When parents disagree, whose rights win?

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Some parents believe in evolution, some believe in creation. Some teachers believe in evolution, some creation. Who gets to decide whose rights are being violated? Who gets to decide what children in schools are being taught? And aren't being taught?

You can't "not believe in" kids questioning their sexual or gender identities, or two-daddy families, or Christian Scientists, or mass shooters, or mental illness, or New Age religions, or sex education, or desegregation - they're all right in front of you. Regardless of what people who aren't you may think or feel, you and your children will be exposed to how others express themselves, in and out of school.

You who support this deeply disrespectful move - what are you afraid of? You don't trust your children to make up their own minds about things? Teach your kids what you believe, by all means. But respect your children as future competent adults. Trust that you are raising them to be so. Don't bully schools into hiding the real world from kids based on who complains the loudest, who has the most money, and who has political clout. If you want to control everything your child sees and hears, and shelter them from people, ideas, and scientific principles you don't believe in but others do, send your kids to a private school. Or forbid them from reading books, watching movies and tv, having friends, and using the internet. Or just keep them locked in your attic - much simpler.

If my children want to be called by a nickname, or a different name than the one I gave them, or express a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth (or no gender at all), or were forbidden from mentioning their non-traditional family, or were denied their medication because someone didn't "believe in" their illness, or in any way made to feel "less than" any other kids in a US public school, I will go toe-to-toe with anyone I have to in order to make sure my childrens' rights and beliefs are treated as equally valid as any parent who thinks they're "protecting" their children from mine.

I wish I could protect my kids from bigotry, hatred, discrimination, unfairness, and toxic religious indoctrination. But I can't. Because the supporters of this unnecessary and frankly mean-spirited government action are right there in front of them, making noise, creating divisiveness and anger, and trying to pass on their intolerance, hatred, and fear to the next generation.


Strongly oppose.


I strongly oppose

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<p>I am appalled that this is even an issue. You are setting these children up for disaster and the consequences will be far reaching. </p>


I fully oppose this.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Oppose the guidance document

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To prevent accommodations and education about the trans experience harms everyone especially trans folx. Have education policy that educates and supports trans lives and other marginalized populations


Do not pass stop adding confusion to these kids

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Do not pass!!  These kids are being more confused every day and this almost a trend! It’s demonic!!


Necessary

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<p>Unfortunately, things were pushed too far and this policy is necessary.  Teachers and schools have pushed the boundaries.  It's not the job of the school or the teacher to overrule parents.  I've read posts where teachers are overreacting, stating things like they can no longer call a student Bob if his name is Robert on his birth certificate.  Hysterical reactions that dilute real issues.  I've seen teachers overgeneralize, that every parent is providing an inhospitable place for their child, as if it's up to the teacher to determine what is right for a child they did not give birth to and do not financially support.  When you push too far, someone has to stay stop.  Our policies are out of step with what is happening in the UK, where  the facility at Twinbrook has been shut down and there are lawsuits building.  We are out of step with guidance in places as liberal as Sweden. These kids need mental health services. But, they don't need the overreach into their homes.  </p>


Do NOT Pass - OPPOSE

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This will hurt ALL students if you pass this.  OPPOSE THIS


This is a terrible policy decision.


Violation of 4th and 14th ammendments

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I find it incredibly disturbing that our State Government is so focused on anti-discrimination for a select group that they've lost sight of all other groups and thus the children as a whole. These new policies essentially take away the ability for any child to experience a non-hostile environment in what is supposed to be a safe place. The focus is so heavily on this agenda that the children are able to say "I'm not comfortable" without then being told "suck it up" at least that's what this policy reads. You introduce this document by saying "...educators strive to meet the individual needs of all students entrusted to their care, and teachers work to create educational environments where all students thrive." But if a student is uncomfortable they are not allotted a safe place because these students aren't "valued and respected." as you claim.

You preach that "all students have the right to attend school in an environment free from discrimination, harassment, or bullying," however, if you disagree with any aspect of a liberal agenda - you are NOT, in fact, offered this environment. You are instantly labeled a bigot without actual bigotry. Children respond to how they feel. They don't always have capacity to see past that. If they have knowledge that a child has changed gender and is in their private safe spaces now, that might make them uncomfortable. But if they speak this to anyone - express any concern - they are already, per your policy, not allotted the same considerations as the other student. This is not closed mindedness - this is simply a kid that isn't comfortable and not allowed the safety net to express that.  They may not be uncomfortable - they may be fine with it but the issue I really struggle with is that the kids aren't "allowed" to disagree, speak against, or feel differently than the popular/liberal opinions and agendas.  Why, why, why, won't the school system allow space for all children to feel safe?  Is there NOT anyway to create individual bathrooms? Individual fully covered stalls? something? Where all kids are equally treated, BUT STILL allowed to be private, have dignity, and be comfortable with their OWN skin without having to worry about their friends' skin also. Children at are so AWKWARD and they are trying to figure out WHO and What they are on a daily basis. Why force something on them when they don't really even know who they are yet?

As far as myself as a parent - I will know what is happening with my child. I will have reports to me from the doctors, etc. I will NOT allow the school system to separate my child from myself or spouse. If "the Department also fully acknowledged the rights of parents to exercise their fundamental rights granted by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children" and "the Code of Virginia reaffirms the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated" then how is it even legal or ethical to keep parents in the dark about their child. The upbringing, the direction of care - these are all issues that a transgender child would need support in. If the parent is not supportive - that's none of your business. The counselor could certainly offer mediation, counseling - etc. But not your business. If it's not a CPS report - you do NOT keep it from the parents! Period. Additionally - how does the school plan to determine if the parent is non supportive. For example - we are in a religious standpoint that we disagree with this lifestyle - BUT we also have the same religious standpoint that EVERYONE deserves to be loved, regardless of who they are. If our kid kept this from us, and the school kept this from us - we would never have the chance to tell them that even though we teach it's not aligned with our beliefs we will love them regardless and be there for ANYTHING they could need. They may just be fearful to tell us - unnecessarily but you as a school entity decided that for us.

Lastly - forcing any child uncomfortable with any situation, not allowing safe space to disagree, and/or ignoring their concerns is the very definition of a hostile environment. Saying "they need to learn to deal" is like saying the transgender kids just need to learn. I'm not sure how this is legal?  The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees religious freedom and prohibits the government from compelling speech that is contrary to an individual’s personal or religious beliefs." This means that if a kid says "I not ok with this." Too bad is not an ok answer. And in saying too bad, as your policy indicates - the student is thus in a hostile environment as they are forced to attend public school in a situation where leadership refuses to hear them without trying to change their personal beliefs.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Protecting kids must include Trans kids.

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You state you want to protect all kids, then you must protect and respect trans kids too.
Enough with the disrespect and outright hate towards the Trans community.


Discriminatory, unlawful and harmful to children and families of Virginia with trans and non-binary

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<p>In reading your legal basis for the proposed roll back of the VA regulations, you have made a  complete error in interpreting the language of the VA constitution and existing law. I am sure other attorneys like myself will be doing their legwork to prevent this from going forward. In the meantime you are creating an unsafe place for children of constituents who I know you know in our area schools. I strongly do not support this. </p>


VA Schools

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<p>I see comments that the Va school policy will harm children.  Really?  What will really harm children is if they do not gain at least proficiency in reading, writing, math, history, science and social studies.  A child's sexuality as determined by their parents is irrelevant-their education or lack of it will determine the rest of their lives.  Children are not mirrors of those who gave them birth and-or care for them when young-once born they are individuals, but when young they must depend on someone to look after them and to care for them, not to take over their individuality and try to change them into something the adults think is cool at the time.  </p>
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I oppose this.  It’s a horrible idea.

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Every day, throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, educators and school leaders work to ensure that all students have an opportunity to receive a high-quality education. As a part of that work, educators strive to meet the individual needs of all students entrusted to their care, and teachers work to create educational environments where all students thrive. The Virginia Department of Education (the “Department”) recognizes that each child is a unique individual with distinctive abilities and characteristics that should be valued and respected. All students have the right to attend school in an environment free from discrimination, harassment, or bullying. The Department supports efforts to protect and encourage respect for all students. Thus, we have a collective responsibility to address topics such as the treatment of transgender students with necessary compassion and respect for all students. The Department also fully acknowledges the rights of parents to exercise their fundamental rights granted by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children. The Code of Virginia reaffirms the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated. Empowering parents is not only a fundamental right, but it is essential to improving outcomes for all children in Virginia. The Department is mindful of constitutional protections that prohibit governmental entities from requiring individuals to adhere to or adopt a particular ideological belief. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees religious freedom and prohibits the government from compelling speech that is contrary to an individual’s personal or religious beliefs. The Department embarked on a thorough review of the Model Policies Guidance adopted on March 4, 2021 (the “2021 Model Policies”). The 2021 Model Policies promoted a specific viewpoint aimed at achieving cultural and social transformation in schools. The 2021 Model Policies also disregarded the rights of parents and ignored other legal and constitutional principles that significantly impact how schools educate students, including transgender students. With the publication of these 2022 Model Policies (the “2022 Model Policies”), the Department hereby withdraws the 2021 Model Policies, which shall have no further force and effect. The Department issues the 2022 Model Policies to provide clear, accurate, and useful guidance to Virginia school boards that align with statutory provisions governing the Model Policies. See Code of Virginia, § 22.1-23.3 (the “Act”). Significantly, the 2022 Model Policies also consider over 9,000 comments submitted to the Department during the public comment period for the 2021 Model Policies.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Trans kids deserve to feel safe in schools.

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<p>In a state that requires compulsory attendance, why do legislators try their hardest to make it unwelcoming and unsafe for marginalized children? Children are just trying to get an education, just like everyone else. No matter who they are, they deserve to feel safe and welcome in schools. Trans kids are included in that. </p>


I strongly oppose this action. History will judge this harshly and people will look back in disgust.

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<p>Strongly Oppose </p>


Oppose this proposal

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<p>I oppose this proposal. </p>


I oppose the Proposed Policy

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I oppose the proposed policy. Let kids be who they want to be. Adults are making way too much of this issue.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


These policies promote discrimination against transgender students

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These policies if enacted would endanger trans students and enjoin teachers from providing a safe, welcoming, and distraction free learning environment. Trans people are not new, they have been around for hundreds of years. It's not a trend, it's not a phase. These are young people growing up in a society that bears them unearned animosity. These policies are an example of that. Having the freedom and ability to actually know yourself is crucial for Virginia students to grow up safe and happy. Students need to feel safe to explore their identity and not be afraid of someone abusing them. Transphobic parents and relatives are a real danger that trans people, especially minors, face everyday. Forcing teachers to out students to their parents runs a very real risk of endangering students.

Trans students need compassion and the freedom to find themselves. All students do. These policies enshrine the opposite: that they must be controlled and ridiculed.


STRONGLY OPPOSE, innocent children will die.

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This will cause irreparable psychiatric harm and potential death to our trans children. It is deplorable that anyone would support such a guidance. Studies have proven over and over that even something as simple as calling a trans child by their chosen name can prevent suicide. How dare we presume to live in a country that places such import on the life of a fetus, but turn a blind eye when that fetus grows up to be a suicidal trans child. Taking these simple, vital steps to prevent trans children from committing suicide should be as important as protecting the life of a fetus.

"These six things doeth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood." Proverbs 6:16,17

The blood of innocent trans children will be on your hands if this passes.

Below I have included some quotes and references to demonstrate why I firmly, fully oppose this measure.

“Suicidality is associated with desiring gender affirming surgery in the future, gender based victimisation and institutionalised cissexism. Interventions to increase social inclusion, reduce transphobia and enable access to gender affirming care, particularly surgical interventions, are potential areas of intervention.”

https://rdcu.be/cWn3h

“About 27% of transgender students said they feel unsafe at school compared to 5% of cisgender males and 7% of cisgender females. More transgender students also reported being bullied at school — 35% compared to 15% of cisgender males and 21% of cisgender females.”

https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/14054?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

“A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health demonstrates the power of affirming transgender youth’s identities: For each additional context (i.e., at home, school, work, or with friends) in which a transgender youth’s chosen name is used, their risk of suicidal behavior is reduced by more than half. Another study, published in the journal Pediatrics, finds that transgender youth who have fully socially transitioned to their identified gender, and have been supported in doing so, do not have elevated depressive symptoms compared to the broader population. And in an era in which overall youth suicide rates have significantly increased over the last decade, it is critical to take steps to reduce risk for suicide.”

https://www.childtrends.org/blog/research-shows-the-risk-of-misgendering-transgender-youth

“Transgender people over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime”

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/

“Transgender teens with restricted bathroom access at higher risk of sexual assault.”

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/transgender-teens-restricted-bathroom-access-sexual-assault/

“Transgender and nonbinary adolescents are twice as likely to experience sexual violence as their cisgendered peers but are less likely to attempt rape or commit sexual assault, researchers have found.”

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/974980

Please, make the right choice to protect ALL of our children.


I oppose this fully.


I strongly oppose this hateful policy

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I strongly oppose this proposed policy.  This proposal would create a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment for our VA transgender and nonbinary youth, requiring teachers and staff to forcibly “out” students, prohibit staff from supporting trans and nonbinary students such as using a students affirming name and pronouns, and prohibit access or participation in activities consistent with their gender identity.  All our students deserve a supportive and affirming school environment, especially our vulnerable and marginalized populations like our transgender and nonbinary youth.


Instead of coddling people, we should make fun of them for their mental deficiencies

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You have to be a literal  eater to not support these policies.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Strongly oppose.


Stop this

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All harassment of trans students should be halted immediately. It is absolutely ridiculous and insulting that kids just trying to live their lives should he exposed to extra criticism and evaluation. Just let them live!


Strongly opposed to changes

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Leave the VDOE trans policy as it is. The changes proposed are harmful to the students I serve.


Vehemently opposed; inexcusably harmful

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The proposed policy changes will cause nothing but harm to kids who are already in the minority and face discrimination every day. Fostering safe environments for kids, even those who do not look or think like yours, should be the responsibility of public schools and policymakers.


Strongly Support-Thank you!

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


Do not do this.


FULLY SUPPORT - THANK YOU!

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Fully support this!  Thank you, common sense leaders!


I Strongly Oppose the Proposed Changes

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As a Virginia resident, taxpayer, and voter, and as the parent of a Virginia teacher, I strongly oppose the proposed changes. Research shows that transgender youth are over seven times more likely to kill themselves--not because they are inherently more prone to suicide, but because they face the added stresses of societal discrimination and a greater likelihood of parental rejection. Forcing teachers to disregard students' wishes and "out" them to parents ignores the very real possibility that transgender youth (who are more familiar with their own parents than teachers, administrators, or school boards would be) may not feel safe in disclosing their gender identity to family members. It puts transgender students at greater risk, physically and psychologically.

There is no good reason to enact this change, since there is no pressing problem that needs to be addressed. This is simply an attempt to exploit and abuse Virginia transgender students in order to attract attention and distract voters from other issues.

STRONGLY OPPOSED.


I am completely opposed to this policy change

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<p>This policy change is harmful to transgender students who deserve to be equally protected under the law. </p>


SUPPORT


Oppose


Support Transgender Students, not Bigotry.

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I strongly oppose this proposed policy.  This proposal would create a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment for our VA transgender and nonbinary youth, requiring teachers and staff to forcibly “out” students, prohibit staff from supporting trans and nonbinary students such as using a students affirming name and pronouns, and prohibit access or participation in activities consistent with their gender identity.  All our students deserve a supportive and affirming school environment, especially our vulnerable and marginalized populations like our transgender and nonbinary youth.


This is a terrible policy decision.


This is abhorrent and I am strongly opposed to this attack on Trans Rights

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<p>This attack on the rights of Trans Students is awful and despicable. This policy change would harm the mental health of Trans Students for no valid reason. The policy change also disrespects parents' choices who do support their child's transition by not letting them use the restroom that correlates to their preferred pronouns. Please do not implement these policy changes and do any futher harm to Trans Students. </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


The proposed changes will cause harm; I am firmly opposed.

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The functional outcome of these regulations are: the reduced availability of counseling for children who need outside guidance on gender concerns (their teachers and support staff cannot guarantee that their parents will be supportive of their needs), undue administrative burdens placed on students, parents, AND staff in supporting students who want support for their gender identity, and reduced trust between students and teachers, because students cannot expect their teachers to use the most basic form of respect: addressing them by the name that they choose to use at school and with peers. And there is no source of funding proposed to provide single-stall restrooms. The regulations promulgated under the former administration were clearly more in line with the intent of the General Assembly and should remain in force.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Thomas, Tommy, Tom or Tommi?

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Not only is this change in policy completely unnecessary, but it is so heavy handed as to be ridiculous, particularly coming from a purportedly conservative administration.  If adopted, every Thomas, Matthew and Annabelle that wants to go by Tom, Matt or Anna (respectively, of course, lest you hyperventilate over the thought of Matthew going by Anna), there will need to be first approved in writing by the parents.  Or what, face disciplanry action?  Will every iteration need to be approved in advance, or will a blanket approval let Thomas go by Tom, Thom or Tommy?  Or is the guidance suggesting that parently authorization will only be needed where a student has a "persistent and sincere belief that the student's gender differs from his or her sex"?  So if Thomas wants to be Tommy, that's just fine, but if it's Tommi, that requires administrative action?  As noted, this is ridiculous.  How about this?  Why not trust the teachers and school administrators in the Commonwealth to make adult decisions based on the facts presented to them in delicate situations instead of trying to impose a one-size-fits-all policy on the entire state? We all know the answer to that is that we can't because the Governor wants to be president someday and needs to fan the culture war flames to help with his base, but that's a very pathetic reason to make a difficult situation for a kid even worse, which is exactlty what you're doing, no matter how many times you say bullying is bad.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


I fully oppose this.


Please support trans kids

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Please support trans kids.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Let children learn. Policing bathrooms isn’t necessary. Let’s honor and protect all our children. Reverse this ridiculous, discriminatory, distracting decision. </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly oppose!

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<p>I strongly oppose this proposed policy, which does not take into account the safety and feelings of transgender individuals in your state. </p>


Trans women are the new blackface, I SUPPORT this legislation

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Women are a protected group, you cannot identify your way into a protected class. Men who identify as trans can always take off the dress, wig and make up bit woman cannot change of physical makeup. Trans women claim to be the most oppressed of all when they often encourage violence against people who don't support gender ideology. At the end of the day gender ideology benefits men. Money from pharmaceutical companies that push hormones on kids, men getting to take over womens sports, sex offenders who get to go into womens prisons and shelters. The majority of trans women choose to keep the male genitalia...... it's not a matter of access to surgery.

Misogyny is when society will believe a man who says he's a woman, but not a woman who says he's not. When society validates a man who says he's a woman but calls a woman who feels unsafe around a male in a woman's space a TERF.


I strongly oppose this

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As the parent of a trans kid, this policy will destroy the mental health of our trans youth.  I oppose this fully and ask that you not enact this in any way. Our kids lives are worth saving.


Do not do this.


Do NOT Pass - OPPOSE


This is a violation of civil rights and decency

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As a Christian, I believe in treating children with kindness, love and respect. This policy will do none of that - just the exact opposite, you will strike fear in the hearts of many - not just trans kids and their families - but anyone who is different. Who will you come for next? The kids with special needs? The minorities? The immigrants? The girls?

This is an unnecessary burden in our education system. It is already in dire straits after the pandemic closures. Teachers need to be able to educate - not be the so called morality police.

Were any educators even involved or consulted in the creation of this policy? Of ALL the issues our public education system is facing, THIS made up issue is not one of them. Why not help the special needs kids get the services they need to thrive? Why not help get the newly resettled Afghan refugee children the services they need? Why not invest in teacher raises? Why not invest in free breakfast and lunch for hungry kids? Why not invest in reading and math advancement in kids who fell behind the last 2 years? Why not invest in classroom supplies so teachers don’t have to spend their own money?

Instead of making Virginia a leader in education in the US, you will drop us down the list. You will lose new college application ya and eventually you will lose on people moving to VA for work. Our economy will take a bit from unnecessary policies like this.

Let the teachers teach!


I strongly oppose the 2022 model policies. This is bad for all children in VA

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<p>The Virginia Department of Education has issued new “model policies” that effectively strip away some of the rights and protections that transgender students have enjoyed in Virginia. This type of dog whistle politics does not belong in Virginia education policy.   </p>


L policy


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


I oppose the 2022 Model Policies

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<p>As a parent with children in the Virginia school system, I vehemently oppose the proposed 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools.  The proposal does the opposite of its stated purpose: it strips dignity and respect for transgendered student.  As pointed out in the 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgendered Students in Public Schools, transgendered students are significantly more likely to be bullied, and the proposed changes outlined will lead to more bullying and endanger the safety of transgendered students.  Creating a culture of bullying and stripping transgendered students of their identity in the guise of serving parental rights is contemptible.  Children are not the property of their parents, and they should not be treated as second class citizens.  </p>


I strongly oppose this policy.

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<p>Trans kids are here. Trans kids will ALWAYS be here. Trans kids are beautiful. This policy is disgusting. You are hurting children and should be ashamed of yourselves.  </p>


I am completely opposed.


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose Youngkin’s discriminatory policy against trans and queer youth.  I am a public school teacher who believes public education should be a safe space for all children. Accusations that LGBTQIA youth are creating unsafe spaces is unsound and not supported by anything other than personal fear. </p>


Strongly oppose.


Strongly oppose this hateful policy

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This policy is clearly discriminatory based on gender, and a gross misuse of government power. Trans students have the right to an education free from bigotry and prejudice.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly opposed.

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I strongly oppose this motion.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Yes

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Strongly support! Thanks Gov.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>All Kids deserve respect and support, and these policies  undermines the ideas that school should serve as a safe place for ALL students.  </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Wholeheartedly oppose. Protect all children.

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<p>This policy will be harmful to LGBTQ+ children, especially those with unsupportive families. As a school employee, I can tell you with certainty that this will NOT effect the day to day of students and adults who support it, but it WILL effect the day to day of the students it targets - it will make their world less inclusive, less safe, and increase suicide rates in this population (which already has higher rates of suicide). Stop this nonsense. </p>


Thank you! This looks like a great idea!

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<p>These proposed changes are what we need. So grateful for a common sense solution. </p>


I fully oppose this.


Strongly Oppose this transphobic bill

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STRONGLY OPPOSE. Aren't we past this? Trans kids deserve safety. They deserve privacy. This will get kids killed. Period. Any bill that kills kids is one I oppose.


Please protect trans kids!

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<p>I am a public school teacher-librarian, and I am writing to express my strong opposition to the new model policy that requires schools to follow the parents' wishes, not the kid's, in how they express their gender. So many gender-non-conforming kids only feel safe to be themselves at school, because their parents try to quash their identity at home. If this safe space is taken away from them, statistics have shown they are likely to develop mental health problems, and even die by suicide. We need to protect kids, not harm them! Please end this unjust and harmful policy! </p>


Strongly support

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You are doing the good thing


I am strongly opposed.


Do NOT Pass - OPPOSE

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This is awful.  Do NOT Pass.


Strongly oppose.


This is a terrible policy decision.


Harmful policy, strongly oppose

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I am a Virginian high school student, and I support my trans classmates unequivocally. Governor Youngkin does not care about Virginians, and this policy is a perfect example of that. His efforts to hurt an already-vulnerable and prosecuted population are a cruel embarrassment to him and this state.


I oppose this fully.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


I vehemently oppose this horrible policy.

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This policy is based on hatred and bias. It harms some of the most

vulnerable kids. This is nothing more than glorified bullying.


Vehemently OPPOSE

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Transgender students deserve the same rights and freedoms as everyone else – the ability to be recognized for who they are and how they perceive themselves. Youngkin’s Model Policies would constrict transgender students’ rights to present their true selves to the world. Youngkin claims he is protecting parents’ rights, but he is only promoting the interests of parents who oppose their children’s identities. He is limiting the rights of parents who support those identities, as these parents would for the first time have to present legal documentation to ensure that their children’s gender identity and choice of name would be recognized at school. And Youngkin is eviscerating the rights of transgender students themselves.

Adoption of anti-transgender laws and regulations can inflict significant, measurable, and immediate harm to the health and mental well-being of transgender youth; it is not a minor adjustment to obscure rules. A Washington Post survey shows that Youngkin’s proposals have already struck fear and distress in transgender students throughout the state. Other studies show that anti-transgender laws and regulations increase already high rates of depression and suicide among transgender youth, rates which have already been increasing along with the recent wave of anti-transgender legislationnationally. One report found that in 2021, 42% of transgender youth aged 13-24 years old seriously considered suicide. The proposed Model Policies reflect a cold indifference to the well-being of transgender students and a willingness to inflict cruelty on them for political gain in the culture wars Governor Youngkin so energetically pursues.

Three of the changes to be imposed by Governor Youngkin’s Model Policies have been directly correlated with rates of attempted suicide among transgender youth.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Great job - support you and new guidelines.

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<p>Gov. Youngkin, please keep up the great work. We need your wise and sane decision making. Thanks! </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Opposed! Why? This will harm children.

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Protect trans youth. Why on Earth are you trying to harm them with this trans-phobic policy?


Strongly opposed

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<p>All students should feel comfortable in the classroom, let teachers do the jobs they are highly educated to do and stop making more social regulations. </p>


Do not do this.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Why would anyone discourage parental involvement?

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This is good common sense.  Thanks


OPPOSE

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I oppose everything about this.  DO NOT let this pass.


I am completely opposed.


Fully support! This will help youth and families

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Thank you for putting forth these ideas! It will be great for our youth and families!


Fully Support!!

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<p>This is needs to pass. </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.


I oppose this fully.


Strongly oppose!

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We should encourage acceptance, not bullying and shaming. Transgender students should have a right to define their identity and use the names that they choose. Anything else is inhumane and unacceptable.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


SAVE OUR CHILDREN

https://www.publicadvocateusa.org/news/article.php?article=10794&fbclid=IwAR2HBzyT3tVPu5GZIJPS7wgXOcc3Esenj9l6NlBiXh6rUIgQRFCE8zN_yOYYoungkin is stopping  state ran child abuse knowingly manufactured intensionally without the best interests of ANY involved unless you are  Epstein’s friends ! There weren’t any minors branded until the Democrats fraudulently funded this fashion. Children aren’t born with the wrong genitals based on outfit and personality. SICKOS enabled child abuse that seeks to justify funded branding, drugging, sterilizing and chopping up CHILDREN BASED ON LIES.
Little Girls are being raped, shamed, gagged and forced to participate in the socially constructed perverted CULT that DEMOCRATS FUNDED.
It is monstrous and a LIE to mislead a child to believe they can change their sex.
Global LGB Alliances, Woman and Children having to beg the OBVIOUS corruption in Govt to protect privacy, safety and human rights is a sure SIGN of the blatant EVIL and Intensional HARM knowingly.

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https://www.publicadvocateusa.org/news/article.php?article=10794&fbclid=IwAR2HBzyT3tVPu5GZIJPS7wgXOcc3Esenj9l6NlBiXh6rUIgQRFCE8zN_yOY
Youngkin is stopping  state ran child abuse knowingly manufactured intensionally without the best interests of ANY involved unless you are  Epstein’s friends !
There weren’t any minors branded until the Democrats fraudulently funded this fashion.
Children aren’t born with the wrong genitals based on outfit and personality.
SICKOS enabled child abuse that seeks to justify funded branding, drugging, sterilizing and chopping up CHILDREN BASED ON LIES.

Little Girls are being raped, shamed, gagged and forced to participate in the socially constructed perverted CULT that DEMOCRATS FUNDED.

It is monstrous and a LIE to mislead a child to believe they can change their sex.

Global LGB Alliances, Woman and Children having to beg the OBVIOUS corruption in Govt to protect privacy, safety and human rights is a sure SIGN of the blatant EVIL and Intensional HARM knowingly.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


I OPPOSE  this new policy.

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<p>I oppose the Governor’s new policy. This is NOT what we should be focusing on! </p>


I fully oppose this.


Highly Support

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I highly support this proposal. I do not co-parent with the school system.  If children are  not considered adults until 18, they should not be able to make decisions without parental consent until so.  18 to vote and not legal to marry with out parental consent.  Making life altering decisions is no different under the age of 18.  If we all chose to change who we were when we played make believe the world would be full of Bo and Luke, Daisy, He-Man and She-Ra, Transformers, etc.  Let the kids be kids and make adult decisions when the age is appropriately defined as an adult.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


This policy is harmful and wrong

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This policy will only harm Virginia students.  The current policy in place is appropriate and protects all of our children.  School is a place where all students should feel safe - school is already hard enough for any student struggling in any way and this policy will only make things worse.  I strongly feel this entire policy change is a political stunt with no thought at all to the well being of any child in our commonwealth.  Thank you so much.


OPPOSE - Undue Burden On Parents, Infringing On Parents & Students Rights, Violation of Civil Rights

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I strongly oppose the changes to the Model Policies, particularly in the case of Parental and Student rights within the classroom and their relationship between home and school.

The change in policy claims to revert rights back to parents. The policy changes seem counterintuitive to that. Parents are now being forced to submit legal documents in regard to their student's activity at school for example, a change in name address. It makes little sense to have to hop over legal hurdles just for teachers and schools to address students by a name that may be different from the one on their birth certificate. This is a conversation and decision that should be between a student and their families.

Code of Virginia, § 1-240.1, states that parents have a fundamental right in the upbringing and care of their children. The school/education system should respect the student and family’s decision. Legalities and the state government should not be imposing themselves on students' and families’ decisions.

In addition, crafting these policies can exclude and possibly alienate students, essentially marking them as a separate class of students within a school’s population. Code of Virginia § 22.1-23.3 states the DOE must maintain a safe and supportive learning environment along with protection against discrimination and harassment for ALL students. Not allowing students to use their preferred names and live their authentic selves violates this premise. Making parents/families file legal documents to essentially use school facilities is a discriminatory practice against students (something that will violate Code of Virginia, § 2.2-3900).

These Model Policies changes do not respect parental rights or students' rights.


This is a terrible policy decision.


Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools


I am completely opposed.

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I am strongly opposed.


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I strongly agree with these guidelines. Research indicates that 78 percent of those who have already fully transitioned as transgender ADMIT to struggling with suicidal thoughts.  These are thise who have already gone through the entire transition.  AND YT...we are told not to intervere or discourage young people who are considering this path because it might make them suicidal.  That's craziness.  It's a path that we KNOWleads to major depression.  Why on earth would we not have parents involved if a child were considering going down this path?? And why on earth would any teacher, therapist or professional want to discourage parental involvement unless they were an activist trying to direct these kids down this path?


As a teacher I oppose these changes

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JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND DOESN’T  MEAN ITS WRONG

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I vehemently oppose this change. VEHEMENTLY. As a counselor who actually WORKA with children (some of whom identify as transgender), I can assure you this change in policy will cause MUCH more Harm than good. The only people this protects are people who are scared of something they do not understand or agree with. If a child was considering a practicing a different religion than their parents, or wanted to pursue a different career path than their parents wanted, would you also block them from being able to speak to their teachers and counselors about it? Not every child grows up with parents who support their lifestyle, hopes, and dreams. I DISSENT.


Strongly Agree!

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<p>Enough with the trans kids rights. This is for all kids. They are segregating themselves. </p>


Strongly oppose

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Greetings,

These model policies are horrifying: a 3rd grader who socially transitioned as a kindergartener and has been using a female name and pronouns for years will suddenly be "outed" at school as a boy? How on earth can you expect teachers, who have already weathered so much, to implement such a heartless policy (which students will vociferously protest)?  And who will pay to retrofit the schools so there are single-use bathrooms on every floor? Who will pay for the extra hall monitors to ensure kids use the correct bathroom, and-- more importantly-- who will pay for the extra counseling that students will need to cope with this policy?  This is nothing but a stunt to further raise Youngkin's public profile in his bid for national office.  If implemented, these policies will come at enormous cost to kids' mental and physical health-- and their lives. I get that some kids might be experimenting with self-identifying as different genders. So what? That is far better than going back to the days when kids with gender dysmorphia were dying because they can't get the treatment they need. I think that every Republican who votes this anti-trans agenda would change their tune in a heartbeat if their own child, or niece or nephew was trans. I sincerely hope you reconsider. Sincerely, Jen Rubenstein


Cruel to trans kids

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They are vulnerable, threatened kids. What harm have they ever done? This is brutal. Don't do it.


Trans students need a safe space

Chris Kearney-Graham, Special Education Teacher VA Public Schools

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<p>If students aren’t coming out to their families it’s because they don’t feel safe doing so. Now, if this governor gets his way we will have students who aren’t safe, physically or emotionally, at home or at school, and will be left helpless and alone. He will be giving every bully and bigot permission to harass and torment transgender students in school . </p>


Strongly oppose.


I oppose this fully.


Strongly oppose

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This is a horrifically stupid policy. Strongly oppose.


Harmful policy, strongly oppose

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All kids deserve love and equal opportunities regardless of gender or sexual orientation. They should not be discriminated against. Do not let this pass


Harmful policy, strongly oppose


ALL WHO OPPOSE ARE GROOMER PEDOS

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<p>As a reformed insane person, who reversed a bottom surgery because of the amount of disgusting pedo activity, I can guarantee that every SINGLE person that opposes this is a pedo and should be registered as a sex offender immediately. I support the policies. </p>


Youngkin’s plan is a winner!

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Great for teachers, students and families! This is what Virginia needs!


I fully oppose this.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Strongly Opposed, Incredibly Furious

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Trans student here. I am strongly, strongly opposed to this new bill that our lovely governor is passing. By doing this, you are allowing citizens apart of a minority, that already struggles enough, to be prejudiced. We should be allowed to use the right name and pronouns. Not the ones that we were born with, but the ones that we actually are. We should be able to use the bathroom that we belong in too. Not the one that is assigned by the genetalia of a person, but the one that we actually need to be in. By listening to the opinions of people who would rather use religion as an excuse to harm a community, you are only ensuring that the youth of your world will hate you for the rest of your days in office. We are not "dangerous" or "harmful" or "perverted." We are human, and we deserve basic human rights. If CIS people can change their name at will and be called what they want, why can't we? Separate church and state and get off your high horses. We are begging you, but we won't beg for long.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


I oppose this in the strongest possible manner

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I am a trans student myself, and I can already see the damage these policies will do to kids all over Virginia. By forcing students to get outed, you are putting them in possible harm and harassment from their parents, other students, and teachers. Not only that, they will be forced to get deadnamed and misgendered. If schools are supposed to be a safe place for kids, how is this in ANY way supposed to help??? LGBTQ youth already have a high rate of suicide and self-harm. Making us feel even more miserable will surely make this worse. I am speaking as one of the teens that this policy will affect, and I implore you-we’ve had enough already.


Fully Support

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<p>Fully support all aspects of the proposed legislation </p>


Completely oppose

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<p>I completely oppose the "2022 model policies on the privacy, dignity, and respect for all students and parents in Virginia's public schools", put forth by Gov. Youngkin. These policies are regressive, and go completely against the consensus of the scientific and medical community. These policies, if implemented, would pose a great risk to the well-being of transgender and non-binary students. All of our students deserve a supporting and affirming environment: these model policies severely compromise that for one of our most vulnerable groups.    </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.


strongly oppose

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As a product of the Virginia public school system, I am writing to voice my strong opposition to the model policies, which are harmful to trans and nonbinary students -- students who are already often vulnerable to violence at school.

Supporting trans and nonbinary students in their chosen name and pronoun is critical for creating safe environments. Putting up barriers to teachers' abilities to do this harms the trust that is necessary for students to learn.

All students deserve access to mental healthcare provided by school. Providing an option for parents to be able to opt students out of mental healthcare is deeply disturbing.

All students deserve safe access to bathrooms at school. Putting up barriers to trans students' bathroom access has proven to lead to both mental and physical health problems for those students.

For all of these reasons, I strongly oppose the new model policies.


I Strongly Oppose

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<p>All students matter and should be protected. This trans gender policy is immoral! </p>


Strongly oppose.


Very strongly oppose

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<p>It is the duty of the educational institution to provide for a safe and welcoming environment to all students to ensure the best chance for academic and personal success. The restrictions would bring disastrous harm to kids just trying to be themselves. Trans and non-binary youth are no different than cisgender youth. They deserve the chance to grow and learn in a place that nurtures and cares for them! How can a kid be expected to learn if their very identity is being attacked by the institutions that claim to care about them?? I very strongly oppose these restrictions. </p>


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose this, this is targeting the LGBTQ+ students.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly oppose. This will do irreparable harm.

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<p>As a public school teacher, I strongly oppose. This will do irreversible harm to transgender children.  This is sickening to read. </p>


I strongly oppose!

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<p>The Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools will not protect trans children.  If you truly care about their mental and physical health and well-being you will not implement. </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly oppose.

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<p>Please quit making a minority population that has enough struggles a target of an unnecessary agenda. </p>


I am strongly opposed.


FULLY SUPPORT - THANK YOU!

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Thank you for supporting and reaffirming parents’ roles in their children’s lives. It is essential that our state recognize and respect the role of parent, especially when it comes to education and protection of our children! This is one of the most obvious town hall topics I’ve seen - just pass this common sense regulation!


This policy wants trans children different, if not different hidden, if not hidden dead.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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These policies will harm trans kids, who need love and support. Furthermore, they are a blatant, self-serving attempt to pander to the religious right by serving up trans kids as an easy target upon which to focus their hatred and bigotry.


Endangering Children, Infringing on the First Amendment and Freedoms

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What's lower than dehumanizing and endangering children? Forcing them to out themselves to potentially transphobic parents puts the kids in danger. Shame on this administration for harming children and interfering in personal identities and freedoms. Isn't freedom from overregulation what the Republican Party is about?


I oppose this fully.


Strongly strongly opposed

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Please do not take this step backwards that can harm our most vulnerable kids!


I Completely Oppose

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<p>Honestly, doing this has absolutely no benefit to pretty much anyone. This is meant to do nothing except exclude kids who don't fit in a certain bubble and that is wrong. In kindergarten, don't we learn about kindness and including others? This proposition serves only the purpose to exclude and erase those kids who already feel different enough as is. There is no point to this other than intolerance and that is absolutely disgusting. It is 2022, there is no place for this kind of behavior towards kids who are just trying to get an education the same as everyone else. You should be ashamed for even suggesting such a thing. Disgusting and disgraceful. </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Stop this

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<p>Do NOT harm trans kids. </p>


Comment on this bill

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I am in support of parents rights. I am in full support of this bill that Governor Youngkin has propsosed. Stop confusing the children!


I fully oppose this.


Fully support this

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Great step in the right direction!


Harmful policy, strongly oppose

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<p>Beyond the obvious harms this policy presents to trans and other LGBT+ students, it would also hurt school communities by eroding the trust students can place in their teachers and counselors. This policy directly hurts students who are already the most vulnerable. </p>


Do not do this.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly oppose. We must protect trans children

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As an educator I find this executive directive appalling and an attempt to use trans and other LGBTQ+ children as political pawns. This directly puts students at risk and creates a devisive relationship between parents, students, and teacher. This also would ruin the trusting environment and relationships we educators try to create for our students. Shame on you for using these children for personal political gain.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Strongly Support!

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


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


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Disastrous idea! Strongly oppose the abusive decisions of our governor.


I am strongly opposed.


Opposed

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Anti-trans laws are oppressive in a country that’s working to fight oppression.


I Fully Support the Proposal

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<p>As a parent of two school-age children who attend public school, I’m relieved to see that our Governor is working to protect them. The LGBTQ propaganda has no place in our schools. </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


I oppose this fully.


Leave trans people alone

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There are so many important issues to be addressed right now. Attacking trans people is not an important issue- protecting them is. Don’t forget, these are children…if your child was transgender, would you enact laws to out him or her in this way? Please consider that question, if that’s the only true way for you to find empathy.


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<p>I strongly oppose this policy and the harm it will do to children. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>This policy will only make schools less safe for students and will do nothing to change a persons’ gender identity </p>


Strongly oppose.


I am completely opposed.


Strongly Opposed- this is despicable

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<p>There’s a reason these kids don’t want their parents to know their gender identity. The parents that are supporting this are the same ones that will bully or disown their kids for coming out. No one should have to face that. </p>


I do not support this and I do not support Youngkin

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<p>I am fully opposed to this. Do not do this. </p>


Approve! Approve! Approve!

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I support this ??. This is a step in the right direction!


Bill supported by bigots

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All these anonymous bigoted comments are indicative of what this bill is about. You are creating a cultural war where none exist. What a piece of sh*t youngkin is and all you loudon s are just like him.


Every student matters

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All students need to be a priority, regardless of orientation, gender, race, religion, etc.


Strongly Support

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I strongly support the involvement of parents with their children’s choices


I fully oppose this.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


Please do not do this

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<p>This is not a good idea at all, don't give Virginia a worse name. Please! </p>


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Strongly oppose

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Please do NOT pass this.  Strongly oppose.


Think of all the young lives that are and will be affected!! You had your life let us have ours!!!!

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<p>Strongly oppose! </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.


Unnecessary and cruel

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The Governor’s proposed policy is another example of Republican overreach. Instead of focusing on issues that matter, the Governor is using his time in office to make a name for himself nationally by being a bully. This policy is cruel and hurtful, all for scoring political points.  If he actually cared about this kids, he would leave the previous policy in place.

The students and teachers don’t care if someone is trans or not. It’s creepy that the governor is so obsessed with this issue.


STRONGLY OPPOSED! This is a life-threatening decision!

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<p>STRONGLY OPPOSED! This is a life-threatening decision. Please reconsider. </p>


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly opposed

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I am strongly opposed, please don’t do this


I am strongly opposed.


I oppose this fully.


FEAR GOD NOT MAN

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GOD MADE WOMEN TO BE A WOMEN....FINAL

GOD MADE MAN TO BE A MAN...FINAL

THAT INCLUDE ALL CHILDREN

BOYS ARE BORN BOYS.

GIRLS ARE BORN GIRLS

""""""""F I N A L """""""'"


Protecting all students includes protecting trans students.

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<p>If the last year has made you question implementing a policy that protects trans students, you never really supported them. This last year with lcps has shown how aggressive and discriminatory faculty, parents, and others can be towards the trans student population. We need to make sure MORE THAN EVER that these children feel safe and protected in a learning environment. If we so not secure a safe space for them to learn, then we are knowingly leaving a population to fail the education system. We cannot do this....no matter religious beliefs. Every child matters. </p>


Wrong, wrong, wrong

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<p>You claim to want to protect the rights of religious people who are opposed to this, but as a public entity, there is separation of church and state. You should know this, as this is the state that has the Statute for Religious Freedom, by Jefferson. 14th amendment guarantees equal protection under the law. All students have their rights protected, and whether or not you agree with it has NOTHING to do with Constitutional rights. As we have seen before, these issues do not harm you, as the SCOTUS has affirmed. What this says is that you are promoting bigotry and hate. </p>


Do not do this.


I strongly oppose

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<p>All kids should be safe in their schools. This bill will detrimentally harm the safety of our kids. </p>


Fully oppose- this new policy puts kids’ lives in danger!

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I am a resident of Virginia, a small business owner in Virginia, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and the parent of a non-binary child. I fully and completely oppose this reckless new policy. As both a therapist and a parent, I have Grace concerns about how are trans and non-binary children and teens will cope with this institutionalized bullying. I have clients who will stop attending school altogether to maintain their physical safety (using a bathroom and locker room that does not match your gender identity is unsafe!) and to guard their mental health. 40% of trans and non-binary people have attempted suicide. They are one of the MOST at-risk groups because of the prejudice, marginalization, and persecution they face from policies such as these. I beg you, for the health and welfare of Virginia’s youth, do NOT put this backwards policy into effect!


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly opposed

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Requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to sex assigned at birth would both cause them great distress, and put them at greater risk of harassment.


Opposed

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<p>Please respect student’s wishes. Kindness costs nothing. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Transgender students are not a threat to anyone. Virginia schools need not make their lives any more difficult than they already are.  </p>


ABSOLUTELY NOT

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<p>These suggested policies are bigoted and transphobic! </p>


Strongly oppose.


I strongly oppose the proposed policy.

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I strongly oppose this proposed policy.  This proposal would create a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment for our VA transgender and nonbinary youth, requiring teachers and staff to forcibly “out” students, prohibit staff from supporting trans and nonbinary students such as using a students affirming name and pronouns, and prohibit access or participation in activities consistent with their gender identity.  All our students deserve a supportive and affirming school environment, especially our vulnerable and marginalized populations like our transgender and nonbinary youth


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


OPPOSE!


Strongly oppose

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 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools puts a large group of students at a higher vulnerability. The schools are designed to educate and serve ALL STUDENTS. These policies are written to protect parents of a small group of dissenters. I worry that by disregarding our students’ voices that we will lose them to depression, suicide and self harm as research ac to ally shows. I am disgusted at how laws have been molded to the agenda of a few under the guise of respect for all when it does the complete opposite by ignoring the needs of our students.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Yes do this - I support science and biology

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Schools should be for learning not social experimentation. I am for science and biology, not psychological experimentation for children who aren’t fully mature enough to live on their own, let alone change their scientific biology.


I strongly oppose this policy change.

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Why would you want to make life more difficult for trans children? They go through so much already. Policies like these are just trying to force them into pretending not to be trans. It's sickening.

Students shouldn't have to dread going to school. These changes will cause exactly that. Please reconsider.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


As a parent of a transgendered student,  no thanks!

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<p>This is an unfair attack on my child and their friends. School is one of the safe places a student has,  not only is this dangerous it will absolutely be detrimental to mental health of these kids. Teachers are there to teach, not carry on a political agenda. This political charade needs to stay out of our schools!! </p>


I am strongly opposed.


Fully support


Strongly oppose

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<p>This is horrible. Gov youngkin once again not representing all Virginians and treating trans and lgbtq kids terribly.  Putting their lives and mental health at great risk. </p>


I strongly oppose this.

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<p>Do not do this. </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


I am completely opposed.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Full support


This will end in dead and homeless children. VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE

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Any policy that goes behind a child's back to out them to their parents is inhumane and cruel. There is a very good reason a child would choose to disclose that they are transgender to their teachers over their parents, and that is because they know their parents do not support them. In many cases, those parents have openly stated that they would kick out a child who turned out to be LGBT. What "rights" is this giving to those parents? The right to leave their child out on the street? The right to abdicate their responsibility to take care of them? The right to rob their child of a support network, damage their trust in others for the rest of their lives, teach them that love is conditional? It's all a front. This is a hateful, cruel, evil policy that no one with any sense of dignity should support. If you support these guidelines you should be ashamed of yourself: you don't love your children, you love having power over them.


Great idea! Support the whole family

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These are the right direction for the commonwealth! Keep supporting families!


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly Opposed

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<p>This legislation will be detrimental to young people that are trying to be themselves. Our job as humans is to be kind to one another and this legislation is deeply unkind. Trans people and trans youth are painted as dangerous when they spend their whole lives being victimized. Legislation like this is based on fear and discrimination, not facts and kindness. </p>


Do not do this.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Voicing my opposition. </p>


I fully oppose this.


Strongly oppose.


STRONGLY OPPOSE. Will lead to increased suicide rates

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<p>I’m a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Loudoun County, VA. If this is passed, this will lead to increased suicide rates amongst this population, and those around them. If you truly care about student mental health, want to save lives, show that you care for ALL students, then these model policies need to end up in the trash. </p>


Strongly support

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Fingers crossed this will pass. Much needed change!


Strongly Oppose!!!

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I strongly oppose this! You are endangering the lives of students!


I strong oppose this policy

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Do not move forward with this policy. It will remove protections for non-binary and transgender students and harm many students. This will hurt kids. Please do not pass this.


I am strongly opposed.


Protect Trans Children

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<p>Transgender children must be supported. This bill is clearly designed to discriminate against transgender children. </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly object

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<p>This is not about parental choice for the Governor.  This is an open attack on individual liberty of US citizens that includes those who are transgender.  Telling them they have no right to choose is taking those children’s rights away and those parents who understand and raise them in an environment of love, support, and trust.  The governor is a shameful hateful man for treating these families as less than because of his extreme views. </p>


Please PASS this Bill!!!!!

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We need change in the right direction! Less confusion for all! More guidance and leadership.


STRONGLY OPPOSE


I oppose

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This is outrageous, this would make school so much harder for all trans students.


Support

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As a school board official, you have the duty to protect the students and staff within the district. And that includes all students, all teachers, and all staff. If parents object, they have options. Many families do not have the resources to choose those options. Opinions do not have a place here. Religion does not have a place here. Human rights and safety are what matter. Stay focused


This policy will be blood on Youngkin's hands

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I STRONGLY oppose this policy. Schools should be a safe place for children, especially of unsupportive and abusive parents. This strips that for children strongly in need of acceptance. Considering the mental health implications and already high suicide rate among the transgender community this is exactly what not to do. Shame on you Youngkin!!!


I oppose this fully.


Oppose.

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Unless you also plan on making every cisgender kid jump through these hoops to use the bathroom (ridiculous, right?!) then don’t do it to trans kids. Vehemently oppose.


Strongly oppose

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<p>You are putting children’s lives at risk. This is not what Virginia represents. I   I fully oppose this. </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Huge oppose!

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This is so far from okay and transgender people deserve the right to comfortably use the restroom and go by preffered names!


Oppose


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose anti-trans policies in schools. I support ALL students and our Governor should too. These proposed model policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


I am completely opposed.


Youngkins proposed acts regarding trans students

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<p>I am opposed to youngkins proposed changes for trans students </p>


Fully opposed to this decision

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This is shameful. Let people live their lives!


Do your job; stop targeting vulnerable kids

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If this policy is truly “for the children”, why don’t you ask what they think before foisting it upon them? The answer would surprise you.

But we know that’s not what this is about. It is a political stunt that has real consequences for children who are already targeted and bullied. Neither compassionate nor conservative (what happened to “live and let live”?).

Move on; be better.


Strongly oppose.


Do not do this.


I am strongly opposed.


I fully oppose this.


Leave these children alone! I strongly oppose!

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<p>Leave these children alone! Why is it so difficult to show compassion and acceptance for the LGBTQ + children? </p>


Youngkin and his BOE

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Trumpkin’s policy is that of a bully and very unkind. This small minority of kids deserve respect and understanding during a challenging period in their lives. To play political games at the cost of these kids lives is nothing but cruel and mean spirited.
You are a divisive and hypocritical politician and should be ashamed.
Michael Williams PA,MS


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


As a family doctor I oppose this policy.

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<p>As a family doctor this policy will increase suicide among trans students.  Glenn Youngkin will have these deaths on his hands.  This is just the beginning of his goal  to take rights away from LGBTQ citizens and set our state back 50 years.  Virginians are better than this policy of hate.  We embrace diversity and freedom for all our citizens. </p>


Shameful, disgusting, and discriminatory towards trans kids

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I am a Virginia resident and I strongly oppose this bill.  It is incredibly harmful to all children and teaches them to hate trans kids.  I am appalled that anyone thinks it is appropriate to discriminate against children like this.  Shameful to even introduce it!


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


I oppose this


This is ridiculous and I do not support this.

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The policy is a harmful example of what hinders and stopping the development and well-being of transgender kids. I am a friend of many trans kids/young adults and this policy is absolutely appalling.


Support


Oppose

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<p>I strongly OPPOSE this guidance. </p>


Oppose

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We believe in freedom for everyone and that the government should stay out of people’s personal business.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


I oppose this fully.


Strongly oppose!

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<p>This policy does nothing more than belittle and harm transgender students.  All students deserve to learn in a safe environment.  Stop harassing these students and focus on teaching inclusion.   </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly support

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Please help all children be safe.  Transgender students in restrooms has resulted in assaults.  Assigned restrooms for those with special needs should be available.  At the high school where I taught, these restrooms were available to those with disabilities and those with unique needs.

Parents need to be informed about a child's gender dysphoria.  It is a mental health issue.  I have personally witnessed administrators directing teachers to call a student by one name/gender during the day and another name/gender with the parents.  While I appreciate that some parents may have difficulty supporting trans children, parents have the right to know what is happening with their child.  The child needs support, counseling, and time to sort out who they are.

I strongly disagree with any teacher promoting or proselytizing about their gender/sexuality.  Teachers need to remain neutral.  The staff who flamboyantly wear rainbows, LGBTQ+ whatever shirts and such need to be counseled to remove this inappropriate behavior from their classroom.  The far left continues to try to drive a wedge between children and their parents.  Please, do not assist them.


Strongly oppose.


Mean spirited, impractical, bullying.

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<p>Governor Youngkin can’t achieve anything meaningful, so he has taken to bullying school children to rally up his base. Get something real done. </p>


This is a terrible policy decision.


Do not do this.


Yes to this policy - parents determine how their children will be raised and educated

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This policy protects the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated


Rescind this Proposed Model Guidance

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The proposed Model Guidance here is extreme government overreach into the lives of Virginians. Kids in Virginia have the right to be called by their preferred name and pronouns without needing to go through a Byzantine set of forms and clerks. This hateful imposition of Youngkin's big government views into the lives of Commonwealth kids cannot stand. Likewise kids should be able to use the bathroom without fear that they will be policed by the state or school for using the "wrong" bathroom. All this will lead to is hurting trans kids and any kid who doesn't conform to gender stereotypes. Finally, of course, this model policy violates federal rulings and state law. Virginia kids aren't a prop for the governor to propel himself to a failed bid for the 2024 republican nomination, and he should be ashamed for using them as such.


Don't pass this. Please, you would only hurt future generations. Protect trans rights!!!

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Passing this legislation would be extremely harmful. Instead, local governments should be giving support and helpful resources to any transgender, nonbinary, or any students who are trying to figure out who they are. The period of time that students start becoming who they will be as adults is in the K-12 grades. Teaching respect and understanding will make this world a better place. If this legislation is passed, it would lead to further discrimination and bullying that could lead to self harm and suicide. Please don't let this happen! Anyone who identifies as transgender or nonbinary is not a monster! They are people who deserve love and respect. Gender and sexuality are for individuals to figure out on their own. Just because you don't believe in more than 2 genders doesn't mean that you can or should force your ideals on others. Gender and sexuality are fluid and on a spectrum, and learning about it in a safe place could help everyone! Please reconsider this bill. Protect trans rights. Let future generations of virginians grow up in a loving and welcoming environment. Isn't that what you would want for your own children?


culture warriors hurt children. focus on issues, not distractions!

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<p>why focus on this? why not focus on helping students? we can improve lunches, pay for better text books, field trips to help them learn- why focus on this non issue? it’s a distraction- let trans kids be kids, let them be themselves. focus on the issues that matter instead of playing Culture Warrior? our kids are being given watered down curriculums to preserve the feelings of long dead slave owners and murderous thugs, their test scores are falling, and our teachers are overworked. get a grip, grow up! Youngkin would rather we all focus on this culture war stupidity instead of focusing on his lack of policies to help all virginians. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>I oppose Youngkin’s discriminatory model policy. Protect trans kids and all kids and do not introduce bigotry into our schools or state.  </p>


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Morning be forward supporting all

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This guidance harms transchildren and anyone supporting this should be ashamed of themselves. Why does being kind to someone and THEIR identity affect anyone else negatively? It shouldn’t. This is a step back, not forward. A time filled with shame and hate and too many child suicides. Love & accept these kids and support them like every other student.


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Gov. Youngkin's plan is a deadly one.  I cannot believe that in 2022 we are even having to discuss what the experts told us was a great plan when we passed it under Gov. Northam.  My own 25 yrs in medicine informs my decision to trust the judgement of the expert physicians and to despise what Gov. Youngkin is doing to our kids and our state.  Don't let this hateful man do this!


Vehemently oppose

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As a teacher, parent, and human I vehemently oppose this legislation.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Fully Oppose this

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Protect kids. Don't make these changes!


I oppose this fully.


Keep schools safe for Trans kids

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In the 2019 GLSEN school climate survey, "Only 10.9% of LGBTQ students reported that their school or district had official policies or guidelines to support transgender or nonbinary students" - this new "guidance" will mean that ZERO % of Virginia schools will support the roughly 6,200 trans youth ages 13-17 in the state of Virginia will be left with no support in an already hostile public school environment. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/subpopulations/transgender-people/

While it's understood that Republicans want more and more people to pull their kids out of public schools so that they can push a voucher program, making schools unsafe for any student is not only ethically and morally reprehensible, but it makes it more difficult for those students to learn.


I oppose this hypocrisy

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This policy is not "for the parents" because if it were, no legal changes would need to be made for a student to go by a different name/pronouns than what they were assigned at birth. This will endanger students who likely are not out of the closet for a reason, create distrust in the school community, and worsen the mental health of queer students.

Many students who are not out to their parents keep it a secret due to queerphobia and a possible threat of violence. Queer children are far more likely than cisgender and heterosexual children to be kicked out of their homes or face abuse in said home. A child's identity will not change simply because a parent tries to control it. In school, you are taught to be yourself. This policy counteracts that valuable lesson.

There will be a dramatic decrease in queer students going to their school counselors and teachers for help due to a fear of malicious dead naming, misgendering, and possible outing to parents. School will no longer serve as a safe place to queer students which will badly damage grades, relationships, and overall health, both mental and physical. If these policies are passed, you can expect to see an increase in eating disorders, self harm, and even suicide.

Mental health issues will increase due to outcasting and a general feeling of unsafeness. Passing these policies will kill transgender students. It will create fear and spark a hateful movement against queer kids. This is not showing respect towards students and it is most definitely not looking out for their wellbeing. This is hypocrisy and a big step in the wrong direction. Many of those that will be affected by these policies can't even vote for their own leaders, yet. This is unjust and cruel. The results will be catastrophic.


Strongly oppose.


Support


This guidance would harm vulnerable children.

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<p>Parents should have a right to work with the school district to advocate for their own children, not to demand disrespectful and harmful treatment of others.. This guidance would be a grave  mistake, inflicting irreversible harm on students directly mistreated as a result and on students indirectly affected by their peers being mistreated.  Teach students to respect one another and appreciate their differences. Allowing transgendered students to be themselves hurts no one and makes for a stronger community. </p>


I oppose.


A Virginian totally opposed to this

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<p>Younkin’s governance is patently christofascist. And campaigning with a for an election denier?!’ Wtf?!! This is terrifying because he’s smart enough to know he’s bowing to the lowest of low and idiotic conspiracists. Just gross. It’s depressing that our governor of this great state is playing with lives of kids— and let’s not forget women’s established reproductive rights—just to have the white pride sector satisfied. Please, just go. </p>


Strongly, deeply opposed

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I vehemently oppose Youngkin’s proposed changes. Please don’t put kids at risk!


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


I fully oppose this.


I am strongly opposed.


OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose removal of protections for transgender and non-binary students. Leave your politics out of the schools. Protect our kids.


I oppose


Do not do this.


Move forward supporting all


You can be yourself but kids can’t? How’s that fair?

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This is an AWFUL plan and if you actually cared about these kids you will leave the 2021 model alone. Many kids view school as their safe space and by implementing this new standard you are taking that space away. These kids aren’t hurting anyone they only want to live as their true selves the same way you get to. Do not do this do not hurt these kids, you know how dangerous this is.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


I fully support. We need to support all children !

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All children deserve to be protected !


I oppose this.

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There are only perhaps a couple thousand transgender students in the whole of the one million-plus student population in the state.  I guess I don't understand how the other 998,000+ students are being slighted by the 2021 policies.  Why do the few need to be used as political pawns in this right-wing, fear-based culture war?


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This policy will have catastrophic  consequences for trans kids.  This also puts all school staff in an awful position. </p>


Oppose.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Why do I oppose? Because I don’t like when innocent kids take their own lives because they are told something is wrong with them. This policy is horrific and those deaths will be on you. </p>


I strongly oppose this!

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<p>I am 100% opposed to governor’s proposed Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender students in Virginia’s public schools. Please do not do this to our students. </p>


Protect trans kids.

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I oppose this. It is Unnecessary!
Protect trans kids.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Trans lives matter

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<p>There is absolutely nothing in this proposed language that protects anyone. The proposed language is hateful and bigoted. Trans people are people and deserve privacy. </p>


I oppose this (Fairfax County, Educator, Father of 2)

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This does not make our schools more effective.This will bring harm to trans kids and their families.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Hurting some of our most vulnerable kids to make political hay.

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Governor Youngkin,

Yiur proposed rollback of protections for trans youth is cruel. Cis youth do not need protection from this population. Trans people are far more statistically likely to be victims of assault than perpetrators. Puberty is already a difficult time for any child. It is harder for trans children, who experience increasing body dysmorphia, depression, and suicidal ideation as they begin to develop secondary sex characteristics that do not match their gender. To target this population at school, where they spend hours every day, is quite literally going to cost lives. Precious, beautiful, children's lives. Do not add unnecessary suffering and death to our world. There is too much already. Let these children be loved, safe, and protected in their schools.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Have some compassion-completely opposed

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Find some compassion in your heart, governor. It does no harm to you nor takes away anything from you for a child to express themselves in a way that feels natural or authentic to them; how do you dare to inflict this harm onto children?


Strongly oppose.


This will bring harm to trans kids.


I oppose this fully.


2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity and Tespect for all Students and Parents in Virginia Pub

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We strongly support this Model Policy.


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I do not agree with this and fully oppose it.


This is just plain wrong

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<p>This is horrible. I oppose. Anyone who supports does not believe in human rights. </p>


I am completely opposed.


Trans school rights

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I support the protection of trans rights in schools.


Against the tide of history

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Do you really think this will change anything? You’re just harming the kids who need help. Do you think any kids actually choose this route? For many teachers are the only support they have. And for many teachers, this is their life’s work: supporting children. Let them do their jobs.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This policy change is only to rile the conservative base and is dangerous to children and families. </p>


I strongly oppose this

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<p>All children deserve a protection, safety, and respect. Putting an already marginalized group of children at risk for more harm is unconscionable. </p>


I fully oppose this.


Fully support!!!

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<p>Our family fully supports this! Thank you Youngkin! </p>


The proposed policies do NOT reflect current research.

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It is hard for me to understand why any adult would intentionally institute policies that hurt children.  The teenage years for all children are so difficult, and adolescents struggling with gender orientation are doubly stressed.  Have any of the policy makers TALKED with these teens?  Have they made an effort to understand the science behind transgender issues?  Or have they arbitrarily acquiesced to the loud voices of unkind and disrespectful parents who have chosen to attack anyone who is not like them or believes like them?

Even if we put aside the motivation behind these malicious proposed policy changes, there remains the issue of science.  I would urge the Youngkin administration to familiarize themselves with the science behind the transgender individual.  I would suggest starting with https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know

Science tells us that transgender individuals are transgender because of their brain structure.  (Which makes me wonder, are the brains of the citizens promoting book banning, are anti-critical race theory, and/or attribute LGBTQUI +  individuals to sin or "grooming" different from open-minded Virginians?)  Instead of changing the current thoughtful policies to the proposed guidelines, what if the administration dedicated effort to educating the general population as to the science behind LGBTQUI+ people and how important it is to support ALL students, especially those that are vulnerable?  Perhaps additional information may help temper hateful judgements...

Follow the science, treat other humans with kindness, and remember, teaming with parents is NOT the same as letting the loudest ones influence policy.

Karen S. Duffy


It is a grave mistake to pass this.

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It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this. You are taking us back in time instead of moving forward and making progress towards everyone being equal. Keep religion out of schools!! </p>


Strongly opposed

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All kids should be able to be themselves


Worry more about what is between children's ears than what is between their legs

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Regarding the new proposal for the treatment of Transgender youth in schools:

While this proposal may position itself to sound like it is about parental rights, it is only about the parental rights of those too close minded to understand that what is between a child's legs does not define them, is not the most important thing about them and it is not anyone's business. I personally hope there isn't someone checking on my child's sex organs before allowing them to go into a bathroom or participate in a sport or agreeing to use their preferred pronouns.

Parents do NOT always know best. Parents can and do cause harm to children mentally, emotionally, and physically, both intentionally and unintentionally. Requiring schools to tattle on their students under the guise of "parents know best" in all cases creates and furthers an unsafe environment for many of our children. What's more, it continues to propagate the notion that children who do not identify with the physical sex they were born to is somehow a problem.

The world is changing. People are recognizing that not everything can be neatly divided into two categories whether it is gender or political beliefs. There are over 300 million people in this country, you seriously think that we can separate them into just two distinct groups based on the biology of their sex organs? Scientific studies have proven over and over that gender and sex are separate from each other and more complex than many people want to believe.

Why are so many parents afraid of the amazing people their children can become if we just let them and provide a safe place for them to learn, grown and discover that? Why is Governor Youngkin so afraid of letting our kids be who they are? Seriously, stop taking us back in time, stop reversing progress, and don't endorse - or worse, force - bullying of transgender children by educational institutions. Let them feel safe in school to be who they are without worrying about it spilling into what may not be a supportive home. These children are who they are whether their parents want them to be or not. Making them afraid of who they are isn't going to change that, it's going to create problems and it will come out eventually.

For the love of everything, why force these kids to be something they aren't because someone else insists they must be easily categorized and understood? My child being who they are does not need to be in anyone else's comfort zone, including my own.


Disastrous idea!

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There is nothing in this proposed action that benefits trans kids! It's strictly a political ploy. And it's despicable.


OPPOSE

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<p>These proposed model policies will be extremely harmful towards transgender and nonbinary kids. I strongly oppose. </p>


Wonderful policy

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This policy is exactly why parents turned out in droves to support Governor Youngkin. Thank you for protecting our kids from the institutional activists!


Highly Opposed

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This will only harm transgender people. It does not help anyone in general. It's only meant to be harmful.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Oppose

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As a father of two children in Va. public schools, I oppose this measure. It will not help anyone but Youngkin to make cheap political points at the expense of hurting a marginalized group. It’s disgusting.


I vehemently oppose

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I oppose this policy wholeheartedly.


I strongly oppose the proposed bill.

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This is a dangerous ideologically based bill instead of fact based. You as our representatives should protect your constituents, including trans and non binary kids. This bill throws them into unsafe situations and violates their right to their pursuit of happiness and rights to privacy.


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


I am strongly opposed.


I Oppose

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<p>This policy is detrimental to the safety and well-being of our students. </p>


I fully oppose this.


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


I strongly oppose


Protect kids

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I oppose the propsed policies. This is a harmful step in the wrong direction. All children should feel safe.


I oppose this fully.


It is a grave mistake to pass this.


Do not do this.


Transgender/non-binary school policy

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I oppose the proposed policy.


This is a terrible policy decision.


Fully oppose

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I fully oppose this proposed bit of bigotry.  Claiming this is about parents' rights is ludicrous--if it were about parents' rights, then I could choose how my child is addressed--by name and by pronoun.

Claiming this is about freedom of speech or freedom of religion is ridiculous--if it were about either of these things, it wouldn't mandate how teachers are allowed to address students.

This is about trying to impose a specific POLITICAL point of view on the citizens of Virginia.  Stop.  Just stop.  This does not further ANY EDUCATIONAL purpose.  We should focus on actual education, not trying to regulate names and pronouns.


I Fully Support This

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


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


I strongly oppose this

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I strongly oppose this guidance. This will bring irrevocable harm to transgender children across the Commonwealth


I support the governor new policy.

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<p>I support the Governor proposed policy.   </p>