Supported 100%

Having experienced gender dysphoria myself growing up and part of adulthood, this is a brilliant policy that will make it possible for emotionally wounded children to heal instead of harm themselves further. You cannot be born with a gender; gender is socially constructed. We are only born with bodies, not genders. Our brains are part of our bodies, and our genetics are part of our bodies, and thus never truly in conflict with our bodies. It is harmful to tell someone who is that distressed with body dysmorphia that the horrible feelings they have about their bodies are telling the truth. Feeling that alienated from your very own flesh is beyond horrible - so are policies that tell a child such feelings are true and require their peers to say so as well.It truly invalidates a person to tell them their invalidating feelings about their bodies are reality. Misguided attempts at inclusion that act out such monstrous behavior on school children must be stopped - immediately.Thank you for your time.

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Having experienced gender dysphoria myself growing up and part of adulthood, this is a brilliant policy that will make it possible for emotionally wounded children to heal instead of harm themselves further.
You cannot be born with a gender; gender is socially constructed. We are only born with bodies, not genders. Our brains are part of our bodies, and our genetics are part of our bodies, and thus never truly in conflict with our bodies. It is harmful to tell someone who is that distressed with body dysmorphia that the horrible feelings they have about their bodies are telling the truth. Feeling that alienated from your very own flesh is beyond horrible - so are policies that tell a child such feelings are true and require their peers to say so as well.
It truly invalidates a person to tell them their invalidating feelings about their bodies are reality. Misguided attempts at inclusion that act out such monstrous behavior on school children must be stopped - immediately.
Thank you for your time.


STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS OUTRAGEOUS LEGISLATION

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Dear Governor Youngkin,

I am writing to let you know that I strongly oppose this outrageous legislation you have enacted to harm transgender students.  I am assuming this was done without having the full understanding of the impact this decision will have on trans students and their families.  Suicide rates are 4 times greater for trans students who face various barriers in just trying to be who they are.  Ignorance by elected officials and school administrators who do not understand the thoughtful time, careful reflection and education these families have gone through to make the safest decision for their child is unsettling.  You must let trans students and their families make the safest, healthiest decisions for them.  This legislation does the opposite and puts students at greater risk.  I am horrified by your out of touch, ill-informed and hurtful policy.

Shannon Heady, MSW

Mother of 3 children


Strongly Oppose

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Trans people are their own people and they can make decisions for themselves. Its is getting tiering with how many laws we try to put to limit or discredit a certain person .


OPPOSE. Stop abusing LGBTQ youth through school policy changes

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I strongly oppose Gov. Glen Youngkin's proposed school policy changes affecting LGBTQ youth in Virginia. They are already some of the most vulnerable individuals in schools and these changes would dissproportionally affect them, leading to incredibly negative outcomes on their mental & physical health. Be a good person, protect our youth


Strongly oppose harming our citizens in this way

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Trans people are citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As governor, you have an obligation to protect all Virginians, not just the ones you think are worthy. You were not elected to harm the citizens of the commonwealth. Trans rights are as fundamental as children’s rights and women’s rights and Black people’s rights and Latino rights and all other people’s rights. Singling out trans people for your own publicity and pandering  is harmful to all Virginians. I’m disgusted


Strongly support these changes - thankful that parents will be included s in their children’s lives

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I strongly support these changes.  It is important for parents to be involved in all aspects of their children’s lives.


Strongly opposed

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We need to love one another and protect youth no out them.


Strongly oppose.

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Gov. Youngkin is not in tune with the times.  It is past time to move forward with transgender rights.


Equal right mean for EVERYONE!

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Equality means equal rights for everyone. Allow our students to thrive.  It is 2022. We should be moving forward for the fight for equality for everyone.


Strongly oppose

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Trans kids deserve the same rights and education that are given to their cisgender peers


Totally oppose

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You are wasting all of our precious time attacking vulnerable populations when you could, and should, be working to make life better for all of us. Stop playing into unfounded hysteria and leave trans children alone. Shame on you.


public school

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I am in support of trans youth fully participating in school, just like we allow their classmates to participate. There is no need to monitor, restrict, or ban their participation in activities. They are kids and deserve to have fun in school without fear of discrimination.


Strongly Oppose

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Transgender students need protection, not oppressive legislation.


Schools should defer to parents on non-academic issues

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Those who oppose the 2022 model document should actually read it. All it says is that the schools must work with parents to keep parents informed about their student. Which is very positive.


Oppose; Parents were deliberately excluded from this

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The expansion of the rights of trans students in 2021 was done in direct coordination with parents, the vast majority of whom support the rights of trans students. Individual parents should not be able to dictate how others' children get to present themselves. The state should not have to intervene in order for a child to simply go by a preferred pronoun or name. This rolls back the rights of students and teachers by needlessly involving the state.


Trans kids need the state’s support

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<p>As a transgender student in Virginia who also knows many transgender youth here, we are constantly a topic of debate. We are constantly having our rights debated on. We face discrimination and mistreatment in and out of school constantly. With this new law, these kids, who are already disproportionately dealing with the mental health issues brought on by unsupportive people, will now have no guaranteed support system to help them. Some of my friends may have unsupportive parents, but at least their teachers will recognize them and not out them to their families. With this harmful new law, my friends will not have that much, much needed helping hand. You know what protects these people most? Support, love, and most importantly recognition. This law, if proceeded with, will most definitely cause so much harm. My friends may be forced to live on the streets if outed by the school. My friends may harm themselves or commit suicide with this law. We need all the support we can. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This violates student safety at schools and at home, forcing young people to be in a state of survival where schools should be a safe haven for people to prosper and grow. </p>


Strongly Support

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As parents are the ultimate customers of the public school system and since nearly all students attending public schools are minors in the care of their parents or guardians, they should always be informed of any issues that arise which affect their children.  Teachers and school administrators should not be the ones determining these issues for families.  Please return the standards and guidance back to what it was before 2021.


Strongly support. This is about PARENTAL rights.

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Children are under the parent’s authority.  Parents have the right to say what their kids are exposed to.  This isn’t about transgender rights.  Those students are free to be who they are but they don’t have the right to impose themselves on the other students.  Sharing bathrooms is not acceptable, teachers should not be casting doubt on anyone’s sexuality, nor should they keep secrets from parents.  The one thing teachers should be is transparent  in what is going on in the classroom.  A red flag is when a teacher tells students “don’t tell your parents.”


Support. It was about time someone thinks about real education

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Parents notification should be for every kid. Regardless. And honestly I think that's the right way to go. So every deviation should be reported to the parents.


Loving parent

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<p>Strongly oppose Youngkin’s policy. All students deserve dignity, privacy and respect. </p>


Support us

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Support trans and gay rights.


Support us


Virginia is not a fascist GOP playground

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<p>We will not allow you to turn Va into a Texas and Florida gop lead authoritarian state. You won by stoking white fear and creciente against minorities and “others” , but you will not convert Virginian’s hearts to the intolerance which is the MAGA agenda and get you push on your ill-advised march to the White House </p>


Vehemently oppose

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I stand in solidarity with the students walking out to protest this bill that violates human rights. Trans kids deserve to be themselves without institutional bigotry and attack!


Strongly Oppose

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It's contrary to the law and harmful to students.


Support of Trans kids

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<p>Oppose Youngkin’s plans </p>


OPPOSE STOP USING CHILDREN as political pawns, very unrepublican of you to keep trying to control th

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STOP USING CHILDREN as political pawns, very unrepublican of you to keep trying to control the lives of American people


Vehemently opposed. Cruel policy

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<p>This is youngkin trying to satisfy his radical base of supporters. VA is better than this. This policy will put children’s lives in danger. Who cares what pronouns people use. Youngkin should be ashamed.  </p>


Vehemently opposed. Cruel policy


Strongly Oppose

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<p>School should be a place where children go to learn. These hateful policies create a hostile learning environment for cis and trans children alike. Trans students deserve a learning environment where they feel safe and affirmed. Cis students deserve teachers and elected officials whose example doesn’t instill hate and fear in them. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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Young people are at a difficult time in their life. They are exploring themselves and the world around them. Some of them realize that they are transgender or nonbinary. That is up to them to figure out how they perceive themselves in the world.

It is the job of the teacher to be an educator and nothing more. Teachers should be able to address students however they are comfortable. Comfortable, safe children are the best learners.

These young people are exploring things around them. Will they figure out they are not transgender or nonbinary in the future? Maybe. But that is not for others to know. That is for them and only them to know. And it is up to teachers AND PARENTS to be supportive during this time in their lives.


Support

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We must support children struggling with gender identity, but teachers need to focus on teaching. Parental involvement is essential for struggling students and working with counselors.  Teachers are not qualified to support students struggling with disorders, whether eating disorders, abuse, or gender identity.  We need a better solution which is why I support repealing the 2021 Model Policies, which put too much on teachers.


Completely Opposed

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<p>I am completely opposed to the proposed model policies. They are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids. </p>


Strongly Oppose Governor's Policy

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<p>We want all our kids to feel safe and be free to be who they are...human beings with real feelings. </p>


Wow look I've posted a 3rd time

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<p>Anyone can post multiple times on here even using to same name. Not a good way to obtain public input. Doesn't provide genuine feedback. </p>


Trans Kids

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<p>The place to begin is in ethics, and the core ethical base is: trans-kids are made in the image of God. This means that they must be treated with respect and kindness. There is an ancient document that says: "Since man is made in the image of God...to slap a man in the face is to slap God in the face" (paraphrased). The proposed draft policy fails to do this, and so should be rejected. Just because trans-kids are different than us 'straight' people, doesn't mean that they have less value...indeed, their struggles deserve our understanding, not our criticism.  Shakespeare has a line that applies: "None can be called deformed but the unkind." </p>


trans rights are human rights

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Support

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<p>I support this Policy! </p>


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trans rights are human rights


Strongly Oppose new model policies for the treatment of transgender students proposal

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For the past week, I have been looking to the other side to find common ground. Sadly, I cannot.

Demanding that teachers/staff call students by their legal given names is ridiculous. Many of us (including me) have nicknames that we go by, and asking our parents for written permission is degrading and insulting. This rule will affect more children than just transgender ones. Children are not property, but living, breathing beings too.

Statistically, we should be more concerned about children sharing bathrooms with angry cisgender men than other transgender children. Sharing one story of something horrible that happened doesn't translate to a whole group of people. That is literally the definition of prejudice.

It's intellectually dishonest to say that teachers/staff are pushing drugs and surgery on unsuspecting children and families. In public schools, parental permission is needed to even take Tylenol. I'm not even going to touch on surgical gender modification because until they're 18, that involves parental involvement too.

Transgenderism is not a "phase" or something delinquent. It's who they are. Why would anyone choose to be transgender? Just based on some of the comments that I've read supporting the policy change, they are not only bullied and dehumanized by school children, but adults as well.

Many of you were beyond worried about children being abused behind closed doors while school facilities were closed; but now? Crickets. Children, particularly those who are different, are abused by their parents and family members more than any outside group. For many who do not conform, school may be the only place to be themselves fully.

This new policy change will systematically silence gender non-comformative children (CHILDREN!), and many may possibly die as a result. They are just trying to live their lives like everyone else, and it pains me that certain groups want to take their rights away that they fought so hard for because of, frankly, unadulterated bigotry.

I oppose the New Model Policy that will treat transgender students as less than, and hope that this policy proposal is rescinded. "Parental choice" should include voices like mine as well.


Total Support

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I and many I know fully support this new guidance.  Protect students, give parents the rights and responsibilities that should ONLY BE THEIRS and prohibit real discrimination!


Strongly OPPOSE!  Transgender individuals have only a 50% chance of living to adulthood due murder a

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I strongly OPPOSE!   Transgender individuals only have a 50% chance of living to adulthood due to high murder rates and suicide.  Making someone “prove” they are transgender and/ or outing them to family members further oppresses an incredibly oppressed population.  Referring to someone as their gender and chosen name is suicide prevention!
If you have ever used a public restroom, you have interacted with a transgender individual!  They’re deserving of love, acceptance, and respect just as much as anyone else!


STUDENTS DO NOT BELONG TO THE GOVERNMENT

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Students fall under the jurisdiction of their parents.  If a tax-payer funded institution is hiding behavioral changes from parents, this is overreach.  Parents should decide the best course of action to care for their own children. Not the government.

Public Education is NOT A GAME.  Students should use bathrooms by sex, play sports and identify as their born sex during the School day.

Special Accommodations should be reserved for children with Disabilities. FULL STOP.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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This is cruel discrimination and will irreparably harm children


Strongly Oppose

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As the parent of a non-binary trans student in a public school in Virginia I strongly oppose this bill. We have been fortunate to be in a supportive district in Fairfax which has enabled Curb to become their authentic self at school. Despite this, they continue to struggle with their mental health as the way they present to the world does not match who they are on the inside.

My child is fortunate to have a supportive family that has been open to conversation, support, and name changes. My child is an exception and passing this policy will increase the likelihood that their peers and those behind them are at greater risk for debilitating depression, increased social anxiety and potential death.

I urge you to oppose these standards to protect all of our children


Strongly Support Gov. Youngkin's Executive order

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gender dysphoria or gender identity dysphoria is simply a disagreement between how a person feels and the scientific definition of sex a birth. This question is a personal issue not one that needs government mandates. Gov. Youngkin is right in insisting we following science effectively removing government from the issue.


End Transphobia and homophobia

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<p>Strongly oppose, let youth choose to identify however they want </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE


Teach kids things they need to know - stop telling children that some men get periods

Get the let's cancer out of schools totally

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Enough of the insane Democrat garbage. It helps literally nobody.


I am physically incapable of opposing this any more than I currently do

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<p>Pointless, hateful policy targeting incredibly marginalized individuals to virtue signal to nationalist Christians. Dumb culture war nonsense from a pointless Governor. </p>


Proposed change to policies regarding transgender and non binary students-VDOE

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<p>I strongly oppose this change to the law. I have been a resident of Virginia and Fairfax county for 49 years. I have a transgender niece. This proposed change is against existing law in VA protecting LGBTQ individuals. As a country and state we should continue moving toward more equality and equity for all individuals, we should not be moving backward. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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As lifelong Virginian and social worker in child welfare for 20 plus years, I am strongly opposed to the proposed regulations.  LGBTQ youth are at increased risk for death by suicide, abuse by others, and homelessness.  In particular trans youth are at even higher risk for these things.  Parents are not being pushed aside when youth are afforded the opportunity to experience love and acceptance.  And I would hope that is exactly what every parent desires for their child.  Furthermore, the legal precedents are set and these regulations run against existing policy and settled law in the protection and support of trans students.  DO NOT SUPPORT.


100% Agree

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Definitely agree with Governor, parents should been in the loop and have final say on what their children are doing or saying…


Strongly Oppose Terrible Policies

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I am dismayed and disgusted by the Youngkin Administration's proposed model policies for transgender students. These students deserve compassionate, caring, and affirming support from our public education system. In many cases, tragically, they do not have this support at home, and now our Virginia educators will be forced to turn their backs on them as well.

Contrary to Rep. Bob Good's terrible and inaccurate assertion, the large percentage of transgender youth who attempt suicide is directly attributable to their not feeling accepted and supported--rather than "grooming" as he moronically proclaims. They simply want to fit in with their peers and live as their true selves.

My daughter is a social worker who works with transgender youth every day. Those who have a supportive network of family, friends,  teachers, and counselors are thriving--they are happy, confident, and living healthy and rewarding lives. Governor Youngkin and his misguided advisors are proposing to create a system that devalues and stigmatizes these vulnerable young people, putting many of them at risk of great harm.

The most egregious aspect is that the proposed policies are not research-based. In fact, they run counter to the substantial medical and mental health research recommendations that overwhelmingly call for affirmation and support. Youngkin is risking children's lives in order to score political points. Speaking truth to power: that is simply evil.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>It's not up to the vdoe to decide what gender identity a person belongs to. Leave it up to the individual </p>


Strongly Support

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Thank you for developing a common sense approach to transgender in our schools.  Educators need to focus on educating our students and not social experimentation.


Make the update

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<p>Make the change. Stop using our children to make political statements. We are exposing our young to very confusing situations that they cannot process. Shame on this society today. It’s truly sad. Allow children to feel safe and not be confused until they are old enough to understand what is happening. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>Strongly oppose </p>


Highschooler

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People’s rights shouldn’t be taken from them


Strongly oppose this policy - do not exploit children for political gain

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This policy uses 'parents rights' as bait to completely disenfranchise actual parent's rights. Teachers are allowed to determine what my child is called in school, what pronouns they use, and how to depict my child's identity if it conflicts with their religious convictions. Is my right as a parent more or less important than a teacher's private religious convictions? Where does it stop? Are teachers allowed to not speak a child's name if their faith is different from the teacher's? Will they teach history, science or government based on their beliefs? This policy panders to the disinformation that gender is the same as sexuality, fueling existing fears and panic. For those who are interested in faith conviction, consider the possibility that your faculty and administration may be atheists! No one wins with this egregious policy, especially transgender kids and their families.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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Contrary to the thinly veiled rhetoric used to justify these policies, this strips away parents' rights by requiring the state to get involved in order to make it "legal" for parents to request schools to simply use their child's preferred pronouns. Parents will have to jump through bureaucratic obstacles in order to make such a simple and harmless request. Furthermore, children will be forced to make FULL LEGAL COMMITMENTS to changing their identity rather than being allowed the space to experiment with something as simple and inconsequential as pronouns and designations. Shouldn't children be encouraged to take their time when figuring out their identities, rather than be pressured to go all in? Requesting your peers to use a different name or pronoun for you is simple and reversible; going through legal requirements that, depending on local laws, can require hormone replacement therapy and legally documented name changes in order to be "recognized" as a different gender is much more complicated and harder to reverse. This could see an increase in children who just wanted to experiment regretting their choices and being forced to de-transition later in life, which comes with a host of trauma. The biggest threat to the safety and livelihood of a transgender youth actually comes from the home and family. Indeed, for many students, school can offer the one place they can feel safe, whether it means providing meals they lack at home or providing emotional support they lack at home. By forcing kids to come out to their parents or else stifle and silence themselves in misery, this puts children in abusive homes at more risk for homelessness and violence. At best, the full repercussions of this were not considered; at worst, this is a bigoted and deliberate attempt to stifle and snuff out trans people by gradually rolling back their rights inch by inch. Regardless, this move is completely authoritarian and to label it as expanding parents' freedom from government oversight is disingenuous; we will not be fooled.


Opposed.

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USA is a free country. So not try to legislate personal decisions, religion, and culture. Look at other countries which suppress the wills of their people. Commit to the US Constitution with separation of church and state. Mind your own business and work for peace.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>As a parent of two middle schoolers in Arlington, Virginia, I strongly oppose this new guidance, which is rooted in homophobic and trans-phobic sentiment and will harm all Virginia students. Not only will this guidance cause deep and direct harm to LGBTQ+ students, but will negatively impact all students by contributing to a hostile and non-welcoming environment for a part of the student population in schools. All students deserve to feel safe and supported at school and to experience their school community as a refuge where they are free to express their true selves. This guidance will undermine the sense of school as a safe and welcoming community and will be detrimental to the mental health of LGBTQ+ students. I urge the rejection of this dangerous, misguided, and politically motivated guidance. </p>


SUPPORT

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I'm a parent who supports this guidance document. I strongly oppose any policy or guidance documents that sexualizes young people.


Common sense.


Strongly support the governor

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Governor Youngkin is bringing common sense back to the schools. Parents have a right to know what issues are being presented to their child’s counselors. I would hate to be teaching high school now when a teen has the option of changing their gender on a daily  basis and the teacher has to comply with the changes or risk disciplinary action. The only mention of sex in school should be how to prevent pregnancy. Period. A biological male should not be in a girls locker room.


Strongly support! Stop the activist bullies forcing schools to overreach.

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Our schools are being bullied by activists to come in between kids and their parents and forcing indoctrination across areas that don’t have a place in the schools. By asking for legitimate documentation of mental illness which is gender dysphoria in order to allow a student specific accommodations is completely reasonable and common sense.
Thank you Governor Youngkin for your leadership on this issue.


Strongly Oppose

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Gender non-conforming students continue to be at higher risk of physical violence, depression, suicidal ideation/attempts, and substance abuse- and that is with the current protections in place.  Rolling back student’s rights policies for gender diverse youth will, without a doubt, increase these harmful outcomes.  This is unnecessary and actively harmful- as a mother of two children in Virginia public schools, please do not institute this.


I STRONGLY SUPPORT

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I vehemently support this proposed legislation.

The school place is for education, not for enabling trans children in their gender dysphoria. Supporting transgendering IS a form of child abuse.

At school, everyone is treated equally, to include trans kids, but special accommodations should not be made for them in ways that disrupt others (restrooms, athletics, etc.)

If we allow for “special protections” for trans kids, then we are creating an environment ripe for exploitation by kids experiencing an identity crisis or merely seeking special treatment.

My tax dollars will not fund these initiatives


STRONGLY OPPOSE!!!

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<p>this is a horrible bigoted policy that is going to hurt children! </p>


Strongly support


Strongly oppose

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Research indicates that gender identity depends on the hormones the fetus was exposed to in the womb. It is not evil, or mental illness. It is science. Leave these kids alone.


Youngkin’s Cruel LGBTQ Policies

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My now young adult child experienced Preschool through postgraduate as a student with a disability. Our family knows first hand the experience of education as a minority, many times a misunderstood or unwelcome minority. Students must feel safe in their environment in order to learn. Youngkin’s views towards LGBTQ in the Virginia K-12 public education system are small minded, prejudiced, hateful, and harmful. He must welcome all students and meet them where they are versus making them feel unsafe and less than in order to receive an effective and successful public education.


I strongly, strongly oppose this transphobic policy.

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This potential policy puts children at risk of abuse, being kicked out, and harassment, as well as depression and suicidal thoughts. Trans students, according to the TrevorProject.org, “…are not inherently prone to suicide risk because of their sexual orientation or gender identity but rather placed at higher risk because of how they’re mistreated and stigmatized in society” (Source: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/article/facts-about-lgbtq-youth-suicide/).

If you are going to make these decisions, and call it “protection” for kids, I urge you to consider the consequences of this policy. Suicide rates will increase among trans youth. Protecting our kids? By causing suicide rates to skyrocket? Please rethink this. I have friends who will be greatly affected by this policy, and it hurts me to think that there are people who hate them for simply existing.

In addition- your concept of pronouns is greatly inaccurate. Banning pronouns from schools would include only using third person to speak to one another. For example: “Bob likes lunch because Bob’s favorite food is burgers, and Bob loves the burgers served during lunch.” Grammatically, this does not make sense. “I” is a pronoun. “You” is a pronoun. The argument against pronouns is subjective, as pronouns are anything not directly third person.

If religion is the source for this policy, HRC.org states, “Often times, transgender people know God through their transgender journeys. Trans experiences can be a rich source through which God speaks different words both to that person and to the people around them; a message that God loves diversity and variation; a message that God invites people into collaboration and co-creating how we will move in and shape the world around us; a message that sometimes knowledge about who we are and who God made us to be can come in different stages and evolve over time” (Source: https://www.hrc.org/resources/what-does-the-bible-say-about-transgender-people).

In a scientific study, The National Library of Medicine found that “The possible psychogenic or biological aetiology of transsexuality has been the subject of debate for many years. Here we show that the volume of the central subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BSTc), a brain area that is essential for sexual behaviour, is larger in men than in women. A female-sized BSTc was found in male-to-female transsexuals. The size of the BSTc was not influenced by sex hormones in adulthood and was independent of sexual orientation. Our study is the first to show a female brain structure in genetically male transsexuals and supports the hypothesis that gender identity develops as a result of an interaction between the developing brain and sex hormones” (Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7477289/).

This policy you and your administration propose is severely harmful to trans youth, against scientific studies, and even against what God speaks for in the Bible. All of these reasons combined just show how awful your policy is.

I urge you to fix this before it is too late. Thank you for your time and consideration.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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Strongly opposed mother of three.


STRONGLY SUPPORT

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<p>I strongly support this policy change.  I am currently an administrator in a large school system in NOVA.  I wish I could post my name, but I know I will face retaliation if I do.  </p>


FULLY SUPPORT 2022 Model Policies

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The Commonwealth must re-establish school policies that guarantee

Every child is a unique individual with distinctive abilities and characteristics that should be valued and respected.

All students have the right to attend school in an environment free from discrimination, harassment, or bullying.

Protections and encouragement respect for all students.

The Commonwealth must work with parents to

Address topics such as the treatment of transgender students

Compassionately respect all students rights

The Commonwealth must enforce the

Constitutional protections that prohibit governmental entities from requiring individuals to adhere to or adopt a particular ideological belief. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees religious freedom and prohibits the government from compelling speech that is contrary to an individual’s personal or religious beliefs.

The rights of parents to exercise their fundamental rights granted by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children.

The Code of Virginia affirmed rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated.

The 2021 Model Policies eggregiously overstepped the aformentioned restraints and must be modified as proposed. The 2021 Model Policies were created to achieve cultural and social transformation in schools, not protect the rights of all citizens. In particular. the 2021 Model Policies disregarded the rights of parents and ignored other legal and constitutional principles that significantly impact how schools educate students, including transgender students.

The proposed 2022 Model Policies provide clear, accurate, and useful guidance to Virginia school boards that align with statutory provisions governing the Model Policies. The policies are in alignment with the Code of Virginia, § 22.1-23.3 (the “Act”).


Strongly Oppose

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Even if this policy was truly intended to be supportive of parental rights, it fails comprehensively.  Parents should be involved in how their child is treated and referred to at school.

The real motivations of this proposed change is bigotry and ignorance.  Governor Youngkin’s proposal simply demonstrates the oppressive overreach of minority rule; the opportunism of some in power to impose their repressive “values” on most folks who are more compassionate, understanding and truly supportive of child welfare.  This proposal puts already vulnerable children at further risk. Data clearly show that trans and non-binary children face serious mental health consequences, and are at higher risk of suicide, when their identity is thwarted — and ostracized.  Schools should be a safe space for all children, as well as an environment free from bias, hatred and institutionalized discrimination.


Oppose!

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These proposed model policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids.


Support for Parents & Education

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<p>Parents matter and should be included. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSSED... R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissio

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In short, this is despicable behaviour. Not only is this is a vast overstepping of governmental authority (so much for small government, when you are using your power to attack and antagonize students!!)

This policy will kill children. I reiterate, if this becomes policy, children will die as a result of it. Please protect our trans students in Virginia, they already face discrimination.

Finally, I would encourage to read "R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2020)" which ruled that firing a trans employee because of their status as a trans person is ILLEGAL. This is an extension of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989). While this is not directly applicable to school systems, I would however encourage you to take a hard look at that case and decide if you are willing to engage in discrimination against a clearly defined protected class by the US Supreme Court. It is settled law that you cannot fire someone for being trans and I would say by extension that you cannot then discriminate and antagonize a CHILD for being trans.

Take a hard look at yourself Virginia, you are killing children.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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This policy is hypocritical at best. At word, it is actively discriminating against all students.

First off, parental permission is required for a whole host of activities at school. Why are you claiming that "parents need to be involved" in decisions about playing sports or participating in other school activities? And why are you taking choice away from parents who want their children to participate on a certain sports team? If you really supported parents, you'd let them put their kids on any team they deemed was appropriate and open for them to join.

Secondly, parents shouldn't have to provide legal documents for teachers and school staff to address their children by names and/or pronouns that are different from their given names. This is deliberately creating barriers for parents who don't have the time and money to get those documents as well as for parents of young kids who want to wait before they finalize legal name changes. It should be as simple as, "My child is addressed by this name and these pronouns."

Lastly, why do parents need to know where their children are using the bathroom, especially at teenagers? Children have bodily autonomy and should be able to use whatever toilet they choose to. By middle school, students barely get bathroom breaks to start with. Schools need to figure out how to stop fights and vaping, not police what bathrooms they use.


Strongly support

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<p> This is not the correct forum for assessing public sentiment.  Twitter is at least 30% bots.  The extreme left has mastered the art of illusion.  They have been outed.  The only valid measure of public opion is an honest ballot box.</p>


Oppose - this is simple discrimination!

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As an educator and a parent I can think of nothing more harmful than to hateful, dangerous force politically partisan politics onto children in school.

If this policy was actually about about "parent choice" then a parent could override this policy, but you have specifically made it difficult to circumvent this policy by requiring outside medical intervention in this process.

This policy is wrong, purposely harmful, and inconsistent with the Constitutional protections of ALL Americans.


oppose

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<p>This Guidance is outrageously bad. I do not want this. Families do not want this. I will do everything I can to protect children. This Guidance only does harm. Stop treating trans children like this. They are not anyone's political game. They are children. They are people. They are ours. </p>


ABSOLUTELY AGREE BUT THIS IS NOWHERE NEAR TO ENOUGH

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The trans lobby is deliberately targeting under 16s in order to "queer the next generations" (their exact words) and by "queer" they mean to 'deconstruct' everything that protects children's boundaries, safety, agency, sexual orientation, freedom of though and speech, right to refuse intimacy, etc and their ultimate endgame is to lower and then abolish the 'AGE OF CONSENT'.

This lobby group of powerful, wealthy, influential fetishistic transvestites who rebranded themselves as "transgender" in order to hoodwink the public's perception of them away from their sexual paraphilias are playing all of us for fools. BigPharma isn't also in on the act because of the billion $€¥¢ to be made.

There is no such thing thing as a "transgender" child. Anyone opposing this excellent guidance needs to give their gaslit, virtue-signalling, Munchausen-by-proxy, "better a fake straight trans kid than a gay or lesbian kid" heads a wobble.


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED

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This violates multiple established laws. Trans rights are human rights and if this passes it will be incredibly damaging for the trans children this impacts. It costs the adults who work in schools nothing to treat these children with the respect they should of any  other pupil.

Do not pass this. VA is better than this.


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED


STRONGLY OPPOSE: the new policies are cruel, inhumane, & will harm trans students

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This latest attempt to harm our vulnerable transgender students will not stand. How dare you scream "parent's rights" in the name of bullying trans and nonbinary kids–– well guess what, I'm a parent of two children in the Virginia Public School system, and I oppose these vile "proposed model policies" with every fiber of my being. Kids are going to get hurt because of this, so stop pretending you're doing parents some sort of favor with your transphobic, hateful policies.

Forcibly outing children to their families is never okay. This can lead to violence at home, or result in that child being kicked out and becoming homeless just for being who they are–– a simple Google search will tell you that disproportionate amount of the U.S.'s unhoused population under 18 are LGBTQ+ individuals (but again, YOU DON'T CARE).

Our Virginia teachers are amazing and want to provide a safe learning environment for their students to thrive, and these new policies will do the opposite. You are intentionally placing these children in harm's way for political gain, and it is clear as day that YOU DON'T CARE WHO GETS HURT. But I do, and other parents do too.

Governor Youngkin, you should be ashamed of yourself.


Strongly opposed!!!

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I strongly oppose this! Our kids have enough to deal with in school everyday with fear of unchecked gun violence and racism to add more to it. Stop trying to take away the little bit of controle they have over themselves and worry about more important matters!


OPPOSED- Protect our children from discrimination

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Gov. Youngkin’s new guidelines ignore evidence-based best practices and put transgender and gender non-conforming students at greater risk. Transgender students are already at higher risk of suicide, bullying and harrassment.  Governor Youngkin should withdraw the “model  policy” guidelines regarding transgender students. If Gov. Youngkin does not withdraw the guidelines, the Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jillian Balow,  should refuse to approve them.


Loving parent

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I strongly support Gov. Youngkin's transgender policies.


Do not discriminate against LGBTQ youth

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<p>I grew up in Virginia during a time where it was less acceptable to be openly LGBTQ. I lived in the closet for much of my adult life before coming to terms with being non binary. You must oppose every initiative that would seek to harm a gay or trans child. Virginia can do better. </p>


Strongly Opposed

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<p>Actively suppressing a child’s ability to be themselves and outing them to their parents before they are ready is not only selfish of those who don’t care to understand someone being different but dangerous for kids who live in households where their identity is not accepted. This isn’t to protect the children, this is strictly a form of identity suppression. Think of the danger you’re putting these kids through over your own trivial values and beliefs for once. This is an outrage. </p>


Loving parent


K 12 policies

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Glad to support so proud of our governor has a backbone

to support the parents it’s high time the mutalation of our youth

Is brought to a stop by transgender crazinesses


Support


Oppose

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I absolutely oppose. You will be harming children and young adults.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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As a parent of young children and a licensed professional counselor, I am concerned that these proposed changes will cause significant forseeable harm to not only transgender youth, but also the Commonwealth's ability to educate children in general. This political posturing does nothing but distract parents, students, and educators from the real work of providing an education for our children, which requires us all to work together. The Commonwealth has a responsibility to provide a quality education to all students, and if individual parents wish to raise their children in an environment that is not inclusive of all students, then they always have the right to send their children to private school or homeschool them. These proposed changes will prevent students from being able to learn and educators from being able to educate.

If the 2022 Model Policies document is approved, research indicates that there will be a resultant increase in youth suicide, youth mental health issues, worsening truancy and graduation rates, lower standardized test scores, and increased costs for schools due to higher educator turnover (burnout and brain drain) and legal expenses for violating federal privacy laws. Why would anyone support policies that will predictably lead to these outcomes?

This policy is bad for everyone. Parents already have rights concerning their children's education. Students need to be protected from the very real dangers this policy would create. Reject the 2022 Model Policies and retain the 2021 Model Policies.


Oppose governor’s stance. Why waste time fighting nonexistent threats?

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Hi there, while I see many parents fretting that letting kids use the bathroom of their choice could endanger girls, this just does not hold water when you look at evidence. I think you’ll find that this happens in reactionary novels and on JK Rowling’s social media pages, but not in real life. We all want the freedom to live as we are - we don’t deny kids the right to a nickname, for example. It’s ridiculous to waste time, public money and moral energy trying to deny them an aspect of their identity that hurts no one. Of course kids want their wishes about their body respected! We all do!


Staunchly opposed - leave the kids alone!

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Stop trying to stoke culture wars on your failed path to the presidency! Leave the kids be, and let schools help those that need help. Practice the "Christianity" you propose to follow - "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me".


STOP THE DISGUSTING ATTACK

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The mere proposal is an attack on these vulnerable children.


As a teacher I strongly support

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Under our current policy we have to keep calling a student by a different name even if a parent tells us not to. That happened to me last year. As a parent myself this made me very uncomfortable! I don’t see how getting parents involved is in any way transphobic!


Transgender students

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Earlier I mistakenly wrote oppose. Please eliminate that. I agree with the governor.


BEYOND Strongly Oppose

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<p>ALL children deserve to be treated with respect, compassion, and encouragement within school. What you are proposing isolates, marginalizes, and tells trans kids that their lives are not worthy of respect and protection. Stop bullying trans kids and instead focus on elevating the educational opportunities for ALL children in Virginia. </p>


Allowing Teacher Discretion

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The 2022 Model Policies as written make dangerous assumptions about the stability and safety of individual homes across the Commonwealth of Virginia, and deny educators the ability to leverage their own expertise about how to support children in the best, safest way.

We as parents must acknowledge that, while rare, gender dysphoria is real among people all over the world, and that, without the proper levels of support, young people susceptible to anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and suicide. Denying these young peoples' challenges does not eliminate them, it only makes feelings of shame and isolation more dangerous.

I am sympathetic to parents who feel that this policy rights the wrongs of the 2021 Model Policies, and feel that those directives placed teachers and administrators as a wedge between parents and their children. In stable, loving households with parents ready to work with love and care as their kids try to solidify their sense of identity and self, engaging families and requiring their support makes sense.

However, no matter the school district, I am certain that virtually every commenter can remember, whether in their own life or in one of their classmates, a family that was defined by instability, neglect, violence, substance abuse and/or bigotry. These policies reject the reality that there are some students who have to essentially raise themselves, who have to live functionally independent lives even as teens. These are young people who cannot reasonably expect their parents can support them as they try to understand their own gender identity, even if they would support them.

And I believe that this is where the Model Policies fail. Teachers, staffers, and administrators are experienced experts who have seen all sorts of children from all sorts of places who need all sorts of things. While my parents were and remain positive forces for good in my life, I remember teachers who affirmed my passions, challenged my philosophies, and had conversations with me that my parents simply weren't equipped to have. Simply put, these teachers have more experience than us as parents, and we as a society should trust their judgment when it comes to affirming our children and determining whether parents are in the proper position to be a part of that team in this aspect of children's lives.

We demand our school systems provide the physical, emotional and intellectual support necessary to ensure our children thrive in this world. We make those demands not only because it is more convenient, so that we can tend to our offices or farms while someone else handles education, but because in some or many instances these teachers and administrators have the training, experience and resources to do better for our children than we can.

Recommending that teachers engage parents when a child is redefining their gender is a sensible practice. Requiring them to do so is simply too dangerous. I oppose these policies, and hope that the Governor's Office and the Department of Education will amend them moving forward.


Strongly oppose

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As has become typical in our country, this law, coached as a law to protect cis gender students, is a thinly veiled attack on transgender students and their families. Transgender persons are uniquely victimized in our society. They are disproportionately bullied and excluded. As a consequence, they suffer from some of the highest suicide attempt and suicide completion rates per capita in the nation. Right in our commonwealth, a talented and kind young trans woman committed suicide this week. In addition, per capita, trans women, and especially trans women of color suffer disproportionately from violent assault and murder. These laws serve only to further the marginalization and dehumanization of our trans children, siblings, mothers, fathers and friends, which leads to this atmosphere of hatred and violence. I strongly oppose this law. Our cis gender children are going to be fine. Our transgender children are the ones who are truly in danger.

“The suicide attempt rate among transgender persons ranges from 32% to 50% across the countries. Gender-based victimization, discrimination, bullying, violence, being rejected by the family, friends, and community; harassment by intimate partner, family members, police and public; discrimination and ill treatment at health-care system are the major risk factors that influence the suicidal behavior among transgender persons.” (Virupashka, et al., Indian J. Psychol Med,  2016 Nov-Dec; 38(6): 505–509 doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.194908)

In addition, these laws are frequently couched as protections of religious freedom. This is a cynical use of our most vulnerable citizens in an era of culture war and extreme political partisanship. The only religious freedom being “protected” here is the freedom to discriminate. It is often ignored that the the principles on which this country was founded are meant not only to protect the right of the religious to practice their faith, but also the right of those who don’t practice a particular faith from the imposition of a religious mandate on them. Religion and religious practice is rightly protected, but should be kept away from legislation as our founders intended.


Oppose!!!

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<p>We CANNOT afford to go backwards in this country with these types of policies. Transgender people are PEOPLE just like anyone else and deserve to have their rights upheld. </p>


The Compassion of Teachers Saved My Life. Let Them Comfort Trans-Kids

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I grew up in an abusive household that also, by happenstance, was fundamentalist Christian. Their religion didn't make them abusers but it did inform what set them off. I am gay. I knew that this had to remain a secret. If it didn't there would be physical and emotional abuse as a consequence (as an adult I found out they would still try emotional abuse). School was the place I was allowed to be myself. I had to be the perfect, quiet child my parents demanded at home but at school I could be more comfortable in my skin. I was able to be open with my friends but what's more I knew that there were a few teachers that were willing to listen to me as I tried to manage my own emotions and thoughts. I knew that I could rely on my teachers, the only positive adult influence in my life, when I needed the emotional support I could not get at home. This new guidance would remove that comfort from trans students across Virginia. Parental rights are fine and everything but there are some parents who don't have their child's best interest at heart (not just about transgender identity). This guidance will complicate that. If I had been trans and these rules were in place, I could not have leaned on my school for emotional support as I grew into an adult even though most of the support I needed was unrelated to gender or sexual identity. But how could you trust a person that can at any time be mandated by the state to tell others what you had told them in confidence.  I know the cruelty is the point so it's useless for me to write this comment but please think about the damage that you will be doing to kids regardless of their identities. Not all parents have the best interests of their kids at heart.


No outing kids

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I strongly oppose the outing of kids without their consent. No good comes from the government imposing on human rights.  It is harmful to all transgender and nonbinary persons.  Keep government regulations to relevant issues.


Strongly oppose!

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This will put transgender and nonbinary kids at greater risk. This policy is misguided and cruel.


Parental Involvement Does not Mean Endangering Trans and other LGBTQ+ Youth

Kenny Boddye, Occoquan District Supervisor

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To whom it may concern,

Thank you for allowing the public to weigh in on this change of Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.

I am writing today to oppose the proposed change in Model Policies, as the 2021 Model Policies were carefully crafted with collaboration from educators, parents, human rights activists, attorneys, other educational professionals, and more. The 2021 Model Policies established evidenced-based and trauma-informed procedures which were designed to uplift and protect trans youth, as well as other LGBTQ+ children, from discrimination, bullying, and abuse at home. The reversal of these policies lacks the same level of evidenced-based foundation, and was devised by a much more insular group of decision-makers.

Additionally, there is a good chance that these new model policies are in violation of the Virginia Values Act, which modernized Virginia law to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in their daily lives, including in public accommodations such as in schools. Not accommodating students' preferred names and pronouns, as well as forcibly outing them to their parents, is in clear violation of the Human Rights Act, as amended by the Virginia Values Act, of the Virginia Code.

The partnership between parents and educators is paramount to the thriving futures of our children, but not all children live in positive, affirming households or with understanding family members. The new model policies would open LGBTQ+ youth to potential abuse and abandonment at home just as it opens them up to discrimination and bullying at school. It's illegal, it's bad public policy and it's wrong for our communities.


Support Totally. Parental Rights For the Win!

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Do not allow any person other than the child's parents to make any decision to alter in any way a child. Studies show that some 95% of kids who are confused about their gender will later on find out their gender is what they were born with. What we have are sick people who think they know better and will transition kids to be something else and it is irreversible. Allow kids to be kids and stop teaching them about sexuality till they are in their teens and in an appropriate setting. And do not let anyone but the parents make medical decisions for their kids.


Ok groomers, we get it

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Obviously the correct policy, short of outlawing this nonsense totally. Ignore the left - they are the problem.


Strongly Oppose

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I strongly oppose the proposed guidelines that seek to reverse current protections for trans youth in the public school system. Science has proven high rates of mental health concerns among this population (Russell & Fish, 2016). Evidence also indicates that school policies focused on supporting transgender and queer/questioning youth are associated with a safer learning environment for these youth (as indicated by perceived support from youth and teachers; Day et al., 2020). The proposed policies are not science-informed and stand to worsen mental health and academic outcomes for trans and nonbinary youth


Completely support!

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Finally, policies that adhere to the values and beliefs of the family.

"Schools shall respect parents' values and beliefs" - Yes. The same way we respect others' opinions and beliefs, they should also respect ours.

"Schools shall defer to parents to make the best decisions with respect to their children:..." - Absolutely! In my opinion this particular statement is long long overdue! I don't trust teachers on how and what message they would deliver to our kids. And this is the fundamental problem of the school educational system today. I don't enforce my values, faith, beliefs, understanding on anyone. I expect the same from others, especially when it comes to our kids and matters like this.

This framework is many years too late. Seems like over the past several years the educational system switched from providing real education for our kids to serving the interests of certain movements and communities... Finally someone opens the conversation and attempts to move things the right way.

Great job!


Keep your beliefs to yourself!

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<p>Strongly oppose! Keep your politics and beliefs out of the class room. </p>


OPPOSE

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<p>I strongly oppose the Governors proposed policy.  This is dangerous and very unneccesary.  Something as simple as a childs name should not be something for the legal/court system. </p>


Support, don’t force kids to view their parents as the bad guys

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<p>Parents should know so that can support their kids. Don’t teach kids to fear their parents. Parents should know what their child (for the most part minors) are going through. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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As a graduate of William and Mary and someone who lived in Virginia for a decade, I find the governor’s insistence to fear monger over the existence of a tiny percentage of vulnerable students absolutely abhorrent. This policy will endanger trans students’ lives and put Virginia’s good teachers in the position of policing the private decisions of students and their families. This policy violates human rights and should not be implemented.


I strongly oppose these new policies

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<p>VDOE should be supporting all students, not only the ones that conform to outdated gender polarity. Instead VDOE has replaced those supportive policies with proposed policies that seek to erase transgender and nonbinary youth from schools, creating a hostile and potentially dangerous environment. I could not oppose these policies more. They set our state back, moving away from progress, and actively harm our school-aged children. </p>


Oppose!


Strongly oppose

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This policy does nothing to help transgender students and will only lead to more bullying of them and possibly causing mental and/or physical damage to them if they get outed to their parents. This policy also goes against VA state law which is suppose to protect students from being used like political footballs by the Governor. Leave the kids alone!


Terrible for children, strongly oppose

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This would be deeply harmful and do nothing to promote real safety.


Strongly oppose

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Abhorrent policy!

These kids are suffering and struggling enough without policies like this that will cause more harm.  The suicide and depression rates for trans kids are staggering enough without outing them against their wishes.  If their parents do not already know what they are going through, there is a reason. Stay out of it and leave them alone.


STRONGLY OPPOSE (dear trans kids)

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dear trans kids,

you deserve respect and support. i am that trans kid but older, now. we are fighting for who we are. anti-trans oppressors are fighting for who they are “not.” because we are existing for our truth, we will win no matter what. if you are a trans kid reading this right now, you are braver and armed with more access to information than i and many others were at your age. use the wider window you have to know that you are seen and exalted by the people that matter in this world. there are many who trust you with your identity and value your perspective. you deserve to live your life and express your personhood freely. know that there are beautiful places and people that will unerringly embrace you as you are. do not give up the fight for your truth. we are with you.

with all of the love i can muster,

your trans sibling

-shame on virginia for furthering oppression against an already grossly marginalized group by even proposing this. i oppose this potential government overreach and abuse of trans kids.


Strongly Oppose

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Intolerance has no lace in VA.


I oppose your discrimination against Transgender People

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I am totally against your disgusting and discriminatory bullying against transgender teenagers in High School.  Your cruelty and hateful emotional violence against these minors and their parents demonstrates how low you will go for your own personal political vanity.  Your policies are out of touch with the majority of people in Virginia and appeal only to bigotry.  Enough of you already


OPPOSED violation of rights!

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This is absolutely ridiculous, everyone has the right to be referred to by whatever makes them most comfortable. If someone named Jonathan went by John no one would bat an eye, if someone named Robert preferred the name Bob people should respect that, or by their middle name that would be totally normal. People choose to go by different names all the time and it’s just a common courteous to respect that. School should be a safe place for everyone especially for people who aren’t comfortable or respected in their own homes. Everyone, especially those who can’t stand up for themselves like students, has the basic right to something as simple as a nickname, the government restricting that is frankly dystopian.


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I STRONGLY SUPPORT Senate Bill 656 - I want our Schools to Teach for change - less politics !!

I don't know when our government school started to go astray - maybe 20-30 years ago...?  But the quality of our American education system has gone down hill substantially.

I think this Senate bill is a GOOD START - but so much more needs to be done in our public education system - if the government school system is to survive.

After this bill is implemented - I think the next item to be address - is FULL and OPEN School Choice.   It it only through Parental Choice - and real competition for excellence in education will we ever see our public school get their focus back on Academic Excellence.

Get the woke politics out of the schools - and let parents choose how they want THEIR CHILDREN to be educated - with THEIR TAX DOLLARS!


Support

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I strongly support Governor Youngkins policy on transgender.  Get rid of VDOE and the DOE.


Guidance Documents by Governor

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I SUPPORT the Governor for looking out for the welfare of our children in the school system. It is the Parent’s responsibility what is taught in our school system and not the government’s. I stand with GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN!


Support your youth, don’t punish them!

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<p>Transgender rights are human rights. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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<p>Keep our schools a safe place for ALL OF the LGBTQIA+ community </p>


the proposed policy is state-sanctioned bullying

You don't get to pretend that queer people don't exist.Remember the Hirschfeld Institute.

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You don't get to pretend that queer people don't exist.

Remember the Hirschfeld Institute.


Strongly Support - Keep Politics OUT of the Classroom

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I agree with this policy. I am the parent of my child. Not the government. I oppose any policy that would interfere with me parenting my child or being informed as to what my child desires or needs. Politics involving sexuality should NOT be in the schools. This is a matter that should be left to the parents. We should get back to teaching the fundamentals in education. The emphasis should be on education NOT sexuality.

I was informed by my child's principal that there would be a walk-out over this issue. I have made it known to my principal, that I do not agree with political walk-outs during school. My son has been instructed NOT to participate in the walk-out. I surely hope that my child is not mandated nor socially pressured to participate in something that does not conform to our beliefs. I'm tired of this gender crap being forced upon our kids. Just stop it.


Common Sense!

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<p>Thank you, Governor Youngkin, for introducing a common sense policy that will protect our children! God did not make mistakes by putting anyone in the wrong-gendered body. These kids need mental help, not gender affirmation during a difficult but pivotal part of their childhood. We should not be catering to their delusions and confusions by letting them make long term life decisions, and those delusions should not be made to be more important than the majority of the population and their comfort and safety. It’s time we start standing up loudly for what is right. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This puts transgender students at risk!  Under the guise of unnecessary and misguided 'parental rights'. </p>


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Strongly oppose these state sponsored bullying policies!


Opposed

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<p>This policy will hurt children, if you actually consider the public opinions on this forum you’d know it’s wrong. </p>


Oppose. Stop targeting vulnerable youth

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The revisions of this policy only further risk the safety and well-being of Transgender and NonBinary youth. Please, just stop. This policy does nothing to protect EVERY kid, because EVERY KID INCLUDES TRANSGENDER KIDS.


Strongly Oppose this cruel policy which takes resources from substantive educational improvements

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This policy couches it's hate in an argument for "parents rights", which weren't being infringed upon, and uses VA DOE resources and time to manage something that required no management. Never was a policy "solution" more in search of a problem than this. The simple fact is that the authors are using this argument to encode a fundamentally religious view into public policy where religion has no place, instead of using the resources at their disposal to produce policy positions that actually benefit the citizens and students of the state of Virginia. Public policy is no place for bullying the powerless, and by forcing these changes on the children in our schools, you unnecessarily risk the safety of those children for no substantive benefit to them or to the other students in our classrooms.

Go back, tear this policy up, and come up with something that actually makes life better for our students. How about a tax subsidy for teachers so they aren't taxed on the income made while teaching? Or funding a rebate to them to ensure they can afford supplies for their terribly under-funded classrooms? Or a state-level fund to increase teacher pay and attract new talent to our under-staffed schools? Literally any of those ideas would be more useful to our students than this.


Discrimination against LGBTQ+,

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Strongly oppose this hatred and bigotry against files and children of the LGBTQ+


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I oppose any policy that discriminates against and harms trans and nonbinary students. This policy is rooted in blatant transphobia and seeks to erase trans and nonbinary youth from the classroom and creates a hostile and dangerous environment. Any human being with a conscious would strongly oppose this incredibly damaging policy.


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this ridiculous and dangerous proposal </p>


Disgusting treatment of innocent children

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<p>What is the legal purpose of this proposed regulation? What difference does it make to poor or sick or struggling Virginians as the world comes out of the pandemic? How does it help your Christian constituency to prey on innocent children? How does it help these adults for children they may not even know to experience life-altering trauma and abuse - or worse? How does it help Virginia's economy or standing in the US and beyond? Do you honestly think there are single issue, anti-trans voters? If you had just said nothing on this, these kids could go about their lives and you would be able to regulate them out of proper healthcare, lower student loans, accessible public services, etc once they are adults. There is protecting children - which if Virginia's horrendous foster system is any indication, is not even happening in your state - and then there is actively harming them by smothering them with a cruel, knife-to-the-throat regulation. Get your house in order Governor. Protect children, not some ignorant donor perpetuating their outdated notions of 'normal' behavior. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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This guidance goes against everything we know about how to help transitioning and gender-questioning youth. Denying them access to basic decency and care only contributes to further harm. This is administrative indulgence in abuse. No one should stand for this. I am against this policy as it engenders discrimination for the loved ones I hold in your state. Shame on the people who encourage this kind of targeted harassment of transgender youth. I pray you find the decency in your heart to love and accept rather than scorn.


STRONGLY DISSAGREE

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<p>PROTECT TRANS YOUTH </p>


No to this. To get respect, you have to give respect

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<p>Students are people too. If they want to be outed, they are the only ones who should make that decision. And if they want to be they or she or he…that’s up to them. Show these students respect. </p>


If a child is being beaten, should we say, "They're the parent, they know whats best

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This is wrong and cruel. I agree that sports are somewhat unfair to let a trans girl compete against girls, but stopping them from being able to identify themselves is just wrong. A trans girl can still compete in sports, just with biological boys to make it fair. Many parents do not support trans people and this would force people out to their parents. That could cause children to be disowned. Forcing trans people to stay in the locker room of their biological sex may seem right, but it could cause severe bullying and discrimination! No one would be creeping in the locker room. I understand that some will not like having trans people in their locker room, but people should not be ashamed or afraid of trans people. They are just like any other kid. They feel right as a girl, then let them do what they feel comfortable doing as a girl. The majority of trans people are not thinking perverted thoughts about people when they are in a locker room. That is once in a blue moon. Also, many parents would disown or attack their children if they found out that they were trans. Yes, parents should parent their kids. But if the parent is against the child, then they cannot parent their child without putting them at risk. All these transphobic people replying to this have no idea how harmful letting parents have complete control. If a child is being beaten, should we just turn and say, "They're the parent, they know whats best for their kid," NO! But this is fine. There is a reason suicide rates are so high among trans teenagers. It's because they are receiving constant hate and rejection from society. Many parents will not accept their child as trans and may disown them. Many trans teens will lose the help they need to get into a good school and get a good job.


Support


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This will take away a vital safe space for children and further puts trans and gender queer students at risk. The schools job is to protect children and allow them to grow and learn and this is the antithesis of that. </p>


OPPOSE

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I would like to express my strong opposition to this guidance document. I am greatly concerned about the unnecessary harm that this may cause to students at our public schools. Banning transgender students from using the restroom of their identified gender may subject them to harassment. Banning teachers from using students’ preferred pronouns is not only harmful to students, but is a serious case of state micromanagement that impedes teachers’ and school staff’s ability to use their best judgement in the care and education of our children. As many practicing Christians believe that they are obligated to love their neighbors as themselves, and that this includes not knowingly harming transgender and nonbinary children by using the wrong pronouns intentionally, this guidance risks trespassing on the religious liberty of teachers and school staff.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Families should make family decisions. Requiring students to behave one way based on state mandates does not allow for the option that parents support a student's decision.  High school is hard for students who don't fit in--why make it harder? This is a family decision that is being used for political gain. </p>


Strongly Oppose


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This policy would put a subsection of our youth already at a statistically high risk of suicide at even greater risk. You do not have to understand everything a person is dealing with to care about their life. Value our trans and questionig students lives.


OPPOSE anti-trans policy in public schools

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These polices are unjust and go against our childrens right to freely live and express themselves without fear of repercussions. This policy is violence against the LGBTQ+ community and should not be tolerated. We need to protect and support our children by allowing them to be their authentic selves instead of forcing them to learn in a place that creates hostility towards them because of their identities. This is discrimination - plain and simple. I strongly oppose this policy.


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<p>As a parent, former educator and a concerned citizen I strongly oppose the governor's policies on transgender and LGBTQ students.  The consequences of his policies could be tragic.  Not every kid has supportive parents and not all families are healthy.  Not to mention that very few teenagers in particular are comfortable speaking to their parents.  </p>
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Support our youth, do not punish them!

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Strongly oppose this government initiative. It is inhumane and the government should serve its citizens rather than imposing hardship on them. It is sad and disappointed .


Strongly oppose

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The proposed guidance is cruel and hateful. Policies like this are a huge reason why suicide among transgender youth is so high, and this will only serve to make it worse. This policy will actually lead to more dead students.

Governor Youngkin claims that he is giving parents a voice. But as a parent, if I support my child's identity and want them to be referred to by their chosen name and pronouns, and use their chosen bathroom and locker room, this policy would not allow that.

This policy is not supporting students, parents or teachers. It is only supporting hate, and it has no place in our schools.


Support our youth, do not punish them!


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose this policy as it will greatly hurt students and create further hardships for these students. For a number of these students school is there only safe space. Aren't schools suppose to be safe places for students? Believe it or not students are more accepting to diversity, equity and inclusion than their parents as we are seeing.

This policy seems to be in line with a policy you would see in countries that are not a democracy, such as Iran, Russia, and Afghanistan.  Is the Commonwealth really aligning itself now to policies we see in these countries under the disguise of parents?

The fact is many parents are not open minded and not accepting. They will either kick their kid out of the house, abuse their kid (verbally or physically), or send their kid away. This is a reality. If you push this policy forth what are the resources you have set-up to help kids in these situations? How will you reach these kids? Are you prepared for the consequences?

100 percent against keep the current policy in place


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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<p>Let your children identify how they want. They go through enough in their every day lives just as high schoolers. </p>


I STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS SENSIBLE POLICY

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Model Policy for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia Public Schools

State Board of Education


OPPOSE

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<p>Do what’s right for transgendered kids and what the majority of your constituents want.  It really is that simple. </p>


PROTECT TRANS YOUTH!!

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The new proposed policy is disgusting. Our government leaders have no idea how real life trans student are. They have no idea what trans and queer youth already go through at school. Taking away right that other cisgender and heterosexual students have the right to. America is moving backwards.What happened to land of the free.


Strongly oppose!!!

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<p>This proposal will be incredibly damaging for trans and non-binary kids. This proposal is dangerous in many ways. Not only will this put students without supportive families at further risk, it will remove important care that they may receive from their teachers and classmates. It is never wrong to call people by the name and pronouns that make them feel comfortable; it is always wrong to deny this basic human right. This policy is a human rights violation and will be fought, over and over. Parents have rights, yes, but this proposal ignores the fact that students also have rights. In this country, the government is supposed to work for all people. This policy only supports a small group while ignoring the very real needs of many more. Youngkin and his administration should be ashamed. </p>


Strongly support

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Strongly support. Social transition (changing names and pronouns) are a powerful psychosocial intervention that should only be done in consultation with parents, because social transition can solidify an identity that may be transient (due to the fact the brain does not finish developing until age 25). Social transition frequently leads to medical transition which as we know from Finland, Sweden, and the UK has a very low grade evidence base. This is not a partisan issue - this is a health issue. Schools should not be administering health treatments to children without parents being involved.


Strongly Opposed

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<p>I feel that by implementing a policy like this will lead to more child suicides as kids will feel like they’re no longer able to express who they are or feel safe in an educational environment. </p>


Strongly Oppose: this is dangerous.

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I strongly oppose, this is dangerous for trans youth. School should be a safe place for every child.


Disappointing

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<p>This is most concerning.  The Republican Party is not the same party that I was once part of.  </p>


I STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This is a horrifying and dehumanizing policy that will not only place trans kids into dangerous and abusive situations (particularly at home), but will aid to reinforce the continued hatred of transgender individuals like myself. Youngkin should be ashamed </p>


Why are y'all so thrilled to let the government tell you what to do?

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<p>Are you kidding me with this? It's an obvious ploy by conservatives to get more money out of you by what- harassing school children? You can't even keep all the children at your schools fed and alive, maybe worry about policing their bodies for clout after you've solved your poverty and gun violence issues. Honestly, this is all a scheme to be able to do "genital confirmation on little kids and it's DISGUSTING. </p>


Transgender Guidance

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Strongly oppose this abusive guidance.


Trans kids are human too

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Jesus would love trans kids. Why don’t you?


Absurd proposal

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<p>The governor’s proposal regarding transgender students is nothing but a ridiculous attempt to mollify his homophobic supporters. It will severely negatively effect a small but vulnerable group of young people and, therefore, their families and friends. Trans youth and those others who are questioning sexuality need love and positive, sympathetic treatment and support, not hate and negative refusal to treat them as human beings. </p>


OPPOSED

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<p>This is a harmful policy that further reduces the very limited amount of safe spaces children have. They should feel safe and comfortable enough to be themselves. </p>


Nothing but repeat spamming

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<p>You can enter comments on here multiple times. It's obvious that a small group of people are spamming thier own narrative to inflate numbers. This is my second post. </p>


Strongly oppose

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These proposed model policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids.


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OPPOSE. THIS ONLY PROTECTS THE RIGHTS OF PARENTS TO ABUSE THEIR KIDS


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose these policies. They target a population of children who are at huge risk already, both of being harmed and of self-harm. The proposed policies will do nothing but place these children at greater risk. All students deserve to be treated with respect for their identities and allowed to make their own decisions about those identities. </p>


Support

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<p>I support the policies that give parents the rights to raise their children. Thank you, Governor Youngkin!  </p>


Vehemently oppose

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<p>I vehemently oppose the proposed rule. Students struggling with issues of gender identity do not need to be further ostracized at school. School should be a safe haven for all students. This rule demonizes the most vulnerable kids for absolutely no reason. </p>


bad policy that is harmful to students

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Transgender individuals face numerous hardships without adding more to the mix. Just as no one chooses to be born a boy or a girl, straight or gay, no one chooses to have a body that is at odds with their fundamental sense of self. No one chooses to have a life that is going to be subject to constant scrutiny, skepticism, invalidation, and/or abuse.

In a culture that is hostile to gender nonconformity, schools may be one of the few places where a kid who is working through gender issues can feel safe to do so. Not every student has the blessing of having parents at home that are understanding, supportive, or nurturing. NO student deserves to be outed before they are ready to take that step themselves.

This cruel, retrograde policy isn't about parents' rights, because parents don't have the power, let alone the right, to decide who their children are or how they should feel. No, this policy is red meat: a cynical wedge issue meant to divide "us" from "them," to cater to a reactionary base that is afraid of unisex restrooms and preferred pronouns, to bolster the governor's credentials as a culture warrior.

This proposal also does nothing to help or protect students. If anything, it would be detrimental to trans kids' physical and emotional safety, which are vital for academic progress. It also raises the risk of trauma, substance use, and self-harm/suicide.

As a professed Christian, the governor should look in his heart and fix whatever is missing there to appreciate that students are people, not pawns to be used in craven political maneuvers.


Strongly OPPOSE

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Protect transkids! This policy is misinformed and harmful. It emboldens bullies and endangers vulnerable students.


Oppose the new policies

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As the parent of two elementary school children, it is my job to raise them to become capable adults who know their own minds and how to make decisions for themselves, among other things. I do this by exposing my children to a wide variety of information and varying viewpoints. I trust my children to be open and honest with me. They know that if they tell me something -- that something hurts, that they like or don't like something, etc. -- I will believe them. I trust my children to make up their own minds and to form their own beliefs about the world and about themselves.

My job is not to tell my children who they are. It is not to tell them exactly what sports to play, what books to read, who to be friends with. I trust them to make these decisions. So I also trust them to know if the body they were born with feels right to them. I trust them to know what pronouns feel right to them.

The Governor and the far right wing in Virginia are talking about parents' rights, but my rights as a parent are not being trampled on if my child wants to be called by pronouns other than those that match their gender at birth. My child's decisions are not about me. I am not so egotistical to believe I know better than my child about what feels right to them. I do not presume to know how they feel or to believe I have any right to dictate who they must be. This idea of parents' rights is a farce.

These new model policies from the Governor are a way to win points with the far right and are not about parents' rights. They are a political tactic and will do nothing but hurt innocent children. Think about that, these are children you are attacking. What sort of coward picks on kids?

We should be proud as parents to know we are raising smart, capable children who are empowered to make the best decisions for them. That is what every parent should want for their child. It is for this, and so many other reasons, that I strongly oppose the new model policies put forth by the Youngkin administration.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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It has been shown in countless studies that accepting these children's view of themselves and their agency is the key to lowering suicide rates among them. I cannot imagine you hating your children so much that you'd rather disown than accept them, let alone set up policies so detrimental to their well-being.


Transgender Policy


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This policy the govenor wants to inflict on children will cause serious harm to kids. The govenor needs to keep out of public school systems. He knows nothing of them. He sent his kids to private schools in a different state. The executive order is probably illegal as well. It is nothing but pandering to the far right for political gain and harms children along the way. </p>


YOU CANT AND WONT TAKE THEIR RIGHTS OF FREEDOM

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<p>WE ARE THE FUTURE !! WE ARE THE VISON OF DIVERSITY AND AS AN ALLIANCE OF THE LGBTQIA COMMUNITY YOU WONT SHUT DOWN OUR KIDS FREEDOM TO BE WHO THEY ARE AND WHO THEY LOVE !!!! </p>


I very strongly oppose!

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<p>This bill would absolutely crush trans students. Don’t let it pass. </p>


As a parent and teacher, I STRONGLY SUPPORT

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Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia Public Schools

State Board of Education


STRONGLY SUPPORT

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I strongly support this proposed legislation.


Opposed

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The mind virus that suggests kids can consent to this indoctrination needs to stop.


Support

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I strongly support Governor Youngkin stopping policies in schools that have anything to do with talking to students about their gender. God created only two genders male and female and God alone determines what gender you are in your mother’s womb. Attempting to influence children (anyone under the age of 18 by law) to tell them they can change genders is child abuse and should be punished as such. If children have questions it is up to the parents to discuss those questions with them and not up to public or private educators. It is time we protect our children from this madness and nonsense. Kids have enough on them as it is and this is not a burden they should have to carry.


Strongly oppose Gov. Youngkin’s transgender policies

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The policies Gov. Youngkin’s has presented are harmful to not only our trans kids, but harmful to their families, their friends, and the adults in schools that care about them. Parent involvement is always encouraged, and parents should be the first to be contacted and communicated with about their child’s educational progress or challenges. They should also be contacted with any issue that could impact their child’s health and safely EXCEPT of the well-being of the student would be jeopardized by contacting the parent. Gov. Youngkin stated that a parents involvement should always been seen as supporting their child- except there are many examples where a parent is abusive (verbally, emotionally, physically, sexually) and  neglectful. This is why school staff are all considered mandated reporters- if they see signs of abuse/neglect they are the first line of defense in calling Child services to ensure a child is safe. If a student is indicating that communicating their gender identity/sexual orientation will put them at risk, you are asking teachers to go against everything they have been trained to do. By ignoring the very real harm these policies pose to trans kids is absolutely failing these kids. And failing the teachers trying to do their job.

My child is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. They use a name other than the one given at birth. Their school has been respectful and supportive and this my child feels safe. Now- just knowing their well-being and safety is not included in this “we care about ALL students” has made them unsure & anxious.

The VA general assembly voted into law the policies protecting trans kids- how are we debating  about just reversing those when state law indicates otherwise? Alexandria City Public Schools has already indicated they would NOT implement policies rolling back trans kids protections- FCPS should follow suit and STRONGLY support ALL kids- including trans kids.


Opposed to this harmful policy

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I urge you and your administration to take the time to have a thorough and open conversation with trans and non-binary youth, their families, their doctors and other health care workers. You will learn a lot about the true situation and lives of these young people. They need support, compassion and understanding and this policy does not serve any of those needs. In fact, this policy puts them at greater risk of being targeted and threatened by others who are not tolerant. Suicide among this group increases when they don't have support. This guidance is not based on facts and data but instead is based on prejudice and ignorance of the facts. The Governor, his wife and children live, work and go to school with trans and non binary kids and need to show love and support for these neighbors.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This is so very sad that the government feels the need to have control over others and the lifestyle the choose. Do better. This is strongly opposed by me and millions of others.  </p>


I support keeping bathrooms,changing rooms, sports teams, sleeping quarters, separated based on

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<p>Please keep spaces safe for biological girls and boys. </p>


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE. WHAT "compassion and respect for students" ???

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How can you show compassion and respect for LGBTQ students when you won't even allow them the basic dignity to be called the name they want? This policy is regressive, institutionalized bullying that wants trans students to suffer. CRUEL POLICY.


heinous and damaging policy

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i don't have children but i am human and i STRONGLY OPPOSE this disgusting and dangerous attempt at keeping children from being who they are and teachers from helping them. the current attack on lgbtq+ individuals is getting people hurt and will not have the desired result of making everyone adhere to your way of thinking. that's not how this works. freedom of religion doesn't mean you're free to push your beliefs on everyone else, despite what you might think, this is NOT a christian nation and you're not in charge of what everyone else thinks. you're nothing more than a wolf in fleece clothing, a phony and grandstanding overreacher. thankfully we only have to survive four years and then you're gone. can't be soon enough!


Strongly oppose

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<p>Strongly oppose </p>


Stop the bigotry! Protect trans kids!!

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<p>Trans kids need love and support. Not archaic policies that will hurt them. </p>


Strongly Oppose Risking Youth Lives

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<p>Transgender students are the most vulnerable population in our schools, facing intense bullying, including physical violence, as they try to learn and grow.  Asking school staff to "out" them, creating barriers for them to be use the facilities and receive the care they need and failing to acknowledge them by their names will not only endanger their mental health--it can create an environment where their physical safety is also disregarded, opening the door to transgender children being attacked in a space that is meant to be caring and nurturing.  Our youth are already facing a crippling mental health crisis as they emerge from the pandemic, please do not put them in more danger.  </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose the idea that the government should meddle or control how transgender students transition or express themselves. Trans rights are important and trans children deserve dignity, respect, and support. </p>


Opposed

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This sad policy is anti-American and anti-freedom. Virginians don't need Big Government or Brother Youngkin imposing their fundamentalist Christian gender ideology on our students, parents, public schools, and communities.


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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This policy is execrable.


Oppose the regulation

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Do not restrict the rights of trans students in public schools! I beg of you.

concerned parent


Support - This is a common-sense change

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I support this change that helps ensure that the right of parents are honored.  The prior policy established an unacceptable precedent of allowing a school to deliberately hide from parents the school's decisions and treatment of their children.  Parents MUST be involved in any decisions that impact their child.


Vehemently OPPOSE

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<p>Contrary to Gov. Youngkin’s public protestations, these proposed policies are actively trying to harm Trans and non-binary youth in Virginia, creating an unsafe and potentially violent environment for them to learn in. Asking teachers to “out” students to their parents is absolutely horrific, and could lead to abuse or violence at home. The level of control that these policies seek to enact turns the stomach, and is frankly unconstitutional. </p>