Strongly Oppose

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Leave our children alone, you disgusting fascist. Your offer no solutions to anyone’s problems- only hatred and ignorance. Your ideas belong in the dust heap of history along with that of Nazis and other fascists. Terrorizing children is evil and beneath contempt.


STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS NONSENSE

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STRONGLY disagree with this!


Strongly Support

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Children don’t have the automomy, the maturity, or the ability to understand the consequences of something like changing gender.  They do not have fully developed brains and are easily manipulated or pushes into ideas or things they don’t fully understand.  To allow a teacher or school to convince a vulnerable child that they should change their name, their gender or anything else would be child abuse.  There are so many little girls that are tomboys or little boys that are more feminism and grow up to be happy men and women who may be pushed into something that could destroy their chance at happiness instead of bills like this are not in place.. The fact that anyone thinks a teacher or school should have say over something like this and hide it from the parents is scary.  If there is nothing wrong with all of this gender theory, there should be no reason to hide it.  You only hide stuff like this from the public and parents when you know you are doing something wrong.

im glad to see a bill that ensures parents rights to avoid politically motivated teachers from preying on their children.  Democracy dies in darkness and this bill will ensure parents know what is going on in schools.  It will also help protect vulnerable children from being preyed in by activist teachers who don’t care about the children, only pushing an ideology, even if it harms a child.  It also doesn’t discriminate in the least against transgender people, only prevents people from pushing an ideology on kids who are too young and too immature to understand the consequences of it.


This is WHY we elected you! Thank you! 2022!!

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Parents have EVERY right to know what is going on with their children, in or out of school! They need to know if their child is in need of counseling, and if they are dysphoric for ANY reason, they need counseling. It is called a "disorder" for a reason!

There is also a reason they have separate sports for boys and girls, otherwise they would all be co-ed!

As for the males using the female restrooms, well, we saw in Loudon County what happens when that is done! And then covered up....

Be who you want to be, but don't expect me to believe in your fantasies. You do your thing, I'll do mine. You leave me alone, I'll probably not even notice you, much less bother you.

While you're at it, Mr. Youngkin, make the voting age 21. If you aren't mature enough to buy cigarettes or beer, you certainly aren't mature enough to vote or die for your country!


OPPOSE!

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<p>Strongly oppose!!!!!! Children can not open themselves up to learn if they can not open themselves up to express how they feel, even if it’s not definitive- they should feel that school is a safe space to just be and learn about themselves and the world around us. </p>


Strongly Oppose the new proposed transgender rules in public schools

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First, I’d like to remind the governor that the use of bathrooms by transgender students has already been decided by a lower court if VA who stated a VA school board had no right to keep a transgender student from using the bathroom for the sex that he identifies with and SCOTUS refused to intervene.

I would like for you to understand that LGBTQ students have ALL the same rights as heterosexual students whether their parents like it or not. I think you will find very few transgender students who don’t already have the support of their families. I mean it would be very hard to hide what they are doing unlike students who are gay who in many cases are forced to hide from their families. You are using this as a way to discriminate against transgender youth in public schools and you all should be ashamed. As the parent of an adult trans man, I am so glad he didn’t go through transitioning when he was younger. The amount of hate and bigotry that is thrown at these children by many supposed “Christian” parents is beyond disgusting.

Trans children in bathrooms are a threat to other students. In case you all haven’t been paying attention over the last several years, straight school staff have been the threat to students with many being charged all over the country with having sexual relationships with their students and women are starting to become more common than men. I have yet to see a case where a trans child assaulted another in the bathroom. Stalls are there for privacy so unless Suzy or Johnny is a peeping Tom, there is no way to know who is in the stall next to them. Forcing a child who identifies as male to use the girls’ bathroom and one who is male who identifies as female or use the boys will cause harm. What are you going to do to inforce this, force teachers to go in the bathrooms and invade the students’ privacy?

Teachers and staff should use pronouns and names that the child prefers, no exemptions. To go against their wishes is discrimination. Stop acting as though you have the right to override parental rights. You see the parents of trans kids have just as many rights as the parents of straight kids.


We send our kids to school to learn, not be brainwashed.

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How dare you circumvent the family unit and dynamic, by whispering in our child’s ears at school, convincing them it’s normal, okay, and brave to question themselves and to be whatever they want to be. Keep your lies and venom away from our children! This should not even be a question and up for comment. The school board and education association has failed the students and parents. To top it off, you’re failing our society by blinding our kids with this lunacy.


This will kill kids including myself if passed

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<p>This policy will kill these kids. Just let people be who they want to be and honestly this isn’t something the schools should even be involved with. Stop bringing religions into this because that has no place in school. </p>


Oppose

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<p>Believe people when they tell you who they are. </p>


Strongly Support

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It should not be controversial that parents have the primary responsibility for raising their children. The very nature of things tells us this is true. Add to that the unhappy observation of what the state has tried to do recently to our kids. In fact, when has any state indoctrinated children and it turned out to be a good thing?

There is a concerted effort afoot to destroy our civilization, and unscrupulous people are using children to do it. I'm thankful for Governor Youngkin and many others who are standing in the gap and not allowing this outrage to continue.


Protect these kids. I STRONGLY OPPOSE.

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These Kids need to be protected. I oppose any legal document trying to make it harder for them to exist.


Overreaching

This policy is not well-thought out or carefully written. It could have far-reaching impacts for students beyond gender non-conforming students.
Two examples:
"Parents are in the best position to work with their children and, whereappropriate, their children’s health care providers to determine (a) what names, nicknames, and/or pronouns, if any, shall be used for their child by teachers and school staff while their child is at school."

Does this apply to all students? If so, then students who prefer "Matt" but whose parents prefer "Matthew" can't use a nickname? If not, what is the rationale for making a distinction among students?
"If any"? Will teachers and school staff be avoiding the use of names, nicknames, and pronouns? Under what circumstances would no pronouns be used for a student, or no names? Surely you mean "what names, nicknames (if any), or pronouns."?

"Schools shall keep parents informed about their children’s well-being: Toensure parents are able to make the best decisions with respect to their child, schoolpersonnel shall keep parents fully informed about all matters that may bereasonably expected to be important to a parent, including, and without limitation,matters related to their child’s health, and social and psychological development."

Does this apply to all students? If so, then does it apply to students who espouse a different religious perspective than their parents? Based on the opening statement ("Schools shall respect parents’ values and beliefs: Parents have the right to instillin and nurture values and beliefs for their own children and make decisionsconcerning their children’s education and upbringing in accordance with theircustoms, faith, and family culture"), the document suggests that the school is now interested in informing parents of deviations from family culture. But this sets student individual growth against family customs and puts the state in the position of deciding when to inform and intervene.
What does "fully informed" mean? Instructors and administrators have a significant workload. What are their new responsibilities to keep parents "fully" informed? What are the consequences of being found to have only "partially" informed parents?

In addition to the concerns I have for trans and gender non-conforming students, I think it's important to point out that this document has potential ripple effects for all students, and it is strikingly antithetical to the espoused values of a Republican party which supposedly values small government and individual liberties. I would not like my local school district to have the role of Big Brother, observing students for possible deviations from family customs, faith, etc.--especially since the only way to perform this role would be to know this information from families. Are families to share this at the outset of every school semester so that their children can be observed for deviation? Especially at the secondary school levels, where children are coming into their own as individuals, this could be pernicious.

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This policy is not well-thought out or carefully written. It could have far-reaching impacts for students beyond gender non-conforming students.

Two examples:

"Parents are in the best position to work with their children and, whereappropriate, their children’s health care providers to determine (a) what names, nicknames, and/or pronouns, if any, shall be used for their child by teachers and school staff while their child is at school."

Does this apply to all students? If so, then students who prefer "Matt" but whose parents prefer "Matthew" can't use a nickname? If not, what is the rationale for making a distinction among students?

"If any"? Will teachers and school staff be avoiding the use of names, nicknames, and pronouns? Under what circumstances would no pronouns be used for a student, or no names? Surely you mean "what names, nicknames (if any), or pronouns."?

"Schools shall keep parents informed about their children’s well-being: To
ensure parents are able to make the best decisions with respect to their child, school
personnel shall keep parents fully informed about all matters that may be
reasonably expected to be important to a parent, including, and without limitation,
matters related to their child’s health, and social and psychological development."

Does this apply to all students? If so, then does it apply to students who espouse a different religious perspective than their parents? Based on the opening statement ("Schools shall respect parents’ values and beliefs: 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"), the document suggests that the school is now interested in informing parents of deviations from family culture. But this sets student individual growth against family customs and puts the state in the position of deciding when to inform and intervene.

What does "fully informed" mean? Instructors and administrators have a significant workload. What are their new responsibilities to keep parents "fully" informed? What are the consequences of being found to have only "partially" informed parents?

In addition to the concerns I have for trans and gender non-conforming students, I think it's important to point out that this document has potential ripple effects for all students, and it is strikingly antithetical to the espoused values of a Republican party which supposedly values small government and individual liberties. I would not like my local school district to have the role of Big Brother, observing students for possible deviations from family customs, faith, etc.--especially since the only way to perform this role would be to know this information from families. Are families to share this at the outset of every school semester so that their children can be observed for deviation? Especially at the secondary school levels, where children are coming into their own as individuals, this could be pernicious.


Fiercely Agree with our Governor

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Keep Satan from pawing all over our children.


This policy will kill children.

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As a high school student in Fairfax County from 2006 - 2010, having a safe, inclusive space to express myself openly and without fear of consequence helped shape who I am today. I am a proud, trans, non-binary person of color, and without the support of my teachers and friends, I would have likely suffered as many LGBT+ kids do; to suicide. This policy gives transgender students no room to be themselves and removes their safe space. I vehemently oppose this policy and stand with the Virginia Students using their voices to speak up for what is right.

Trans rights are human rights.


Strongly Support Our Great Governor

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I strongly support what our governor is bravely trying to do.  As one can see from comments already submitted, he's up against a hurricane of evil.


As a parent I am opposed. My child and others need to be safe.

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I didn’t vote for Youngkin. I saw through his sham and trust the school board that I vote to represent and set the education our children receive. Not someone that hid behind a facade of what and who he was. He has shown he doesn’t care about our kids….shame on him!


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<p>I support Youngkin and parental involvement in schools. </p>


Fiercely oppose

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<p>As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community I have always and will always oppose any policy harming our community. Trans children are valid, they are entitled to be called by the name they choose, and nobody has the right to out them to anyone. Particularly parents like those commenting in support of this guidance, as they and those like them are statistically likely to abuse/ostracize a trans child. LGBTQIA+ youth need protection. </p>


oppose


Support

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I strongly support Gov Youngkin


Srongly Oppose

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Dear Governor Youngkin,

I recently learned of your administration’s proposal to remove important protections for LBTQIA+ students as outlined in the new Virginia Department of Education “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.”

In spite of the case law justifications provided, these guidelines ignore limits of parent rights (e.g. outlined in assenting and dissenting arguments for Yoder, as well as other case law) and the rights of children who need protection from harm by parents who do not have their best interests at heart. The doctrine of parens patriae gives states the right to protect children who cannot protect themselves, particularly when a parent’s religious or health care action is harmful. Your guidelines ignore this responsibility.

These guidelines do not provide the flexibility for schools, administrators and teachers to address the individual needs of students who may be confronted with unsupportive parents when the student in question exercises their constitutionally protected right to self-determination. One’s identity is fundamental and expressing that identity is supportive of good mental health and productivity.

These new policies effectively revoke the established rights of LGBTQIA+ students, one of the most vulnerable and at -risk groups. More than half of transgender and nonbinary youth have seriously considered self-harm and suicide. To ignore and exacerbate their needs amid a broader mental health crisis will only pour fuel on an ongoing crisis in communities throughout Virginia.

These proposed changes are not just bad policy, they are also cruel. Among other things, they would prohibit students from being addressed by their real names and pronouns, deny students access to facilities that align with their gender identity, and potentially force schools to out LGBTQIA+ students.

These guidelines read more like a dog whistle to a minority of voters who use parent rights to push a religious agenda. It is important to remember that while religious belief is insured by the Constitution, the free exercise clause does not protect religious action from regulation (Reynolds v US).

For a better approach to model guidelines, I recommend you follow Montgomery County Public School’s guidelines. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge Paul W. Grimm recently ruled in the school system’s favor when it was challenged. This case has the potential to set precedent on these issues. Something you may want to consider to avoid the impending lawsuits that will inevitably come if you implement your guidelines as presented.

When looking back on the painful history of the struggle for civil rights in Virginia, it is important to remember that future generations will not look kindly on leaders who fail to stand up for the basic civil and human rights of their fellow Virginians.

As Governor, I hope you will consider the importance of representing and standing up for all communities – especially the most vulnerable among us – and reject these detrimental policy changes.

Sincerely,

Nina Eidelberg


Reject discrimination and support LGBTQ+


You don’t get to define how people identify themselves - harmful, hateful, destructive policy!

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<p>What makes you think you have the power or authority to define how people identify themselves?  Your policy is harmful to the self esteem and well being of children and adolescents.  The suicide rates in our high schools and secondary schools have been out of control in Northern Virginia. Take some time to learn about mental health issues and how you can make policies that contribute to the well being of students instead of causing more heartache. We are no longer in the 16th century, so please take the time to learn about what is best for children and young adults instead of applying an archaic mentality which has proven to be detrimental to our youth! </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Schoold should be a safe place for all children </p>


Strongly Oppose


Transgender children

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<p>Teens that are gay or transgender already have the highest suicide rates. Why would you implement a plan that effects such a small part of our population so negatively. Just leave them alone! 0.02% of kids are trans so you might be screwing over 5 kids. What's the point? Just shows hate rather than love for the children that you're supposed to be protecting. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This is incredibly dangerous for the children of the Commonwealth. </p>


Vehemently opposed

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<p>How could any of you think this could possibly help children?… It’s a very lazy attempt at hiding your disgusting transphobia. </p>


A written contradiction - I strongly oppose

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The second this policy was released I read every word. It’s so contradictory. It’s hateful and exclusive. We must protect our children, and our most vulnerable children, especially transgender students. How can you say it’s a policy to be inclusive of everyone’s personal choice, yet deny these kids their personal choice to identify as themselves without fear of what teachers/peers are “allowed” to say? This is a contradiction. There is no logic to it.

we have a duty to protect these kids. Institute this policy and you’ll see increased anxiety, depression, and suicide amongst these kids.

this will increase teacher shortages (but that is your goal isn’t it? To funnel our teachers away from public schools and to private?)

and I strongly disagree with the parents first mentality. Parents have a choice to send their kids to private school. Or homeschool. If they need/want that much control over what is being taught in the classroom, they can choose the school system that’s right for them. Public schools are meant to be inclusive, diverse, and for the greater good of society as a whole (not just Christian families). Teachers are qualified professionals and we need to let them do their jobs without so much overhead. They barely get paid enough and we are on the precipice of losing most of them.

I strongly strongly strongly oppose this bigoted policy.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Strongly Oppose. If you care about all lives and the safety and well-being of others than you would be opposed to this as well. </p>
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Hateful policy

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<p>opposite of love thy neighbor, hypocrital fanatical rhetoric that can harm vulnerable adolescents </p>


Strongly support

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I strongly support the new guidelines proposed by Governor Youngkin.
Parents,  NOT school boards or woke teachers know what is best for their children. The role of schools is to educate children, period!  I would also add any teachers/school board members who refuse to adhere to this new policy be fined in their weekly pay. Thank you Governor Youngkin for following through on your campaign promise!


Trans policies

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I support Governor Youngkin!


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This reads like satire. Completely out of touch with the everyday experience of students and teachers, this serves solely to punish transgender people for their existence. These hateful measures have been shellacked in a pretend concern for parental rights. Buttercream frosting on a cowpie, take a single wiff & you'll know what this is. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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This is preying upon people who are fearful for votes at the expense of a vulnerable population of children.

If you wanted to drive midterm votes then I think you have, just not in the direction you meant to.


Strongly oppose

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Pandering to a small subset of extremist parents, and willfully excluding and endangering children already most likely to experience bullying? An embarrassment!


Strongly Oppose

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This proposed policy puts the health and welfare of trans students in jeopardy.


You lost my vote, oh wait you NEVER had it

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Just another reason in a long list of reasons why you are a backwards move for VA. Absolutely disgusting policy.

TRANS rights are human rights.


This is nonsense: OPPOSE

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As someone who’s been through Virginia’s public school system- as a queer/nonbianary person who received a highly sought education- it’s disgraceful to know that the representative of this State wishes trauma and prejudice against Virginia’s future- literal CHILDREN. This proposal is unconstitutional and any legislator that wishes to use their religious freedom to oppress others doesn’t have the honor or the capacity necessary to support the future. This is selfish and bigoted and while I’m not surprised, I’m disappointed. OPPOSE THIS PROPOSAL!!!


STRONGLY OPPOSE - This endangers the lives of trans / gender-expansive kids

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I'm a Mental Health Professional with 30 years experience working with Trans & Gender-Expansive kids and adults.  I see first-hand how adults who models denial of and antipathy toward T&G-E kids causes pain, suffering, suicide and violence by others.  This is a solution in search of a problem.


This is hogwash

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This policy is hateful and backwards. I don’t understand why you can’t just leave people alone. You’re risking the lives of some teens and feeling trapped will undeniably lead to increased teen homelessness and potentially suicide. This is undermining teens understanding of themselves. Stop trying to force your beliefs on everyone else. People deserve to live their lives as they please as long as they are not hurting others. And don’t start with that “boys creeping after girls in the restroom crap.” You know that almost never happens and is unrelated to transgender people.

you know that teachers and LGBTQ people are not grooming anyone. Why can’t we be more inclusive?


This is hogwash


Strongly oppose

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<p>VA DAD STRONGLY OPPOSED TO THESE POLICIES </p>


Showing support for our trans youth ??????  STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS  GARBAGE

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This policy has been carefully crafted to hide its hateful bigotry as best as it possibly could, which is not very well I might add. This is a thinly veiled attempt to please the MAGA crowd.

As a parent, I trust my child. Children are way smarter and more capable than we give them credit. They don’t keep this sort of thing from their parents for fun, they do so because they are trying to figure out who they are and because they are worried about how it will affect their relationships. I trust my child to come to me when they are ready to tell me things like this.

To all LGBTQ kids out there….you are loved and supported. You have so many people in your corner who will hold you up and have your back. Never stop fighting.


Parental Rights Trump Teacher Prerogatives

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Parents have the right to raise their children according to the traditions they believe and cherish.

The state has no right to usurp the relationship between parents and their children in the person of people who are charged with teaching them math, science, and language arts.

No more state-sanctioned grooming!


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Strongly Oppose </p>


Strongly oppose

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Schools need to be safe for ALL kids, and trans and non-binary kids need protection, Please don't go backwards.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Equity and access for transgender youth in Virginia is not about so-called wokeness or even about parental authority. It’s about suicide prevention. Period. This administrations commitment to Virginians should extend to ALL Virginians, not just those who vote and look a certain way. </p>


School Guidance Document: Strongly in Support!

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Strongly in Support

Parents have the right and should be involved with decisions regarding their children. Bathrooms need to be separated by biological sex to keep all children safe with gender neutral bathrooms for those choosing to use them. I am opposed to teachers being compelled to call students by a name or pronoun not matching their biological sex and/or not used by parents except in the case of a nickname and with the exception of a legal name change. I am very opposed to teachers being restricted from discussing any pertinent concerns with parents. I am strongly opposed to allowing biological boys to compete against biological girls in sports.

Strongly in Support


Public School Gender Dysphoria Policy

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Parents absolutely must be involved in every aspect of their child’s life. Therefore, parents must be the primary decision maker for their innocent, vulnerable children.  Impressionable children need to be protected from radical gender ideology, and children need to be protected from over zealous ideologues employed by the taxpayer supported public schools.


STRONGLY OPPOSE do you want a bigger teacher shortage?!

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<p>Strongly oppose this unlawful and unconscionable policy. You will be BREAKING the ruling of Grimm vs Gloucester Co School Board which means anything that resembles this policy or if this policy passes is UNLAWFUL and will not be taken as a valid policy. You cannot force teachers into harming their students as this asks them to do. You will only create a bigger teacher shortage and show our children you DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEM. YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR FEAR AND OBEDIENCE. </p>


Oppose

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laws only work because they are backed up by state violence. come and get us.


Transgender School Policy

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<p>Strongly oppose!  Protect our children, no matter their gender choices.  </p>


Strongly support - no more secrets from parents, pressure from school admins

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Thank you for creating a policy which doesn't require us staff to lie and deceive parents. We want to transparent collaboration with parents without secrets. This policy makes it possible for us. The school administration is not able to pressure us anymore to do otherwise.


Strongly oppose governor’s school policy targeting transgender students

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Students should not be forced into personal habits based on the biological sex they were assigned at birth. Gender identity belongs to individuals and in this land of individual freedom, the state should not be directing schools to police students identities by specifying which bathrooms they must use. The world is not a binary place and gender is no exception. Protect transgender students, especially their mental health, by supporting gender neutral options.


Let Them Be Free

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Please let the children be free to be themselves. Do not make them feel less. Help build them up to be more. Do not hurt them, help them.


This Policy Is Hateful

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<p>I strongly oppose. This policy represents a shameful, discriminatory, and subjugating stance. History will not be kind to it, nor likely to you, if it’s enacted.  Love wins. This is NOT love of any kind. </p>


Transgender policy

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I am 100% behind Governor Youngkin’s decision!!


strongly oppose


OPPOSE

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This policy harms children.


Tansgender policy

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Want to offer my support of Gov Youngkin's policy that students should use bathrooms and lockers based on the students biological sex.

Students and teachers etc should not be forced or pressured to use pronoiuns


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this and believe  could harm the mental health of transgender youth. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>ALL children deserve a safe environment to be themselves and to learn.  </p>


Parents Matter!!

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<p>Parents matter!! Why is it so hard for socialists to accept the fact that our children do not belong to the state. But that is a main objective:  to destroy parental rights in favor of progressive programming and programs. </p>


Oppose!

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This dangerous behavior from the governor of Virginia, will cause serious harm to you by people. It endangers many from even having shelter and housing, should their unsupportive family kick them out of the house.

This isn’t a model policy it’s a threat to the very well being of minors.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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Transgender children are our children. This is against human rights.


Opposed

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Please reconsider this guidance. Children are dying because they are being rejected for who they are. I am a Christian, and I know that God loves all children. Being cruel to them at a crucial time does more harm than good.. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28


support for Governor Younkin regarding Parental Rights

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I completely support Governor Younkin's agenda to keep parents fully informed as to what is being taught in our schools.

I also support Governor Younkin in discouraging the Grooming culture that is taking hold in our schools.

These young vulnerable children should not be made the experiment for those wishing to teach nonsense to our children.

The school curriculum should be returned to the basics, reading, writing, and arithmetic.


Oppose Strongly

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<p>I very much oppose these guidelines. I support equal rights and protections for all of Virginia’s LGBTQ citizens, and these policies are discriminatory. </p>


Oppose - it’s PUBLIC school, not PARENT school

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I think a large majority of those in support are forgetting that public schools are free resources to parents who cannot provide alternative education to their children. Therefore, if you are unhappy with the free resources provided to you, then maybe you should look elsewhere? Keep public schools PUBLIC and away from PRIVATE matters (a.k.a, the parents).


Transgenderism

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This is a good thing if the parents didn't fail their kids and treated transgenderism as a mental disease there wouldn't be an issue grooming minors to make a decision like sex change and self mutilation is felony child abuse use the bathroom for your birth sex and get help


Oppose


Support!

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I support this! We need to help kids understand how to feel comfortable in the body they were born into. We are not helping them but encouraging the insanity.


Thank you Governor Youngkin!!!  This madness needs to stop!

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Thank you, Governor Youngkin!!! This madness needs to stop! We have to stand up and save our children from this radical agenda!QK


THIS IS WRONG

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<p>I really don't know where to start in explaining just how we have even reached this point as human beings. These children are little people. they are learning to make their own choices which is part of growing up. If you take this away (THEIR NAME) you impact their future. you impact their life. </p>


Strongly support Parental rights!

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Strongly support parental rights in regards to their children and schools


Hating on trans kids

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Hey Youngkin,

Leave those kids alone!


Strongly OPPOSE!


Oppose

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<p>LGBTQIA children have just as much right to be themselves as any other child. Children come to school to learn in a safe environment. That’s it. They don’t come to support their teacher’s religion. They are there to learn. Whether they are male, female, intersex, or non binary doesn’t matter. They deserve to learn in a safe environment. A lot of children do not live in a safe environment & school is where they can feel safe. To take away their rights to be authentically themselves is to deny them human rights & deny them safety. If you want to do something for our schools, how about banning the sale of assault rifles or increasing teacher resources & salaries. How about supporting our teachers rather than making their lives infinitely harder. Let the children be who they are & keep your noses out of their privacy. There is no bigger government than the one who wants to control everything from your name to what goes on under your underwear. </p>


Fear is what drives us

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A lot of people in the small Southwest Virginian town I reside in are of the christian faith, and because of this they have become fearful of anything that even seems abnormal to their dogma.  This is not a dilemma for young children or toddlers, this is a clear crisis of identity that resonates with the teen and young adult people.  So if a gay teenager is scared to tell his alcoholic, christian father that he likes boys, then what right does a school system have to tell his parents?  It is obviously clear to anyone who reads the new improvisions to the previous administration's guidelines, that they only care about the how safe and comfortable the parents are.  Our first concern should always be that of the younger generation, no matter how uncomfortable or afraid it makes us feel.


Support bill

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Strongly support. Parents need to know what is going on with their children.  We live in such an upside down world.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this policy change. As a parent of two young children in the public school system here in Virginia, I want my kids to learn in an environment free of discrimination and with the freedom to explore who they are with our fear. Education is an ecosystem composed of children, parents, teachers and administrators. But ultimately, the children are at the center of this endeavor. The policies set forth here do not center children and put trans and nonbinary kids in harms way, especially when they don't have a support parent or guardian at home. Further, it places an undo bureaucratic burden on parents that DO support their child's gender expression. This policy is not aligned with studies around the health and wellbeing of trans people, nor does it take the voices of trans or nonbinary people into account. And it doesn't leave space for young people to explore, discuss or express their gender identity with their peers, teachers, and larger school community in a safe and affirmative way. This policy does nothing to protect young people in our state and seem specifically designed to score political points. Do better. </p>


Support!

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I support parents knowing if their child wants to change their gender/name/pronouns. Parents should be made aware of major decisions in a minor's life.


Support!


Completely opposed to this.

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<p>Support trans kids. If you can't do that much at least then just leave them alone. </p>


This is a step backwards for human rights

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<p>I strongly oppose this policy. It is harmful and discriminatory </p>


Stop hating on children

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Strongly oppose Younkin’s hateful proposal against children’s rights


Opposed


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED

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This is a horrible, terrible, cruel policy that will cost valuable lives. I'm pretty sure the governor doesn't believe these lives have value, but I do, and so do the people who love them. An insanely large percentage of BIPOC kids exist in homes where they are not free or safe to express who they are. It's probably that some are living in the homes of some of the commenters who have said they support this plan.

These students come out to us because they believe they're in danger if they come out to you. Chew on that for a minute. They come to us in the schools because they have reason to believe they wouldn't be safe at home.

Do better. Support ALL students, even the ones you think are weird.


I support Governor Youngkin!!!!

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<p>I support Governor Youngkin!!!! God only created Man and Woman. Plain and simple. </p>
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OPPOSED

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Opposed to the LGBTQ agenda especially for children who are not old enough to make decisions like this. Let the parents have a say!


Oppose


Protect transgender kids; Educate Parents.

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In our culture of hate and rejection of our trans children this is not a helpful rollback.  We need WAYYY more education on transgender kids and gender dysphoria before "any old parent" can be trusted with this potentially deadly information about their child.  It is irresponsible not to consider the harm of this policy.

With regard to allowing a parent to “object before counseling services pertaining to gender are offered.”:

Constitutional right to privacy:

The 14th amendment grants equal civil and legal rights to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.,

In the case of Sterling vs the Borough of Minersville in which a police officer threatened to disclose a gay teens sexual identity to his parents and then the teen  committed suicide.  The mother sued on the grounds of forced disclosure of private matter.  The court ruled  that the law is clearly established that matters of personal intimacy are protected from threats of disclosure by the right to privacy. It was concluded that the policemen unconstitutionally deprived Marcus Wayman of his Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy.

Now that gender dysphoria has been deemed a protected diagnosis under the Americans with Disabilities act, it is against the law to not accommodate a transgender person with facilities matching their gender identity.

Hipaa law provides right to privacy from the parents based on the fact that certain circumstances may yield an enhanced interest in keeping minors’ health information from parents.  Unfortunately, schools are not a covered entity for Hipaa laws.

I would argue that Ferpa needs to be updated with a child consent clause as with Hipaa in order to preserve the right to privacy and protect from potential harm.  The adolescent privacy clause was added because children were having poor outcomes due to fear of disclosing certain medical issues to their parents.  Therefore the decision was made to make it optional for children to privately seek care without the knowledge of their parents.

 This decision was made in the interest of children’s safety.

The same applies to outing transgender kids’ identities to their parents.  Consider these statistics to understand the harm of this policy.

Trevor Project:

Fewer than 1 in 3 transgender and nonbinary youth found their home to be gender-affirming.

LGBTQ youth who found their school to be LGBTQ-affirming reported lower rates of attempting suicide

LGBTQ youth who live in a community that is accepting of LGBTQ people reported significantly lower rates of attempting suicide than those who do not.

UCLA School of Law study

50% of lgbtq teens get a negative reaction from their parents when they come out to them.

1 in 4 are forced to leave their homes after coming out

68% of teens have experienced family rejection after coming out.

We know that a supportive environment yields lower suicide rates and that teens can experience harm from their nonaccepting families with regard to their lgtbq identity.  Therefore the child should be able to decide if the parents are told their identity based on their knowledge of perceived safety of the parents.


Support

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I support the Governor with the rewrite of this legislation


Trans policy


Youngkin's policies are the right step towards sanity.

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<p>The liberal school system is brainwashing the children. Parents should know everything their children are being taught. God only created two sexes. God doesn't make mistakes. God didn't make a boy with female body parts and vice versa. They are trained to think this way by the extremist left. Males shouldn't be using girls bathrooms and vice versa. They shouldn't be competing in sports with each other either. The male is physically stronger, I don't care if he identifies as a girl. It will destroy girls sports.  Many young people have identity crisis at those young ages. What a person feels and what is true is not always the right pathway. Over a period of time feelings can change. If they get some sex change operation or hormonal injections they can really screw up their life permanently. They need proper guidance into what they were created to be. </p>


Strongly Support Thank you Governor for putting a moral compass in place

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Strongly support! Thank you Governor for keeping your promise and putting a moral compass in place!


Dont forget that WE ELECTED you bc we wanted you to PROTECT our children!

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<p>Parents rights ALWAYS </p>


Oppose

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Children, however immature they may be deemed by their parents, are people.  If there is anything they should have control over, it is their their identity.  The control that a parent's religious or personal views have on their child need to stop at actively harming their child.  This policy absolutely will lead to harming trans kids of all ages.  If trans kids do not receive support at home, they should at least be afforded support at school, especially since they must attend these schools by law.  By choosing some people's religious and personal freedoms, you are infringing on the freedoms of transgender children.

Contrary to what some parents believe, denying support to their trans children is not going to stop them from being transgender, in the same way that no teachers educating us about queerness prevented any of us from being queer.


TOTALL SUPPORT!

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<p>Our children  should not be used for political agendas! EVER. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I definitely oppose this legislation. This legislation is taking us back 50+ years. Let’s support our kids not make their existence difficult! </p>


Strongly Support the Policy -LGBQT, especially Transgenders are mentally ill individuals

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We need a policy to protect parents, teachers and other students from this mentally ill population that wants to destroy our society.  If they want to walk around confused and blame society for their problems so be it.  That is their choice but by God they are not going to infringe on our rights by trying to force teachers and students to go along with it.  It's wrong not to mention an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.


FIERCELY OPPOSED

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Don’t you have better things to do than bully children? Someone else’s gender presentation has nothing to do with you. Let them have their freedom of identity and leave them alone.


Support trans kids. Trans rights are human rights

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Support trans kids! Trans rights are human rights


Oppose

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This guidance hurts children. It legitimates bullying by adults--many of whom are in roles designed to protect children-- of some of the most vulnerable children in our society.

LGBTI youth already face danger at home from unaccepting parents and family members. LGBTI youth are only 5-10 percent of the population but represent 20-40% of the homeless youth population.

Transgender kids are also disproportionately likely to be victims of abuse. And gay and transgender youth are 8.4 times more likely to attempt suicide if they are rejected by their families in adolescence.

This guidance is hurtful and hateful. It is rooted only in fear-mongering bigotry that only serves to make our world darker and more hateful and drum up voters for politicians that have no constructive policy agenda.

Do better. Accept and protect kids.


Strongly support


Strongly Support transgender rights

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<p>I strongly support transgender rights. We all deserve to live our own lives. </p>


Proposed policies are harmful to kids

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


SUPPORT

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I strongly support this.


Bus Driver is wrong

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Both Youngkin and this policy are terrible. Plus he can’t drive.


Strongly Support

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<p>Support this Policy. </p>


Oppose


Strongly opposed

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I strongly oppose. Using our youth as political pawns by stoking fear is reprehensible.


Strongly Support!

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We need this so badly.  Parental rights are being eroded and we need to stop the government and the school's from taking control of our kids.  We the parents allow them to attend the public school to learn Reading, writing, math, science and social studies (the real truth, not the made up stuff) and learn how to get along with others.  We do not send them to be indoctrinated little political activists who work covertly with the school to keep things from their parents.  Please do more policy like this!!!


Strongly Oppose -. Supportive Schools Save Lives

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These "model policies" if enacted will contribute to the discrimination against and deaths of trans kids.  I am strongly opposed.


Opposed!!!

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Always been on the side of LGBTQ+


Strongly opposed

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Trans children need to be protected from bullying and prejudice.  Schools should be a safe place for children regardless of who they are or where they're from.  Yet, this proposed change will only remove that safety for trans children, which will allow trans children to be bullied, discriminated, and ostracized for who they are.  Trans children already go through a lot in regards to their identity and fitting in, so allowing more bullying and discrimination will only harm them more.

I get that not everyone understands the trans experience, even the children themselves aren't understanding of it at first.  Being transgender is scary.  You're uncomfortable.  You try to fit in to groups as your assigned gender but you just can't.  You hate the body you're in.  You look in the mirror and despise the image reflected.  Because that's not how you see yourself, not who you are inside.  What follows is depression, and potentially self-harm.

We should be accepting of different people.  We should be willing to reach out and learn, not reject others for not being "normal."  And we should be helpful, encouraging, and loving.  Because when we do, those people feel joy that they never had before.

This proposed change shoves that aside, and justifies parents' prejudices.  Parents may think they know what's best for their children, and often they do.  But when they are confronted with something they don't understand or agree with, some may choose to reject that, and enforce a sense of normalcy at the cost of the child's well-being.  You aren't protecting children, you're throwing them under the bus so you can protect adults from having to step out of their comfort zone.  For these reasons, I strongly oppose this policy.


Without a doubt, the dumbest policy ever introduced.  Every parent agrees we should support LGBTQ+


SUPPORT

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<p>I support this. </p>


School


Fiercely Opposed

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You're trying to do the opposite of what experts say keeps trans kids alive. You are advocating for and encouraging our children to die by suicide. None of this is for children, you are just trying to win the Hate Olympics for attention and power. Why are you okay with the death of children in your Commonwealth in exchange for a popularity contest?


WE STRONGLY SUPPORT

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<p>Only two genders! We absolutely support this! </p>


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose the proposed bill that would cause mental harm to students (children!) who do not identify as a binary gender or who are transgender. This is harmful to those children and bigoted.


Harmful policys will harm people!

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This policy will be harmful to so many young people, schools should be a place to grow explore who you are and what you want to be, caging people in by something as trivial as gender is useless, people will be who they are regardless of if they are agreed with by superior. This policy will hurt people, even possibly people who are not trans but maybe have friends or family who are. Harming a minority group of students is absolutely not the right course of action when it come to policies regarding school. Young students shouldn't be taught to hide who they are just to please others. Do better, for the sake of the youth.


Ummmmm…How about Noooo

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What are we reverting to, year 1880 Virginia or modern day Alabama?  We are better than this


Strongly Support. Don’t know how the other policy ever passed. This stuff is common sense.

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If parents want their kids to be able to change who they are then go through the court system and change their name. We have to be parents who listen to our kids but at the same time guide them. Once kids are done maturing, things change. Ever heard of phases.
When their adults they can make adult decisions.


Thinly veiled bigotry

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<p>This invasion of students privacy targets trans students based on transphobic rhetoric devoid of scientific research or basis. Youngkin and anyone who supports the bill are not doing this because they care about students, they’re doing this because they hate people who are different. A trans kid is 80% more likely to commit suicide not because they are changed their pronouns, but because of gender dysphoria, being outed against their will, societal pressures like hatred and bigotry, etc. If this law claims to be in the best interest of these kids, they would invest in better mental health services and combating anti LGBTQ hate. The law does the opposite because it has always been meant to serve the ignorant conservative parents by giving them all the power and privilege  to constrict their children into being someone they’re not. </p>


Oppose

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Oppose! Oppose! Oppose!


Dislike Younkin, but support this

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I don't agree with much of what Youngkin does, but I do agree that this is the right thing to do.


Oppose strongly

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I oppose this strongly.


Strongly oppose

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Strongly oppose. We should be promoting acceptance for everyone, instead of promoting accept for only people our opinion supports. I am also concerned over the increase in suicide in young children for being made to feel less than a human because they do not fit your mold. Imagine how you would feel if you were in their shoes.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>These proposed policies not only reject the previous language described in the 2021 policy, it rejects the ideals of LGBT people in general. As an educator and Masters candidate, our politicians really need to take a back seat in creating these harmful policies that surround students. You are not in the classroom. You should not be making decisions that are solely in the interest of parents that are so disconnected from their own children and their needs. These students are people too. The 2021 policies supported schools working together with parents and students to support the needs of trans students to reduce the violence, stigmas, and suicides that’s have continued to increase for this population of students. Trans students are not going away. We will not continue to shut them away from society and schools because of harmful policies such as these. </p>


Strongly Support, Please Halt Goofy Ideological Indoctrination

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I strongly support the rights of parents to teach their children, and have the community and school around them to NOT INTERFERE with teaching beliefs that conform to lived physical reality. The goofy ideological (in the original sense, meaning a worldview composed of the way things ought to be rather than the way things are) obfuscations dripping out of the  cesspool gutters we call tertiary education today do absolutely nothing to prepare children for the actual, unfortunately limited real world in which we all (unfortunately?) must reside.

Quite simply, parents at large are responsible for ensuring their children are prepared to deal with physical reality; therefore it is imperative we allow for their worldview, colored as it is by 20+ years of actually existing in reality, to be reflected best in their children's education.

Reality is hard and disappointing enough as it is. Please don't make it any harder.


Get A Life

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I oppose this reactionary policy.


I strongly oppose this guidance

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This guidance is horrific and is harmful to Virginia's youth. Our youth should be supported and this guidance does nothing but attack personal autonomy and privacy.


Youngkins new policy

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I am all for Youngkins new policy. Let the parents have the authority over their children. It's a overreach of power to allow the schools to act as the parents.


Strongly support!

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<p>Thankful for the new policies that give parents rightful control.  </p>


Protect and Respect ALL children

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I would like to oppose Gov. Youngkin's proposed changes to Virginia's guidance on district policies for transgender students. His proposal shows an appalling lack of knowledge about biology and human reproduction and disrespect for children and their parents who don't fit the narrow parameters his policies lay out. Instead of making Virginia welcoming state where all children are allowed to flourish, he wants the state to deny the full diversity of human beings. This is not the Virginia the people want and our children deserve.


Support in Favor of Change!

Loudoun County School Employee and Parent

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This is just a beginning. Schools need to focus on academics and preparing students to be successful in life. The county spends more time and effort on giving students the ability to deny their responsibilities and support those excuses. Children's poor behavior and disrespect for teachers and staff have been labeled as mental health issues. Parents should always know what is going on in the mind and behavior of their children. Moral values and respect start and are enforced at home. Parents should always be able to be involved in their son or daughter's daily struggles and successes. Therefore, schools should be responsible to inform parents of what is happening. Parents should always have final say in what is being taught in schools. I support Governor Youngkins changes and welcome more!


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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Strongly oppose this bill


Oppose

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I want to support all the kids who are gender non-binary. Especially those who are not getting support from their parents.


Vehemently oppose

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<p>Preying on the fears of parents to enforce discrimination against children is nothing short of despicable. This law protects no one and will harm or kill trans youth. </p>


Support parents rights

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<p>Support this policy. </p>


strongly support

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I strongly support the entire Gov. Youngkin school policy outlining protection for ALL children and at the same time re-instating the natural, God-given rights of the children's parents,,, and still giving those who chose to do so the ability to attain situational abilities. Every person (child) has a right to a certain amount of privacy in areas of the greatest exposure (restrooms and locker rooms), and to break any child's rights of privacy by giving special rights to ANYONE is against the constitution, not to mention immoral and dangerous. God Bless Gov. Youngkin !!


Supporting Governor Youngkin's 2022 Model Policies

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<p>Parents should always be involved in decisions regarding their children's wellbeing, whether it's education or physical and mental health issues. Parental rights don't end at the school door, and such important decisions need to be made by the family involved. </p>


Strongly oppose

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This bill will harm transgender children who do not have familIa or parental support.


There Is No Transgender

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<p>There are no transgender children or transgender parents.  There is no such thing as transgender.  There are males and there are females.  And because of how depraved our American society currently is, many of those children and/or parents experience or are pressured or manipulated or coerced into gender dysphoria.  Transgenderism is a denial of reality and basic human biology.  Those of you, even conservatives, who even use the term transgender for any human being are part of the problem, if even to a small degree.  You are capitulating to the terminology in the same way you capitulate to terms such as gay marriage and calling the murder of a preborn child an 'abortion'.  Parents who encourage or even allow their children to think of themselves as opposite of their biological sex are child abusers.  School boards and governments who even allow parents to decide on this are perpetuating child abuse.  There is no decision to make, either by the parent or the child.  God has made them either male or female.  Stop the abuse!  Stop the abuse of language!  Stop the abuse of children! </p>


Strongly AGREE a with this For parent /family policy

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<p>Thank you Gov Youngkin for putting these policy changes forth.  Parents voices decisions should absolutely be considered and given the highest importance. These policies will protect our children as that is the first and foremost desire of parents. We so appreciate you  standing for pro family parent children policies. </p>


Opposed to Youngin’s policies re: LGBTQ+ Kids

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I’m writing because I strongly OPPOSE Youngkin's awful policies about LGBTQ kids in public school.


Strongly Opposed

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<p>As a sibling of a non-binary person I believe this will harm many transgender and non-binary students with non supportive parents or guardians. </p>


Strongly support this common sense policy to protect ALL children

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Thank you Governor Youngkin for delivering on campaign promises and protecting ALL of our children!


Model Policies for Transgender Students - STOP THE FEAR

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One’s sex at birth is determined by those present viewing and judging visible external genitalia, not by a chromosome test. Others’ opinions of a baby’s genitals should not be weighted more than than the person’s own feelings in life about who they are.  That includes parents, who have wishes, hopes, agendas of their own for their children’s lives.

Biology has revealed combinations more and varied than the simple and widely-known XX or XY. It is time for society to catch up to science and allow students to define themselves as they are. There is no harm in having someone addressed as this or that as they wish, if they change their mind later in life. However, not being allowed to be called as they need - or being outed to others - can be detrimental.

Stop the fear-mongering.


Strongly opposed, land of the free!

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<p>This is the land of the free, freedom will reign no matter governs, strongly opposed! </p>


Protect trans youth

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Many young trans people aren’t accepted at home or are scared to be themselves around family, which is why it’s vital that they have access to a support system at schools. Youngkins policies will cause irreparable damage  to trans kids and teenagers, putting them in danger of being outed at home and could lead to increasing the already high number of cases of depression and suicide. It’s absolutely disgusting that peoples human rights are being argued over, trans rights are human rights and they deserve as much respect and decency as everyone else.


Transgender

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Need to go back to what schools used to be , normal. All should know what gender they born and  should remain that way for life. School is for teaching not for chaging names and sexes. We use to say pledge to flag every day and things worked great. Took God out of schools and now look at mess we got . Parents need to be parents and keep up with things children are being taught in schools, not up to state to decide this. Not being taught hoe to write just print everything is crazy.


strongly oppose

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Stop bullying trans kids.


Strongly Oppose

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I am a transgender Virginian from the heart of the southwest. For over two years, I have participated in support of antidiscrimination in my region and spoke out a year ago when multiple counties failed to adopt Virginia Department of Education policies. However, these counties ultimately adopted Virginia School Board Association guidelines, showing that nondiscrimination is truly the way forward. This can be seen in multiple Virginia district court cases already such as Grimm v. Gloucester. Governor Youngkin's as a way backward for all Virginians, especially myself.


Standing for Parent's Rights

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<p>Parents have a right to decide what their children learn about in school. Sexual confusion should not be pushed on our children. They are there to learn, not get indoctrinated by leftist causes. </p>


Trans girls are girls. No boys are currently allowed in girls' bathrooms except trans boys.

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The only rapes that will take place in a girls' bathroom will be toxic cis men. NOT transgender little girls trying to pee in peace. Get the government outta their pants!


Strongly Oppose

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governor,

 taking away childrens rights? Leave these individuals alone!! They have gone through so much self discovery and taking away their rights is cruel. Why do you care so much if this literally does not affect your personal life at all? Just wondering :)

be nicer,

concerned VA resident


Reasonable and fair - support

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<p>It’s just reasonable! He’s not saying trans don’t have rights. But just putting reasonable guidelines on how to balance EVERYONE’S rights. </p>


SUPPORT!  There are ONLY 2 genders... THAT'S A FACT!

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Parents have every right to know what their children are being taught in school, and to expect that schools are teaching academics... and not gender ideology.  The facts speak for themselves... there are only 2 genders.  The rest of the world does not have to play a game and "pretend" that you are something that you are not!  If you want to "pretend" that you're something that you're not, by all means, no one will stand in your way and we will even support your choice for yourself.  However, don't force your "fairy tale" ideology on our children.  They, too, deserve to make that decision for themselves and without being force-fed ideological thought!


Thanks for supporting Parents

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Gov. Youngkin and Lt. Governor Sears-Thank you for supporting the parents rights and protecting our students against the radical gender and sexuality issues that had been introduced into our schools. I support the restoration of parent's rights and children's privacy and safety rights.


Strongly Oppose!!! Get the government out of family business!

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<p>Parents have sufficient rights in our state. They are welcome to collaborate with any educator in their school division and do. This measure does not expand their rights. This measure expands the responsibilities of teachers, and unfairly burdens them with the task of policing gender identity. This is not the job of school teachers, nor the state. Teachers are not medical professionals, nor are most employees of our government leadership. Neither are they qualified to determine how gender identity impacts students negatively or positively. Therefore, it is absolutely appalling to expect teachers to police gender identity, and unfairly expose trans/queer/gay students to harsh judgement and unacceptable scrutiny. </p>


Strongly support Youngkin

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This just makes sense! We support you, Youngkin!


Strongly oppose! Trans rights are human rights!

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Protect these kids! They deserve a safe space to go to school. Strongly oppose!


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


STRONGLY SUPPORT — Protects students, does not deny trans identity, supports parent rights.

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<p>STRONGLY SUPPORT — Parents should raise children, not schools. Does not deny trans students to be who they are. Encourages communications and understanding between student and parent. Protects non trans students as well as trans. </p>


Strongly OPPOSE

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<p>Trans children have rights, and the Gov should not infringe upon, or have any say in that. If passed, this will be extremely detrimental to the mental well-being of our trans children. Students are walking out all over the state in opposition to this. Listen to our children, and stop pushing this hatred. Trans rights are HUMAN RIGHTS. </p>


Strongly support

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<p>Our kids need us parents during these tough years of their lives. Sometimes they don’t see it but it’s our job to help them. </p>


protect trans rights

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PROTECT TRANS RIGHTS. Trans Rights are basic human rights and this law would strip away basic human rights.


Stop the indoctrination. Support


Strong Support for Youngkin

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<p>I am grateful for this policy change and look forward to more common sense policy changes from Youngkin. </p>


How many rapes is needed to keep penis out of girls bathroom?

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Stop the rapes and keep sports fair.


STRONGLY STRONGLY SUPPORT!

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Utilizing federal, state, or local policing agencies to intimidate parents is absolute lunacy. A child under the age of 18 has NO business making life and body altering decisions without parental consent or inclusiom what so ever. You DO NOT change the body style of a car because you don't like the steering wheel! At what point do you emotional lunatics grow up?! How many children want to be puppies?! Are you idiots going to allow children to alter their bodies with surgey so they can have fur, long ears and tails?! PARENTS are responsible for THEIR CHILDREN NOT ANY ESTABLISHMENT, BUREAUCRAT, OR TEACHER! Children do not belong to the village, they belong to their parents/family. This is NOT nazi germany where the bureacracy gets to control the lives of children outside the awareness or permission of the parents. What you emotionally driven morons are doing indoctrinating children is absolutely shameful! You supporters of 'trans' children should be deeply ashamed of yourselves indoctrinating children like the nazis did...shame on all of you!


Transgender Rights are Human Rights!

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<p>This policy is unacceptable.  LGBTQ+ have rights just like everyone else.  </p>


Support. Stop allowing this to happen

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<p>Stop the indoctrination </p>


KEEP SCHOOLS SAFE FOR ALL CHILDREN

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If you care about children so much like with the prolife debates then you would know doing this could increase the risk for suicide and abuse for trans children. This isn’t about protecting kids and parents rights, this is about making it harder for non-cishet people to feel comfortable.


Stop discrimination and hate

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<p>These changes are unnecessary.  They are malicious and serve no purpose except to harm children.  </p>


Strongly support parents rights

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<p>I support the right of parents to decide what they want the school system to discuss anything concerning transgender individuals. I support Governor Youngkin in his support of parents. Governor Yougnkin was elected because of the previous administrations support of transgender people and their abortion stance. We need to change the General Assembly in order to reverse a lot of regulations that Northam and his cronies passed. </p>


As a retired teacher I SUPPORT this stance.

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About time, parents who have to support money wise their kids they should control education not so called experts who are have been brain washed by the democRATS in the colleges and universities.


Strongly Support

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<p>Give them a separate bathroom. Stop making the 99% uncomfortable by accommodating the 1% </p>


Keep the 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools

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I am writing to say that I DO NOT support the 2022 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.  It is very clear that the 2022 document is written with only one point of view in mind - it does not cite a majority of the legislation that is cited in the 2021 document. So it is clear to me that the 2022 changes are intended to represent only one point of view by considering and presenting only one set of legislation; the legislation that supports its point.  Our elected and appointed officials are capable of considering multiple points of view and finding a balance. The 2022 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools  appears to lack that balance. Specifically, section V Development, Item C seems completely bias.  Also local schools should have the ability to opt out of this state policy and develop their own.  Just as parents differ in their views, so do the various regions of the Commonwealth, and the counties within those regions.  If the Commonwealth is going to recognize the rights of parents, then schools (those organizations closest to their communities, in so many ways) should also have rights in this process.  Please go back to the 2021 document and at least make an attempt to show that you are working toward a common ground between that and the 2022 document, versus what currently appears to be a 2022 policy intended to appease a specific constituency.

Thank you for taking my comment.


Opposed to policy and opposed to you

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This isn't the good ole boys era and it never was at any point in Virginia history. LGBTQIA+ folks are human, have a heart, and bleed the same as you and I do. Don't make them feel less or make them less in anyway. I've seen people in the LGBTQIA+ Community suffer enough from people and I do not want to witness that ever again, especially from a government body. We will prevail, we will protest, we will succeed! People Before Policy!


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>So many trans kids in Virginia are going to be hurt by this. Governor Youngkin doesn't care about "parents' rights" - he's just being homophobic and transphobic. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE!

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<p>I strongly oppose this proposed policy. This proposal would create a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment for our VA transgender and nonbinary youth, requiring teachers and staff to forcibly “out” students. </p>


Strongly Opposed

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This policy will only perpetuate the discrimination and inequality that LGBTQIAP+ children face on a day to day basis.  If children who identify as LGBTQIAP+ prefer to be called by a separate name and pronoun, then we should respect their wishes.  Regardless of sexual orientation or identity, our children look to us to set an example.  When you take away their rights, you show you value them less than others, and as a representative for ALL of the people this is unacceptable!

Governor you need to refocus on the bigger issues in this state and leave our children alone!


Strongly opposed

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As a parent of a child in public school, I completely oppose this proposed policy. Schools are, at their core, devised to educate and benefit students - not parents. Children should feel safe within their own schools and able to distinguish themselves as they see fit. I cannot understand the state’s interest in regulating what a child calls himself or herself - or its interest in “outing” a child’s desires to parents. This is placing yet another interventionist burden upon educators to fulfill an even larger role than already mandated by the fact of being an educator for children: under this proposed guidance educators must be playing the intermediary between parents and their own children. If a parent needs to have a conversation with their child about their chosen pronouns, it is not the role of the state government to interject itself into this discussion. Pandering to claims of “parents rights” about issues that the state has zero interest in enforcing is a cynical and wrongheaded approach to politics that will stain Virginia’s public schools for decades.


I STAND WITH GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN!!

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<p> I respect parents' rights to be the primary decision maker for THEIR child.  I believe that we are free to choose our system of belief but NOT encouraged or enforced from the government or school system!</p>


Strongly support

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<p>Parents get to say what happens in schools, not school boards or governments. </p>


Strongly Oppose!


Protect our students including LGBTQ+, school should be safe place

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I am strongly opposed to Youngkin's proposal for Virginia Public Schools.  Looks like a political stunt, not something that actually addresses any problem.  But actually has very real negative consequences for some students.  I agree with this fellow Virginian's thoughts that I pasted below:

It is human nature for people to be fearful of the unknown. The CDC estimates that only 1.4% of people under 18 identify as transgender and many parents across the commonwealth that are supportive of this effort have never met or interacted with a transgender individual. This policy is a clear attack on the rights and safety of the trans community, fueled by the Governor's anti-LGBTQ agenda. It is also clear from the data the ability to be identified by one's desired name and pronouns is not an issue for Virginians today. The Governor's decision to take away protections from a vulnerable group of his citizens is not motivated by any policy debate or any pressing issue the commonwealth faces, but as a fear-mongering effort to drive a wedge in a cultural issue and generate more anger among his supporters that desperately need more education on the transgender community.

It is disheartening that the Governor values his 2024 presidential campaign and drawing attention to himself on Fox News more than the safety, health, and wellbeing of students that he was elected to lead. Not to mention - the students he is using to score political points are some of those most desperately in need additional health services. Transgender youth are over 40% more likely to develop depression and anxiety-related mental health conditions compared to their cisgender peers. Numerous studies have found that schools and families providing gender-affirming care can reduce suicide and mental health conditions for transgender youth by as much as 60%. The Governor's proposed policy is not in the best interest of Virginia's students and will cause significant harm to a vulnerable group.

I am strongly opposed to this policy that implements a model that will take away protections and rights for transgender students and will cause significant harm to the trans community. I hope that the Governor will shift his focus to more pressing matters faced in Virginia instead of his forthcoming 1% finish in the 2024 Iowa caucus.


Opposed!


Support--Parents should be in charge

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No one knows their child better than the child's parents.  Stop the nonsense.


Parents rights for their kids ! This is the healthy & safe way


Strongly oppose. Trans rights are human rights!

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Model policies section D begins "Every effort should be made to ensure that a transgender student wishing to change his or her means of address is treated with respect, compassion, and dignity in the classroom and school environment". This is a wonderful statement that I wholly endorse. It is then immediately contradicted. No policy can encourage respect, compassion, and dignity toward trans students while also denying them the right to choose how they should be addressed and treated by their educators and peers.

This is a plain attack on transgender students poorly disguised as an attempt to give parents agency over their children's education. In the matter of a person's sexual orientation and gender identity, there is no agency that can be given. It lies wholly with the individual in question and cannot be changed by parents or legislators.

This policy has been proposed in the wake of baseless fearmongering about one of the most marginalized and abused groups of people in our country. It is contributing to an atmosphere of hate and ignorance in a disgusting attempt to score political points. It is despicable.

I oppose the implementation of any policies based off of this model. If implemented it will lead to disastrous outcomes for a group of students already facing discrimination and hate from many of their peers, educators, and sadly, parents. It is yet another attempt to chip away at the civil rights and liberties won in the last century and it must be opposed for the sake of not only transgender students, but all Americans who currently enjoy those liberties.


Absolutely Opposed

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<p>I am in opposition of this policy. This is not inclusive. Leave the kids alone. </p>


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STRONGLY OPPOSE AND WILL MOVE TO PRIVATE SCHOOL IF PASSES.

VOTING YOU OUT!


Trans Rights are Human rights- STRONGLY OPPOSE!!

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<p>I am vehemently opposed to Gov. Youngkin’s transphobic, dangerous and discriminatory policy changes.  This type of misguided hatred is based on ignorance and fear.  Trans students are just as deserving of respect and dignity as any other student.  Not all parents are open minded and supportive sadly, and these policies will put students in dire harm and make them more vulnerable.  Students/children should be able to be who they are without fear of repercussions from ill informed and judgmental adults.  I support Trans rights and trans students belong in all places, including public schools.  Please if you don’t know anything, seek out someone who can explain what it means to be trans, open your eyes, your mind, and your heart.  You will find out that trans folks just want to live and be able to be themselves without people like Youngkin making false and hateful claims about them,  </p>


Thank you Governor Youngkin!

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This is compassionate to transgender students and yet still supports parental rights to raise their children.  People who oppose this obviously haven't read the proposed 2022 language and probably don't have children in the system. My child is in private school because I am afraid of the indoctrination, but I hope to have her in public school as she becomes a little older. Those who do not have the same means as my family are forced to contend with public schools impinging on their parental rights. This proposed language brings back autonomy to the parents, especially when it comes to teachers potentially unduly grooming children without any knowledge by the parents. Some parents may be dismissive, but this happened to my friend's daughter! Thank you for mandating that parents be notified if their children express gender dysphoria or want to change their pronouns. I highly support this proposed change!


Strongly Support

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This issue is one that parents must be involved in for their children. Too often now we see total strangers wanting to have control over our children and major decisions they may make. Decisions that can have effects on for their entire lives. As a trained Human Geneticist with advanced degree, I see decisions being forced on children by some in our society claiming a scientific genetic basis when much is actually a mental process that is greatly influenced by external social pressures. Is is unthinkable that parents would not be involved and aware. Those that want to by pass parental involvement in my opinion should not be allowed to interact with children or young adults.


Outstanding! Parental rights are paramount!

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<p>It's sad that we have to write into law what is already a given! There will always be evil that seeks to destroy the family unit. This world, our world has no place for such tyranny and bigotry. It's no secret that the Trans community members and supporters need psychological help, guidance, counsel, and comprehensive clinical diagnosis. But the parents are the first tier in that effort. </p>


Against policy

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<p>everyone deserves equal rights </p>


Support Governor Youngkin

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<p>I fully support our Governor’s rewriting and upholding basic common sense laws. Male and female - follow the science. There are actually no trans anything. It’s all a lie. Wake up America </p>


Trans rights are human rights

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<p>Trans rights are human rights. Our kids deserve better. Strongly oppose bigoted transphobic laws. </p>


Oppose

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Governor Younkin, other States and Commonwealths are losing inward migration, entrepreneurship, university students, and corporate locations due to policies like this. Why would you do this to our economy? We need jobs, not politics. Don't you think it's time to start putting Virginia first?


protect trans kids

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This law is abhorrent. Everyone should have a right to live their lives as they want, even as kids and teens. It's very cruel to force these people out of the closet and to put them in danger. Transgender youth have incredibly high rates of suicide and mental health issues; are their lives worth bigoted views on their existence?


Strongly Support!!!

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Thank you Governor Youngkin!


Strongly opposed to Student transgender policy


I don’t care what you think, I will do what I want.

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<p>Talk to the hand girlfriend </p>


Strongly support Gov Youngkin education policy

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<p>Strongly support Gov Youngkin's education policy on parental rights </p>


Gender Policy in schools

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<p>I am in full agreement with Gov Youngkin on this new policy. Parents should have the only say in their child's health and education. </p>


Student transgender policy


Against this policy

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Believe we are heading in the wrong direction with policy change.


Very Strongly Opposed

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Trans children are already at risk of suicide and extreme stress due to their status; restricting their rights further only serves to put them in greater danger, without any credible basis to do so.


Stronly Support


Strongly opposed

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<p>Leave trans kids alone. Shame on Youngkin for the bigotry and furthering his own political aspirations on hatred. </p>


oppose cuz this is the dumbest idea anyones ever had

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<p>this policy is anti-trans and has nothing to do with students parents. you are killing transgender students and most likely putting them in danger by outing them. </p>


Strongly opposed

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Leave trans alone. The bigotry and pearl clutching is mind-boggling.


Trans rights are human rights!

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<p>Trans students deserve to be safe at school. Denying them their identity increases the chances of teen suicide, depression, and a lot of other physical and mental health issues. When those rates increase in our state, that will be on your hands, Governor. </p>


I appreciate this guidance document allows parents so they can help their children think about issue

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I appreciate that this 2022 Youngkin administration guidance document allows parents so they can help their children think about issues especially transgender and sexuality topics which are being discussed and pressured on kids in social media and among their peers.  It is good for kids to look to their parents for wisdom about their thoughts.  The former document kept parents out of the loop.

I agree with the updated language that acknowledges students and teachers can’t be forced into compelled speech that violates their constitutional rights, including First Amendment and religious freedom protections.

I agree with the updated language that empowers schools to make their own decisions on how to best protect kids—especially when it comes to protecting vulnerable students in a state of undress in locker rooms or overnight sleeping quarters for school field trips.

Please use these updated 2022 model policies as written without removing any of the key protections to restore parental involvement in the process and protect children’s privacy and safety rights.


OPPOSSED - PROTECT TRANS KIDS

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This is going to kill transgender kids. This talks all about how much its to strengthen "parent/kid relations" and how its to discourage discrimination. THIS IS DISCRIMINATION. So many trans kid do not have a safe home environment and forcing them to come out in those environments is going to get them killed. Suicide rates amongst trans kids already high and climbing. These kids rights are not something to debate, they deserve to be safe and be themselves instead their lives are being put at stake. It is not your right to discuss a person's identity or force them to be someone they're not. Being trans isn't something these kids should have to be ashamed of or forced to hide and yet everyday so many have to. PROTECT TRANS KIDS!


Strongly support!  Parental rights are de facto.

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More diabolic attacks on the family. Parental rights are de facto. Ridiculous to think otherwise.  And there are only 2 genders, male and female.  Deal with it.


Worst Policy Ever!

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Even I wouldn’t have thought up a policy this bad!


Transgender policy/ Strongly Oppose

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To the Governors Transgender policy I am Strongly Opposed!


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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<p>Trans youth are targets for harassment and commonly struggle with depression and suicidal ideation resulting from the reactionary social alienation they experience for expressing their identities. I strongly oppose any policy which will reinforce these behaviors, which are the domain of bullies whose parents didn't raise them right, not school officials employed to cultivate an open and safe environment conducive to the education of all </p>


Strongly oppose

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Strongly oppose.  Please keep Trans rights and privacy intact


Very strongly opposed

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This policy is not only wrong. But will also make those whom have already transitioned from one gender to another to use the same bathroom as their original gender if they are not 'legally trans'. It will also just be a really jerk move. Our community didn't bother you as a whole so why are we being affected in this way? Sorry if some kid in the LGBTQ said something to offend you. But don't be the teacher who doesn't let the class go to recess because one kid did something slightly off. This is the new world, so either get with it or get gone.


Opposed

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So much word padding to distract from the fact that these policies will only do more harm to transgender people, especially the youth. Hugely disappointing that this is even being considered in a genuine matter - nothing but a load of bigotry and trying to silence the already struggling. "Necessary compassion and respect for all students" is nothing but a load of bull and is only used to slide under the noses of the Virginian citizens who genuinely care for our children. I would say that all associated with conceptualizing this bill should be ashamed but they know what they're doing.


Strongly opposed

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I will never understand the mindset of treating a vulnerable group of people (or any person) this way, much less students that we should be supporting.


Strongly Oppose

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


Strongly support

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This policy makes perfect sense to me and does not infringe on anyone’s rights.  Protect parents rights.


The transgender bathroom ban undermines the liberty of Virginia's students

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The proposal under Glenn Youngkin's department of education is attempting to strip the transgender youth of Virginia of rights meant to protect their health and safety. The department has given no justification as to how rolling back these protections would benefit children in Virginia schools, or how it would benefit Virginia as a whole.

Rolling back these protections would not give any benefit to those not in the transgender community, but it will bring unnecessary harm to the already marginalized community. These proposed changes are founded on the preposterous concept that allowing trans individuals to choose which bathroom they can use will lead to widespread sexual assaults. There has been no epidemic of this nature, nor will there be.

Virginia has had a long history of transgender individuals, going back to Thomas(ine) Hall in the era of colonial Virginia. They have been under scrutiny in this region for nearly 400 years, it's time that the transgender community is given agency on where they can go, and what they can do with their own bodies.


Strongly support Parent Rights!!

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<p>Thank you for all you’re doing to protect parent rights. Parents should be in the know of what’s going on with their children within the school setting especially. We strongly support and hope that school boards across the common wealth are made to follow what Governor Younkin has in place. </p>


Strongly support

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Strongly support. End the madness!


OPPOSE

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Students should be allowed to make their own decisions so they can become functioning members of society. Forcing schools to out LGBTQ+ students will also cause safety issues for those with parents who are not supportive.


Strongly Oppose

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I am a Listened Virginia High School Counselor. I work with all matter of students who have the right to seek a safe and free public education without the fear of repercussions of discriminatory actions.

As a school counselor I have vowed to uphold the values of do no harm. This policy is harmful to the confidentially between that of a counselor and student and that does harm. In the court of law there are protected relationships one between that of a person and their pastor and a person and their counselor. What this policy say is that it will not protect the confidentially of a counselor-student relationship only for those students not identifying male or female cisgender human beings. This harms the trust that counselors, teachers, and administrators build with all students. And is a slippery slope, if we can take the right to confidentiality away from one group what stops us from taking more and more rights from us all. It means that parents who do not know that their children identify as transgender can be opened up to abuse and homelessness. Is that what you want? More children on the street? I should hope not!

As a citizen of the United States and a believer in upholding democracy for all human beings, no one has more right to education, safety, and fair treatment than the other. These kind of policies and laws are the continuation of systemic oppression.

This anti-trans policies are not modeling appropriate behavior for our state's youth who will go on to lead us in the future making decisions that will one day affect our own health and rights. It is with fairness and equity for all, that I hope our students learn to make decisions that respect and honor all variations of humans that walk this earth. It is important to remember that in all things there is a spectrum. Binary thinking has gotten us into a lot of trouble, pain and generated trauma and oppression for many generations. We have an opportunity to do better and this policy is not "doing better". This is a step backward for our state.

Let us not forget our beautiful state motto "Sic Semper Tyrannis" and fight against such tyranny that attempts to take away rights, safety, and not allow us to live with justice and freedom for all. If this policy goes through maybe you should change the pledge of alliance that we say everyday in school systems to "freedom and justice for only those who are straight, cisgender people." You can also to expect a continued mass exodus of good teachers and counselors from the Virginia Public Education system.


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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Leave these kids alone! Some parents are not supportive of their kids going by different pronouns or names so why make things worse for kids with unsupportive parents? Shame on Youngkin! Focus on important things instead of what pronouns the kids are going by and maybe Virginia would be a tiny bit better.


Opposed

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<p>These proposed policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids. With a kid in public school, I can tell you there are so many things wrong with our schools, when will we start focusing on improving the quality of education instead of stigmatizing kids? </p>


Opposed

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<p>I am opposed to the changes to the protections of our trans children.  </p>


Strongly Oppose

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Children deserve respect in their place of learning. This policy will cause discrimination against children. It is bullying. Please do not enact this policy.


Gender Policy in Schools

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We are in favor of the changes in the policy .  Parents must be involved in decisions or accommodations for their children who are still in their formative years.


Support


VDOE model by Gov Youngkin

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<p>I strongly support this and its been exhausting trying to fight against this the last 4 years. Its refreshing to finally have some common sense placed back into our school system. This will be a never ending battle. </p>


Trans Students Deserve to be Safe

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<p>As a transgender person who attended Virginia schools and believes in freedom and safety for all students, I strongly oppose the proposed guidelines from Governor Youngkin’s administration. This is a violent proposition that deliberately puts transgender students in danger and violates the freedoms citizens of Virginia, the United States and sets a despicable global example, when our state is known for its diversity and innovation. </p>


Oppose Fascist Youngkin, Trump puppet

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<p>Impeach the little troll. Oppose this oppressive measure that forces kids to be outed and endangers them. What deranged individual wants a kid to attempt suicide? You’re sick if you support this, and you are a danger to kids and queer people. </p>


Defend parents rights


Strongly Support - Thank you!

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Looks like there are oppositional comments from the same people or bots. Governor you were elected to uphold strong pro-family, conservative values. Please don't let the likes of the minority view dissuade you from fully re-writing the policy to protect traditional America values within our schools, our state, and our country. God made people male and female, female and male He made them. It's so sad when confused children choose to change how God made them. Please do not give into this demonic talk of supporting policies that encourage ungodly behavior. If people choose an alternate lifestyle, let it be outside of the school house not encouraged within the school house. Thank you. May God bless you and provide you the courage to do what is right even when it's hard to do.


Strongly opposed

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This policy discriminates. That’s because you’re a homophobe.