Reject and Repeal the 2022 Model Policies!

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These 2022 Model Policies must be repealed. The 2021 Model Policies allowed school staff to “consider the health and safety of the student in situations where students may not want their parents to know about their gender identity,” a protection that the 2022 Proposed Model Policies remove. While schools are indeed required to comply with FERPA, and parents do have a recognized right to their children’s educational information, those rights are not absolute when they endanger those children’s wellbeing. Further, the 2021 Model Policies permitted disclosure of a student’s gender identity only to other school personnel when there was a legitimate educational interest. The 2022 Model Policies require outing trans students to their parents along with school staff with a legitimate educational interest.

As the 2021 Model Policies acknowledged, disclosing a transgender student's gender identity to an unsupportive family “can pose imminent safety risks, such as losing family support or housing.” A recent study by the Trevor Project reported that 38% of transgender girls, 39% of transgender boys, and 35% of nonbinary youth surveyed had experienced homelessness and housing instability at some point in their lives. (Homelessness and Housing Instability Among LGBTQ Youth, The Trevor Project, https://www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/homelessness-and-housing-instability-among-lgbtq-youth-feb-2022/.) These rates are disproportionately greater for non-white LGBTQ+ youth. Id. 16% of LGBTQ+ youth reported running away because of fears of abuse, 14% reported that they were kicked out or abandoned by parents or caregivers. Id.

The United States Supreme Court has found that “a State's interest in safeguarding the physical and psychological well-being of a minor is compelling,” and as a result has “sustained legislation aimed at protecting the physical and emotional well-being of youth even when the laws have operated in the sensitive area of constitutionally protected rights.” New York v. Ferber, 458 U.S. 747, 756 (1982).

The new policy could be read to force disclosure of a student’s gender identity even when that disclosure endangers the student.

For these reasons, I once again urge you to repeal the 2022 Model Policies and reinstate the 2021 Model Policies.


I support Gov. Youngkin

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<p>I want to tank Gov. Youngkin for protecting the children of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Those .2% of the population who have gender confusion should receive counseling and help they are as precious as the other 99.8%. But we should not endanger or punish typical children by having children with gender confusion in their restrooms or making matter worse by calling them by pronouns other than what they are. </p>


Object

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I object to Gov. Youngkin's and the VA Department of Education's draft policy revisions that will restrict schools and teachers from acknowledging and supporting students' transgender status. These prohibitions will harm the trust students have in their teachers and how safe they feel in school.  All students need protection from discrimination and be able to live their fullest selves.


Discriminatory & goes against law

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<p>The laws passed on 2020 by the GA are to protect transgender students, who need protection, and school systems from lawsuits. The proposed policy makes transgender students even more vulnerable. If a parent were abusing their child would the VDOE insist on parental rights above the student’s welfare? It’s not unusual for transgender kids to be I acknowledged and even kicked out of their home, making them street kids. This is a real danger & the reason for law allowing students to use pronouns and names at school that they may not be allowed at home. This policy is anti - Lgbtq & Youngkin’s hotline is too reminiscent of Marcarthyism. </p>


Thank you, Youngkin!

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I fully support Glenn Youngkin’s new proposed rules regarding schools. Thank you for having common sense and that we cannot adhere to having transgender children doing anything without parents consent. It’s the same reason anyone under 18 cannot get a tattoo without their parents consent. Parents need to be involved in all aspects of their child’s life!

this is a step in the right direction.


Strongly Support

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<p>I strongly support Governor Youngkin on the proposed. Parental rights must be preserved! There are only TWO genders.  </p>


Oppose

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2022 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools demonstrates an alarming lack of understanding of gender identity and sex as well as the harmful psychological effects of forced concealment or disclosure of a person's expression of gender. I can only imagine the distress a young person would feel having to make the impossible decision either to hide their gender identity for fear of their family's reaction or to have an educator disclose it to their parents without their approval. This policy should be amended to reflect more expansive and inclusive definitions of gender identity and sex so that all students truly do feel supported in the school environment. Legislators should also address the harms that are likely to come to gender diverse students as a result of this policy.


Support Gov. Youngkin

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<p>Thank you Governor for standing up for common sense! </p>


Supporting kids, supporting this policy

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It is important we protect the most vulnerable kids, and ensuring state workers do not replace parents in important decisions is critical.  Please finalize these updated policies as written without removing any of the protections to restore parental involvement in the process.


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I strongly support Youngkin and parental rights!! The left has lost all common sense and will destroy our country if we don’t fight back against their insane agendas.


I support parents rights

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<p>I support the governor and the rights of parents to know what is going on with their children. The school system should be for teaching education, the parents need to know what is going on with their student at school, especially if it refers to anything outside of academics.  Schools aren’t parents!  </p>


Opposed

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<p>Opposed to the suggested policy change. </p>


I oppose the guidance.

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<p>School is a safe place for many transgender youth where they can be referred to by their actual pronouns and name. Many students are not able to be out at home because of it being an unsafe environment. As a teacher, I would not feel comfortable outing any of my students to their families without their consent. I would also not feel comfortable calling a student by their given name and pronouns when I know that they are trans and have chosen a new name and pronouns. I respect my students and want to show that respect by honoring who they are. </p>


Who is helping the parents when there child is confused?

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I support Governor Youngkin’s policies.If anything who is helping the parents make good decisions when they have a confused child?


Support this law. Support trans kids, but also parents.

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<p>Kids who are genuinely trans deserve our sympathy and support. That said, far too many kids who are merely confused or gay are being peer pressured into taking transition drugs, which begins a dangerous spiral that leaves many of them unhealthy. Parents need to know about these medically serious interventions. What the law actually says is reasonable.Too many people are reacting negatively to false claims about this law. </p>


Trans people are people

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I support trans rights. People are people. It has taken me some time to understand that. I get that for cis-gendered people like me, trans can be confusing. Just take the time to learn and you will discover that they are people, too and that gender isn't as clear cut as you may think.

My nephew is trans. I have met trans people through work. I am a cis-gender woman and have never felt threatened by trans people. In fact, I worry for them.

Your children are not in danger FROM trans people. They are endangered from mis-informed and frightened cis people who are causing harm.


Strongly Support. Transgender is brought to you by the feminist movement.

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<p>Feminism is a Cultural Marxist movement with the philosophy of destroying the family unit. Hatred of God and men. The ultimate goal is to become a lesbian. They are taking children to Drag Queens shows to sexually groom the children. God made male and female only. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I oppose this discriminatory policy. The VA statutory right to parental decisions on education refers to type of education to be provided (home school, private school, public school). It does not mean parents should  control public education curricula or policies. This policy increases risk of psychological harm to vulnerable children. </p>


I support human rights

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<p>Leave trans children alone. Whether or not you agree with it or choose not to accept it, they exist. Everyone deserves to live their authentic self and be allowed to do so. Let’s teach our children to love and accept one another and support each other. We must stop taking rights away from others. </p>


Virginia Schools Parental Rights/Transgender Model Policy.

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I strongly support the Governor’s proposed Virginia School’s Parental Rights.  I believe the proposed rights are common sense and clearly clarify parental rights.  As a parent and now grandparent I believe it is essential to preserve and clarify parental rights and not cede those rights to the public school system.


Strongly Oppose this irrational policy

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<p>There is nothing wrong, nothing unethical, and nothing sacrilegious about being transgender. Glenn Youngkin is a coward and so are his supporters. End this crusade of ignorance, end this crusade of hate. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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I strongly oppose these policies, which disrespect and endanger trans students.

As an educator, I know that kids learn in an environment where they feel respected. Since calling students by their chosen names and pronouns is a matter of basic respect, it is part of the job of working in a school. School staff have no religious or free speech right to do otherwise.

As someone who was once a queer kid, I trust trans students to come out to their parents, when they feel ready, if it is safe. Too often, it isn't. Schools should never risk endangering children at home by deciding for them when their parents should learn about their gender identity.

Of course, many trans children do have support from their parents. These policies disempower supportive parents by making them jump through bureaucratic hoops simply to have school personnel use their child's appropriate name – and even then apparently letting school staff to refuse to do so.

These policies impose an ideology upon school personnel. This ideology claims that everyone is exactly male or female according to their anatomy – despite the fact that trans, nonbinary, and intersex people have always existed. This ideology holds that being trans is something bad that schools or parents can and should suppress, when in reality being trans is just an ordinary, harmless, unavoidable fact about some people.

These policies themselves are a form of bullying. They treat children as if what matters is their genitals as assessed at birth, rather than who they are as a whole person. They exclude children from facilities and activities that are appropriate for their lived genders. Research and common sense tell us that treating trans children in this way will contribute to trans kids' mental health challenges including depression, anxiety, and suicidality.

Overall, these policies reflect an attitude that simply letting trans kids be who they are imposes on or threatens other people. Trans kids are not a problem and deserve to be accepted as they are.


Support.

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<p>We need to support all of our children and youngkins policy does that. </p>


Be better than this backwards policy

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The Youngkin proposed changes to existing school policy are terrible. They are very cynically wrapped up in a bow of “protecting our children.” But spend enough time watching politics and you realize there’s a better than average chance the bill does the opposite of what they call it. I see a lot of comments here in support of the proposed changes that are from people who only read the title of the policy.

As a parent of two, I understand that I believe I have my children’s best interests at heart. But as a mature, thoughtful person who recognizes his fallibility and that education should be a lifelong pursuit, I also understand that I don’t know everything they are going through, feeling, or experiencing.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. No social media, no internet, no mobile phones. Bullying back then was largely physical – a punch, books knocked out of your hands, being pushed over, targeted in dodgeball; maybe a rumor could be spread to a few dozen people. Today our kids are constantly connected to the entire world. A rumor or disparaging remark today can go around the world and be seen by literally millions of people in the span of a single class period.

Youngkin’s policy looks at today’s world through an old lens. It is out of step. It is backwards. It is dangerous.

I hope the school board rejects Youngkin’s proposed changes to this policy. The main guiding principle of the policy is that “Parents have the right to make decisions with respect to their children” and that “Schools shall respect parents’ values and beliefs.”  Does this go for white supremacist parents? Could they demand their children’s school not educate their children with children from another race because it attacks their child’s sense of dignity?

The draft policy says, “Parents have the right to instill in and nurture values and beliefs for their own children and make decisions concerning their children’s education and upbringing in accordance with their customs, faith, and family culture.”  What if the family culture is a racist, hate-fueled, one? Does the school board want to defer to them? This policy indicates they will have to.

The policy also cites the Code of Virginia, § 1-240.1, that a “parent has a fundamental right to make decisions concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent’s child.”

It is a fundamental right. It is not exclusive. Others have responsibility to the child.

At the end of the day, this is all a cynical, dog whistle policy, designed to move us backwards as a society. Considering Youngkin was largely elected by creating a false panic about teaching history accurately, this move is unsurprising. Disappointing. But unsurprising.

Please be better than the worst among us. Reject this policy and actually help our children.


Strongly support:

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We must respect nature. Nature produces male and female. We must also respect the natural parents and help them to cope with their children’s emotional problems.
These children need stability vice coddling.   These emotional issues are not for the schools to rectify.


Support

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Support of the divine rights of parents to exercise authority and full responsibility in the raising of their children.


Can we please stop the fighting and create an acceptable policy

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This yo yo partisianship policy making has to end. First, it makes sense that parents should be aware of their children's behaviors in school. I don't consider it unreasonable or "outing" a student. I also disagree with calling transgender students an "ideology". It's funny how they cite the 1st Amendment which allows religious freedom. That amendment also stipulates a separation of religious principles being codified in law...separation of state and law. This new policy appears to be based on religious principles which is a violation of the 1sr Amendment. Somewhere, Virginia is getting lost in protecting the rights of all students. This policy does not meet that standard. There is likely an acceptable policy somewhere between the old and this policy that better meets that standard. I am just tired of political one upmanship and feel both parties are failing the people of Virginia, but more important the students. Maybe we should ask the students to come up with how they would like to address the issue. They are the ones living in it. I do think parents do need to know though, but much of the language in the policy is pretty disrespectful to transgender students. That is not right.


Strongly support Youngkin

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I STRONGLY support Youngkins efforts to reverse the liberal policies we as parents have had to see implemented in our conservative schools. Our community does not support these policies and we are stuck with something that does not reflect how we see the world. With logic and  common sense. Our children are avoiding going to the bathroom at all. They hold it for 7+ hours every single day as high schoolers. Furthermore where does the chaos end? Since the policy has been forced on our school system we now have a group of students who claim to identify as animals and want the school to put litter boxes in for them to use. Since there are none at this time they have been seen peeing on rugs within the school. Our world has gone completely insane and instead of fighting against it we are being forced to support it. Our children should be getting an education but instead they are having their impressionable minds corrupted. They are so confused at that age anyway. They are finding themselves but now we are telling them they have to figure out their gender. This is a burden they shouldn’t even feel. Transgender is the new trend  There are already groups of people who have made the decision to undergo surgery to change their anatomy who are speaking out about the fact. They wish they could undo their decision but for them it’s too late. Kids are being introduced to these concepts on social media at a time they are impressionable and parents are accepting because society is telling them to and telling them their child will be suicidal if they don’t. Here we are in a place of authority and instead of giving these kids guidance we are adding to the problem. We are also inventing more and more platforms to divide our nation and our state.

Please Mr Youngkin protect our schools, our community, and our state. Please support common sense and basic biological science.


Transpolicy

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Thank goodness for sane leadership-I agree with Youngkins policy and the choice should be given to the parents.

There are two sexes: male and female

If one wants to pretend something else thats great but our children do not need to be exposed to the mental health issue...


Oppose

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The accommodations that are in place safe gaurd all students, and should not be overturned. Students are trying to figure out who they will be, and it not anyone's place to judge who and what they will become. This governor, and the right in general use scaremongoring tactics to rally their voters to cause with no founding in reality. Keep your religion to yourself, and govern for the people.


Policy for transgender students

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<p>Strongly oppose this policy. It is cruel and dangerous for students. </p>


Strongly support

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I strongly support the rights of parents to be the sole, and ultimate, decision makers for their children.


STRONGLY OPPOSE this archaic policy!

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Trans lives are HUMAN lives!!


Keep boys out of girl’s showers and locker rooms

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Girls showers, locker rooms, and bathrooms are supposed to be a safe place. Keep boys out! Seems utterly ridiculous to even have to make this request!


Oppose 2022 Guidance

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<p>Oppose 2022 guidance. </p>


Strongly Support

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<p>I strongly support this new bill protecting our children </p>


Common Sense Policy

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I support the updated language that empowers schools to make decisions on how to best protect kids working along side the parents  — especially when it comes to protecting vulnerable students in a state of undress in locker rooms or overnight sleeping quarters for school field trips.  I cannot imagine - or I can imagine what all could go wrong in those situations when commons sense does not prevail.  High school students transgender or not all have hormones and emotions that are prevalent when just transitioning to adulthood.

Again I am in support of Governor Youngkin!


Support


Strongly Support

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Thank you Gov. Youngkin for your support of our state, The United States of America and Godly morals. Our children and their children deserve the best that we can provide in a freedom loving country. Your efforts to better all areas of our lives with a moral mindset is appreciated and prayed over.


Strongly support

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I strongly support Governor Youngkin!


nonsense made sane

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Youngkin being a normal person becomes extraordinary because he follows the science. No boys in girls sports, bathrooms or any other gender specific places.


Strongly support


Strongly oppose

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<p>I’m overwhelmingly against singling out any child in schools </p>


oppose

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<p>Please protect trans kids.  They must be affirmed in order to thrive.  I oppose. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>As a former teacher and current social worker, I oppose this policy. Our first responsibility is to ensure that children are safe. Encouraging teachers to misgender students is allowing them to push those students towards depression and suicide. Forcing schools to notify parents about their child's gender expression is neither safe for some children nor does it preserve their reasonable right to privacy. </p>


Oppose

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As a transgender person, I am strongly concerned about this policy, Oklahoma has had several of these bills tried to pass and failed. Not only is that telling me that this country doesn't care about students but also thinks my life is not even supposed to exist if I nor even a little child can go to the bathroom without questions of what gender they are. This policy WILL raise the suicide rates of the students in Virginia if it passes.


Strongly opposed to this discriminatory policy

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I strongly believe we will be compounding the problems many transgender young people

face every day.  There are other solutions to valid parental concerns - ones that are less threatening to these kids’ mental health.  Could we test several different alternatives, for example, getting a counselor-guided session where the student can express what they are feeling about their identity etc.   We must be a whole lot more supportive and less punishing.


In Support

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As the parents of a transgender child, please support us in watchful waiting and let the kids get to adulthood before making changes they can't undo. It's all but impossible to let the kid grow up when the school works in opposition to this rational strategy.

Please support the full lives of these kids, including their future selves. And support the parents. Thank you.

FULL SUPPORT.


In Support


Support. Thank you Gov

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Strongly support. This outlook is a breath of fresh air. These are kids and they have their whole lives to live as they wish. Some will be straight, some will be gay. That is fine. All are born in the bodies we were given. Dress how they want but keep the ideology out of it and let them mature.

Support 100% times.


Strongly Support Governor Youngkin

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As a Virginian citizen, I fully support the 2022 Model Policies. Parents – not school employees – should be the only ones discussing sexuality and any gender-confusion with their child. No school employee should ever seek to undermine a parent’s right to decide what is best for their child – especially not to push harmful Gender Confusion Theory on an underage student. Furthermore, it is unfair and wrong to allow biologically male athletes to compete as and against female athletes. Not only does this create an unfair advantage that discourages female athletes from even competing, but it forces female athletes to share private facilities like locker rooms and showers with males. This is a gross violation of their right to privacy. On top of which, in such situations female students are forced to endorse the lie that the male athletes have actually changed their gender. It is always wrong and harmful to push lies upon young students. Gender is based in biology, not mental confusion or preference.


Strongly support, school staff - please focus on education

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As a Democrat, I strongly strongly support this. Please focus on education and teaching critical thinking.

Schools and teachers are in a kid's life for a relatively short amount of time. What happens later when there are side-effects or regrets? Where will the teachers and school administrators be at that point?

This is the right thing to do.


Strongly support

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I strongly support this. Schools and teachers are in a kid's life for a relatively short amount of time. What happens later when there are side-effects or regrets? Where are the teachers and school administrators then?

Teachers don't know the history of the kid. They should not get involved in sexuality or gender-expression. Support the education and critical thinking of the kid. Then leave them alone.

Adults can do whatever they want. I STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS. Thank you, Governor, for sanity.


Support parents, kids and schools working together - HUGE SUPPORT

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As a life-long liberal, I strongly strongly support this. Parents and schools should be partners working together to educate and prepare children. It helps no one to pit parents, kids and schools against each other, especially when there are permanent surgical changes and drug dependence down the road to gender changes.

Strongly strongly support. Do the right thing. This is the way.


2022 Model Policies on Transgenderism

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“As a Virginian citizen, I fully support the 2022 Model Policies. Parents – not school employees – should be the only ones discussing sexuality and any gender-confusion with their child. No school employee should ever seek to undermine a parent’s right to decide what is best for their child – especially not to push harmful Gender Confusion Theory on an underage student. Furthermore, it is unfair and wrong to allow biologically male athletes to compete as and against female athletes. Not only does this create an unfair advantage that discourages female athletes from even competing, but it forces female athletes to share private facilities like locker rooms and showers with males. This is a gross violation of their right to privacy. On top of which, in such situations female students are forced to endorse the lie that the male athletes have actually changed their gender. It is always wrong and harmful to push lies upon young students. Gender is based in biology, not mental confusion or preference.”


Strongly opposed


Strongly object

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<p>I oppose the guidance.  I oppose the draft policy and I request that the Virginia Department of Education reject this draft.  I am the parent of a minor LGBT child and I strongly support my child in their identity.  But not every parent does, unfortunately, and we all need to support those children, as well.  Trans-affirming school policy matters to me, and it should matter to everyone. </p>


Strongly oppose this hateful and dangerous policy.

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Your policy is bigoted and uncalled for. Can't you find something productive to do? You should be investigated and found guilty of child abuse. You propose this asinine policy, while sending your child to a private school. Your hypocrisy is astounding.??????????


Strongly Oppose!!

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The proposed regulations will take Virginia back to the dark ages.  Everyone in our Commonwealth deserves their best life in the best state.  Please do NOT enact these proposals.


Strongly OPPOSE these policies - protect trans kids!

Family member of transgender child in Virginia

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I am STRONGLY opposed to these proposed policies. I am a family member of a transgender child in Virginia, and I have seen affirmation and support make a huge positive difference in this child's life. This child is supported in their identity by their parents. These awful proposed policies would harm this child by allowing school staff to  misgender them and call them by their deadname. There is no reason to allow this. Schools should protect children and create a supportive learning environment. These policies do the opposite.

VDOE, please reject these proposed policies!


SUPPORT!

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<p>Thank you for this legislation that puts parents back in control as it should be! </p>


This harms all children. We deserve dignity and respect.

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There is only one reason for these proposed new regulations. It is to be cruel and to try and force us back into hiding who we are, which is devastating. I know how it is to be a transgender minor here in Virginia. It was hell. There were no safe spaces for me and I was horribly suicidal. The family around me did not support me and actively tried tried to make me cis. It never worked because there was nothing wrong with me. I am just trans. For whatever reason my hormones did not align with what should have been. I knew since I was three who I am. The threat of being kicked out due to my basic existance, once I could express it, was held over me.

I could not have my hair or clothes as I wanted. As I needed to feel seen, respected, and affirmed. It would literally hurt no one. But to my family's own sense of pride and shame regarding my gender and sexuality made me know that their love was not only conditional, unlike what they always had told me, but that if I dared to be myself I would be on the streets.

Years later after moving out; I have been able to be my true and authentic self, without my family in my life because they refused to try to understand and would not accept me. Which is tragic. Had they been open to the learning process we could still have relationships.

Children as a whole need the freedom to express and explore themselves. There are many children who dress up and are not trans. It's just fun.

Expressing yourself at a young age in random ways is just what kids do. There's nothing wrong with it whether you are trans or cis. It's honestly pure and kids aren't harmed in any way by it.

There are plenty of straight cis men with wives who dressed up in their mother's pumps and pearls. Kids just like to wear clothes. Sometimes not. Kids are funny and wacky and random like that. They are innocent and trying new things, outfits, styles, and new interests.

Treating kids differently just because they do something that another kid may or may not do is wrong. Makeup is for everyone. Clothes are for everyone. Names are for everyone. People all are different. That's the point! We're all individuals. What if we were all the same? What a boring world it would be.

Cis kids go by nicknames or their middle names all the time. It doesn't necessarily mean anything, but even if it does who cares?

Whom does that even hurt? No one.

If a child cannot be out at home, being able to express themselves in the safety and understanding of school is the best for the child. Parents unfortunately do not always have the ability or wisdom to see that their child is still the child they love, but just a different gender than they thought.

If a child has to worry about their parents kicking them out of the house because of who they are how does that help them advance or succeed in school? Who does that help? No one. That child is not going to blossom and reach their full potential.

Every one in five transgender people will attempt suicide in their lifetimes.

I almost did.

There is nothing wrong with being trans. There is nothing wrong with being gay.

Trans people have existed since the beginning of time in every society and area of the world. There weren't words that all expressed the same thing until transgender. We are all different and unique individuals.

That should be celebrated! Not demonized.

We should strive to be better than we were in the past about people who are different, and I know we can be.

These policies make no sense and will only cause harm to children all across the board.

Some women are masculine, some men are feminine, and it has nothing to do with sexuality. Queer people are not trying to indoctrinate kids. We just want to live our lives. Trans people aren't breaking into bathrooms to harm other people. We just want to use the restroom in peace. The stuff you may be worried about are not happening in reality.

Being trans or not has nothing to do with values. Many trans people are religious and live good moral lives, but even if they aren't spiritual it doesn't make them evil. Children aren't property, they are tiny individuals with their own thoughts, feelings, and sense of self. School supporting those who need the most support is important and critical in these times.

Let children be different. It is not the end of the world. And if you think it is, it says much more about you as a person than the child who is not what you think they ought to be.

Kids are kids, as in they kids let them be who they are. If they are trans then that is who they are.


Strongly Oppose


Strongly support


Governor Young's policy about transgender students

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<p>I am completely FOR  Governor Youngkin's policy about transgender students. I do not believe it is fair for students who agree with it to be totally disregarded.  We hear a lot about black children being able to learn better if their teacher "looks like them," i.e. is black. I believe girls will be able to compete better if they are competing against girls in sports who "look like them."  I also think if just anyone who says, "I identify as  female" but who has a male body should  have to be screened. I believe Gov. Youngkin's policy would avoid just a simple declaration of identity. How is the problem of school report cards going to be worked out? Will it have the new "identity" name or the birth name? </p>
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Oppose

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Equality begins at home!! Live and let live


Oppose


Do we teach, the bulimic/ anorexic how to vomit and starve to transition into their authentic self

Why don’t we celebrate the bravery of other mental disorders and delusion

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It’s time to quit encouraging mental illness


Strongly Support Gov Youngkin’s policy

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<p>Parents have a fundamental right to raise their children free from the deception of the state.  </p>


Strongly support Governor Youngkin

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We need to teach the core subjects to our students. It is embarrassing how badly our students test compared to other countries. It is the parent’s responsibility to have voice and participation in what our students are exposed to in our schools. It is the teacher’s responsibility to TEACH the academic curriculum in its entirety. Biological males cannot compete against biological females nor should they have access to biological female locker rooms. We need to expect more from our students both academically and in discipline requirements. We need teachers who want to teach and expect high expectations from both teacher and students. All classes should be recorded daily and could thus be observed by school administrators and parents. If parents could observe their students class instruction and behavior, all could benefit.


I strongly OPPOSE this discriminatory policy

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<p>I oppose this. It is discrimination, plain and simple. You must stop discriminating against trans students. Their lives are very difficult, largely because of this kind of attitude and legislation coming from Republicans. It is cruel and unnecessary. God help people who have to suffer under the rule of this Trumpist governor. </p>


Most Strongly Approve of proposed policy

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Opponents of proposed policy claim as their justification for opposition that 72% of children identifying themselves within the LGBT community have contemplated suicide, and therefore, the state should allow schools to further confuse vulnerable children, albeit, without parental involvement.

The proposed policy will protect the rights and responsibilities of parents to protect and guide their children without interference from schools with an agenda. That is not “hate” as defined by some. Schools should focus on what we pay them to do, which is not to confuse children and undermine parents.

Thank you, Governor Youngkin, for a common sense policy proposal!


Strongly Support - Protect our Children's Innocence - Favor School Choice

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<p>There's only 1% that consider themselves trans yet it seems the people who oppose want to make the 99% curtail to their views and not allow the parents to know what is happening behind the scenes. It's shameful that society has even gotten to this point. If they are so worried about a safe space then create a trans school where they can receive all their indoctrination and coddling but meanwhile, the other 99% should be free from this insane ideology and manipulation of the truth. The fact that they don't want parents to know says everything about how wrong this is. </p>


OPPOSE

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This  is going to HURT CHILDREN. What is wrong with you??


OPPOSE

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Youngkin wants to terrorize young children to get re elected and it's disgusting


Hate this politically correct drivel

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Governor Youngkin thinks that he can win elections with conservative talking points. What he doesn't understand is the talking points are just words to him, but the policies he's implementing are abusive to the children he's responsible for as governor. Does a teacher have to alert parents if a kid wants to go by Nick instead of Nicholas? Why should Nikki instead of Nicholas matter?

This is an adult bullying our most vulnerable children and it's extremely pathetic and sad. Plenty of these kids are not accepted by their families and school should be a safe place for them to express who they are. Surveilling children to the level of genital inspections and telling their parents about every word they are addressed by opens many up to abuse at home.

It's disgusting that someone from the groomer party of Dennis Hastert and Roy Moore is trying to police the bathroom that children are going into based on "sex assigned at birth" tell me, are these children getting "inspections" so Youngkin and his GROOMERS can see what sex these children are? Parents having "more control" over their children? Sounds like CULT LEADER Youngkin wants to FIRE all our public school teachers and force kids into permanent lockdowns and homeschooling. We need to let kids be kids! Back in my day I did all kinds of pranks at school that my parents didn't need to know about! Graduated with all As!

Say no to Younkgin's child abuse and say no to groomers like Youngkin holding political office!


100% SUPPORT Governor Youngkin’s new policy!!!!

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I support Governor Younkin's new policy 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


100% Support

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<p>I fully support Governor Youngkin in that biological boys should use the boys restroom/locker room and biological girl's use the girls restroom/locker room. Allowing a biological male into a biological females restroom/ locker room is putting every female there in danger. Don't believe me, all you have to do is look at what happened in Loudoun county public schools. Those poor girls will have to live with the memory of what happened to them for the rest of their lives. Trust me that is not a memory you want. School Boards, or any government agency really, should never have the power to hide Anything about a parents child from that parent nor should they ever lie to a parent about their child. Public schools are not here to cater to made up genders, they are here to teach our children math, reading, writing, history, etc. No one should ever discriminate against any other person but it seems like that's the "in" thing to do when we, as parents, don't fall in line with all this "woke" crap  people want to try and shove down our throats. I applaud our governor for standing up for parents and trying to keep all our children safe. </p>


Strongly support this common sense policy

This is a great and necessary policy to protect ALL students’ rights. It is not right to force an ideological agenda on an entire student body based on the feelings of a handful of students. Thank you Governor Youngkin for protecting all students.


Strongly support this policy

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<p>The transgender/LGBT agenda has no place in the public education system to gain forced acknowledgment from those who disagree with such beliefs and behaviors for legitimate reasons. Governor Youngkin has done a great job in protecting all students instead of enabling a minuscule percentage of the student population while ignoring the majority of public school students like the previous Northam administration. Could not be more pleased with this policy. </p>


Perverts - Yeah I support GY  y’all are Gross

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Anyone who thinks it’s cool to support perverts in our schools should be ostracized! Half of y’all probably don’t  even have kids. Sit down:


Oppose - to support the “rights” of parents of one religion you infringe on rights of all

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<p>Interesting that this referendum is focused on the parents if predominantly one religion rather on the well being of our children. So much hate and ignorance in these comments. I am a gay married Christian parent of a nonbinary child in Fairfax County schools and am proud of FCPS for standing against this biased policy by supporting ALL of their students and respecting their individual identities and development. By purporting that some children of biased self-focused parents are more important than other children is wrong. This is a time of children discovering their identities, interests, individual norms, and self-respect. Any attempt to devalue ANY child based the opinions of some is ludicrous and borders on abuse. Delineating that a teacher - central figures and role models for our children in this stage of development -  from showing respect for and acknowledging a student’s unique identity and individualism is ridiculous. Call this what it is - prejudice, bias, and elitism  from one religious group against others. The antithesis of separation of church and state as outlined in our Constitution and social equality.  </p>


Strongly Support

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“As a Virginian citizen and a parent, , I fully support the 2022 Model Policies. Parents – not school employees – should be the only ones discussing sexuality and any gender-confusion with their child. No school employee should ever seek to undermine a parent’s right to decide what is best for their child – especially not to push harmful Gender Confusion Theory on an underage student. Furthermore, it is unfair and wrong to allow biologically male athletes to compete as and against female athletes. Not only does this create an unfair advantage that discourages female athletes from even competing, but it forces female athletes to share private facilities like locker rooms and showers with males. This is a gross violation of their right to privacy. On top of which, in such situations female students are forced to endorse the lie that the male athletes have actually changed their gender. It is always wrong and harmful to push lies upon young students. Gender is based in biology, not mental confusion or preference.


Restoration of Parent's Rights

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“As a Virginian citizen, I fully support the 2022 Model Policies. Parents – not school employees – should be the only ones discussing sexuality and any gender-confusion with their child. No school employee should ever seek to undermine a parent’s right to decide what is best for their child – especially not to push harmful Gender Confusion Theory on an underage student. Furthermore, it is unfair and wrong to allow biologically male athletes to compete as and against female athletes. Not only does this create an unfair advantage that discourages female athletes from even competing, but it forces female athletes to share private facilities like locker rooms and showers with males. This is a gross violation of their right to privacy. On top of which, in such situations female students are forced to endorse the lie that the male athletes have actually changed their gender. It is always wrong and harmful to push lies upon young students. Gender is based in biology, not mental confusion or preference.”


Do we encourage the schizophrenic transition into whatever they truly believe they are? Why not?

They truly believe and feel authentic as furniture or fruit. Celebrate this

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Stop encouraging a bizarre broken life.


Strongly oppose

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<p>This isn’t something for schools to arbitrate </p>


Strongly in Favor of proposed policy

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Since even those who promote and “celebrate” the abhorrent, irreversible physical mutilation of children confused about their gender admit that these children are 19 times more likely than their biological male and female peers to commit suicide (read 30 year Swedish study), why in the world would we allow schools to feed this toxic garbage to our children, with or without parental involvement or knowledge?


Strongly Oppose

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As an educator and parent, I strongly oppose this bill. Our children are already facing so much stress and anxiety. Why choose to not allow people to express themselves and be who they are? Our youth need support, not judgment.


100% SUPPORT

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Totally agree with Governor Younkin’s decision


100% SUPPORT


Strongly opposed!

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<p>Trans rights are human rights. Keep hate out of public schools. </p>


100% SUPPORT Governor Youngkin’s new policy

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Parents are absolutely an integral part of the education of their children.  We are not in China


Strongly Opposed

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<p>I am disheartened by the Virginia Department of Education’s new 2022 model policies regarding the treatment of transgender students in the state's public schools. I am in complete opposition to this new policy and hope you will do the right thing by not allowing this to pass. The policy suggested by Governor Youngkin and the VDOE will harm kids. Kids within our LGBTQ+ community will be afraid to confide in teachers or counselors, and will further isolate themselves. 2019 Data shows that 43% of transgender youth have been bullied on school property. 29% of transgender youth, 21% of gay and lesbian youth and 22% of bisexual youth have attempted suicide. Why on earth would we want to push through policies that could raise these numbers. I urge you to not allow the proposed 2022 model policies to move forward. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>We need to protect the rights of all children in our schools, especially those who are at risk.  </p>


Strongly oppose


STRONGLY oppose

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<p>Youngkin’s efforts to dismantle protection of trans rights is unacceptable. </p>


To Support and Thank Governor Youngkin

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<p>As a Virginia citizen, I fully support the 2022 Model Policies. Parents - not school employees - should be the only ones discussing sexuality and any gender confusion with their child. No school employee should ever seek to undermine a parent's right to decide what is right for their child; especially not to push harmful Gender Confusion Theory on an underage student. Furthermore, it is unfair and wrong to allow biological male athletes to compete as, and against, female athletes. Not only does this create an unfair advantage that discourages female athletes from even competing, but it forces female athletes to share private facilities like locker rooms and showers with males. This is a gross violation of their rights to privacy. On top of which, in such situations the female students are forced to endorse the lie that male athletes have actually changed their gender. It is always wrong and harmful to push lies upon young students. Gender is based in biology, not mental confusion or preference. </p>


Support Youngkin

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I support Governor Youngkin.  Support parents rights!


Support- I am amazed supposedly intelligent people have decided to promote brokenness and delusion

There are rights and wrongs, absolutes, reality.

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I am amazed supposedly intelligent adults think celebrating and encouraging kids to feed into delusion and brokenness is a good way to build healthy productive and independent adults. This is all part of breaking down society so people can be controlled.


Transgender treatment in schools

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I strongly SUPPORT this common sense proposal


Transgender treatment in schools


Strongly Support - take a moment and think about it from a different perspective

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<p>I’m actually a bit surprised that anyone is opposing this. All one has to do is imagine that the school is teaching your child something that you don’t personally agree with (e.g. racism, sexism, some specific religion, etc etc etc) and then decide if you still would be happy to have the school hide it from you. </p>


Strongly Support Proposed Policy

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We fully support Governor Youngkin’s proposed policy on the treatment of transgender students in Virginia schools.

There is clearly something nefarious going on when schools go out of their way to hide from parents and legal guardians what is being taught to their children.

Parents are responsible for their children! They birth them, raise and nurture them, love them, feed and clothe them and protect them. Parents do not relinquish authority and responsibility over their children and give them over to the state for indoctrination when they begin to attend school. Children belong to their family and their parents, who have ultimate, God-given authority to raise them. As such, parents should absolutely be kept informed by the schools on any and all issues related to their children, and they should have the final word on any question that applies to their children.

E. Oliver Vaughn


1000% SUPPORT!  THIS IS EXCELLENT!  THANK YOU, GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN!

GRANDPARENTS FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS AND PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN!

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<p>Thank you Governor Youngkin and everyone else in your wonderful work in removing the model of the 2021 liberal general assembly and replacing it with this new 2022 model.  Parents should absolutely have a very strong voice in directing the education of their children.  Absolutely!  Nobody should be able to teach a child about anything without the express permission of their parents.  Furthermore, girls should be able to use the rest room without boys present.  And boys should be able to undress in the locker room without females present.  We need to love and affirm all of our children, that is true.  But the affirmation should be that they are perfect just the way they are.  There is NOTHING wrong with how they were born.  If they like makeup, fine.  If they like sports, fine.  If they like particular clothing, fine.  You don't have to change your gender for those things.  You don't have to use chemical castration or mutilate your body and be permanently disfigured because of your preferences.  Just be gay ffs.   This insanity has got to stop.  Gender dysphoria is real.  Mental illness is real.  Chromosomes are real.  A boy is a boy is a boy.  A girl is a girl is a girl.  You cannot change that no matter how much you mangle their bodies.  Wouldn't it be better if we taught them that they are perfect and beautiful just the way they are?  You cannot change who you are on the inside.  That is who you truly are and you are perfect.  That's what we need to teach our children.  </p>
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Thank you Governor Youngkin and everyone else in your wonderful work in removing the model of the 2021 liberal general assembly and replacing it with this new 2022 model.  Parents should absolutely have a very strong voice in directing the education of their children.  Absolutely!  Nobody should be able to teach a child about anything without the express permission of their parents.  Furthermore, girls should be able to use the rest room without boys present.  And boys should be able to undress in the locker room without females present.  We need to love and affirm all of our children, that is true.  But the affirmation should be that they are perfect just the way they are.  There is NOTHING wrong with how they were born.  If they like makeup, fine.  If they like sports, fine.  If they like particular clothing, fine.  You don't have to change your gender for those things.  You don't have to use chemical castration or mutilate your body and be permanently disfigured because of your preferences.  Just be gay ffs.   This insanity has got to stop.  Gender dysphoria is real.  Mental illness is real.  Chromosomes are real.  A boy is a boy is a boy.  A girl is a girl is a girl.  You cannot change that no matter how much you mangle their bodies.  Wouldn't it be better if we taught them that they are perfect and beautiful just the way they are?  You cannot change who you are on the inside.  That is who you truly are and you are perfect.  That's what we need to teach our children.

It is the responsibility of the parents, grandparents, family unit to teach children values, morals, about sex, about suicide, to teach them what the family believes and to pass that belief system on to them.  It is NOT the responsibility of the school to teach any of these things.  Families pass down these very personally held beliefs and values from generation to generation.  The schools responsibility is to teach academics, reading, writing, math, history, earth science, government.  It is time for the schools to get their noses out of the personal business of families and get back to educating our children.  Thank you


Love the souls, but transgenderism is crumbling our social fabric - support new policy

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<p>I love the souls, but more importantly God loves them. He wants to deliver them from this destructive behavior. Until then, we can’t let natural-born boys to waltz into a girls bathroom. </p>


Strongly support Gov Youngkin's policy

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Parental rights begin at birth.

Teachers only have jurisdiction as granted by the parents.

The school system has no call to interfere between the parents and children's decisions.


Strongly support Gov Youngkin's policy


opposed

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I am opposed to 2022 version. Leave 2021 version in place. The new version is based on faulty reading of the constitution and law.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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By retracting the 2021 model polices, the Virginia Department of Education is going against their own stated values. Instead of protecting students of ALL experiences, the proposed 2022 Model Policies provide fertile ground for the discrimination and harassment of trans and nonbinary students. If all students deserve to learn in an environment that values them and protects them from bullying, then the 2022 Model Policies directly thwart that goal. With the massive discrimination and life outcomes faced by trans and nonbinary individuals in the US as whole, by adopting these policies the VDOE will be further fostering an environment that doesn't allow these students to thrive. It's a well known statistics that trans and nonbinary youth are more vulnerable to suicide, which stems from the lack of acceptance in their communities. We must protect the youth. I strongly oppose these policies and think that adopting them will constitute a violation of children's and human rights.


Strongly Support this COMMON SENSE proposal!

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As a concerned parent of three children in this state. I strongly support this common sense policy proposal! Thank you Governor for protecting VA students from the harmful policies that were enacted last year! God bless you Governor!


Vehemently opposed

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Vehemently Oppose

This proposal is in complete opposition to the clear statements and wishes of the vulnerable students it claims to protect. It shows failure on the part of the governor to use scientific data to guide policy; there are plenty of published studies that demonstrate just how harmful these ideas are.

The proposed "Model" Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools will prevent teachers from supporting trans and non-binary students in meaningful ways and will detrimentally affect these young people who are already at increased risk of severe depression and suicide.

The proposal itself is traumatizing for teachers, students and parents alike.

Fully OPPOSE.


Strongly Support this Revision!!


OPPOSE!!!!


Support!!

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Thank you Governor Youngkin!


Strongly oppose

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Strongly oppose the discrimination and misgendering of trans students. Trans people have been around forever but have been forced to hide, move towns when begin to live as their true selves. This policy sends us backwards. The people supporting this policy and doing so based on their "Christian" values which is problematic for two reasons; 1) our public schools should not be based or favor 1 religion and 2) denying rights to trans people is basically the opposite of Jesus' teaching


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It’s important that Virginia schools have safe and inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ youth. They need to have schools where each youth feels comfortable to learn and be the best version of themselves. Where they can be who they are, who they’re meant to be. The lives of these kids and young adults matter.

I OPPOSE the draft policy and want the VDOE to reject them.


2022 Model Policies Board of Education

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Strongly support Gov Youngkin's new 2022 model policies


Strongly oppose. Bodily autonomy and compassion, empathy, and kindness are values

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<p>Strongly oppose. Freedom to have bodily autonomy and compassion, empathy, and kindness are values and strengths.  Trans and other LGBQ community are valuable and should be safe and protected as any other human being. Bigotry has no place in a functional society. </p>


The Governor’s approach

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Fully support the 2022 document, ending the “wokeness” being force-fed to our youth!


I'm against discrimination in public schools that my tax dollars support

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<p>I opposed the governors policy for schools towards trans students. In Virginia we don't discriminate. </p>


Gov. Youngkin’s Proposed Parental Rights

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I am absolutely in favor of parental rights and safety for students. Thank you Gov. Youngkin!


Strongly oppose

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<p>Strongly oppose. Let professional educators do their job and support their students. This policy change is nothing but harmful. </p>


Strongly IN FAVOR of the Model Policy

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Parents absolutely must be made aware of any significants issues that their minor children are having while they attend public school.


STRONGLY OPPOSE - PROTECT TRANSGENDER AND NON-BINARY STUDENTS

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<p>this will hurt transgender and non-binary students' mental health more and potentially their safety too. this policy will not benefit or protect students whatsoever. </p>


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<p>this will overall hurt transgender and non-binary students' mental health and potentially safety. this policy will not benefit students whatsoever. </p>


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose the guidance. I strongly support a student's ability to be respected at school. There is clear evidence that students' ability to be called their chosen name and pronoun promotes caring and respect not just for them but for all students. I want this for transgender children and it's a value I want my own children to understand and respect. This connection is more important now than ever. The proposed guidance will erase progress that had been made to create communities of care and respect and will lead to higher levels of bullying and suicide. Thank you.


THANK YOU for your common sense!

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Thank you for applying common sense!  My family supports this decision and we support you.


Strongly oppose

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It’s hypocritical for Gov Youngkin to restrict others choosing which bathrooms to use - it doesn’t apply to him as, being a huge piece of , he belongs in any of them.


Oppose

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<p>Trans youth are already much more likely to commit suicide. Leave their protections in. A teachers moral code isn't more important than a students well being. </p>


Oppose


Parents who trust the state to assist in educating their child should not be excluded.

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Transparency is owed to parents by a state government to which the parents have entrusted their child.  School employees should not lie to parents or conceal information about their children.


Strongly oppose

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Typical of republicans, there is no compassion toward the others. As a mother of a gay daughter, I am so aware of these harsh attitudes.


Strongly support!

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Thank you for supporting parents' rights.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Strongly oppose creating tension in the schools </p>


Strongly oppose

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School needs to be a safe place for all our children to learn and be themselves.   All students deserve to learn in an environment free from discrimination and harassment


Fully Support Your Efforts

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Thank you for putting children’s education first and protecting girls sports. The left wing Democrats have lost their minds and their mental illness is destroying our children, schools, and country. Governor please stand strong against their bullying tactics and mental illness. Thanks!


Strongly Support

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Thank you for standing up for the rights of parents with regard to how their children are raised.


Restrictions on Trans Students' Rights

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Students have the right not to be disciplined or be treated differently because they are transgender or gender non-conforming. Students do have the right to be treated with respect and not harassed or bullied because they are transgender.  Youngkin’s restriction on trans students’ rights is bullying and illegal. Youngkin supports model policies requirig schools to categorize transgender children by their “biological sex” when it comes to using the bathroom, locker room and other facilities and participating in activities. It also bars students from adopting a new name or pronouns without parental permission.


Strongly Opposed

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<p>Strongly opposed </p>


STRONGLY oppose the new regulations towards transgender students

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<p>The new regulations towards transgender students is absolutely horrible. I believe this is doing more harm than good upon students and can be very risky and dangerous. Transgender students deserved to be treated equally amongst all students and everyone and should not be discriminated whatsoever. </p>


Worried for Our Youth

LeAnna Earls, Russell County Public Schools

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I'm a teacher in Russell County, Virginia.  I grew up in Russell County, attending and being baptized in Elk Garden United Methodist Church.  I recently moved back here after having spent several years in Asheville North, Carolina. I now attend Gracewood community Church in Lebanon, Virginia.  As a teacher and a churchgoer, I am very worried about our kids who identify as trans or gay.   I have had several students who identify as trans, and they struggle to be accepted by both their families and their communities.  I'm concerned that this change in policy will be dangerous for students who are already struggling with their identities.  As a teacher, I often worry about the home lives my students live.  Many parents are not prepared to handle the challenges that young people face today.  I feel that it is not my place to out students to their families, especially if those families are not ready to understand what their child is going through.  I have many students who go by names that are different than what is written on there birth certificate.  I have had students ask me to call them Rattlesnake, Tater, and Skeeter.  I have had other students who go by not just nicknames, but shortened names, middle names, adopted names, or names that are completely different than what their parents gave them as babies.  I have also had students ask me to call them names that seem to be of a gender that they were not born with. I think it is mean and rude to refuse to call students by their preferred name. As a Christian, I think that Jesus would also call people by the name they wish to be called. Consider Paul who was once Saul, and even Jesus who was called Christ. Even God himself is called by many names, and goes without a human body of any gender. As an educator, I am very concerned with my students mental health and access to quality mental health supports. I understand that young people are not yet fully formed, so are only just exploring who they are and who they will be. I don't believe it is my place to tell them who they are, but rather to help them figure it out while being supported by many people, including myself, who care about them. I beg of you, Governor Youngkin, to not damage the teacher-student relationship by asking us educators to break trust with our students. If parents want to know more about their child's sexual orientation, gender identity, or other activities I hope they will talk with them and try to understand what they are going through.  Living as a trans student in this day and age is already filled with peril and hardship. I cannot imagine that accepting trans students as they are would have any kind of negative impact on other students.  I love and accept all of my students, just as Jesus would do.  It is against my religious beliefs to treat students in a disrespectful manner by outing them to anyone or to call them names that they do not appreciate.  As a teacher who is also a lifelong Christian, please respect my beliefs and do not ask me to go against them. When I ask myself what would Jesus do and look in my Bible to see the answer, I find that I am called to love God and to love everyone else. It is not my place to judge others, but it is my job to care for them.   Thank you for your time and attention on this matter.


Strongly Opposed

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<p>Parents have every right to make decisions for their children. That does not give them the right to make decisions for other people's children. Supporting these changes would demonstrate our states prioritization of religious belief over the right of a child to choose who they are and whether or not they feel safe in the schools. Just let them be them. How they identify has no power to effect others religious beliefs. Please protect the rights of all kids to feel safe and seen by our schools! </p>


I support transgender students and their families

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I strongly oppose the proposed rollbacks of protections for transgender students in Virginia's schools. At this point, the data is clear - transgender students are at an increased risk of being the victims of bullying, of being systemically disengaged from school, and from facing serious mental health challenges. We in Virginia should be doing all that we can to create safe, inclusive and tolerant environments for all students. And we should be demonstrating to all students in VA - gay, straight, cis, and trans - that we respect and value all people. As a parent of a Virginia public school student and a public school educator, I see the power that public schools have to impact a stronger, more accepting, and more inclusive society. I know that every student has the right to be safe and respected in school. The proposed policy does not respect this right.


Find a Balance: It's not just trans kids that are affected by these policies!

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Everyone seems focused on how this affects trans kids, but what about those kids who haven't identified as trans, yet have changed their name in school? More and more students are finding their identities without labeling themselves. The model policy says:

School Division] personnel shall refer to each student using only (i) the name that appears in the student’s official record, or (ii) if the student prefers, using any nickname commonly associated with the name that appears in the student’s legal record.

This is a huge problem for students who are already going by another name at school (which many are), regardless of their gender identitiy. Another issue we are facing in Fairfax is that there is currently no way to separate public classroom facing Schoology from the SIS (student information system) records. So, when a student needs their legal name changed due to identity affirmation, it has to be automatically changed on ALL school records. This includes IEP legal documents! If there happens to be a student not wishing to be outed to their parents as many are concerned about, that is actually impossible in Fairfax currently. If their name is changed on public facing Schoology/LMS (learning management systems), it's also changed in SIS. Parents will automatically receive mail, progress reports, emails, attendance messages, etc. in the changed name. Maybe this is different for other counties, but this is the reality in Fairfax.

We need to find a balance where students can be affirmed publicly (i.e., classroom LMS systems) in schools, ideally with parent support, but retain their legal names on important school records--especially if there's a concern about abuse at home. The policies need to be clear on how students in this type of situation will be protected. It should also address the technology needed to handle public name changes without changing legal names.


strong opposition to transgender rules

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<p>The rules are oppressive to transgender persons, and cruel.  They reflect total ignorance  about the potential for abuse by certain parents if they disagree with their children's actions. </p>


Gov. Youngkin's school guidance

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Strongly support new guidelines


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This will cause more children to feel isolated, alone, and unsupported </p>


Thank you Gov Youngkin!

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Thank you Governor for ensuring schools remain transparent regarding minor children!


Support!

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Parents have a say so in their minor children’s lives


OPPOSE

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Attacking at small number of already at-risk children in order to score political points is unconscionable, even putting aside that discriminating against these children is unconstitutional. Calling this policy "parental rights"  is ludicrous and pandering -- what about the rights of the parents whose children will be discriminated against and put at greater risk due to the Governor's political aspirations?


Strongly support Governor Youngkin's proposed guidance

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The number of cases of child gender dysphoria in the US has exploded well over 1,000 times above its historically tiny 0.01% of the population.  This unnatural surge in popularity has all the symptoms of a fad, and most parents are concerned.  Stories of trans-regrets are many, but little is said in the left controlled media to discourage young people from taking hormones or opting for life altering surgery.  Transitioning is now called gender-affirming care and is encouraged in school with or without parental approval. This is happening nationwide and suggests a well-coordinated plan exists.

There are at least four classifications of groups marketing the trans agenda.

1) Government:  The Biden administration and virtually the entire Democrat party believe gender-affirming policy and using our tax dollars to sexually groom kids is a good thing. Federal grants are funding the interest groups spearheading efforts to queer education around the country.  These non-profits push the theory that sexual repression is to blame for STDs and unintended pregnancies.  Their curricula encourage that greater and earlier openness about sexuality and more inclusivity will prevent all evils.  However, reputable studies have confirmed it produces the exact opposite results.  Planned Parenthood and 'minor-attracted-people' will benefit.

2) Educators:  Our education system is on the front lines with many newly woke teachers who will actively influence k-12 students to accept gender-affirming measures and are willing to keep it a secret from parents.  The organization 'No Left Turn in Education' has more details that identify a disturbing and well funded web of organizations involved.

3) Opportunists: Follow the money.  Our ethically challenged healthcare establishment and Big Pharma are actively promoting transitioning despite knowing it is impossible to change a person's sex at the cellular/chromosome level.  They also actively suppress evidence that there is currently no scientific evidence to support gender-affirming treatment reduces the risk of suicide.  It can increase the tendency when the child matures and realizes they have made a huge irreversible mistake.  It's all about making money.

4) Media: Positive media coverage is known to increase referrals to gender clinics.  This type of marketing is constantly supplied by the left dominate media, arts & entertainment industry and social media (TicToc).  All actively suppress opposing views that question the trans narrative.  Freedom of speech is their most feared enemy.

The Trans movement is also a Marxist tactic to undermine religion, morality and undermine traditional two parent families.  This doctrine is necessary to replace those traditional influences so more power and control can be given to an all-powerful government bureaucracy.

Lastly, the vast majority of parents (except the woke ones) don't want their kids exposed to those of the opposite sex and fully equipped sharing formerly private spaces like restrooms and clothes changing areas.   Puberty is traumatic enough without adding that temptation.  The majority should not change their morality for the very few who made a decision or have been wrongly convinced by authority figures (woke parents, teachers, medical personnel) they are the opposite sex.


Strongly Oppose

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I am writing to state my opposition to the draft policy of the Virginia Department of Education’s 2022 Model Policies in regards to transgender students and believe that VDOE should reject the draft policy.

The current policies, which allow transgender students to use their chosen name, to use the restroom of their gender, and to participate in sports are fair and allow students to have positive school experiences that affirm their gender identity.  The current policies are also vital to trans youth's mental health.

If implemented, the new policies will reverse evidence-based best practice trans-inclusive policies, and will discriminate against transgender youth.


I support parental rights

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<p>I support policies for transparency in public education. It is my right as a parent to know what happens to my child at school. The duty of the public school is EDUCATION and not INDOCTRINATION. The VDOE should take the resources to push this agenda and instead focus on true equity which is closing the ACHIEVEMENT GAP by properly training teachers to IMPROVE MATH and READING SCORES. This battle for “trans rights” is overblown and purely politically motivated and is a DISTRACTION from the real goal of LEARNING.  </p>


Parents rights

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The schools should have no right to put students against parents.  This is a radical agenda that has been shoved down our throats for far too long.  You only need to look down to determine your gender is.  This is ignorant idea that does not use common sense. Schools should teach math reading science and other subjects that help the student to deal with real life.

This is supported by a very loud group that wants everyone to pander to them and not have the any freedoms of speech or religion. Only pc speech is permitted.

I will be 67 soon and have never doubted who I am.


Pittsylvania county schools

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I work in an elementary school in Pittsylvania county. My message is simple ; there is no place for transgender anything in the school system!!!!!


Strongly Oppose

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This policy does not improve the lives of students at all. In fact, it puts many students in danger. Many transgender and LGBTQ+ students will be at risk of being outed and kicked out of their homes if this policy comes into place. Not to mention, it violates teacher’s rights to free speech by forbidding them from calling transgender students by their preferred name and pronouns without their parents’ consent. If this policy is made with the intent of stopping sexual harassment in schools, then creating a law that holds school staff accountable for addressing cases would be far more affective than blaming the issue on a small minority of students. If LGBTQ+ rights can be stripped away like this, then what oppressed group will be next?


Strongly oppose


Can We oppose? (corrected)

Mark of Standing on The "Promises of GOD" fame ;)

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Recall Mr. Youngkin asserted that to fix our education ''problem'' he was going to spend the most money that's ever been spent ...or something like that.

WHAT?

Is Conservatism still possible? We The People are calling ...demanding sanity on both sides. Firstly, it should Not take money to fix what ails US. One word is sufficient. NO! That is it. Learn the word: NO! ...to anything expansive. If it cuts uncle government then YES.

Secondly, the main point of the proposed document, We had better start acting like we are not diseased with severe retardation ...quickly, lest GOD wipe Virginia off the map. The subject of gender and sex has dishonored the Commonwealth and unless righted will lead US to ruination and should **not** be advanced whatsoever.

Everyone has GOD ordained rights. No one (that means absolutely --> no one) has 'special' rights. It is fully ludicrous and futile and infantile and laughable and senseless along with stupid to endure the 'controversy' any longer.

Let US remember the main point of this comment. Altogether: CUT! CUT! CUT! and the CUT! some more.


Governor Youngkins Proposed Policies

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As a Virginian citizen, I fully support the 2022 Model Policies. Parents – not school employees – should be the only ones discussing sexuality and any gender-confusion with their child. No school employee should ever seek to undermine a parent’s right to decide what is best for their child – especially not to push harmful Gender Confusion Theory on an underage student. Furthermore, it is unfair and wrong to allow biologically male athletes to compete as and against female athletes. Not only does this create an unfair advantage that discourages female athletes from even competing, but it forces female athletes to share private facilities like locker rooms and showers with males. This is a gross violation of their right to privacy. On top of which, in such situations female students are forced to endorse the lie that the male athletes have actually changed their gender. It is always wrong and harmful to push lies upon young students. Gender is based in biology, not mental confusion or preference.”


Can We oppose?

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Recall Mr. Youngkin asserted that to fix our education ''problem'' he was going to spend the most money that's ever been spent ...or something like that.

WHAT?

Is Conservatism still possible? We The People are calling ...demanding sanity on both sides. Firstly, it should Not take money to fix what ails US. One word is sufficient. NO! That is it. Learn the word: NO! ...to anything expansive. If it cuts uncle government then YES.

Secondly, the main point of the proposed document, We had better start acting like we are not diseased with severe retardation ...quickly, lest GOD wipe Virginia off the map. The subject of gender and sex has dishonored the Commonwealth and unless righted will lead US to ruination and should be advanced whatsoever.

Everyone has GOD ordained rights. No one (that means absolutely --> no one) has 'special' rights. It is fully ludicrous and futile and infantile and laughable and senseless along with stupid to endure the 'controversy' any longer.

Let US remember the main point of this comment. Altogether: CUT! CUT! CUT! and the CUT! some more.


STRONGLY oppose these changes

Juhi Desai, Student Body President at Virginia Law

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Hello, I am a third year student and the student body president at Virginia Law school and I'm writing to say I, and many of my classmates (though probably not all), strongly oppose the 2022 model policies.

The new policies are rooted in fear and distrust. Our government should seek to set policy that is rooted in love. Every human being has a right to live authentically. How brave are those who choose to show up as their truest selves? We should be celebrating our trans youth and learning from their courage and their authenticity. We should all be so brave as to be who we are. The world is a better place when we accept one another on the basis of our shared humanity.

We should encourage all children to develop their sense of identity and we should affirm them along the way so we can help build their self-esteem. When we go against what a child is asking us because their parents disagree or because we do not personally agree with them, we are denying them of their agency and of their voice. We are teaching them that their preferences don't matter and that their self-advocacy is futile. This is a very dangerous way to raise a child. Schools have a responsibility to instill self esteem in children so that they will be able to face all types of situations as adults. Additionally, a child's voice matters because they are human beings. They know who they are and we should never impose our, or their parents, beliefs onto them. Everyone, including children, has the right to be themselves.

Children spend so much time at school. Some children spend more time talking to their teachers and classmates than they do their own family. Children deserve to feel loved and affirmed at school. It's a really sad thing to deny a child something they are asking for that means a lot to them, especially when it is as small as addressing them by their chosen name and their preferred pronouns. That does not take a ton of time and energy to adjust to. Why would these new model policies encourage educators to be anything besides affirming and welcoming? As a former teacher, I'm honestly confused. Horrible practice. It was always a priority in my classroom to nurture my students and to encourage their exploration. Children have to figure out who they are, and once they know, they deserve to live that truth.

All to say these new model policies are quite frankly, bad. I am proud to be getting my legal education at Virginia Law where many students in the student body are outraged at these changes. I believe in inclusivity and I urge the governor's office or whoever released this policy to reconsider. Protect our gender nonconforming, non-binary, and trans youth. They deserve to be respected and know they are loved! <3

Thank you.


Strongly oppose trans discrimation

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<p>Treat all our kids with respect. </p>


Thank you Govenor Youngkin!

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Thank you for what you're doing to protect children and parents.  Keep up the good work!


I support Gov. Younkin

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<p>We fully support  Gov Younkin in his efforts to protect our children in schools. </p>


This policy is not workable.

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Opposed.  This policy, as written, is not consistently implementable or enforceable. It is not resourced for implementation, especially as to facilities modifications it will require, or as to the litigation that it will force local school boards to defend.

In addition, it does nothing to help administration's, faculty, and student bodies, both transgender and non-transgender, to actually resolve the social disruptions that this issue presents.  Rather, it will almost certainly make such disruptions more frequent and potentially more violent.


Strongly object to legislation

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<p>I strongly object to the proposed legislation that requires faculty to out trans and lgbtqia+ students to their parents. Forcing them to have parental permission puts them in danger and can create long term issues for the student. You stated parents know best and students should listen to their parents. This is not always the case and you bill will cause harm for numerous students across the commonwealth. If you go through with this awful bill targeting non-binary and trans youth will you force teachers to call every student by their birth name? This can cause further harm to trans and non-binary students as the straight kid can be called a shorter version of their name but not the preferred name of a trans kid. </p>


Strongly support

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I think it is past time for us to get back to the Godly way of life. This country is going down the drain


Absolutelly Support

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Any parent should be ashamed to hand over their children to the state/school and expect them to raise the children.  That right belongs to the parent, period.  The parents are responsible for their children, not the state/school.  Hiding anything from parents, especially regarding their children's health, is incomprehensible.  Keep this law and let the parents do their job.


I support Governor Youngkin

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I fully support Governor Youngkin


Freedom is not just for those we agree with, stop fear-mongering

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A majority of Our children have already learned to seamlessly adjust to using preferred pronouns and treating people as they ask..respecting who they ARE. Adults, it seems, are the ones that are having trouble adjusting to treating people with respect and as they ask. Gender identity and sexual identity are NOT choices…they are expressions of who people Are.
This guidance will make many kids in our schools less safe, so a few adults don’t have to grow and be more respectful of others…especially those that are not exactly like them. Trans kids will not harm others or be predators. There are more predators in office than in girls bathrooms. Stop this pandering and start focusing on infrastructure, jobs, and treating ALL Commonwealth citizens as deserving of representation and protection, whether the look and act like you or not.

Shana Moore


Duty to Protect

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Our government -- yes, it belongs to us, and its employees are our servants -- has one (and only one) paramount duty: to protect the inalienable property and other rights of the citizenry.  This clear and simple responsibility, which Americans pay handsomely to see executed, gets murkier, however, when we pervert the relationship between negative and positive liberty.

Negative liberty is your freedom from.  It amounts to being let alone, in person and property.  Negative liberty is paramount.

Positive liberty is freedom to.  As long as your actions don't diminish the negative liberty of another, you have positive liberty to do as you will.

Positive liberty is subordinate to negative liberty.

When we confuse negative and positive liberty, however, we pervert the relationship between the two, subordinating negative to positive, trampling the bedrock right of all free people to be let alone.

Obviously, people with differences in wealth, sexual impulse, or cultural background, seek to live in different ways.  But our government must stay out of the business of refereeing such differences, so long as the resulting variety of behaviors does not harm the persons or property of anyone.  Let sexual differences alone, in other words -- until women cannot be secure in changing and bathing areas.  If any woman be thus threatened, each of us is threatened because all can see that the government is not performing its primary duty to protect.

The male who presumes some positive liberty extended at the expense of fundamental liberty -- who imagines some right to use female-only facilities at will -- is not a victim but a predator.  His positive liberty is metastatic and would trample the right of all to be let alone.  The curtailment of his presumption, meanwhile, is not a harm to his paramount negative liberty.  No one is telling him he cannot identify, dress, or otherwise behave as a woman.  And no one has a right to claim that his extraordinary dress or manner (assuming common decency) is a material harm per se.

Let him alone.

But for the safety of the genetically female in a healthy society, the genetic male is not allowed to indulge in his choices at the expense of others.

We have an established and famous Supreme Court case that clarifies this proper relationship between negative and positive liberty.  In Schenk v United States, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously used the example of someone shouting 'FIRE!' in a crowded theater to assert that even our First Amendment right to free speech is forfeit when we use it to harm others or their property.  In Schenk, Holmes provides precisely the clarity we need for managing sexual differences today: do what you will, but don't harm others in the process.

Don't pretend you have a right to take the reasonable expectation of privacy and security away in public accommodations away from others.  And don't pretend such limitations have taken something material away from you.  Use the public bathroom provided for people of your own genetic sex.  This taxpayer says, 'You're welcome."


Strongly Oppose Anti-Trans policy

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When my children were small, they had big imaginations and would sometimes be so immersed in pretending to be a favorite character, they would only answer to that name.  I was thankful for all the teachers/activity leaders who understood this and would accommodate them by using the pretend name (Eloise, Clementine, Aurora) instead of the usual one.    Accepting them as they were in that moment supported them in learning the skill they were focusing on, and those good teachers knew that.

When one of those children reached high school age, she came out as lesbian and non-binary and asked to be called by a less gender-specific name.    Having teachers in high school who were just as supportive and understanding as those preschool teachers once again supported her in learning the content of her classes.   She graduated with an advanced diploma and is now attending a top college.   She was lucky to have parents who supported her, but I know that not all parents give their trans or non-binary children the same acceptance.    The purpose of schools is to educate children.  Providing a safe environment only enhances that purpose.  It is to the benefit of all of us to provide students with a safe environment that allows them to focus on learning instead of worrying about who will try to belittle them or deny their humanity.

As a teacher, the logistical issues involved in approving the ability to call a student anything other than their given name seem much too complicated.  Will it apply to the student who goes by his middle name instead of his first name?   To the student who goes by a nickname instead of her full name?   To the immigrant student who wishes to be called by a more "American" name?  To the student who has a family nickname that is unrelated to their given name?   Schools and teachers have enough on their plate already without adding the time wasting task of tracking down permission slips so they can call a student "Bobby" instead of "Robert".

The current policy supports students, does not add extra paperwork for teachers/schools and supports educational achievement by accepting students as they are so they can focus on academics instead of safety.  I oppose the new policy as a step backward.    Let's keep moving toward the future instead of toward the past.


Virginia this is a very stupid idea

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No part of virgina is economically able to support the amount of displacement that would come from bigoted parents disowning their kids.


Opposed

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This proposed policy will cost kids their lives.  Strongly oppose.


Opposed

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<p>All children should be protected. That includes transgender children as well. They shouldn't be exposed to harm. </p>


Transgender Policy

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<p>I support parent rights and the governor’s new transgender policy. </p>


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE

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<p>Transgender and nonbinary students deserve to feel safe being their authentic selves, particularly at school where they are often bullied, marginalized and already suffer higher rates of depression and are at greater risk of suicide. Governor Youngkin’s proposed policies seek to erase trans and nonbinary youth from the classroom and create a hostile and even dangerous school environment. </p>


Strongly support

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We strongly support the new policies.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This is an incredibly discriminatory, transphobic proposal. Children should have the right to autonomy of their own body and be provided environments that support rather than restrict them to not being their full, true self. </p>


2022 policies


Trans kids should feel included too

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When people talk about trans students, they often say that they make up a minor part of the population and that this bill would not affect the majority of students in Virginia public schools. The Trevor Project has released statistics saying that 2% of students in American schools identify as transgender. In contrast, I have a disability that also affects about 2% of students in American public schools.

When I attended public school with my disability, many of my teachers made a conscious effort to ensure I felt included. They listened to me when I said I had a problem with other students bullying me, they made sure I knew their classrooms were a safe space for me to escape to if I was in a difficult environment, they gave me access to an accessible bathroom, and encouraged other students to learn about my disability when they had the opportunity. While I also had many other traumatic experiences and experienced academic ableism, thinking of these teachers who served as my ally or my biggest support leaves me with overall positive memories of my time spent in the school. I may have been the only student in my school with this disability, but I was extremely privileged to be in such a safe environment. My disability was not something to be ashamed of, but it became part of my identity as I learned to navigate “the real world.”

Even though there were ups and downs, my wish is that trans and LGBT students would be able to have the same experience I did. I want their teachers to help them feel included by using their preferred names and pronouns, and asking if they need to use a different name when addressing family members. I want them to be able to safely report transphobic behavior or bullying without fear of being outed. I want them to have a feeling of safety in the classroom. I want them to have access to a bathroom they feel comfortable using. And I want other students to see that LGBT is not a dirty word or an identity to be ashamed of, but show that it is part of their identity and empower them to navigate “the real world.”

I can’t hide my disability, and shouldn’t have to. The same is often true for LGBT students. To show someone that you have made a space that is inclusive and accessible for them is to show you that you love and cherish them. Please reject these proposed guidelines and work to create a better place for the 2% of students who desperately need your support.


Opposed

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<p>This policy change directly harms children by perpetuating and normalizing discrimination. Shouldn't any educational policy put children's safety and well-being first? Above adults' politics, personal preferences, and discomfort with human differences? </p>


Support! Parents have a say in their kids’ well being!

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<p>We strongly support this new proposed policy that restores parental rights. Parents should be informed of every aspect of their childrens health and education and it is ludicrous this basic right was ever taken away. Let kids be kids - keep talk of sex, trans, etc out of schools!!! </p>


Strongly opposed

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<p>I OPPOSE the hateful proposed 2022 Virginia school guidelines that target vulnerable trans, non-binary, and gender expansive children. We need to stand up and support these students so they can feel safe at school and grow up knowing they are loved and respected members of our community. </p>


I support Gov. Youngkin’s initiative regarding transgender policies in Virginia schools.

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As a Virginian citizen, I fully support the 2022 Model Policies. Parents – not school employees – should be the only ones discussing sexuality and any gender-confusion with their child. No school employee should ever seek to undermine a parent’s right to decide what is best for their child – especially not to push harmful Gender Confusion Theory on an underage student. Furthermore, it is unfair and wrong to allow biologically male athletes to compete as and against female athletes. Not only does this create an unfair advantage that discourages female athletes from even competing, but it forces female athletes to share private facilities like locker rooms and showers with males. This is a gross violation of their right to privacy. On top of which, in such situations female students are forced to endorse the lie that the male athletes have actually changed their gender. It is always wrong and harmful to push lies upon young students. Gender is based in biology, not mental confusion or preference.


OPPOSED

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<p>Please just let my child pee in peace. </p>