin with. This will endanger the lives of queer kids throughout the state as well as increase suicide and abuse rates. This does not “protect” children, nor is it a parent’s, school’s, or state’s right to police a child’s gender identity. </p>


I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Awful policy

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<p>Please protect ALL children- that includes trans and lgbtq children. </p>


Future Mom, Here. Let's Chat

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I came into contact with this draft document of proposed changes to the "Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students" via a friend sharing it with me. She is a mother of am almost one year old boy. As a mother, she had to think about things that I don't. My fiancée and I are not married, but we do want to get married and have kids someday.

I say all of that to say that, currently, he and I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We love it here. We have amazing friends, my family, and lots of nature and culture and art and entertainment.

We also have an incredibly diverse group of people here. Especially in the city of Richmond. Living in the city has allowed us to meet and make friends with and become very close with people that are, at least on a surface level, different than us. Some are also very similar to ourselves as well.

I don't intend to be long-winded in my response- I just wanted you to know who this comment is coming from.

Anyhow. I say all of that to say, I want to be able to have children, raise them here, and have them go to school here. We'll likely send our kids to public schools, as well.

So when I read through this document- I thought of it and read it thinking of my own perspective- but also of the perspectives of my friends. Some are similar to me, but some are very different from me, as I mentioned.


Stop the insanity strongly support our governor


I am strongly opposed.


TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

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I strongly oppose this!


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Bravo! Education NOT indoctrination

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Stop imposing radical left agenda and stick to giving our children an education that they will benefit from in the future.

Father of 2 in LCPS


Fully support this Bill

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Great work Gov. Youngkin !


Every day, I think "We can't POSSIBLY sink lower..."

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And every day people endeavor to prove me wrong. Bravo, Youngkin, you piece of human garbage. What could possibly be running through a man's mind to make them think persecuting children and fighting to criminalize those who have done you no harm, have done no harm PERIOD, is righteous and just? You and those of your ilk disgust me. You're a disgrace to the ideals of free society, and I hope your supporters wake up and realize.


This is a horrible thing to pass

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I oppose this change.

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Dear Gov. Youngkin and VDOE,

I strongly oppose changes to this policy. Trans and LGBTQ+ students deserve our support. Please protect them and their right to life affirming pronouns/names and gender identity recognition at school. Save lives by supporting ????? kids.


PLEASE PASS THIS - bring some normalcy back to our schools.

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I am the parent of my children. I make the decisions. Teachers should stick with the three “R’s”, and I’ll do my job. As a society, we shouldn’t be allowing this trans phase to rule us. Less than 1% of the population! There’s no place in our schools for this.


Strongly oppose

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This new policy is cruel and unfair. So many students will be hurt by it. Some may even die. And yet Youngkin believes in parents' rights.


I am completely opposed.


I oppose this fully.


Pass pass pass strongly support


I vote and I’m opposed

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<p>This is a terrible policy that will only hurt children. </p>


Strongly oppose.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


I fully oppose this.


I Strongly Oppose


I strongly support


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


STRONGLY agree!


Hunter strongly opposes we strongly support


Strongly support this common sense guideline

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Since we already KNOW that at least  one child was raped in a school bathroom, these guidelines make sense.  The liberal authorities who are against these changes are the same ones who denied the rape and even tried to cover it up!!

These guidelines are designed to protect the majority NOT oppress anyone.

SO THANKFUL we finally see some common sense pro-family leaders.


I fully oppose this direction in which they have delivered an INDIVIDUAL RIGHT to shreds

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If anyone has a say in which a student wants to express themselves,they should really,with all due respect to the institutions and regulations,really reevaluate their decisions in life. Not from their perspectives,but from the other person's perspective. This is an individual right,I insist. Not a decision from another adult which doesn't know anything about the hardships which it costs to look themselves in the mirror everyday,and feel a constant discomfort,wanting to pluck the organs in which they are identified as in birth. Instead of trying to just force students to a miserable education experience,why not try to just let them live their life,help accommodate and ACTUALLY educate themselves AND yourselves? These are actual LIVES you are working with. The generation that will one day surpass you, so maybe you should actually LISTEN TO THEM instead of just trying to brush them off as "Teenage and children ramblings". This is an education system,so instead of not wanting to listen,make a difference in which your fathers and mothers tried to surpress your own hopes,dreams and psychological dreams. Have a wonderful day and please try to be decent human beings with a heart. Sincerely,a very tired young adult.


Terrible policy

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<p>I strongly oppose this policy. As a school counselor I see firsthand how rejection of a child’s identity can damage them greatly. I’m very concerned that we will see a rise in depression and suicidal ideation among our students if this passes. </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Agree. Parents will decide.

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<p>Let parents decide. Stop this non sense </p>


APROVE 100%

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Stand behind Gov. Youngkin!


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Opposed to this change

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<p>Keep politics and religion out of schools. </p>


Revoke the DOE Draft Transgender Policy Guidelines

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<p>As an educator and a parent I strong believe that the proposed DOE Draft Transgender Guidelines are WRONG and will harm children. I am asking the DOE to revoke these draft guidelines because they are harmful and hateful.  It is absolutely unthinkable for the DOE to create policies that harm and discriminate against a group of students. It is shameful for the DOE to even consider these changes.   </p>


Totally opposed

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All students should feel safe and supported in our schools. Our Governor is trying to impose his own personal, hateful views on our schools and we cannot in any way allow this. No state sponsored hate in our schools.


This is a terrible policy decision.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly support


Strongly oppose


Strongly oppose

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This will harm kids. Does nothing to advance learning, which should be the government’s focus. Just a political move to garner attention for the governor.


Stop Biden he was 30 she was 12


Strongly oppose.


On the Youngkin administration proposal

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These proposed policies are not beneficial to students and only cause harm. Students should be supported not hindered and these policies are a clear barrier to student growth.


Unfair and Unnecessary

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<p>This is a terrible change to the model policies and the point is to be cruel. These children and young people deserve to feel safe and welcomed. It is shameful to do this, and it makes Virginia look like it is going backwards. I live in Loudoun County and this is not about parents' rights. Cruelty is the point. </p>


Do not do this.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


I strongly oppose

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<p>This is a big mistake. Stay away from the children. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this proposed  policy that could conceivably harm our children. </p>


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


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Support this and you 100% - thank you for all your hard work!


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Impeach Biden and Hunter


I oppose this fully.


I am completely opposed.


Youngkin's Misguided directive against our LGBTQ youth

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I own a performing arts studio in Fairfax, VA and have many LGBTQ youth in my classes.  These young people need support and protection, not the bigotry and hate that Youngkin's misguided anti youth policy will engender.  I hope that the House of Delegates will consider impeachment of Youngkin based on the fact that one of his duties is the protection of the citizens of Virginia, which include our LGBTQ youth.  Neglect of duty is an impeachable offense.


Save the children

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what a terrible discriminatory policy. Why is it we only hear “save the children” when it comes to things like trying to teach actual  history , trying to  prevent  communicable diseases, or not banning books? Why is it that your party creates hurdles to care and learning  instead of ease & access? Well I have an idea why, because an ignorant constituency will keep re-electing  you.

you clutch your proverbial pearls moaning about  how terrible the world  is & how awful people are ; why don’t you use your visibility to make it a better place instead of continuing  to show hostility and an unwillingness that people are DIFFFERENT but no less deserving of understanding & kindness.

quit being a hypocrite


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Oppose this ruling

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<p>Live and let live. </p>


Support

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It is a parents right to know what is happening with their child and the child's right to have their parents support them.  Taking a position that all parents are not supportive of their own child is evil but does point out how the current public education system views parents roles in THEIR kids lives.  Where will these public school employees be for the kids when they graduateandove to another school, nowhere.  It will be left to the parents to pick up the pieces and they will be starting from zero understanding of what is going on.  That in no way is about supporting the child and their well-being.  Thank you governor younkin.


Discriminatory practices

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These hateful discriminatory practices cause significant harm. As a long time resident, voter and parent I abhore this specious attempt to gain votes at the expense of families and children. Withdraw this garbage policy suggestion!


Oppose Hunter Biden


I fully oppose this.


This Proposed Policy is Cruel and Evil

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<p>Youngkin is targeting vulnerable transgender children and elevating their risk of suicide just to try and score political points among the alt right. Don’t do this to innocent kids. </p>


Do not do this.


I am opposed to passage of this policy.

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I am opposed to passage of this policy.


Strongly oppose this harmful guideline

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I am appalled at this harmful guidance. It’s poorly conceived and exposes children to bullying and harassment. I sincerely hope that this intolerant guidance will be reconsidered. We should be teaching our children to be respectful and tolerant and not the opposite as is demonstrated in this draft guideline.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


No!

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<p>I strongly oppose this! I support rights for all our students. </p>


OPPOSE


TRANS KIDS BELONG

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<p>Trans kids are human beings that deserve autonomy. By requiring K-12 public school students to have written permission to be called their correct name and pronouns, you will be putting trans kids in danger. Not everyone is affirming of trans people, kids shouldn’t have to suffer as a result of that. Please allow students and staff to continue the work of creating and maintaining safe spaces at school for trans kids. Sometimes, that’s a trans kid’s only hope in life. Trans kids need dignity to be successful at school! </p>


Strongly support (common sense and applicable to all students)

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This is excellent and helps all parents fulfill their duties.


Strongly support impeach Biden


No. This is bad policy. Focus on real issues facing the commonwealth.

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<p>This policy promotes hatred not unity. Abandon this cruel straw-man policy and focus your efforts on solving real problems like the existential environmental crisis we all face. </p>


I oppose this fully.


Strongly oppose new transgender policy

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I strongly oppose the new policy. It will lead to increased suicides, bullying, and homelessness in transgender kids. Stop the hate.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly Oppose


Strongly oppose.


Transgender ruling

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<p>Oppose this decision. </p>


Strong support Trump 2024


I am completely opposed.


Strongly oppose

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<p>As a teacher, I have witnessed first hand the sigh of relief that a student took as they could fully, unapologetically be themselves. Who are we to take that away? That same student is, yet again, on edge, feeling as if their identity is left up to people, who in no way, have attempted to understand. </p>


Fully support the Governor


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


I oppose this bill

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<p>Truly oppose this bill. </p>


I strongly oppose this!

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I oppose this.  It will take away school as a safe space for at risk kids.


I am strongly opposed.


DeSantis 2024 strongly support


Strongly Support/Abolish this Policy Completely

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I am a parent in Virginia and I do not want my kids to be taught this way of living or thinking in any way. Transgender sexuality goes against my belief and the core beliefs of my family. Forcing this on my children is not the school's place and it violates my rights as a parent and the constitutional rights of my children. This policy is religiously discriminating.

This policy violates the rights of students all across Virginia. The VDOE cannot afford special privileges to certain students (a very small percentage at that) while stepping on the rights of others (over 98% of the student population.) This is a constitutional violation. I fully support these changes and suggest that this policy be abolished completely.

A person is free to live their life as they like, but they must not impose their way of thinking or lifestyle on others especially when it violates their constructional rights. No one has the right to enforce this type of policy and that includes the VDOE.

The school system's job is to teach my children how to think. Not what to think.


Oppose New Transgender Laws

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New transgender laws - oppose


Strongly oppose- dangerous and cruel

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The current administration is about evil and hate. This isn’t about protecting children. It’s to create a cultural war in our schools. Shame on you, Governor. Your hate doesn’t belong in our school system. Our children shouldn’t suffer because you want to play President. Stop with the hate. Remember when he created an evil lie about critical race theory? Don’t let him continue to stir up hate.


I oppose this fully.


Support our trans youth

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Trans children deserve our support, not ridicule and rejection


Fully against this

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<p>This is a horrific stance. Protect trans kids. </p>


VDOE Trans Policy

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Very unnecessarily cruel, as a registered voter I will remember this.


Trump 2024 strongly support


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


I fully oppose this.


Stop pandering to less than 1 percent fully support this

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Reviewed the whole document.

Fully support this. When did commonsense became a crime.


Do not do this.


Strongly support the Republican sanity


Strongly opposed

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<p>This is a dangerous proposition.we need to protect our children—ALL of our children—in our schools and elsewhere. Strongly, strongly oppose. </p>


Against this

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This is disgusting, kids should be able to be openly openly trans.


I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Opposed

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<p>This policy is without foundation, politically driven, harmful to young people, conducive to bullying and intolerance, and otherwise ill-considered. The governor should be ashamed of using children as pawns and manipulating parental care to such ill purposes.  </p>


Strongly Opposed!

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<p>The proposed policies seek to erase transgender and non-binary youth from classrooms. Instead of creating a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment maybe our policies should focus on actually teaching our children and paying our teachers more. </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Younkin's school policy on transgender

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I approve of this policy.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Gloucester had to pay $1.3 Million: Massive Resistance doesn't work!

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My county was found by the federal court to have violated Gavin Grimm's rights by refusing to reflect his male identity on his transcript and school documents and by enforcing a bathroom policy that is just like the one recently proposed by the Governor. We were found to have harmed him, and the Fourth Circuit assessed damages of $1.3 Million. Even after the Supreme Court refused to overturn the decision, we had members of our School Board and community arguing we should just ignore the Court. In the 60s, Massive Resistance to the Brown decision deprived a generation of black children of their rights to free public education. Have we learned nothing?

The Governor has to know this policy is illegal. It turns the legislative intent of the statute on its head. Its only value is as a "culture war" cause but the harm enacting it would do to children is immeasurable. Vulnerable children will be subject to more harassment, more bullying, and more self-harm if this policy is put into place, and there is no moral way to justify hurting "the least of these."


Strongly oppose.


STRONGLY SUPPORT this policy!

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


I strongly support this legislation


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


I fully support this Governor!

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There has been a concerted effort to specialize minors in an attempt to implement an extreme movement that will affect the future of these children in a negative and harmful manner. Parents have the right to be involved in the education of their children and sexual content should not be introduced to young children. Gov DeSantis signed a very strong law that prohibits certain sexual behaviors from being introduced to children. I strongly urge you to adopt the same strong laws that protect children in the state!


I fully oppose this

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<p>Transgender children are not being abused, coerced, or forced to be who they are. The discrimination that is not just permitted, but enforced by this measure is absolutely deplorable. </p>


I oppose this fully.


Our children are not political pawns

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STRONGLY OPPOSE.

This is a gutless and shady abuse of executive power, and in a craven act to remain relevant with GOP presidential primary voters, Governor Youngkin released a model policy that will effectively reverse the Policy on the Treatment of Transgender and Gender Expansive Students that Albemarle County (and many other Virginia districts) adopted over the past year to provide safe and inclusive learning environments for gender diverse kids. Presidential Candidate Youngkin is continuously turning his back on the voters of Virginia and we need to put a stop to it.

The Governor's "policy" is a blatant violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act and § 22.1-23.3 of the Code of Virginia AND in disregard of the ruling by the 4th Circuit Court in Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board.

There are gay parents and gay children and people that love them and support them. This horrible policy will force children and families to be targeted, will leave children unprotected, and will increase the suicide rates of children in our communities. I beg of you, do not let Governor Youngkin turn his back on Virginian children and families and use the bodies to climb his way to the presidential ticket. This political ploy is cowardly and Virginian's deserve better.


I am strongly opposed.


Strongly support Youngkin


I strongly oppose this policy change

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<p>You claim to be giving rights back to parents but you are taking away the right of parents with LGBTQ children to have those children treated with dignity and respect and to have equal rights of their peers. I strongly oppose your action on this issue. </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Oppose this safety theater

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Transphobic policies have no place in the halls of education. Children are not being harmed by policies that give care and dignity to all students. Children are harmed when these policies are taken away.