I support the Governor’s policy

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I do not co-parent with the government.


Strongly Oppose Youngkin Anti-Trans Policy

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<p>All kids deserve to feel safe and supported at school. I'll soon be graduating medical school and starting a residency in pediatrics. As a future pediatric care provider, I can firmly say the harm this policy would cause Virginia's trans community is immeasurable. By passing this policy, we are telling trans youth that their identity and their safety do not matter. If passed, we will see the negative mental and physical health impacts for years to come. It is for ethical and professional reasons that I STRONGLY OPPOSE this anti-trans policy. </p>


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose the proposed policy.  It will foster hostile environment in schools and put students in danger.  The proposed policy is not based on any evidence and will prevent common-sense, supportive treatment of students by teachers and schools.


OPPOSE: Stop the culture wars in our schools and let kids be themselves

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I am the parent of a non-binary 8th grader. Identity is a journey for all of us, trans or not. Along the way, my child has explored several different names and pronouns. The professional associations of the nation's educators, administrators, psychologists, and pediatricians all agree: the best way to handle gender identity exploration is to AFFIRM and SUPPORT our kids at every step of the journey. That means using the name they prefer, whether or not a legal name change has been filed. That means allowing them to use whatever restroom they feel safest in. It means allowing them to join whatever sports team or extracurricular activity they want. These are kids who are exploring, not pawns in ridiculous socio-political culture wars. They deserve support. This policy, if enacted, will harm my child. The name of the policy is a slap in our face. You don't offer either me as a parent, nor my kid as a student, "privacy, dignity, and respect" if you encourage schools to ignore their gender identity.

My child told me that this policy would make it harder for them to learn because "I'm not going to raise my hand in class if a teacher is going to call me by my deadname in front of all the other kids." The VDOE's job is to create the best possible learning environment for all students. To do that, you must reject this proposed policy. Thank you.


Healthcare Provider/Religious Leader/Mom STRONGLY OPPOSED

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I am strongly opposed to this proposed policy. It will hurt not just trans children and their families, but ALL children.

Beth Cox, MSN, RN, CPNP

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Lay Religious Leader & Seminary Student

Mom of 3 daughters, one of whom is trans


OPPOSED TO THIS DISCRIMINATORY POLICY

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this policy will serve only to hurt trans and nonbinary children and their families.  the use of a political format as a vehicle for hateful, discriminatory policies such as this one is a means of marginalizing a population that is already vulnerable. strongly oppose.


Common sense policy

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As a mother of two females, I am grateful for some common sense policies returning to our schools. My girls should not have to worry about their privacy and safety while using the restroom. They should also have a fair chance at playing sports without competing against biological males that have an unfair physical advantage. I am in no way against anyone that identifies as transgender, but we should not be violating the rights of women to accommodate the rights of transgenders. There has to be another solution. I am also grateful for the policy that puts parents back in charge of their child’s upbringing. Our teachers have enough responsibility educating our children, they should not have to also shoulder the responsibility of being parents to them. I agree that if the student is truly afraid of their parents, social services should be involved.
Thank you Governor Younkin.


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

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I strongly support the governor's model policies regarding transgender students - we must allow parents to make decisions in the best interests of their children.


Governor's Transgender Policy

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

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

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

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

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


The Governor is Correct

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I fully support this new guidance document. In recent years, extremists in education have tried to interfere with families on issues that have nothing to do with education. They undermine parental authority and they keep secrets from parents. They are CREEPY! Parents are responsible for their own kids and they should be in charge of their education, not school officials. This is the main reason we elected Glenn Youngkin Governor. Remember?

I am also concerned with the way minority parents are not informed about transgender policies in Northern Virginia. The liberals in charge of these school districts know Hispanic parents typically would not support their policies, but there is zero outreach to let these parents know about them or to have a say in their implementation.  It seems racist to me.


Governor Youngkin is right!

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parents have rights to raise their children without interference from the propaganda spewed by those with a perverse agenda


Oppose This Policy

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I oppose Younkin’s transgender policy.


Strongly oppose

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<p>As a resident in counseling with an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and a woman who has worked with transgender children in crisis, I strongly oppose these new model policies. </p>


Strongly OPPOSE this legislation. Trans children are sacred, not a danger to their classmates.

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I'm a trans adult in Virginia, and I attended high school in Virginia. Being non-binary in high school was emotionally and psychologically difficult, despite being a quiet, respectful student. It would have been physically dangerous if I had been out as non-binary.

It will not harm cis children to allow trans students to exist more comfortably as their true selves in school. It looks to me like the underlying issue is assumptions made by people who believe in patriarchy, and don't see trans girls as girls. Who then see any child with a penis as predatory, aggressive, and dangerous. This is terribly damaging to all children, including cis boys. Kids of all genders deserve a safe and supportive school environment that acknowledges them as individuals worthy of care and respect, that focuses on their education and not their genitalia.


OPPOSE

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<p>I strongly oppose this policy-it does not promote equality in Virginia schools, it is discriminatory. </p>


Support Trans Students

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Transgender students have a hard enough time. These policies are regressive and dangerous to people who already have enough to worry about.


I OPPOSE the guidance

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I OPPOSE the guidance.  I reject any form of harassment, or discrimination against trans and nonbinary youth.


YOU WILL NEVER BE A WOMAN

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You are a gay man dressing as a woman. Even if you surgically remove your genitals you're still just a guy who cut off his dick with a fake festering imposter vagina. And NOBODY will ever accept that as normal. STAY OUT of women's sports and girls' bathrooms!


Strongly approve of parental rights

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<p>I strongly approve of Governor Youngkin's new guidance as it affirms parental rights. Anyone opposing this new guidance must not have children. </p>


Governor's Transgender Policy

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I fully oppose Gov. Younkin's Transgender policy. It is critical to provide support for ALL of our kids and to not discriminate. Support being inclusive and supportive to all our children.


I strongly oppose this policy.

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Please protect our LGBTQ+ youth. I strongly oppose this policy.


School policy on gender

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I strongly support Gov Youngkins policy. Parents make decisions for their kids and things should not be hidden from parents.


Support the Governor

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I strongly support the Gov. stop trying to pusher gender onto kids.


Oppose

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<p>People say with this policy parents can control their kids better. But aren't teachers and guardians supposed to teach children that everyone's opinion is valid? So many children are Trans and don't even tell their parents because they're afraid of punishment, is that right? To punish your kid because they came out to you, and they haven't told you about it because they're AFRAID of you. If this policy goes through many children may commit suicide, because of this stupid policy. </p>


Support Gov. Youngkin’s policy to protect females and parental rights

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I fully support Governor Youngkin’s policy.


Strongly Support

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Current policy sets a dangerous precedent of pitting our educators against our parents.  Virginia should operate on the assumption that parents want what is best for their children, and, more importantly, know what is best for them more than educators who have not spent as much time with them.  While it is true that a small number of parents do not always act on the best interest of children, but I propose that the proportion of educators that do not always act in the best interest of children is probably larger.  It makes no sense to trust them to act in the interest of children more so than parents. do.


Girls will Die or be Seriously Injured with Males in Sports NC Girl Seriously Injured by Trans Athle

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Thank you for taking the 2021 policy and revamping it for the new 2022 policy. Girls could die or be seriously injured for life by letting Males aka Transgenders into sports. Case in point;

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Thank you for keeping Girls Sports safe!


I Fully Support Gov. Youngkin's Model Policy

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I am the parent of four children who are either currently enrolled in LCPS or have graduated from LCPS.  The suggestion from members of our school board, national teachers' union officials, and our former Governor McAuliffe that parents should have no voice in discussions regarding public school curriculum or the various social issues that have dominated the headlines of late is abhorrent to me.

I applaud Gov. Youngkin for making good on his campaign promise to restore parental rights in public schools.  The Model Policy ensures that parents will not be left out of important decisions about the lives of their children.  It protects the freedom of school employees to express their views and concerns without fear of reprisal.  And, it protects the privacy and safety of girls who often do not feel at liberty to be truthful about their concerns regarding biological males in their locker rooms, bathrooms, and athletic competition.

Just this week, we've seen devastating national headlines about the significant learning loss as a result of long term public school closures.  Instead of racializing and sexualizing our children, public school administrators need to get back to focusing on core, fundamental academic achievement.  Gov. Youngkin's Model Policy enables parents to hold those administrators to account.


I support the Governor's policy

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I strongly support the Governor's policy to assure parents their ability to determine how their children are raised.  It is inappropriate for teachers and schools to usurp this right.


So terribly shocked and saddened by the governor's proposals.....

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I am not only outraged but really saddened at Gov. Youngkin's proposals.  As a teacher, a mother, a grandmother, I have been around children all my life, and know that it is SO important to value a child's feelings, however strange they may sometimes seem to us.  I have known several transgender kids, and know how they have suffered in their bodies and how they long to be recognized for who they are.  Please, please, stop hurting these kids and making them feel as though they should be ashamed of who they are and how they feel. Between this and how women are being treated so shamefully as they deal with pregnancies that may be unwanted or not viable (HOW COULD A MAN EVER KNOW HOW THIS FEELS????HOW CAN MEN DECiDE WHAT SHOULD BE DONE OR NOT DONE TO A WOMAN'S BODY????) .  PLEASE STOP TREATING HUMAN BEINGS THIS WAY...........????


Strong Support for Youngkin

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It's shocking to me how quickly people are willingly being brainwashed in today's society; to think that it's somehow okay for schools, heartless organizations, and complete strangers to influence and make life-altering decisions on behalf of children more so than the child's parents is unconscionable. People can certainly disagree on politics; they can hold differing opinions on whether they want to ignore basic the basic science of male and female; they can choose to allow big pharma and sexual deviants to transition their children; that's a person's right as an American (Though, I would encourage them to actually look at the facts and not simply swallow the propaganda, lest they be held accountable to the mutilation of their own children). That said, they dare not attempt it on my children. Make no mistake, the transgender mob and their policies are pure evil incarnate for the sake of profits, fulfilling a perverted dream, and an attempt to destroy religion. Those who don't agree with this statement are quite literally brainwashed and not willing to look at the facts. Instead of making informed decisions, they spin the opposition as hateful, yelling names like "bigot" and "transphobe" to get what they're told to desire. They likely don't understand the cost.

Glenn Youngkin is pushing back on transgender policy so that logical, sane-minded adults have the option to teach their children what they think is right. Parents deserve to be involved in decisions involving their children. In fact, not only deserve, but this is the basic, fundamental right of parents in the US - CHILDREN ARE NOT PROPERTY OF THE STATE! This was decided in the courts long ago. If any parent wants to teach their children transgender policies, they are welcome to do so in the comfort of their own home. To have transgender policy forced on impressionable young children in government-funded schools, children who barely understand life as it is and do not have the capacity to decide such matters for themselves, and what's more, removing the parents from the decisions, is unbelievably heinous.

Thank you, Glenn, for standing on my behalf!


Backwards and dangerous

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The proposed policy changes are trying to address a problem that does not exist, to score political points with far right thinking, and is frankly dangerous.

There is no such thing as "woke" thinking the way you define it, ther us compassionate and progressive approaches that are backed by science.

These proposed changes will lead only to bullying and potential suicide by Trans youth. Stop trying to protect the pearl clutches and work to protect our children. All of our children.


Protect our transkids!

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Protect our trans kids!

Vote against stifling them!

Give them the right to grow and flourish!


Strongly support the governor

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As a retired teacher since last year and almost 40 years in the public schools,  I have seen such a decline! This is exactly what VA schools need to try and get back on track. It is disgraceful how the majority of students have had to lose their rights and safety for the few over the years. I hope things turn back in favor of the majority again! Thank you governor for taking such strong measures. I hope you can continue on with these needed changes to help Virginia students! Thank you.


I support Youngkin Thank you

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<p>I support Youngkin thank you </p>


The Policy Injects One Group's Viewpoint to Cover All and is WRONG

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This governor and his cabinet is treading a dark path down a road where they believe their "morality" is overarching and they are justified in their actions because of a religious belief that they are superior and have "god" on their side.  This is dangerous territory for any political group to enter into, especially here in the United States where church and state are supposed to be separated.  This governor (using the term lightly because he's not a true leader), is imposing his beliefs on others.  This is a dangerous individual.

Leave transgender kids alone.  Most of the other students are ok with trans kids and those that have a problem have had their minds skewed by their evangelical parents.  Stop wasting our time and resources on "issues" that don't really matter.


Strongly Support

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<p>I strongly support Governor Glen Youngkin's new policy.  Common Sense must rule.  </p>


Youngkin policy is horrible

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The Youngkin administration’s decision to reverse the 2021 guidance on transgender children is absolutely awful.  These children need compassion and deserve the same rights as all other children.  Reverse your current policy and make sure that all individuals in the state have equal rights, not just the ones you think should.


Virginia’s policy violates LGBTQIA+ rights. I oppose this policy.

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The proposed policy related Virginia’s Department of Education are shameful and hurts LGBTQIA+ students. It promotes discrimination and transphobia. We as a country need to do better than this.


Gov Youngkin's policies

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I strongly support Gov Youngkin's policy protecting girl's sports from transgender players!


I oppose this legislation

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We will not have a strong, viable, resilient, commonwealth until all human beings are held with the same care.


I oppose this fully.


Strongly opposed

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All children need to be supported.  This policy and not inclusive and should not be adopted.


Strongly support

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Parents have rights.  If the State continues to try to take the place of parents, our society is doomed.  The State cannot love a child, and what a child needs more than anything else is love.

Let children be children.  Enact this policy.


Offensive Policy

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This policy is offensive and I oppose it.


Strongly Support the 2022 Model Policies

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While the 2022 Policy on Treatment of Transgender Students may not be perfect, it is a great improvement over the previous policy. Parents can have more control of their children now which is the right step toward this subject area.


Gender Affirming SCARE

ATTENTION LIBERAL WHITE WOMEN OF VIRGINIA:Your child is not "trans." You are nothing more than a mentally ill monkey-see monkey-do case. Trying to force your kids to change their gender for likes on twitter and tiktok is paramount to child abuse at the hands of an unfit mentally ill parent. Chemically and/or physically altering, or as us normal people call it: MUTILATING, an adolescent's body and then trying to force the rest of society to conform to your MENTAL ILLNESS as normal is ridiculous. If you don't like what the school is doing then homeschool your "transkid" and put whatever label on your own bathroom door you want. Keep your rapist criminal future pedos out of my daughter's bathroom!

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ATTENTION LIBERAL WHITE WOMEN OF VIRGINIA:
Your child is not "trans." You are nothing more than a mentally ill monkey-see monkey-do case. Trying to force your kids to change their gender for likes on twitter and tiktok is paramount to child abuse at the hands of an unfit mentally ill parent. Chemically and/or physically altering, or as us normal people call it: MUTILATING, an adolescent's body and then trying to force the rest of society to conform to your MENTAL ILLNESS as normal is ridiculous. If you don't like what the school is doing then homeschool your "transkid" and put whatever label on your own bathroom door you want. Keep your rapist criminal future pedos out of my daughter's bathroom!


Transgender policy

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<p>I oppose the transgender policy opposed. Using the most vulnerable as political pawns is morally wrong </p>


SUPPORT #GirlsRights

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SUPPORT 100% in protecting Girls! Thank you!!


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

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<p> Support Youngkin  thank you!</p>


Opposed

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<p>This policy is discriminatory and demeaning. </p>


Definitely not

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<p>This policy change would negatively impact our schools. Transgendered children already have a hard enough battle. We do not need to make it so they’re less comfortable being themselves. Some children do not have the support system at home, to help navigate thru an already difficult stage of life. They rely on teachers or other faculty members to be the guidance needed, craved, and deserved. This policy puts undue stress on all parties. </p>


It's NOT Hateful to Protect Girls In Sports from Being Injured by Males

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It's not hate to protect Girls in sports from injuries, the bathroom or locker room. PERIOD! I fully support the new policy. Thank you Governor Youngkin!!


Opposed

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I am a parent of two Virginia public school students and I oppose this policy in full. One of my children is transgender and he’s having a very difficult time getting accommodated in school.
Your policy says “parents rights” and yet you don’t seem to be including me. Your policy says that my child can be mis-gendered and mis-named if the teacher is committed to their bigotry. And I wonder why THAT’s the “speech” you want to protect. Meanwhile in our school system, the school board is instructing teachers to remove stickers of support for LGBT kids because they say the teachers do not enjoy free speech. The policy offers NO possibility for accommodation of nonbinary and gender fluid kiddos.

Further these policies have emboldened hatred in my community for families with gender expansive kiddos. Just since this public comment period has opened, my child has been harassed in class three times, he’s refusing to use the restroom because of fear of his peers, a mom of a trans kid had her tires slashed, another mom was verbally harassed when she was out for a nice dinner, and a 12yo CHILD was threatened with unimaginable violence (gun, knife, rape, gang rape) by 3 CHILDREN.

These policies inappropriately lift up anti-trans ideology and poor logic and gives space for hatred to creep throughout out state. And MY CHILd is the target of this. And you say this policy cares for MY rights?!

Finally, I’ll say this, parents DO NOT have the right to abuse their children. And your policies her seems to miss that entirely. There are REAL gender fluid children in my community who are abused by their families. They have NO safe space because school is not that place either. There are REAL children in our school district who have DIED because of their struggle for safety with their gender journey. And you want to make this WORSE?! You cannot credibly say that you care about parents’ rights or “all kids” because you clearly don’t.


Support #GirlsRights to be Safe & Protected in Sports, Bathrooms & Locker Rooms

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Thank you Governor Youngkin in keeping our Girl's Rights protected from males in sports. Males are more powerful due to the science of their biology therefore harming girls in sports like volleyball, tennis, softball, soccer, etc  just to name a few. Girls will lose scholarships, rankings and records due to males infiltrating girl's sports. I whole heartedly feel what women have fought so hard and died for for centuries will absolutely diminish with transgenders. Please continue to fight for Girls and Women in Virginia.

#GirlsRights


Current Policies of the Va. Governor

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<p>I support all of the Governor of Virginia's polices. James C. Lester </p>


Strongly disagree with this new policy.

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People have the right to carry weapons, people have the right to choose any religion they'd wish and there are so many more. These are amendments that keep people happy.

If we have these rights why can't we choose what our pronouns are? I mean, it's just a little thing, America's economy wouldn't descend if people got surgery to change their gender, some people won't even get the surgery they'll just go by he/him, she/her, they/them, etc.

If this policy goes through many children and even adults will feel like they're not important anymore, because they don't have a choice.

One of the things I've wondered is if Glen Youngkin actually cares about children and how they feel. Or is he just thinking about himself and "Christianity" but if people read the bible it'll clearly state not to judge people, and isn't this judging? Or am I just dumb? Isn't judging where you disclude people just because of what they like? If Glen Youngkin is really Christian I'll hope he'll consider this.


Fully support the Governor's new policies!

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<p>I do strongly support the new policies that protect parental rights from Woke influence on our children and grandchildren, respect school employees' freedoms of speech and conscience, and protect girls' sports and their privacy.  </p>


Transgender

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I believe that children should use the restroom of their pre-determined biological origin from birth. I also believe that if parents support their kids in this transgender origin, it should only be legalized at the age of 18 when a child is considered at a legal age and can change their names, sexual orientation, etc.


Strongly oppose adults asking what is in a child's pants and how they use it

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This policy is not only harmful but supports perversion, harassment, oppression, and discrimination. It does not build stronger families. It does not support 'parent rights' for parents of LGBTQ youth or their allies. Why is it ok for school officials to ask a child what genitalia is in their pants and how they use it? What is the evidence that this policy will support stronger families? There is evidence to the contrary. This is a political game and it's harmful to all of society to move forward with this absurd line of thinking.

Rather than silencing our youth, let's invest in mental health and counseling services for youth and their families facing difficult times for any reason - not just those reasons that make us feel 'uncomfortable' (like gender journeys).


Transgenderism is a LIE!  The PEOPLE support Youngkin/this Policy!

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It is clear that people are either male or female...yet we let emotions rule the day!  Adults that would like to live in this fantasy are free to live that life, but that is their fantasy, and not a reality for the rest of America!  These fantasy seekers are living in an America that was given to them, thru suffering and challenges that they will never know and by supporting their fantasies we have forsaken all of this work and people who delivered it and are willing to ruin the next generation of Americans.  Wake up People!  Children will not be better off with letting their feelings rule the day.  Provide children with the opportunity to succeed through discipline, suffering/work, endurance, resilience...these characteristics are what made America, not some weird fantasy about being a different gender, or animal, or any other forms of debatchery.  Believe Paul said it best in his letter to the Church in Rome.

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.


Oppose these transphobic policies

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Everything about this is transphobic. Trans people are real and we will not be silenced. We will fight for our rights. If you're so upset about people fighting for their rights, fix your messed up mindset, don't try and fix what you think is broken but it really isn't.


Strongly oppose youngkins trans policy

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<p>basic human rights will be violated. </p>


Better for families. Better for Virginia.

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"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." --Saint Pope John Paul II.

The previous policies used the power of the state to drive a wedge between parents and children -- to fracture families and support a radical and dangerous political agenda. We heard Terry McAuliffe say, “I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,” adding, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Parents, not the state, have their children's best interests at heart. Parents, not the state, should be making the critical decisions about their children's future.

Governor Youngkin's new policies restore the fundamental rights of parents and their role in the lives of their children. Additionally:

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

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

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

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

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


Strongly Support

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<p>Thank you, Governor Youngkin, for working hard to put policies into place that protect and respect all students.  </p>


I fully agree with the Gov.

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I fully agree with Gov. Youngkin's policy to protect our students.


As a trans kid, these policies would kill me. Oppose

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I am a trans kid and having the correct name and pronouns used in school has been so helpful for my mental health. If I was still going by my old name, I wouldn't be here anymore. I don't have a supportive family so they wouldn't allow me to change my name if they knew. I would be kicked out or worse if they knew I go by a different name. These policies would out me to my parents and I would be in serious danger. These policies would hurt me. If you're so concerned about kids safety, do something about unsupportive families and unsafe situations, not names and pronouns in school.


Protect transgender children

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Transgender children and young adults, just like all other children, have rights too.  The right to a non abusive and safe educational environment.  Your policy absolutely takes away rights from individuals.  Just because they have the same rights as others  doesn’t mean someone else loses theirs.  It’s not pie.  Your administration needs to consider all people, and quit giving in to the fear mongering and ridiculous claims from the far religious right.  I wish parents would treat their children with compassion and kindness if they found out their child was transgender.  Unfortunately we know that this is it always the case.  I guess small government only applies when it goes with the conservative narrative.  Be kind and treat people equally.


Support Parent Rights and Support love and compassion for all

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Support parental rights

Support separating sexes when sexes are needed to be separate - locker rooms, bathrooms, etc.

In order to show love and compassion to the children struggling with gender dysphoria - there should be an option for them.  Just like we needed ADA modifications in buildings to allow access and functionality for disabled persons, we need an option to accommodate children with gender dysphoria while keeping everyone safe.  This may entail new bathrooms and new locker rooms, sports that are co-ed, etc.  I do not know the "how" but I believe there is a way somehow.

Bottom line - dignity and respect for all NOT just one area of the population.  We are sacrificing the wellness and safety of our children by bending to the culture and allowing rules that usurp the God given responsibility of a parent to raise their children.


Support New Model Policies

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We must protect our children and involvement of parents and schools is critical. The new model policies are consistent with facts. Gender dysphoria is rare and with proper understanding and guidance, almost 90 percent of children grow out of the dysphoria. The explosion of children wanting to change their bioligical sex is not about gender dysporia but other emotional problems that are NOT being dealt with. Policies need to protect all children, boys and girls. The new model policies protect all children and protect the child who displays gender dysphoria.


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Strongly support parental rights and the freedom of employees to operate by their conscience


Strongly oppose hateful proposed policy

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I strongly oppose Governor Youngkin’s proposed anti-trans policy for schools. The proposed policy would remove important protections for trans and non-binary youth and place trans, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ youth at great personal risk. What Governor Younkin has proposed is in direct opposition to applicable state and federal nondiscrimination laws.  Governor Younkin instead seeks to impose a certain set of religious beliefs upon the schools and seeks to make informants of teachers and educators, rather than the current policy which states educators must consider students’ health and safety. The proposed policy would teach all youth that school is a place you cannot be yourself. As a straight married mother of both trans and LGBTQ+ youth who were educated in Virginia public schools, I know how important it is for all children be allowed to be themselves and focus on education while in school. School should be a place where students can focus on their education and not fear for their safety. The intentionally hateful policy that the Governor has proposed is against basic human rights. Trans, non-binary and LGBTQ+ youth have a high suicide rate because they face significant prejudice and rejection from their families, peers, and society as a whole.  My own children faced open prejudice from some students at their schools and even without these proposed policies I feared for their personal safety because they were openly LGBTQ+. I also know other youth in Virginia who feared being kicked out of their houses if their parents learned they were trans and who considered suicide. The teachers who accepted them for who they were and used their preferred pronouns helped them remain in school and taught other youth that differences among people should be accepted. The Governor’s proposed policy is based in, and promotes, prejudice and hate. The proposed policy, if adopted, will lead to increased depression, verbal and physical attacks, and deaths of students. The proposed policy is a politically-based response to an imagined problem. There is simply no reason to instill this hateful policy other than to increase anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Not ALL Parents Support Their Children Safely--This protects students from abusive families!

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Before I begin, I think it is important to note that I am a member of the LGBTQ+ community AND an educator. I am one of only TWO openly gay employees at my school, this is my second year teaching and my colleague's first year, and both of us have already experienced more homophobic discrimination FROM STUDENTS than any other educators in our building. These policies do not just protect the trans and non-binary students while they are in the building, but the stereotypes and intolerance these policies purport will follow the students after school, into their professional lives, just like it has followed myself and my colleague, only it will be worse for those who are transgender. Not having any policies that protect queer students from harassment and discrimination sets a precedent not just for the students, but staff as well, that their identity is not worth protecting or not worth speaking up in defense of, rendering them essentially invisible. This is something that queer and especially trans people face in every aspect of life from school to the grocery store and into the doctor’s office. Educators are one of the earliest groups of protectors that students have alongside their parents/guardians, so “outing” them to potentially abusive or unsupportive parents can lead to increases in youth self-harm, homelessness, and even suicide.

     What stands out the most to me when looking over everyone's comments here is the notion that a lot of people seem to assume that all parents support their children’s wishes to be referred to as a different name or pronouns. This is a very false and dangerous assumption. The second thing that stands out are the comments that blatantly agree with the policy changes, suggesting that parents rights are final and finite, or that we need to leave gender out of education “to focus on teaching”. This is also incredibly ignorant--anyone who has actually worked as an educator would understand where and how gender comes into play within the school setting. We talk about gender roles in society quite frequently throughout the English subject as we read stories from the literary canon like Fahrenheit 451, Romeo & Juliet, and The House on Mango Street, so for parents to assume that conversations on gender have no place in school demonstrates that they’ve forgotten their own time in school. Public school is supposed to be a time where students from diverse backgrounds join together to learn how to cooperate and collaborate with others towards productive means. Parents have to accept that they do not have the right to dictate how other students feel about themselves, or how those students’ parents choose to support them. Regardless of how people feel personally on the issue, we all have to understand that this issue and these policies are not discussing our feelings about homosexuality or transgenderism, but about the fact of their existence as people. And they do exist, so we must allow them.

     Of course, MOST parents DO support their children's dreams and goals for the future. Because of mainstream media's decades-long act of purporting ideas and images of what should be "norms" for gender and sexuality (girls wearing dresses, painting their nails, playing with dolls, etc. and boys making messes, wearing pants/shorts, clean nails, action figures, etc.), we now have very deeply engrained stereotypes of feminine and masculine in everything from the clothes we wear to what we read and watch. Today though, more young boys wear long hair, painted nails, or the color pink, and plenty of girls hate dresses, nail polish, or looking feminine. We need to understand that these "boxes" for classifying people by appearance are no longer relevant. We also need to understand that transgender and nonbinary people have always existed, but humans haven’t always had the science or intellectual capacity to understand our anatomy, biology, or psychology—these things have all taken time and patience in the scientific fields to learn and understand as a species, something we never truly stop doing.

     These stereotypes are becoming more and more dangerous though when we refuse to accept or understand our children on an individual basis rather than an age/generation basis. Students are people, their own people. And transgender and nonbinary people are not predators, as many conservative bigots would like everyone to believe about the entire queer community. Students are under the legal care of their parents and guardians, but when it comes to individual expression and identity, students are their own. Of course, it would be pointless trying to get all parents to understand that their child is not property to be owned but rather a separate human needing to learn about life. But as educators and legislators, it is absolutely our responsibility to stand up against these stereotypes and work to diminish their persistence in our society.


Support Pro Parent rights and responsibilities

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<p>Parents have the responsibility to raise their children and form their values.  The govt cannot interfere with that and shall not indoctrinate towards an immoral political ideology. </p>


Youngkin's transgender policy

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Strongly opposed.  Teaching our children hatred and bullying is just wrong.


2022 MODEL POLICIES ON THE PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGINIA’S

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The school's rights do not trump the rights of the parents. I fully support the model policy in that rights of the parents have to be respected. Schools are not to try overrule the parents values and beliefs. Schools need to concentrate on teaching subjects like math, reading, science, literature, history and leave values and faith based issues to the parents. You can look at the students test scores and watch them decline as the schools have become more active in teaching social issues instead of actual fields of study that will help our children function in society.


Virginia 2022 public school transgender policy

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<p>The new guidance is completely reasonable. Do not be seduced by radical activists to exclude parents from their children’s lives. It is not a school administer’s or a teacher’s job to hide a student’s most personal preferences from their family.  That may not be the intent, but it is the ultimate outcome when parents are purposefully not kept informed. Students should be strongly directed to engage honestly with parents.  Transgender students DO NOT belong in restrooms and locker rooms that do not match their biological gender assigned at birth. Period. </p>


I strongly support parents rights.

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<p>I strongly support parents rights. </p>


Strongly Support Parents Rights

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As a father of four children, two in the public school system now, I strongly support parents rights and support the return to sensible school policies.


Guidance document (treatment of transgender students in VA)

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Strongly agree with parental rights as well as employees having the freedom to operate within their realm of conscience.


I support parents rights to decide how to raise there kids

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Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution

Following this principle, parents are closest to their kids, know their kids, have the most invested in their kids well being and thus they are the ones who would know how best to raise them.  Not a government, or even a school board, or even one teacher that has them maybe 2-3 classes their entire school career.


Transgender Restroom...

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I totally support Gov Youngkin!


Thank you, Gov Youngkin, from a teacher/parent

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Parents have the right to make decisions with respect to their children, upholding Virginia statutory law which recognizes this fundamental right as well.

Parents' views and values should ALWAYS be respected and schools should defer to the parents in regard to the child's well-being.  Parents should be informed about ALL aspects in regard to the child's well-being.  These are public schools paid for with parents' taxes.

As a teacher, who is a parent, I make sure (and would expect) to inform parents of anything getting in the way of their child's ability to make progress in my class.  Students struggling with gender identification clearly are distracted with their understandable struggle.

There were many times when my students preferred me not to inform their parents when issues (other than gender identity) got in the way of their learning (substance abuse, peer issues, reactions to past trauma, lack of sleep, illness, etc).  It is my responsibility as a teacher to inform and include parents in their children's education.

I would expect this as a parent and I'm shocked to hear colleagues believe they know best...many of them not ever being parents themselves.


Strongly support Younkin policy

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Parents need to know what is being taught to their children in every school, and especially things regarding sex education.  This is not an option!  This transgender secrecy in place is not to protect students from their parents wisdom and love, but to encourage secrecy, leading to irreversable damage to them, not only mentally but physically.

And girls should only have to compete with other girls, not testosterone-laden boys who see an opportunity to best girls at whatever cost.

Thank you.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose the 2022 Model Policies in their entirety and demand that the VDOE rescind them, leaving the existing 2021 Model Policies in place to help protect Trans and non-binary students and faculty. . </p>


Supporting Governor Youngkin

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This family is in full support of Governor Youngkin's 2022 education update.

Parental authority over their minor children must be protected.


Opposed!

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<p>Strongly opposed. Stop taking rights away from our children and those supporting them! </p>


Transgender school policy

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<p>I am in complete support of Governor Youngkin's transgender policy.  Parents should know about their children.  Afterall, we are responsible for our own children.  </p>


Support governor’s policy

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<p>I strongly support the governor’s policy regarding protecting rights of parents.  Schools need to stop pushing leftist ideologies and start teaching math and reading.  Amounts to anti- religious indoctrination. </p>


Thank you Youngkin for protecting our girls

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<p>You would rather make a whole locker room of girls uncomfortable for 1 transgender. Do you see the problem? Here we are putting women in harms way for a "man". The  separation of gender in bathrooms and locker rooms were made to protect women and girls and you are changing the wording to include a few who were not in need of this protection. You cannot leave a whole sex out of the equation. I am not against trans kids,  I just don't believe in taking away women's rights to make a few happy. Make a new category and move on. Stop wasting money on rebranding schools and invest in new locker rooms and bathroom for the transgender kids.  Inclusion doesn't mean stripping away someone else rights! I have a daughter and a son and they are clearly built differently!!! He is 5 and is already stronger than her and he will only continue to get stronger. She needs to have her opportunities, and this is a dangerous road you are heading down. If this is the path laid out I guarantee there will be a mass exodus from public schools and sports.  Don't forget, you have no children without PARENTS!  We should never be left out of decisions about OUR children.  </p>


Oppose the policy changes. Let schools be schools, not political tools.

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Imagine a world where schools did not teach kids about world war 2 or what a german leader did to an ethnic group because some parents thought that is not appropriate to teach to kids!!  Kids are not as dumb as the current governor of Virginia and his minions think. Parents have ample opportunities at home to teach kids what they believe in as long as they can explain rationale behind such beliefs. Kids can understand if rationale behind your beliefs is reasonable or not.


I support parents rights.

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I support parents rights. Parents are charged with raising their children. If we take parents out of the decision making process, then we are saying we don't need parents. If you let a child make these decisions, you need to let them vote, drive a vehicle, buy alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Children have parents to help protect them. Loving your child includes steering them in the direction that allows them to be their best.


strongly support

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<p>Teachers and the schools in which they work are there "in loco parentis", not "in loco imperii". </p>


So-called model policies full of gaslighting

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The new model policies purport to protect and encourage respect for all students but would result in the opposite.  Right from the beginning, the document defines "transgender student" as someone whose parent has made a request in writing to the school.  A person's gender identity is what they say it is, regardless of bureaucratic hurdles put in their path.  These hurdles will cause harm.  The document claims to be against bullying, but explicitly requires teachers and allows students to misgender a student and dead-name them.  This policy will not protect students and will disrespect them, the opposite of what it claims.  However, of course, it in fact does exactly what it was intended to do.


Strongly support maintaining the 2021 policy

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Under the guise of protecting parental rights, the proposed 2022 denies the rights of parents of trans kids who support their children in their life journey, and the trans kids themselves.  When one set of parents is allowed to have their rights supersede the rights of others, no one wins. It is the responsibility of the parents who support taking over the parental rights of trans kids to properly educate their children. A trans boy IS a boy. A trans girl IS a girl. Accepting that fact will lead to better understanding and is to the benefit of all society.


Respect parents' role in their child's development! SUPPORT 2022 legislation!!!

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Thank you Gov Youngkin!


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Under the guise of parental rights, the proposed 2022 denies the rights of parents of trans kids who support their children in their life journey, and the trans kids themselves.  When one set of parents is allowed to have their rights supersede the rights of others, no one wins. It is the responsibility of the parents who support taking over the parental rights of trans kids to properly educate their children. A trans boy IS a boy. A trans girl IS a girl. Accepting that fact will lead to better understanding and is to the benefit of all society.


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Under the guise of oriental tights, the proposed 2022 denies the rights of parents of trans kids who support their children in their life journey, and the trans kids themselves.  When one set of parents is allowed to have their rights supersede the rights of others, no one wins. It is the responsibility of the parents who support taking over the parental rights of trans kids to properly educate their children. A trans boy IS a boy. A trans girl IS a girl. Accepting that fact will lead to better understanding and is to the benefit of all society.


Governors Transgender School Policy Is Spot On

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I support Governor Youngkin's proposed school policy for Virginia.  We should govern for the majority of students and not spend time, money, and energy on the minority.  We have a history of educating students under a uniform structure that has been successful for decades.  Why do we now feel pressure to change/spend for this small percentage of our school population.

Counties such as Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudoun have it wrong, and waste taxpayer money on frivilous initiatives aimed at division and spotlighting people in their communities.

Sincerely,

Jay Baskette


Strongly support!

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Strongly support!  Parents have right to protect their children from perversions!


As a parent of 4 kids… THANK YOU

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I appreciate your common sense approach on the rights and duties of parents and teachers. My children are my children. When I send them to school it is not to pass the responsibility of being the parent to the teacher.

Regardless of where I’d stand if my child had this conversation with me, it is my responsibility to help guide them and not the teachers. Having this be a teacher responsibility would create a reason to sue!

I’m looking forward to Youngkin bringing us a better public education.


2022 Model Policies

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Support trans children.


Strongly support the 2021 policy


the proposed policies are ignorant, and hateful.

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the proposed policies show the lack of knowledge, and demonstrate the presence of bigotry against transgender children.


Opposed

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Why is this something that the government thinks they have any say in? It can be terribly dangerous to out an individual and that's exactly what this is going to do. I strongly oppose this and anyone who supports freedom should oppose this as well.


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I oppopose Governor Youngkin's 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools.

My 3 grandchildren are students in Loudoun Co public schools and my daughter-in-law teaches in Loudoun Co public schools.

The policy implies that students in Virginia schools are currently being exposed to sexual and immoral content in classes, which is untrue. By promulgating these ideas, the governor is needlesly frightening the public, creating a divisive atmosphere in public schools and distracting teachers and school administrators from important improvements and content to help students grow and excel.

How policy will affect Teachers:

?? Destroy trust between teacher & students

?? Intrude into how teacher manages their classroom

?? Demoralize teachers by treating them with disrespect and mistrust

?? Insult teacher competence and professionalism

• Distract teachers from teaching apprpriate content and supporting students

How Policy will affect students

?? Create mistrust and fear of teachers

?? Frighten students into hiding their feelings

?? Traumatize students by creating a hostile school environment

• Expose students to incorrect information promulgated by the governor

• Divisive & damaging polcies encourages hostile beliefs and behaviors among students

How Policy will effect Parents

?? Confuse & misinform parents by politicizing an issue about maturing and personal identity

?? Further erode parental trust of teachers

?? Turn a personal & family issue into a public issue

?? Politicize a private family issue

This policy is damaging to the educational & supportive environment in our public schools and should not be implemented.


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I support this. The previous guidance was horrible.

The previous guidance is part of an attempt to vilify those who push back against a child's self-identification as transgender. This attempt is ideologically driven and is absolute madness. Children do not even understand procreation at all, nor its significance. It is parents' job to guide their child through things like gender dysphoria. Excluding parents is an obvious ploy to get a free hand at indoctrination. It must not stand.

Most children are born with the potential to become fertile, procreating adults. Some can fill the male role in procreation, and some can fill the female role. Nobody can fill both, and nobody can choose which role they fill. No amount of medical intervention can change which role a person can fill. It is determined unalterably at conception.

Children will have to deal with and accept the above facts for their whole lives. Some people want to hide those extremely important facts from children, and then encourage children to embrace a transgender identity. They deliberately keep kids ignorant, and then attach extreme importance to their decisions made in ignorance.  This is deception. This is cruel. Stop it.

Support this rule change, which reverses and opposes the previous/current horrible rule.


I support new pro-parent policies proposed by the VDOE

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The new proposed Model Policies will help parents and their children.


Strongly against

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These new proposed model policies are incredibly misguided. They will cause more discrimination against trans people and will rob them of any safe spaces they might’ve had at school. I strongly oppose these new policies and implore that they be redacted.


Strongly Support Youngkin's Model Policies 2022

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I strongly support Gov. Youngkin's upcoming policies that have a positive effect on girls' sports, protection in locker rooms, and parental rights, while also accommodating for those children experiencing gender dysphoria.


School Policy Feedback

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Agree with the updates. Parents need to be brought into the decisionmaking loop before policies are finalized.

The entire document is missing basic school course curriculum guidelines. We are squabbling over transgender issues but we are missing the point that on a global scale US education continues to fall behind.  We need to outline school curriculums along with minimal standards for the basic subjects like reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Today's global technology is evolving at a rapid pace. The US and Virginia need to have well-educated students who can help keep the US and Virginia competitive on a regional, a national and a global scale.

On the upper end of the spectrum, we need engineers, mathemeticians, scientists, laboratory researchers, etc. who can help the US and Virginia remain competitive technologically on a globle stage.

On the other end of the spectrum we need graduates with good work-ethic skills in small business, construction trades, services, etc. that are just as critical to keeping the economy flourishing.

Children need to be encouraged to work hard to complete homework, a paper, a project or a task.  They need to be taught good manners, respect for others, and what it is like to be a part of a team. They need to understand the value that "teamwork" and "collaboration" will have in later life.

We need to get back to important basics that seemed to have been lost along the way.

Bill


Agree

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Children under 18 should not be allowed to make these decisions. Parents need to know what their children are doing in schools.


Disgusting

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<p>Vehemently oppose </p>


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We're raising adults, not children. Let them decide and stop supporting helicopter parents.


Strongly support this. Parents have a right to protect their kids from ideologues.

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This is a good first step to stopping the monstrous medical experimentation going on with kids. No minor should be allowed to take drugs or have elective surgeries based on their feelings (as feelings are fleeting and not based on fact), especially when they are being exposed to a lot of harmful ideas about biological sex not being real, which is in no way backed by science.

Gender is a spectrum? Gender is actually the term for roles that patriarchy enforced to say what defines a male or female, and it is all based on superficial behavior and appearance.

I am not a woman because I feel like one. I am a woman because I have a DNA sequence and the body/reproductive organs of a female. I can remove those organs and I still am a woman on a molecular level.

Reinforcing toxic stereotypes, such as “girls wear dresses and pink, and behave in certain ways” is so regressive and harmful to us that it is shocking any sane person would uphold this. It is not liberating or edgy, it is a big step backward.

Women and girls deserve to be safe in their sports teams, their locker room showeers, and all spaces where male bodied people have historically done nothing other that prevent us from being safe.

A girl should have the right to tell a boy, who has a penis, to leave her locker room. And furthermore, she should not have to compete against someone who is born with larger bone structure and more physical strength.

But the biggest problem is the state and federal government interfering with the right of a parent to protect their children from being told by strangers that they are in the wrong body.

No one is in the wrong body. If you have gender dysphoria, you need therapy. Not sterilization. This is monstrous.

No child is dying because they cannot be medicated or butchered for a false belief such as gender ideology, but plenty are suffering from being pushed down this road by eager medical facilities that have an ulterior motive, and the kid’s best interest in nowhere in the mix.


Oppose hateful Virginia Trans policies in schools

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<p>It saddens and alarms me that Virginia is choosing hate in the name of parental rights. LGBTQ kids are the most vulnerable yet Youngkin et al are needlessly creating a hostile environment for them. We all have a duty to respect each individual yet these policies do exactly the opposite. Perhaps solutions to accommodate all kids are a better route. School bathrooms and locker rooms are notorious as places where all kids can face bullying and harassment  The time has come to totally rethink how these facilities are designed so all kids can be safe and have privacy. Instead Youngkin is using this issue to distract from his obvious failure to address the real needs of Virginia students. Please, focus on doing something constructive. There is no place in Virginia for hatemongering. It is a slippery slope that will get out of hand. </p>


OPPOSED

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<p>It's not up to the school system or the government to decide what is best for my child or anyone else's.  Overreaching yet again from people who do not know or understand the people they are trying to control. </p>


Parents and students' in VA's schools--Trans Policy

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I support the policy that Governor Youngkin has proposed.  All students deserve privacy and protection.  Parents are paramount in this process and must not be excluded.  Public officials are not a substitute for life altering decisions of our youth.  Neither is it acceptable to force words of compliance when it violates values or faith issues.

Parents are the best advocates for their children.


Support trans children.

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<p>It’s important to support trans children in schools. They need encouragement to become who they are and quality healthcare, not stigma and discrimination. </p>


Trans youth

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<p>The reason why this is such a vulnerable time in children’s lives is because they need to be in a space where they can use imagination and not be sexualized. Remember when you were a child and dressed up as your favorite character on the weekend or holiday? Children need to be free to express their thoughts, beliefs, and feel safe. I think that people need to actively go back to remembering when they were children and be in their space and remember history and how it felt to have that freedom of being trusted. Children need a voice. Yes we want to protect our children. Can we protect them to feel safe but trusting them as the future? I feel by doing this, you are saying you don’ttrust your children to do the right thing.  Children deserve a voice. I feel that they are and not the parents because they are not in their time. I feel the children know how to protect themselves. Children are more resilient than you think. Let them be who they are right now. I promise you, if you do this, your children will not trust you in the future for suppression  them. Suppression has never been the right way. </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Transgender Policy

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I am in support of the proposed legislation for schools to require parent permission for students to be called by a different pronoun. The law views people under the age of 18 as minors and requires parent consent in every other situation. Parents are also important members of school communities. It is wrong and unlawful to keep information from them about their child(ren.) Doing so denies parents the right to know information about their child(ren) in school and consequently, creates friction with the school system. As a teacher myself, I know that parents are the primary teachers of their children and fostering healthy relationships between home and school can only support children to reach their full potentials.


Support parental rights in regard to their children at school when sexual conduct & confusion arise.

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Parents do need to be involved in their children’s schools in regard to sexuality classes, gender choice, school policies. Under age minors must always have the consent, guidance &support of their parents when any decision is made with regard to their physical & psychological crisis & information being promulgated in public schools. Restore parental rights!


Support Revision of Policies

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Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the new Education policies.

It is important that policies are in place that create a positive learning environment. Policies that were proposed by the Virginia Department of Education last year and that continue to exist in Virginia schools lack transparency on important family issues, infringed on the faith and values of students and their families, discouraged or thwarted parental rights, and disrupted the educational environment. Student learning had fallen because of closed schools and use of masks during covid when they were open.

"Sex" should refer to biological sex. Parents and families affirm sex from the time children are born. It is highly disruptive to students of any age to call these into question. School personnel should refer to their students by the sex in the official records.

In order to have trust in schools, parents must know that schools are being schools are being transparent in how they are dealing with their children. Parents must be a part of and approve of all medical care and counseling provided by schools. This would be especially true of any life altering gender and sexual changes, medication to accomplish this purpose, and gender-altering clothing like breast binders, etc.

Bathrooms should correspond to biological sex. Athletic programs should correspond to sex.  Males should compete with males and female with females.

Parents should have the ability to opt into specific counseling programs rather than to opt out.


Save Our Children

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I have grown up in Virginia Beach my entire life. Went to all of the schools - Princess Anne Plaza Elementary, Princess Anne Junior High and Kellam High School. NEVER in all of my years did I learn or know about my teachers "sexual" orientation!! This just blows my mind how adults want to use children as props for their sexual fantasies!! Please keep this out of our schools and let our children learn the basics - Reading, Writing, Math - or how about computer skills, how to get a job, how to balance a check book!!!

There is no 5 year old in the world that is explicitly gay, lesbian, transgender or heterosexual. Small children do not think about sex and sexuality unless they have been groomed to do so by an adult. These are the fact.

God made male and female, and this truth cannot change. Surgery or hormones cannot change gender. Clothing and feelings do not define whether you are male or female. God defines that, and HE does not make mistakes. It is harmful to lie to people with gender dysphoria. It is not loving and safe to "affirm" your child's "gender identity". You are lying to them. It is wicked to manipulate parents into thinking if they do not "affirm" then their child will kill themselves. Help them, and remind them they are made in the image of God.


Appalled by this proposal

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LGBTQ children have a higher rate of suicide because of how they are stigmatized in society, according to the Trevor Project. This proposal hurts Virginia’s children. It lacks respect. As a parent, if my child did not feel comfortable talking with me and telling me they were in the LGBTQ population I would rather they be able to tell a trusted adult rather than contemplating suicide.

I am also a teacher. I have taught severely depressed students. This policy will drive more children into depression and suicide. It is disheartening. I want to be able to help students who confide in me, not feel I have to tell on them and betray their trust. Students should be able to tell their parents on their on terms, not forced by some policy developed by politicians who know nothing about adolescent psychology and development.

Students need to feel respected and learn how to respect others’ differences. This is a divisive policy that will only hurt our students.


STRONGLY SUPPORT!

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Virginia public schools need this new proposed legislation.


Proposed Policies protect ALL children.

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I strongly support the 2022 New Model Policies.


Strongly oppose

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Trans and non-binary lives matter. Everyone is human and everyone deserves equal rights. Enacting these laws violates that.


Protect our children and parental rights

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This proposed policies will turn Virginia around to better life for parents and children.


Restore Parental Rights!

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I strongly support Governor Youngkin's proposal to overhaul the VDOE transgender policy mandates; we need to restore parental rights and protect the First Amendment rights of students and staff.

We don't allow minors to, among other things, drive, buy alcohol, or enlist in the armed forces until a certain age is reached because we deem the minors too young to do so.  BUT...changing your gender is not only accommodated but your parents will not be brought into the discussion?!?!

Restore common sense and overhaul the current policies.


Strongly Support

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Parents are legally and morally responsible for their children. They have the right to know what their children's behavior and states of mind are.  It's outrageous to suggest that teachers, who have children for a short time, in one context (class) and for one purpose (to educate on specific subjects) can foster secretive relationships. No sane person would oppose this. Look at the scores. Teachers need to start teaching and cut out the indoctrination.


Discard the 2022 Model Policies

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I strongly oppose the 2022 model policies and encourage the Virginia Department of Education to continue using the 2021 policies that were written and enacted with the best interests of students at heart.

We know that transgender students are at higher risk for depression, suicide, and bullying. Although this population of students in our schools is small, they should be treated with great care and concern to ensure they can successfully navigate public schools and receive the education to which they are entitled. This includes being called by their chosen name and using pronouns and a restroom that aligns with their gender identity, without requiring written documentation from their parents. Gender identity is intensely personal, and students have the right to share this information with their schools if they choose.

We also know that there is an increased risk of depression and suicide when a student's status is revealed before they are ready. If a student requests confidentiality, a school should not "out" them to anyone. This is a necessary step to keep them safe. Although we sincerely hope that all children are supported by their families at home, we know this is not always the case.

Public schools should be welcoming to everyone and students should feel free to be themselves without fear of bullying, deadnaming, or other consequences. Treating transgender students with respect is common sense. Treating transgender students with respect is the least we can do.

Please consider our students and discard the 2022 model policies


Strongly oppose harmful policy. This policy will be responsible for kids dying.

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<p>This policy is so harmful to our children. They deserve a safe space to be who they are. If they don’t have supportive environments at home and you take away their safe space at school, it will lead to more deaths by suicide. Parents don’t deserve to regulate their children’s lives so much that it kills them. Please keep our trans kids safe. They don’t deserve this. </p>


VA ignorant on trans children,  protect all kids!

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<p>Time to join 2022 VA with your backward thinking you appear to the rest of the country and the world as out of touch and simple.  Do you think any human would choose to change their gender knowing the hardships they would have to face in life.  The fact that in this day and age they have to fight for basic rights on top of that against their state's government just proves how out of touch you are.   They deserve respect and a voice not your pathetic conservative institutions forcing your will on people. </p>


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE!

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I have been a practicing school counselor since 2015 and have served in the state of California and Washington. These states' legislation protects the rights of students as individuals themselves. While I understand the concern of parents to be a part of their child's care and well-being, these "model policies" do NOT respect the rights of students. These proposed policies are rooted in transphobia and ill-placed morality guided by anti-humanistic sentiment. I believe in collaboration between schools, caregivers, and student voice. These policies require teachers and school staff to forcibly “out” students to their parents against their will in some circumstances, such as where a student seeks counseling. I have seen many a student who are shamed, harmed, and otherwise cast out when expressing their gender identity. If parents/caregivers are truly concerned with the well-being of their child, partnership and respect for school staff and their expertise is necessary. Furthermore, Having at least one accepting adult can reduce the risk of a suicide attempt among LGBTQ young people by 40 percent. This is a harmful policy FOR ALL STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS.


PARENTS are the parents, SCHOOLS are not parents

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Parents need to be aware if their child wants to be called the opposite gender.

Allowing schools to hide a child's interest in transgenderism takes away a parent's rights AND a child's rights and breaks down the structure of a family.


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose this proposal. Students thrive when they are allowed to be and are recognized for who they are. Not honoring or even recognizing who they are will cause trauma to vulnerable students, lead to bullying by both other students and adults, and have a negative impact on their ability to learn. We should be fostering the best learning environment possible for our state's students and this proposal does not in any way do that.


Strongly oppose

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I am deeply concerned by policies that limit the rights of the individual, especially the rights of individuals in vulnerable populations. All of our children deserve the opportunity to grow and learn in safe and supportive environments, not environments that are harmful and dismissive.

As with many glossed over policies, the guidelines here will also hurt children that are outside of the targeted group. Your sports policy, in an attempt to ban trans girls from competing with cisgender girls, would also ban cis-girls from competing in male sports, when there isn't a corresponding girls sport.

The existing policy is well thought out and was developed with all children in mind.


WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO WOMEN'S RIGHTS?

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Keep penises out of girls' bathrooms, locker rooms and off girls' sports teams.

Women fought long and hard to get from under male domination, and here we are again.

This isn't progression, this is regression.

Support the new policy.


Strongly oppose.


Do NOT do this. The lives of children are at stake here

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There are numerous studies that have determined that trans youth have a higher risk for suicide if they are not accepted by their parents, community, and peers.

These policies are necessary to protect the rights of these students. Revoking them will be detrimental to all families involved.

Please do the right thing.


Support kids oppose new rules

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Do your homework, boys living as transgender are no threat to girls in bathrooms. Stop being fear mongers and support kids having a safe place to be themselves at school that they might not have at home or in their community (as evidenced by so many comments). Transgender students pose no risk to other students or the adults in buildings so get over yourselves and let people be people and stop trying to control everyone. This is 2022 not 1950. Ask your students how they feel and overwhelmingly they support their lgbtqia+ peers. Let’s listen to the kids and stop pushing adult fears on them by allowing parents to prevent kids from being themselves when they don’t agree with how the student lives.


Gov. Younkin's Transgeneder Policy

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I fully support Gov. Younkin's transgender policy. Specifically, I do not think boys who may or may have not have the belief they are male should be allowed in the boys bathroom. I also do not believe men should be allowed in the women's bathroom. Their rights are just as important as the minority who believe men and women should take showers together or go to the bathroom together.


SUPPORT

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STRONGLY SUPPORT in JESUS y MARY


Education Policies

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<p>I agree with and support the policy suggested by Gov. Youngkin.   </p>


HEY!   TEACHERS!

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Leave them kids alone

(Support new policy)


Support for parental rights

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Parents have the ultimate authority over their children. Parental rights are key and have been undermined by Public schools recently. Thank you for pushing back.


Support Governor Younkin proposal

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<p>I may not be backed by a powerful group like the NAACP but MY VOTE COUNTS just as much. This policy allows schools to move forward with educating our children and taking away the distractions and  drama of dealing with the former policy.  Parents...teach your children confidence and to love who they are! There are real world challenges after public education beyond their gender. </p>


Strongly oppose harmful "draft model policies"

Concerned parent who values our schoolchildren

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My family and I strongly oppose the new "draft model policies," which do not protect/support a segment of our schoolchildren.


Thank you Governor I support 2022 model policies

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<p>I support 2022 model policies </p>


I support parental rights in this regard

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<p>I fully support the effort to limit the effort of the schools to hide information from parents. Parents have the right to know every detail about their children. Teachers and schools do NOT supersede parents. </p>


GAYSAGAINSTGROOMERS.COM

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Coalition of gays against

the sexualization, indoctrination and medicalization of children.

Support the new policy.


FULLY SUPPORT RULE CHANGE

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<p>I fully support the Virginia Department of Education policy to support a parents rights in their children's education. The School Board, nor any elected body has the right nor the legal authority to withhold information from a parent regarding their child's education. The Northam Administration and the Democratic Socialist majority in the Virginia General Assembly exceeded their legal authority by implementing these measures. </p>


Full support of changes

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Parents are the guiding pillar of their children, adolescents should not be able to change their pronouns or name without the acknowledgment of their parents. Parents have to sign off on everything else, why not be involved on changes to their child’s preferences.
Biological boys should not be allowed to use the girls bathroom. On the same token biological boys should play sports with biological boys. Just last week they reported a transgender boy propelling a volleyball and knocking a girl unconscious. Girls sports should be protected and so should their scholarships opportunities.
I’m all for individual rights but they should trample someone else’s rights or beliefs.


Strongly oppose the draft model policies that harm kids/parents

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These policies and draft "guidance" are harmful and do not represent ALL parents and kids, as some claim. They actually do further damage and foster divisiveness.


STRONGLY OPPOSE!

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<p>This all come down to politicians pushing their religious views, nothing more. Typical right-wing nonsense. Extreme republicans are so close-minded they want us to live as if we’re back in the dark ages where men bring home the bacon, woman are barefoot and pregnant, boys play sports and girls dance and wear dresses, everyone has dinner together, Sunday’s are for church and everything is perfect. Hello?! Wake up!!  How dare you, how ignorant can you be to force children to get their parents’ approval to be who they need to be to feel whole?! This should not even be an issue. Disgusting. </p>


Totally agree

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<p>I see all these people who oppose it it do they realize you need parents/guardian permission to play sports or to go on a field trip to learn sexual education what’s the difference when your parent or guardian signs you up for school just sign a paper that states what your child’s pronoun will be or put it on there paperwork when you sign them up unless they are of legal age to sign for themselves </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly oppose draft model policies

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<p>I strongly oppose the proposed draft model policies, which I and others in my community view as harmful to kids and parents, and call for VDOE to reject them. </p>


Support Families — Pass this policy

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

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

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

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

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


I'm strongly opposed to 2022 proposed model policy on treatment of transgender & non-binary youth.

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 am a Virginia resident with family and friends who are transgender. I am strongly opposed to the proposed 2022 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.

These policies would undoubtedly be harmful to students. Requiring teachers and school staff to "out" students to their parents can put students in real danger, especially if they do not live in a supportive and affirming home. Suicidal ideation and attempts are already high in the trans and gender non-conforming population. School should be the last place that children in these groups feel unsafe and unsupported.

This is extremely hypocritical, as teachers already affirm cisgender students by using "nicknames" they prefer. Prohibiting teachers and school staff from affirming trans students by addressing them by their affirming names excludes those students from the dignity and respect already being shown to other students. Are not all students deserving of the respect and dignity of being addressed by the name that affirms them, without requiring parental/guardian involvement?

Prohibiting students from using bathrooms that align with their gender is inhumane. These model policies target trans students for exclusion and discriminate against them.

These policies completely fail to meet the statutory requirements of 22.1-22.3 of the Code of Virginia and are NOT in accordance with evidence-based best practices. They fail to ensure that all students will experience a safe and supportive learning environment free from discrimination and harassment.

I oppose these proposed policies and they should be withdrawn as soon as possible.


I support the proposal for ALL students.

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I believe with this policy, All students will be protected.


Rejecting the draft model policies IS supporting parents

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Sadly, there is a perception driven by politics that schools and parents are on opposite sides. Not the case. By supporting these new, discriminatory policies, you harm many parents and kids. Oppose the new "draft model policies"!


Parents have the right to make decisions for their children.

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Parents have the rights to make decisions for their children.  Parents are the guardians of their children.


Guidance is wrong, destructive, and unconstitutional

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The 2022 Model Policy is simply wrong and indeed dangerous. I write this as a proud Virginian, as a parent of a high schooler in a Virginia public school, and yes, as an Evangelical Christian.

The pretext for this policy is presented as "religious freedom," and yet this issue is simply not one of religious freedom. Religious freedom according to the First Amendment cuts both ways; it means that the state - applying to Virginia co-equal with all other states - cannot establish a religion, such as endorsing or affixing its precepts into state law and/or policy, even if that religion represents a majority of its citizens.

Allowing basic rights to transgender students does not force their beliefs on others; quite the contrary, extending these rights in turn prevents others from forcing their beliefs on those transgender students. Yes, Virginia families have every right to live and express their own religious and social convictions, but they do not have the right to impinge on others' rights to their own convictions, even if (or perhaps especially if) they stand in contrast with their own.

Moreover, and perhaps more urgently, transgender students are deeply vulnerable to harassment and violence from other students and far more prone to mental health issues, self-harm, and even suicide due to the alienation, harassment, and discrimination they face among their peers and wider society. It harms no one to allow these vulnerable young Virginians to live within their own identity and beliefs, and to do so publicly without hiding in fear. Students of more conservative convictions or backgrounds do not have to share in those beliefs, but they do have to respect them and allow others the same freedoms they claim (and which their parents claim on their behalf).

Governor Youngkin, this 2022 Model Policy is a disgrace. Repeal it, and do better.


Not in support of this chsnge

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I think this is an attempt to simplify a complex situation. I do agree it’s best for parents & children to be involved, together, with important decisions regarding their children.

Unfortunately, I believe there are situations where a parent/ parents are not supportive of a child who may be experiencing questions about their identity or who in fact knows their identity. By disclosing this information to parents will the Board take responsibility for any consequences?  If respecting the student is important to the Board, what risk(s) will the student possibly face?  Will the Board asses the risk(s) before making a notification?

I can see situations where a student may be facing questions about their identity and could benefit from receiving support, it must be incredibly difficult to be in that situation.

Please consider taking a more in depth look into this, and figure out a solution that, at a minimum, considers the student first.


Strongly Support Pro-Parent Policy

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Parents are the first teachers of their children, and the new policies honor the sacred role of parents outside the home. Parents know their children's needs better than anyone and should be included and informed if their children are struggling with gender dysphoria to receive guidance and emotional support from parents. If we are concerned at all with suicide rates and mental illness among our youth, we need to pay attention to what they are hearing, especially at school. If school messages are conflicting with values at home, children will struggle. I am strongly supportive of the new pre-parent policies proposed by the Virginia Department of Education.


I support the change

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We all have rights, but children are under their parents supervision and guidance.  Adulthood starts at 18 when children are no longer subject to parental oversight.  We hold parents responsible for children's actions good or bad and therefore we owe parents the right to decide what is best for their children.

Other than birth anomalies their are only two defined sexes male and female solely based on reproductive organs.  If somebody wants to change that they have every right to after they are adults.  Keep this out of grade schools.


Treatment of transgender students

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<p>I am a Virginia resident and oppose Governor Youngkin’s model policy regarding the treatment of transgender students. </p>


Protect Emotionally Vulnerable Children and Parental Rights!

Dear Virginia Dept of Education,

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,
Jacque Dolin
9 Thornhill Estates
Poca, WV 25159

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Dear Virginia Dept of Education,<br /><br />Schools should never secretly socially transition students and keep the child's new name, pronouns and gender identities from parents. I am pleased and relieved that the Virginia Department of Education's revised model policies support parental rights and ensure that school employees don't cut parents out of critical decisions for their children. <br /><br />The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) issued "model policies" in 2021 that encouraged every school district in Virginia to hide a child's new gender identity from parents who choose to affirm the child's biological sex. Under Governor Youngkin's leadership, the VDOE's revised policies make it clear that all children should be valued and parents' rights and beliefs should be respected. The 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools keep parents involved in major decisions in their children's lives.<br /><br />The 2021 VDOE "model policies" encouraged schools to create "a plan (that) may include addressing the student at school with their name and pronoun consistent with their gender identity while using the legal name and pronoun associated with the sex assigned at birth when communicating with parents or guardians." <br /><br />I strongly support the revised policies that end this practice. Virginia schools should not drive a wedge between parents and their emotionally vulnerable children. Virginia school districts, including those who have already communicated their plans to ignore the 2022 revised model policies, should put an end to secret Gender Support Plans now.<br /><br />Sincerely,
<br />Jacque Dolin
<br />9 Thornhill Estates<br />Poca, WV 25159<br /><img src="http://admin.phone2action.com/email/open/leg/657523/148799091" width="1" height="1" />


Yes, implement these model policies

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<p>Support our families-the parents AND the children. All children matter. The DOE should focus on EDUCATION and allow families to focus on the best decisions for their own family. </p>


Strongly oppose "draft model policies" and call for VDOE to reject them

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I am a parent of a transgender person and a concerned Fairfax County community member. The prior guidance and the support of our family, friends, and the school community saved my child's life. I have not found that schools are anything but collaborative with all parents. For those who support the new "policies," I can only imagine that you do not have an impacted child or  even know anyone who is trans. Empathy is needed. Using preferred names and pronouns is a form of basic respect and allows us all to live with dignity. I understand that some may have trouble understanding the bathroom access issue, in particular. Imagine your daughter is told she has to use the boys locker room and bathrooms, and the fear that might cause--that is what could happen to trans girls (daughters) if the new "policies" are adopted. This issue works both ways.


I do not support this proposal.

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I understand how parents of an old mentality would support this because they fear what they do not understand. This however is a very unfortunate way to try to get rid of what you don't think is right.

I believe these changes will further endanger these kids instead of protect them. Young people have a hard enough time trying to be themselves and making this about parents, you are making this harder for the children.


Support Parents

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There are minimum age restrictions on voting rights, alcohol consumption, military service, marriage.  It is ridiculous to think a child can make a decision affecting the rest of their life like changing their biological identity especially through medical treatment or procedures.  The parents and possibly psychological counseling) need to be involved in a decision that monumental.

I support the proposed changes.


WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO WOMEN'S RIGHTS?

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Keep penises out of girls' bathrooms, locker rooms and off girls' sports teams.

Women fought long and hard to get from under male domination, and here we are again.

This isn't progression, this is regression.

Support the new policy.