Model Policies for Transgender Students

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<p>The 2022 Model Policy is the correct Scientific Policy to use. Regardless of how one decides to identify, there is one fact that stands true throughout a person's lifetime: If you are born with an XX Chromosome (a female) or an XY Chromosome (a male), you will die with the same...  </p>


GAYS AGAINST GROOMERS

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Hey leftists- how many regretful children with mutilated bodies would it take for you to realize that they have been groomed into that lifestyle?

The detransition phase has already begun...


Fully Support the new Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Schools

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As a trained teacher, I fully support the new Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.  Our children do not belong to the state.  They belong to their parents and their parents are responsible for their education, upbringing, and values.  Parents may choose to send their children to public schools, or they may choose to send their children to private schools.  But our current system is biased towards the public school system due to the way our tax dollars are spent for education.  I also fully support policies where the education dollars follow the students which allows for school choice.


STRONGLY OPPOSE.

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<p>Absolutely, irrevocably harmful policy. There is absolutely zero good reason to implement such a policy. It is discriminatory in nature, and will be discriminatory in application. It is an overreach of power to police the way that students identify themselves in schools. Unnecessary, harmful, and hateful measure written in bad faith and with a hateful end goal. </p>


Please govern by the Golden Rule. Oppose this guidance.

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One of the most important principles is to treat others the way you would like to be treated. Please take a moment to put yourself into the shoes of a vulnerable kid who does not feel like they fit into the normal standards we all impose as a society. You take the courage to come out and tell your community about yourself, and now your government is telling you that you are wrong or somehow not OK. This devastating situation occurs thousands of times a year here in Virginia and leads to bullying, physical abuse, assault, and suicide. Please, please, please reconsider this policy.

Sincerely,

David Mellor

Charlottesville, Virginia


STRONGLY OPPOSE.


Transgender Policy of Governor Youngkin

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<p>School is for teaching like it used to be. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Stop with the "feelings" of a very few. Don't discriminate but don't force everyone to comply. </p>


Approve of Policy Return to Parent Control

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Protecting parents rights as well as encouraging parent/child relationships is way more important than the school inserted themselves into family decisions. This policy allows parents and their child to decide what works for them and THEN includes the school. Pushing an agenda and claiming it is the best interest of the child is a dangerous generalization. No one knows their child better than their parents and this policy if parent run first.


Transgender Policy

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I strongly disagree with Youngkin’s proposed policy.  These children are trying to find out who they are and if they are not getting support at home during their discovery process they need another adult be it at school, church, etc. to help them.  Without an environmental where they can discover without criticism, bullying or  threats these kids will become anxious, depressed and even suicidal.  Children need to grow up to be themselves whoever that might be not the version of themselves someone else wants them to be.           I hope someone is going to track the suicide rate after this policy goes into effect.  I can guarantee it will rise.  Parents need to wake up and truly be there for their kids regardless of who they are.  God loves all of us.


I oppose Youngkin's guidance for 2022 Model Policies

As an educator, mentor, community leader, and director of a youth arts organization in the city of Richmond, I wholeheartedly oppose Youngkin's 2022 MODEL POLICIESON THE PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGINIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and want the VDOE to reject them. Hate does not belong in Virginia schools – trans and non-binary students deserve the safety to thrive, no matter where they are.

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As an educator, mentor, community leader, and director of a youth arts organization in the city of Richmond, I wholeheartedly oppose Youngkin's 2022 MODEL POLICIES
ON THE PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGINIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and want the VDOE to reject them. Hate does not belong in Virginia schools – trans and non-binary students deserve the safety to thrive, no matter where they are.


"Trans" people and "trans" rights

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Protect children from the abusive left who destroy literally everything they touch.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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As a recent graduate from the Virginia K-12 public school system, I am heartbroken to see that the safe learning environment I grew up with is being threatened for so many others. VDOE will fail to do its duty to produce the next generation of “engaged and enlightened citizens” (as is its mission) by keeping all Virginia students from being themselves and learning about all different types of people.


Vehemently Oppose

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Please don't attempt to put Virginia on the wrong side of history.  I know the governor is doing this for the people who voted for him and 'parent rights', but NONE of that will trump civil rights of the individual.  Stop acting like you know what's best for individuals and let them live their lives the way they see fit.  No one gets to tell someone who they are.  This will waste tax payer money on law suits that will arise and the state WILL lose.  All the issues we face and this is what he's worried about?  Stop.  Just stop.  Let the kids be who they are authentically and unapologetically.  If this passes, kids will die, they will commit suicide and it will push us back decades.


Opposed to this policy

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<p>As a Virginian and a parent I am horrified by this policy. By framing the issue as one of “ideology” and “free speech” the administration ignores the impact on the affected children. The proposed policies do nothing to protect children but target them instead. Moreover, the proposed policies fly in the face of guidance from the American Medical Association, the American Society of Pediatrics, and the American Psychiatric Association. This policy must not be enacted. </p>


Terrible Policy

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I oppose this guidance. It is 2022. Let’s act like it.


Strongly SUPPORT

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This is just basic biology, which is what school is supposed to be teaching. We don't ask the frog what sex it feels like before we dissect it. If someone has a mental illness where he or she believes he or she is the opposite sex, it's a mental illness. Anything else is a lie. Don't lie to children.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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My name is Andrew Joseph White—I am a lifelong resident of Virginia, a transgender man, and a New York Times bestselling author of stories for transgender teens. However, I will not write a book here. I will keep this short.

Usually, I would spend this space explaining how policies like these will do immeasurable harm to transgender children. But with how long that has been common knowledge, the only possible explanation for supporting these policies is that you are aware of this and are okay with it. Maybe that’s even what you’re aiming for.

I strongly oppose this policy. Let our children exist.

Please contact me for further comment.


Strongly oppose

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<p>As a former teacher, I strongly oppose this proposal. We need to support children in who they are and make them feel comfortable and safe to learn at school. </p>


protect trans kids

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<p>Being a transgender/lgbt student is hard enough with the bullying, pushback, and ignorance of your peers. Having these new rules put in place will only make these kids lives worse. no kid wants to go to school where they have a safe space and now have to be called by the wrong name or misgendered because some old white man who knows nothing about being trans said it just has to be this way. many trans kids suffer from depression and have dealt with or are dealing with  with suicidal thoughts or self harm these policies will only make these things worse and will drive many kids to suicide weather they have thought about it before or not. dont intentionally drive kids to kill themselves, you should want to protect them. </p>


Governor's Guidance Document on Transgener - I Support Parental Rights

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<p>This is common sense and parents should have this role not "the state".  We are talking about children here and just as the legal drinking age is age 21, this is because the individual brain is not fully developed (reasoning and judgement) until age 21.  The same comparison can be made with transgender children.  While conversations and talk therapy should take place there should be no actual sexual change that occurs during this time.  Parents should be the ones to make those decisions along with their children.  School systems should stay out of this aspect of child rearing.  I am very glad that my children have long since graduated from Fairfax Country schools.  I also oppose the social [re-]engineering that has been taking place is Fairfax County schools.   </p>


RE:  2022 MODEL POLICIES ON THE PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGIN

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My initial reaction is that the majority of people who oppose this Model Policies Guidance Document have not read it. I have read the entire 20 pages. The policies are upheld by many court decisions (including the USSC), the Code of VA, the US Constitution, and the VA Constitution. This change is NOT discriminating against transgender, LGBTQ, etc., students. It is protecting ALL students. It is allowing accommodations for ALL students. It is protecting the rights and the roles of parents. These children belong to the PARENTS who birthed or adopted them; they do NOT belong to the government nor to the school boards. As a school bus driver, I see and hear the effects of the dangerous ideologies being forced into our lives every day. It is past time for us to stand against the attempts to indoctrinate (i.e., brainwash) children into ideologies that they should not even know about yet; to stand against the efforts to gain control over and essentially steal children away from their families; and to remove parents from the equation entirely.

One major reason that Gov. Youngkin was elected is that he recognized what was happening to parents, to families, and how it was negatively affecting the children. He knew the damage being done and knew where it could and would lead. I hope and pray that Gov. Youngkin stands strong in his efforts to save the children, and to save the schools from themselves. I hope and pray this Guidance Document passes.

And I hope that people will actually read the entire thing before passing judgment on it, rather than getting their information solely from unreliable media sources.


Strongly oppose the cruel proposed changes in policy, which will increase risk of harm to kids

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I am dismayed that the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is considering adopting policies that (1) will put transgender kids at increased risk by preventing them from discussing their gender issues with caring teachers and counselors, (2) will force staff to "out" the kids to their parents before the kids may be ready to acknowledge their gender issues, and (3) will prevent kids from being addressed by their preferred name and gender, using the bathrooms that comport with their identity, and playing sports on teams that comport with their identity, presumably even if their parents want such accommodations.

The proposed policies run afoul of non-discrimination laws and so are probably not legal.  But more to the point, if adopted they would put an already beleaguered class of kids in even greater harm's way.  VDOE should adopt a much-more nuanced and kind approach to responding to kids' gender issues, and should make staff and other students aware of the need to be kind in accommodating differences among students, in the interest of helping transgender kids rather than penalizing them for who they are.


Oppose this strongly

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So many more important things to focus on! Strongly oppose this! Let people be who they are! Different doesn’t mean not normal!


These policies are truly despicable and cruel hiding under a thin veil of 'parent choice'.

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These policies are unnecessarily harmful to trans students and have no benefit to the function of our school system but cruelty. A student being referred to as she does not impact another student's ability to learn, a student's chosen name is no more disruptive than a student named Crystal Methany by her parents. To say that these policies have anyone's best interest in mind is a flat out lie; the sole purpose of these policies is to negatively impact trans youth out of hatred for those unlike you. You should be ashamed, and should consider who you're really benefiting, and if you're really best representing the citizens these policies affect.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>this needs to be opposed. it is so so so so important that trans kids and all queer kids feel safe and comfortable in their schools. people need to feel supported in schools no matter how they identify. people should be allowed to use the restroom they feel the most comfortable in, have access to counseling, and go by the name they want to go by. </p>


Oppose!!

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This new proposal is cruel and is a political pawn so Youngkin can rise with the base. Our children should not suffer because of one man’s  political aspirations. If this passes does this mean no more Beths or Billys? They will have to be William or Elizabeth. Does that make sense? Do not enact this creul policy! Keep VA trans kids safe. Aren’t you supposed to be pro life?


strongly oppose

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A hateful, regressive law designed only to whip up hatred against innocent children.


Disagree with Governor Youngkin

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Public education exists to serve all students to the best of our ability. As an educator I find the current treatment of transgender students in the Commonwealth to be a disgrace. The current administration does not utilize these public comments unless they serve their agenda and the governor does not even believe in what he is doing, only in the votes they believe it will garner.


Strong oppose new guidance

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<p>Children under 18 do not need permission to exist as themselves. Requiring parents to provide written permission to be recognized according to their gender identity does real harm and only make a vulnerable group more endangered. These new policies will do real harm to real people. If the goal is to provide a safe and nurturing environment for all children, you must start with trusting them. I strongly oppose this new guidance document. </p>


Leaving kids to be bullied by students, teachers. Or worst state agents,

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Leaving children to the wind, is unchristian, inhuman and absolutely vile.

These kids are kids, who cares how they see themselves this is a free nation and we are due thr freedom to choose our lives. My ancestors didn't fight through bunkerhill to have a nation built under a supreme order. They fought for freedom.

Look in your heart. Be you Christian, atheist, Jewish, Muslim or pagan.

As a human being treat these children as they are, children.

Children who need to be protected


YOU MUST PROTECT THE LGBT COMMUNITY

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<p>There are children that need the protection that these policies are trying to get rid of. The mental health of these children matters. The lives of these children matter and you can’t just take that away from them. We are begging that you don’t pass this. </p>


Not for support or opposition, but protection of God given inalienable rights

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<p>Parents have an inherent right to be the provider of all care, health, and well being for their child. Laws are written to support this right. The government isn't here to grant us rights, the government is here to protect our rights. As a parent, it saddens me to see so many other parents who choose to relinquish this right to the government by opposing this legislation that further protects parent's rights to the upbringing of their child. I whole heartedly support any legislation, including this, that doesn't infringe mine or my child's rights, but further protects those rights that God gave me and the Constitution of these United States holds government responsible to protect. If you're one who wants your child to be trans at school without your knowledge, that's on your conscience and to be discussed on the day of your judgment, it's not for me or any government to judge. However, it should not affect the relationship I have with my child and allow a school to be able to hide or not disclose those things to me  that affect my child. </p>


Trans rights are human rights. Period.

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<p>Trans rights are human rights. I strongly object to any governance that denies these rights. </p>


ADOLF HITLER OPPOSES NEW PROPOSAL

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Trust me, parents will only get in the way of the indoctrination, you mustn't let the new proposal pass!

-Adolf


Strongly oppose

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<p>I support our transgender students. The current policy is fair. There is absolutely no reason, other than to make a political statement , to mandate a change. Gov. Y needs to know a transgender student or have a transgender child  to understand their lives.  </p>


Oppose: contradictory guidelines throughout the document

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As written, every transgender student will be referred to by their birth name and sex, regardless of parental preference. Under the "Identification of students" section, items 2-3 explain that all school personel will refer to students by their name and sex listed on their official record. Item 4 states that parents can inform the school in writing that the student should be called a specific name and referred to by specific pronouns. HOWEVER, item 5 states that this information will only be memorialized in the student's record and legal name and sex will not be changed. Therefore, there is NO WAY for parents to request that their child be addressed in any way other than what is listed on their birth certificate.

This is state-sanctioned bullying and harassment and, as a teacher, I will not be part of it.


Oppose

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<p>Using correct names and pronouns saves lives.  Trans kids need that.  It's basic courtesy for anyone to be gendered correctly.  </p>


Thank you, Gov Youngkin

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Thank you, Governor, for working to restore sanity. Our girls should not have to be made to feel uncomfortable by being forced to share bathrooms with persons who have male genitalia


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This is a garbage bill. It will hurt children for many years. It will ruin lives. Does Glenn Youngkin and the GOP care? No. Unless you're white and straight and rich they don't care about you. </p>
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Welcome each as they see themselves to be. Strongly Opposed to the 2022 proposed policy

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Our American democracy is by the people, for the people…who are the people?

Once it did not include most of us…only white men who held property, not even all white men. Our American democracy is one of evolving inclusivity.  Transgender kids and adults are part of WE the PEOPLE.  This kind of discrimination and bigotry against a small vulnerable population is heinous, destructive and lacks all wisdom and love

I vehemently oppose the VDOE 2022 policy changes for Transgender and non-binary public school students.


Strongly Opposed by VA voter

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<p>Imagine for a moment that your child trusted you and told you that they were not cis gendered. And then you send them into school. How would you like them to be treated? We need compassion and empathy when looking at policies. Let’s not endanger an already vulnerable group of CHILDREN because of adult fear or intolerance. It is likely someone you know and love is LGBTQ. Make policies for them. </p>


Oppose with all my heart

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<p>This hateful law will bring nothing but harm to some of the most vulnerable youths in our community. Trans people do not pose any more of a threat than any other person in our community, and the “trans bathroom predator” is nothing more than a boogeyman. </p>


LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. PROTECT TRANS LIVES

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<p>This bill sucks. Go back to Venture Capitalism you stupid smuck. </p>


STRONGLY SUPPORT

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As it says, it is the right of parents to exercise their fundamental rights granted by the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children. Stop trying to manipulate our children without us knowing!!


Oppose - Let The Children Think for themselves

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Recognize children as sentient immature beings who are capable of thought, decision and understanding their own feelings on their own biology. You do not live inside their skins and you should avoid further manipulation of their gender assignments. It's up to each individual to assess for themselves, as they Marie, which gender they most aligned. Allow room, space and freedom for the emergence of additional genders beyond the binary system imposed by a dying patriarchy.

Let them choose.


Strongly

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<p>As the parent of a transgender student, I saw first hand struggles my child experienced when coming to terms on their identity.  Diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and body dysmorphia is was a personal journey for them as they tried to reconcile themselves with their own identity.  They were fortunate to have a teacher that they trusted to come out to in the process and I appreciate every day the support that the teacher gave my child.  My child was in a place mentally where they trusted the teacher and I am glad the teacher was supportive until my child decided to share the information with me.  My child is now a successful, binary adult and I cannot be prouder of them nor can I be more thankful for the teacher in being a confidential stepping stone in the journey. </p>


I support the change that is being made. This should not have happened in the first place!

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<p>I strongly support this because it is wrong to support and commend transgenderism! How many years has the phrase “follow the science” drummed into everyone. Well why are you ignoring it now? This issue is being pushed to demonize intelligent people and try and silence them with the fear of being called names and much worse! </p>


Oppose

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Disgusting. Strongly oppose!!


Strongly SUPPORT for parental rights!

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<p>What makes you think that all parents would not support their kids? Why do you get to keep parents in the dark? These are our children and how can we support them if we don't know what is going on in their lives? Keeping information from parents is a gross overreach and you know it. This policy does not mean trans students will not be supported, it just means that parents will be included as they should be! </p>


Emphatically support Youngkin- Parents, not educators are children’s caregivers.

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Parents are the actual caregivers of their own children and I support giving them back their rights to their education and mental health. Trans kids need their parents and deserve their legal spiritual and inalienable rights to gone governed by them. The school system should not ever supersede a parents rights especially when a child’s sexuality gender or mental health is on the line. Changing a child’s gender is mutilation and child abuse. Stopping a child’s natural change into a healthy adult with puberty blockers and drugs is child abuse. The state, the federal government and the school system does not have the right to make these cruel permanent decisions for trans children. Once as an adult trans people have the right to do what they will with their body. But let children be children and let parents parent.


strongly oppose

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this policy will increase child abuse


Support Parents Rights!!!

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It's not an anti-trans bill! You simply need to have parent permission just like you need parent permission to go to homecoming and prom and get a drivers license. Parental rights matter!


support

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Thank you for bringing back parents into the process.    The most important piece to the LGBTQ+ is family.   While there may be some that do not support their children's sexuality and while that is sad, it is not the role of the state or school to keep such information from parents.    The role of the school is to provide the family with resources that can support the student and the family.  The LGBTQ community is misrepresenting the contents of the policy.   They are projecting that LGBTQ kids will be called out to their parents no matter what.   As a member of the educational community, we contact parents on every other concern for a student.    Governor Youngkin needs to put out a strong voice explaining what the policy does and does not do.


Most Strongly Opposed

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As a proud Virginia Tech alumni and father of a current Virginia student, these proposed guidelines fly in the face of science and basic human dignity.  Putting them into effect would be a cause of great shame and literally result in the death of children unable to cope with being forced into a box that they do not fit in.  Be better, do better, and don't sacrifice children on the altar of political culture wars.


strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this because it takes away the privacy of the students and having the school intervene in personal matters will cause much stress in the students' lives and could have an effect on their ability to learn. </p>


Add language and funding to deport foreign nationals and their kids

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Or the middle of the ocean.


Trans Rights are Human Rights! Protect our children!

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<p>This is absolutely sickening and an attack on our children! Shoot this bullsh*t down! </p>


PROTECT TRANS KIDS

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To refuse to acknowledge the needs and rights of trans kids, is to dismiss the needs and rights of all kids. You are being cruel for no reason. ALL KIDS deserve space to grow and learn and feel safe, ESPECIALLY at school. Adults are the ones teaching cruelty and hate and narrow-mindedness. PROTECT AND SUPPORT AND LOVE TRANS KIDS!!!!


Cruelty to children

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This proposed policy is cruel. If you are uncomfortable with the idea of supporting trans kids, then you, as a leader, should be willing to live with that discomfort in order to protect our kids and move our society forward. Instead, you are proposing a policy that would oppress vulnerable people. Which side of history would you prefer to be on?


Parent’s Rights!!


This will harm our children

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I strongly oppose this guidance allowing teachers to use incorrect pronouns w trans students and allowing them to be “outed” to their parents. This act alone will absolutely put some children in danger. If a child has not come out to their parent, there is likely a reason why. By exposing this very personal information, you are leaving these children open to abuse, whether verbal, emotional, and/or physical. In addition, outing children will lead to self harm and suicide. It’s a proven fact. We see it daily. School is supposed to be a SAFE SPACE. Why do we not want these babies to feel secure and safe?! These children deserve acceptance. We will not go back.


Strongly opposed


Parents don’t have a right to cause irreparable harm!


Strongly oppose. This is incredibly dangerous.

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<p>This is horrific and endangers trans children. Absolutely appalling. </p>


Harmful policy

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I just want to make a few points.

Using people’s preferred names and pronouns is a matter of respect.

School sports are about participation and belonging. It’s wrong to deny students the chance to try out for a team.

Trans youth know who they are. They should be able to ask questions and discuss their gender with their parents and medical professionals without inference from politicians.

These proposals seek to punish and harm a population of young people already marginalized by stigma, bullying, and harassment.

Forcing educators to out their students to possibly abusive parents is dangerous.

The people who are afraid of the LGBTQ+ community are overly obsessed with hurting them. The LGBTQ+ community has always been here and will never just go away. The harassment has to stop.


Approve! There are protections already in place that are required to be reported-

 I approve of this decision, the parents should be in control of the choices of there children not a teacher that will be in their life for a few months.
Children experience awkwardness during puberty , it is natural human behavior. Putting ideas in their head is criminal. Let children be children!
There are protections in place if a student is in need of services whether involving abuse, mental, physical needs , etc.
The teachers should worry about those responsibilities and teaching reading writing and math classes.  They have no right to share , discuss their political views, or personal views or beliefs. They should remain neutral, as well as the school boards over-reaching their authority!
Our Children were born to us to raise and determine the best needs for them. Not a teacher!

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The teachers should worry about those responsibilities and teaching reading writing and math classes.  They have no right to share , discuss their political views, or personal views or beliefs. They should remain neutral, as well as the school boards over-reaching their authority!

Our Children were born to us to raise and determine the best needs for them. Not a teacher!


Strongly Oppose

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These regressive policies and scare tactics will have horrible effects on student's mental health, well being, and home lives. Students will tell their parents if they are LGBTQ+ when they're ready and when the parent is willing to hear them out. By subjecting students to an overreach by government and potentially outing their sexuality before they are secure and prepared to do so on their own is plain tyrannical and harmful. Let people be who they are, love who they love, and tell who they want to tell - when they are ready. This is outright targeting of a specific group of students.


Strongly support


Strongly Support!

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<p>I support Governor Youngkin and this change in policy! I am my children's greatest advocate not the schools, not the teacher's Unions. Thank you for fighting for parents! </p>


Oppose

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<p>Strongly opposed </p>


It's creepy how much time you spend thinking about transgirls pooping.

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Dear Virginia Legislators:

Why do you spend so much time thinking about transgirls pooping? Don't you think it's creepy and weird that adult men spend this much time thinking about young girls with dicks pooping? Seriously. It's gross and weird and you should probably go to therapy.

Leave trans kids alone. That's all you have to do. Just don't actively go out of your way to bully children.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This is a move backward. Let the kids be their true selves. </p>


Protect Children by Affirming the God Given Truth of 2 Genders!

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The assault on common sense, on the scientific fact of 2 genders and on the morality in our schools constitutes an egregious violation of Americans' Religious Liberty.

Just as CRT, "Gender Corruption Theory" (GCT) is being forced on Innocent American Children  indoctrinating them in our schools, corrupting their innocence with these lies and immorality.

The attacks on children's innocence in schools -- with pornographic books, with teaching them to hate their own genders, encouraging them to mutilate their bodies, or even forcing female athletes to share locker rooms with boys -- have become far too common. The 2021 polies only resulted in much HARM to our children and it is time for us to change that!  Let us not forget what happened in the Loudoun County School with the transgender boy forcibly sodomizing a young girl in the Woman's bathroom!


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Gov Youngkin,

Stop wasting taxpayer money on political stunts and start spending it on the things that actually help children succeed in school. I strongly oppose this and any order that limits the rights of students to safely learn in public school.

Julie Napear

VA resident and product of Fairfax Co Public Schools.


Strongly Agree! Thank you Governor Youngkin!

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<p>This is such nonsense. Of course a school should not be keeping secrets from parents. You are making mom and dad the enemy!! Kids need to learn correct biology, that there are concrete facts, that there is right and wrong, and that  we all have duties and responsibilities that we should all aspire to live up to. Not that you can just live for your desires and  fancies, do what you want, and if mom and dad try to give you some good advice and raise you the right way with good morals, they’re a bigot. I’m so glad that we have a governor fighting for Virginia families!! </p>


Parental rights

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<p>Support policy for parental rights. </p>


I strongly oppose


As an educator and Catholic, strongly opposed

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<p>I cannot possibly articulate how harmful the proposed legislation is to children. Negating who they are, having them live more in fear than they already are, is shameful. What I will say is this, even the pope recognized the dignity of all humans. They are all made in god's image-including trans children. They are not to be made to feel less by anyone. Additionally, rights should be the sane for all citizens REGARDLESS of what your (or someone else's) religion feels about a group of people. Thst is the premise of freedom of religion. While you are free to follow your religion, you cannot impose it, or its values, on anyone else. </p>
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This is going to endanger the lives of many children.

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There is no way you are ignorant of the statistics regarding trans kids and suicide. No parent is entitled to endangering their child’s life. We have to stop pretending that all parents are good parents and recognize that outing children to their parents puts the kids at risk for violence, abuse, and neglect. I experienced it to some degree myself. We need to stop putting children through what I went through in the name of “morality.” There is nothing morally upright about this.


Cannot appose enough!!

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For all those that consider trans kids as confused, for all those that believe these kids are being groomed, for all those that do not think that being trans is even real…..

They are not confused, studies have shown that kids can be gender aware as early as three, letting them explore what their gender means to them has ZERO impact on others.

The real groomers, cis het men, this is shown time and time again, you can bury your head in the sand, you can watch as many Matt Walsh videos as you like, does not hide against the real threat.

Gender non conforming people have existed for millennia, our understanding of gender identity has improved over this time, so I will take my information from medical professionals, over the likes of Tucker Carlson, and his constipated expression.

Trans kids need support, they do not need your oppression.


Strongly Oppose


Transgender students are our students

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<p>I am a public school teacher in Virginia and ask that Gov. Youngkin repeal his proposal to attack transgender youth.  I am a parent and a taxpayer as well.  Gov. Youngkin says he is doing this on behalf of parents - he's not doing this on behalf of me and millions of other parents.  There is a small, loud and cruel group of people who want this.  Please leave transgender students alone.  They are going through unimaginable pain and suffering right now and need our support - not our attacks.  Transgender students are OUR students.  </p>


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Your homophobic racist s

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WTF?  Really!!!!!  Really?????????????  Are we going to tie rocks to kids who are transitioning and through them in a lake to see if they float?  You are a bunch of cruel pieces of crap doing this to kids and families.


Support Gov. Youngkin’s  proposal.

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Sex at birth determines what facilities you use, such as bathrooms ,locker rooms,etc.


At last, truth is protected

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Applaud the Governor's policy and its common sense; that it rejects hysteria and delusion is all the better.


Support Constitutional Rights

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Thank you Governor for upholding our Constitution.


Oppose with every fiber of my being

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This policy is nothing more than a homophobic ploy to please the far right base, and continue to stoke the fire of the culture war. LGBTQ rights are human rights. This policy becoming approved will do nothing but increase the tragic instances of suicide within the LGBTQ community by eroding the currently available support provided in the public school systems where many of those marginalized youth find their only safe space to be themselves.

This is abhorrent and should be rejected.


SUPPORT

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I support the Governor.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>These policies are NOT about privacy, dignity, or respect. They are rooted in transphobia and will harm trans and nonbinary kids. As a parent, I am horrified that the government of Virginia would consider these policies. They will create a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment for both students and educators. As a public school employee, I know how important it is to have a welcoming and accepting environment for all students. Children should feel safe in school to explore who they are and who they want to be. These policies would take that away from them. This affects all children. The harm to nonbinary and trans students will indirectly effect their peers. Those children will see adults not protecting their friends. This erosion in trust will affect all schools if these policies are enacted. I believe these policies are not only morally wrong but also illegal. It would be a terrible mistake to let these policies become standard in Virginia. </p>


It’s not an anti-trans policy! It’s about Parent’s Rights!

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It's not an anti-trans bill! You simply need to have parent permission just like you need parent permission to go to homecoming and prom and get a drivers license. Parental rights matter!


Do Not Support This Hateful Dangerous "Policy"

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<p>This policy is not doing anything other than endangering children's lives and violating their right to privacy.  Counselors should not under any circumstances be required to violate a child's trust by outing them to their parents, in the same way that therapists are required by law to keep their conversations private.  It is disgusting that this administration is so obsessed with what genitals children have that they are trying to make it a law to check before the kids use the bathroom.  Grow up Virginia.  It is not a violation of parents' rights for kids to pick their own name - teachers have been using nicknames since the beginning of school.  Saying they need a parent's permission to call a child what they want to be called is just pandering to bigotry and opening the door for LGBTQIA+ children to be tormented by their peers and even the adults around them.  Do NOT enact this policy.  </p>


Strongly oppose. We should support children who may not have a safe home.

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School can be the most safe and supportive place for a child, OR the place that turns them to self-hatred, self-harm and suicide. Let schools be a place where the community centers the child and allows them to express things they may not feel comfortable yet expressing at home. I strongly oppose these policies.


No such thing as "trans-gender" - stop mutilating our kids

It is morally reprehensible to encourage or support vulnerable young children to permanently mutilate their bodies because of dysphoria. It is even worse for the taxpayer money to be spent in indoctrinating kids to support and encourage body dysmorphia and permanent mutilation. There is no such thing as "trans-gender" and no one can change their gender, just by believing it. While lunacy is permitted to be espoused by the 1st Amendment, that same constitutional right means that no one else shall be forced to support it.Stop this insanity in Virginia schools! The kids aren't even learning how to read, write or do math - return the focus to these basic things

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It is morally reprehensible to encourage or support vulnerable young children to permanently mutilate their bodies because of dysphoria. It is even worse for the taxpayer money to be spent in indoctrinating kids to support and encourage body dysmorphia and permanent mutilation. There is no such thing as "trans-gender" and no one can change their gender, just by believing it. While lunacy is permitted to be espoused by the 1st Amendment, that same constitutional right means that no one else shall be forced to support it.

Stop this insanity in Virginia schools! The kids aren't even learning how to read, write or do math - return the focus to these basic things


Strongly opposed

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I grew up in the state, and I find it absolutely appalling that the school board would even consider doing something like this. All students, including transgender students, deserve the right to feel safe and cared for in a place of learning. These policies do nothing but single out transgender students, causing great mental distress, which can affect their ability to learn and grow as individuals. The state has no right to impose views on others, especially based on religious standing. Literally something I learned in 7th grade government class growing up in this very state.

Doesn't matter if there are small handful of parents that think it's a good idea, they can't be using their religion to push this. And the Virginia board of education should greatly oppose this.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>everyone deserves the right to identify how they choose to, even children. </p>


Strongly oppose this guidance document.

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<p>Stop using transgender students as political fodder to stir up voters’ emotions. Stop putting teachers and administrators in a position of having to bring news to parents that might cause a student to suffer more than they are already if the parents react violently. Transgendered Students should be encouraged to tell their parents their truths but they shouldn’t be outed. Transgender issues are actually non-issues with most students. </p>


Protect Trans Kids!!!!!!!!!

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I oppose this barbaric policy change!


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Stop targeting children who are already at risk. Schools are supposed to be a safe place. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This foolhardy policy will not protect children. This will allow staff to violate students privacy and target them for their identity. Transgender students are already harassed, bullied, and threatened every day. They have no power in this situation and this policy further takes away any safety and peace they have left. Transgender students are significantly more likely to commit suicide and this policy will cause that number to continue to rise. Whatever you believe about transgender people shouldn’t involve forcing children to fear coming to school. There is no evidence to support that a policy like this will do anything except create a hostile environment for students. </p>


Cruelty is the point

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What on earth are you afraid of? These are children. These are children who will be in and out of the lives of teachers within 9 months. God forbid you have to use a pronoun or a name.

Some of these kids have nuts for parents too, and your intentional outing of them can, and in some cases will cause irreparable harm to that child.

But that's the point of fascism isn't it. Hurt someone as badly as you can and hide behind the guise of caring about it.

There are real issues in Virginia that you could actually be addressing, instead of stoking culture wars.

What a sad, little administration this is, headed by sad, little dictatorial zealots.


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Strongly opposed to the Governor’s new Policy!!


Transgender Students Are People

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<p>Transgender students are people and deserve to treated like other people. Transgender students should be called by the name they use, should be able to go to the bathroom at school, and should be referred to with pronouns that don’t misgender them.  All students, including those who happen to be trans, deserve these basic expectations about how to be treated in a decent society. </p>


ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED

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This is a barely veiled attempt to threaten the autonomy of trans students by limiting the legal protections for teachers to support them. You may not mention anti-discrimination goals or freedom of choice as an ideal and then stipulate for people who they are. That simply doesn’t make any logical sense. Doing so only undermines Virginia’s already horrid record of violence against minority groups and will, no doubt, force even more teachers to leave the profession. Is that the goal? Eliminate the capacity for public schools to function and make trans students feel unsafe and abandoned?


Support

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<p>Children are just that, minors, in terms of physical growth, mental growth, and of course, legal ability to make decisions.   It's the parents job to raise the children, not the school's.  Parents should be the ones helping their children make these decisions, not schools. </p>


Have Mercy on Trans Kids

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Please adopt kind policies towards trans and binary students. They are deserving of love and sympathy. Forcing someone to use a restroom based on their birth “gender” will increase bullying and fear. And females will be uncomfortable if a male-looking person is in their private space, regardless of what the person was called at birth. And imagine what happens if female-looking person has to use the boys’ locker room. There has to  be a better solution.


Oppose!

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We need to ensure safe and supportive schools for ALL our children. And support the parental choice of parents of trans children to support them living their authentic selves! This policy is based on disinformation, bigotry, and transphobia, and not based in science or the psychological well being of children. It also creates a precedent to remove support from other historical oppressed classes of children, including racial minorities and disabled children. Mr Youngkin, do better.

Signed,

A Hanover County parent


Absolutely OPOSSE this heartless treatment towards LGBTQ+ children

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Gov. Youngkin and the VA DOE have displayed a complete and total lack of empathy by forcing this horrendous policy on LGBTQ+ children. As a Bisexual combat veteran who served during the entirety of Don't Ask Don't Tell, I 100% support these protests and hope for many many more. Keep fighting, protesting, organizing, speaking out and never let your voices go unheard!


New Policies

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Those apart of the LGBT deserve the same luxury of their straight counterparts to feel safe and welcome in a school. Preferred pronouns and using a different name than assigned at birth are things that any human should have the right to. We are people too.


Thou shall not use the Lord's name in vain

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Religion is being used to justify attacking the civil rights of Virginia's citizens, despite the fact that the same religion teaches that justifying malicious deeds and policies is using the Lord's name in vain. School is a place meant to educate, not cater to bigoted parents and politicians. Just because you cannot understand someone's identity does not mean that you have the right to endanger their life. If transgendered children want to share their identity with their parents and peers, they will. How dare you endanger their lives by claiming that your policies are of a higher order than their God-given free will?


Strongly Oppose

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The proposed 2022 policy states, “The 2021 Model Policies promoted a specific viewpoint aimed at achieving cultural and social transformation in schools,” and promotes this as being a reason to replace the 2021 policy. The statement describing the 2021 policy is true, and the policy should remain in effect precisely because our schools need cultural and social transformation now, just as they did prior to 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas U.S. Supreme Court decision. Following this decision, Virginia entered one of the lowest points in its history by engaging in Massive Resistance, closing any school facing a federal desegregation order, combined with a government-sanctioned harassment campaign of opponents to the policy and formalizing a propaganda arm to influence public opinion in favor of the policy. The proposed 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools was drafted by and is supported by Virginians who share the same social mindset and belief system of those who supported Massive Resistance.

Over time, our society has evolved to recognize that period in our history as abhorrent and segregationists of that era are widely viewed with disdain. We as proud residents of Virginia do not want to regress to those dark days. Our public school system needs to have policies in place that put students needs first, not the desires of parents. If the students’ needs are not met because their needs do not align with the parents’ belief systems, then our educational system has failed both the needs of the students and their parents. Our public schools should not be in the role of reinforcing parents’ bigoted or other harmful, anti-social belief systems. Our public schools should be places where students are taught to become well-rounded individuals who can think critically to make their own decisions about their role in society. Our public schools should be places where all students can thrive in a nurturing environment, but also places where beliefs that we know to be based on hateful, discriminatory ideology will not be tolerated, even when held by students. Our public schools are not religious institutions. Belief systems that marginalize people based on sexual identity and orientation have no business being reinforced in public schools, regardless of parental desires.

The proposed 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools is wholly based on the false premise that parents should have the final say in determining what types of information their children are exposed to in public school. This closed-minded approach amounts to censorship and would prevent our public school system from performing its duty to expose students to diverse viewpoints and letting them think critically about the validity of those viewpoints. Parents will always have the ability to influence their students’ belief systems at home and when in the presence of their students in public spaces. However, it is not the role or the right of parents to unduly influence and restrict the flow of information in school. Our students are individual human beings and deserve to be given the opportunity to form their own opinions and do so free from harassment. The proposed policy would codify the violation of privacy, the theft of dignity, and the promotion of disrespect of all students in our public schools, and therefore should not be enacted.


Parenting Rights

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I support the governor!


Trans Rights are human rights

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<p>This policy goes against human rights. I strongly oppose this policy. </p>


A Complete & Unjustifiable Human Rights Violation

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Being born & raised in the commonwealth—and having recently completed graduate school there—it saddens but does not surprise me that such an absurd proposal has been brought forth. As a now-education-professional, I have made a priority of helping to ensure that students feel safe, welcome, and can be expressive within school environments, regardless of what that may look like for them. This proposal is isolating of, discriminatory toward, and repellant of students in more ways than one. As a student, to have your learning experience tainted by regulations that infringe upon your existence as a human being is, as you can imagine, disheartening, and minimizes the ability of a school to serve as a neutral learning environment. This proposal should’ve been stopped before it started, but should certainly not be moved any further forward. The effects on our students’ mental, physical, and overall well-beings will be detrimental.


OPPOSE

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Trans kids deserve the same respect and treatment as cis kids.  They should be able to use whichever bathroom they feel safe and comfortable in.  End of discussion.


Agree with Gov

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<p>If you have a penis then you should use the boys bathroom. If you have a vagina, use the girls bathroom. Period. You don’t get a special bathroom! </p>


Clearly an improvement but doesn't go far enough

Continue doing what voters elected you to do

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<p>Stop indulging this stuff. It's bad for everyone </p>


Opposed to harmful polices

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

This proposed policy is harmful to students and families.

I realize this was the Governors agenda all along.  The state school board made their agenda clear when they granted a Superintendent License to an unqualified racist bigot. Another win for taking away fundamentals rights of students. Another win for hate and evil. Another win for pushing their perverted ideology.

This policy with divide communities and families. Students will die- read the statistics about suicide in this population. There will be bullying and hate crimes.

Teach love, not hate.


How does this serve Virginia?

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<p> Gov Youngkin’s proposed restrictions (intimidation) of trans students does not serve the Virginian population. It does serve bigotry and intolerance, which should be discouraged not encouraged, by State leadership. Please remove your MAGA hat Governor, you’re entirely out of step.</p>


Moms Demand supports transgendered students!

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We cannot end gun violence without ending transgender hate. Transgender youth are targeted for harassment, murdered with guns, and have extremely high suicide rates by firearms.

Virginia should be concerned by the high suicide rates of transgendered students and not "other" them anymore than they already feel.

There are more of us in Virginia who spread love, not hate. We must support our youth!


Support policy for parental rights

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<p>I think the policy is rooted in reality and allowing parental choice for minors. </p>


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strongly oppose, why should anyone have control over who you like and who you are?


Follow the AMA, NEA, AAP recommendations. Affirm transgender students

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Every organization from the American Medical Association to the American Academy of Pediatrics to the National Education Association support affirming trans kids in school - using facilities that match gender identity, pronouns etc.

Supporting and affirming trans kids leads to LOWER rates of sexual assault, harassment, and suicide.


STRONGLY APPOSE


In opposition to the new guidelines.

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I have watched transgender students starve and dehydrate themselves during the school day out of the stress of simply using the restroom.

Please rescind the new guidelines and allow students (and all people) to go through their school day without fear.


former school counselor for Charlottesville city school

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<p>As a former school counselor and community counselor for adolescents in the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle county I oppose this proposition. This will cause significant harm (and in cases of self harm irreversible damage) to our state’s children.  Allowing children and youth to use affirming pronouns causes NO harm or damage to other students at school but by stripping students of their identities by misgendering them you are causing significant psychological damage. Schools are meant to be a place for children and youth to grow and learn and by targeting a population of students this way you are creating barriers and environment that limits some students ability to engage with their work and disconnecting them from the culture of the school. LGBTQIA+ students already face significant barriers and isolation, these changes could be an actual death sentence for some students. All students should be allowed and empowered to be themselves; that should include LGBTQIA+ students as well. </p>


Oppose - This policy makes us no better than Putin’s Russia

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What does it mean to live in a free country with liberty? Does it mean to ruthlessly terrorize vulnerable teenage students who just want to live their lives in peace? Does it mean to create a system that incentivizes a breakdown of societal and familial trust and vigilante mob justice, as Chairman Mao had once done in China with the Red Guards that enforced the Cultural Revolution? We want to claim a moral high ground over America’s authoritarian rivals, and yet how can we do that if we stoop to their level?

We support Ukraine in its struggle for independence and freedoms. You must ask yourself why Ukraine has LGBT festivals even in war zones like Kharkiv while Russia has harshly oppressed its LGBT population, and why Ukrainians are proud to die for their country while Russians are frantically looking for asylum to avoid dying for their country. In the last decade when Russia was a freer society with some semblance of civil opposition, it was not the state that cracked down on LGBT parades but an overly zealous minority of citizens that used intimidation through numbers to achieve the state’s policy aims.

What society do you want to live in? What society do you want your children to live in? Is it a society with ruthless oppression and enforcement of discriminatory draconian policy by overly zealous citizens doing the bidding of the state, or a society that accepts people as they are and lets them live in peace?


Comment in Opposition

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I am a parent of a school aged child in Virginia. I have worked with at-risk adult Veterans, to include those in the LGBTQIA+ community in Virginia, Colorado, and Arizona. I am bisexual and have friends and family in the LGBTQIA+ community.

I vehemently oppose this proposed rule because it is cruel and will have detrimental consequences to transgender and non binary children in our community. Furthermore, it goes against federal laws concerning the rights of students to learn and engage in public schools.

Proponents of this rule state that this is so that parents can provide consent to show gender affirming treatment of their children, however statistics show that trans and non binary youth often lack support at home. This rule is a way to subject children to additional harassment, assault, and humiliation in a place that should feel safe: school. It is 100% a political move with religious undertones. School policy is no place to play these games.

Below are reasons why this rule should not be adopted:

Research in this area consistently shows that transgender and gender-expansive students are at increased risk for harassment by peers and adults. According to a report by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN):

Almost all transgender students had been verbally harassed (e.g., called names or threatened) in the past year at school because of their gender expression (87%).

More than half of all transgender students had been physically harassed (e.g., pushed or shoved) in school in the past year because of their gender expression (53%).

More than one fourth of transgender students had been physically assaulted (e.g., punched, kicked, or injured with a weapon) in school in the past year because of their gender expression (26%).

A third of transgender students heard school staff make homophobic (32%) remarks, sexist (39%) remarks, and negative comments about someone’s gender expression (39%) in the past year (Greytak, Kosciw, & Diaz, 2009).

This report also indicates that a hostile school climate impacts a student’s ability to thrive in school and beyond:

Transgender students experiencing high levels of harassment were approximately twice as likely as other transgender students to miss school for safety reasons.

Transgender students who experienced high levels of harassment had significantly lower grade point averages than those who experienced lower levels of harassment (Greytak et al., 2009).

Peer victimization related to gender identity or expression is also associated with disruptions in educational trajectories, traumatic stress, and alcohol and substance use (Collier 2013). Even without exposure to overt rejection, discrimination, or violence, individuals who do not see people like themselves represented in their community or society may develop a sense of not belonging, leading to long-term negative effects (Hendricks & Testa, 2012).

When schools implement policies and procedures to diminish harassment based on gender identity and expression, students report greater connections to school personnel, which were associated with greater feelings of safety (McGuire, Anderson, Toomey, & Russell, 2010). This finding mirrors research on lesbian, gay, and bisexual students that found that those living in states and cities with more protective school climates reported fewer past-year suicidal thoughts than those living in states and cities with less protective climates (Hatzenbuehler, Birkett, Van Wagenen, & Meyer, 2014).

Additionally, I have shared statistics from The Trevor Project 2022 National Survey on LGBT Youth Mental Health (https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/) demonstrating the real challenges these children face, and the repercussions of such rulemaking:

LGBTQ youth who felt high social support from their family reported attempting suicide at less than half the rate of those who felt low or moderate social support.

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.

45% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered suicide in the past year

14% of LGBTQ youth attempted suicide in the past year (see below for breakdown on transgender and non binary youth)

73% of LGBTQ youth reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety (including more than three-quarters of transgender and nonbinary youth and nearly two-thirds of cisgender youth).

58% of LGBTQ youth reported experiencing symptoms of depression (including nearly two-thirds of transgender and nonbinary youth and nearly half of cisgender youth).

93% of transgender and nonbinary youth said that they have worried about transgender people being denied access to gender-affirming medical care due to state or local laws.

91% of transgender and nonbinary youth said that they have worried about transgender people being denied access to the bathroom due to state or local laws.

83% of transgender and nonbinary youth said that they have worried about transgender people being denied the ability to play sports due to state or local laws.

31% of LGBTQ youth reported that they have been physically threatened or harmed due to their sexual orientation.

37% of transgender and nonbinary youth reported that they have been physically threatened or harmed due to their gender identity.

71% of transgender and nonbinary youth reported that they have experienced discrimination based on their gender identity.

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

32% of transgender and nonbinary youth identified home as NON gender affirming

51% of transgender and nonbinary youth identified school as NON gender affirming

How does this translate to harm?

20% of transgender and nonbinary youth from homes that are NON gender affirming have attempted suicide in the last year.

21% of transgender and nonbinary youth from schools that are NON gender affirming have attempted suicide in the last year.

Versus

14% of transgender and nonbinary youth from homes that ARE gender affirming have attempted suicide in the last year.

18% of transgender and nonbinary youth from schools that ARE gender affirming have attempted suicide in the last year.

The data is clear that LGBTQIA+, and trans and non binary in particular, youth are at risk for mental health problems, discrimination, harassment, assault, attempted suicide, and committed suicide. Policies which single out these children increases the likelihood of such outcomes. This proposed rulemaking does not protect children, it endangers them.

Governor Youngkin and the Department of Education must do better. They must ensure safe schools for ALL children. Please be sure to respond to EACH point made in this comment in the final rule and how the Department of Education plans on protecting LGBTQIA+ youth in our schools.

Thank you.


Strongly Opposed...

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Stop Youngkin's draconia anti-trans, anti-intellectual, anti-environmental laws.


VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE

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I am disgusted by the attempts by the current VA administration, to further marginalize already tremendously at risk students under the guise of "restoring rights to parents". The "rights of parents" isn't at risk here, but the lives and well being of transgender and  gender other conforming students most certainly is. If this administrations' intent is to care equally and equitably for ALL Virginia's students, then it has to go back to the guidelines that were created in 2021.

"The 2021 Model Policies established evidence-based and trauma-informed procedures which were designed to uplift and protect trans youth, as well as other LGBTQ+ children, from discrimination, bullying, and abuse at home. The reversal of these policies lacks the same level of evidence-based foundation, and was devised by a much more insular group of decision-makers".

I certainly will participate in whatever manner I can, to support the overturn of these regressive new policies.

Sincerely,

Dana Fleming, USN, Ret.


Opposition

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<p>STRONGLY oppose. This is absolutely disgusting and embarrassing. Grow up. There are bigger things to worry about </p>


Transgender children are HUMANS worthy of respect and protection

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If anyone cares about the data, the facts, you would know that trans people (including children) are far, far more likely to be the victim of violence and abuse than they are to be perpetrators. If this bill forces children to be outed either to their parents or their peers, children will be hurt, they will end up on the streets, and there will be a mental health crisis on our hands. Children being allowed to live as themselves, in whatever way that means to them, does not hurt anyone. Telling them they can't, however, has very real consequences.

"Parental rights" is a front to monitor and regulate the lives and identities of the most vulnerable in our society. If Republicans are the "pro-life" party, then please, protect these fully formed and valid lives of transgender students in Virginia.


I support this!

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<p>Thank you. It’s very important for children and parents to be on the same page. Schools don’t raise children. There needs to be boundaries. I’ve witnessed the grooming first hand from therapists and physicians, please take action in schools. It’s a public school, funded by tax dollars, listen to the parents not the radicals without children!! Social transition without proper therapy and support is very dangerous. Affirming a delusion and allowing one to changer their identity at a young age is dangerous. The following steps lead to irreversible hormone treatments and cosmetic surgeries that aren’t safe. Thank you. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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The newly proposed policy changes are misguided and disguised as something that will give parents more input into our public school system. The proposed changes will cause harm to children and youth. Transgender and non-binary communities have a higher risk of suicide and mental illness already in this world. Creating policy changes that make it harder for these children and adolescents to be themselves across all settings in which they are situated will increase rate of child/adolescent suicide and mental health problems in the state of Virginia.


STRONGLY OPPOSE!!!

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<p>As an educator and school psychologist, I know how important a safe school environment is for ALL children. Schools are a safe place, let’s keep it that way! </p>


Trans kids need support

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<p>I am horrified at the proposed policy sought by Governor Youngkin. Trans kids need support, not outing. If there were any other group of students who were targeted with this kind of treatment, Youngkin wouldn't dare. But trans kids are easily picked on and victimized. This policy would do that to them and more. School should be a safe haven for all students. I object to any policy that further marginalizes trans students. This proposed policy is against VA state statute, so why are you wasting tax payer money on making a change that will immediately go to court? So Youngkin can win points with his constituency? I'm glad that my school district in VA has stated it will continue to support trans students. Shame on you, Governor Youngkin. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE!!!


Strongly opposed

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The new policy puts transgender kids at risk, especially those in homes that are politically at odds with their identity. School should offer safe spaces for kids to find themselves. Parental rights seems to come at the cost of trust in schools and students. The policies claim to promote inclusive learning environments, but prohibit the use of they/them pronouns. They allow teachers and staff to refuse counseling to kids in need. I only see these policies taking support systems away from students. There is no data or studies supporting the efficacy of these directives. There is plenty of data from the CDC confirming that transgender students are at high risk for suicide due to feeling unsafe at school and bullying (https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/01/24/cdc-nearly-percent-high-school-students-identify-transgender-more-than-one-third-them-attempt-suicide/). We need to do better by them, instead of pursuing regressive policy.


Protect Trans Kids

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<p>These policies are extremely harmful to all kids. I stand with the overwhelming number of Virginian’s strongly opposed to such hateful policies. </p>


SUPPORT

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This is a step in the right direction, we should not be encouraging kids with mental illness into believing lies like they can change their sex. Years from now we will look back in horror on how we allowed children to be sexually disfigured and sterilized in the name of progress. Parents deserve to know what’s happening with their children. The emotional blackmail used by the left when they argue this will endanger lives is not okay. Where is the evidence that trans kids are being abused by their parents in these mass numbers? It doesn’t exist because it’s not happening, but that is what they’d try and have you believe so they can force their ideology on you with emotional manipulation. Stop this nonsense in our schools.


Make it make sense

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It boggles my mind that we have to argue and push for basic human rights. Guns have more freedom than bodies at this point, Jesus Christ, there are many more issues to regulate than peoples bodies. We have to beg for our basic human rights, this is the bare minimum baseline.


What happened to bodily autonomy?

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Governor Snitchline calls for bodily autonomy when dealing with infectious diseases, but can't stand the thought of kids doing the same when it comes to their very core concept of self? It's more of the same GOP duplicity. It's good for me but not for thee... and we haven't been a border state for hundreds of years.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Please choose to support children and their mental/emotional health by allowing them to be who they are. We grow and evolve throughout our life and by letting our children know they are valued and supported just how they are builds a foundation of trust and acceptance of others and themselves. </p>


Strongly support

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I strongly support the 2022 Model Policies for privacy, dignity, and respect for all students and parents in VA’s public schools.


Trans Rights Are Human Rights

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<p>I strongly oppose Governor Youngkin's proposed rule. Trans students deserve our unconditional love and support. They deserve to use the bathroom safely and comfortably. They deserve to be called by their name and pronouns. They deserve to access all the appropriate medical care they want. This proposal would strip trans students of their bodily autonomy and basic human rights. I believe in equal human rights for trans people - I hope this government does too. </p>


STRONGLY SUPPORT

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<p>Adults should not be pushing the transgender agenda on young, impressionable minds. I support Youngkin’s proposition. </p>


KEEP UNIONS OUT OF THIS DISCUSSION

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KEEP UNIONS OUT OF THIS DISCUSSION


Strongly Opposed!!!

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This policy completely strips trans kids from any and all protections the schools are supposed to give them! The claim that parents have the "right" to know that their kid is trans is ridiculous. No one has the right to out someone else no matter the age. Especially when something like this can cause severe physical, mental, and/or emotional abuse from parents and other family towards the child!!! If the child doesn't want their parents to know they are trans, there is probably a good reason for it! I strongly oppose this! Especially since trans kids in they foster system can't legally change their names for a variety of reasons and the surgeries and treatments cannot safely be started until after puberty.  ALL kids need support and transgender kids are among the most vulnerable among us. Their teachers and school should be a safe place for them to get support. Trans rights are human rights! Just because these people happen to be under 18 makes them have no less rights than any other trans person on earth!


Strongly opposed

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<p>As a father of three kids attending Virginia public schools, I’m very much opposed to this. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>Trans students are not threats. This proposal is a threat to them and against the role of our schools to treat all students fairly and protect the vulnerable. </p>


Strongly oppose, it is very damaging to these kids who are already at risk

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<p>I strongly oppose these changes.  This is so damaging to kids who are already at great risk for bullying, parental abuse or alienation, and suicide.  Children aren’t mere possessions, they have rights too.  Is there some sense that if the schools use preferred pronouns and names, that it might be contagious, or give “impressionable” children some ideas on how they want to live? Having another child hear the name Mark vs. Mary is not going to “corrupt” them, but it will have very adverse affects on a child whose identity doesn’t match their birth name.  This is absurd, the children who need to be protected are the trans and non binary.  Just stop with the fragility, all of these students will end up in the real world at some point.  You can’t keep them in a bubble, but you can try to make school as palatable as possible for those kids who are truly at risk.  </p>


Strongly oppose!

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Strongly oppose these new policies which will harm transgender individuals.


Save the Children, Respect the Parents

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Stop the Alphabet people from destroying our kids


Another terrible educational policy

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Governor Youngkin,

Despite campaigning successfully on education, your policies have done nothing but hamper Virginia’s public education system. Perhaps that is your goal, so that you and your party can institute private school vouchers, which will be yet another policy that strains Virginia’s public education system.

As an educator myself, who is looking to return to VA to teach after finishing my Master’s degree, I believe that you need to keep your meddling hands out of VA’s public school system, that is, unless you are willing to fund each and every school appropriately to achieve true equitable opportunities for our youth. Our youth and teachers have it hard enough readjusting from the educational setbacks caused by the pandemic without your “tattletale policies” that pit teachers against parents (referring to your teacher report hotline here) and now you’re trying to pit your teachers against the students.

Teacher-student relationships require a sense of mutual respect, which is earned by both parties. By implementing this policy, you are setting back this agreement of mutual respect in the classroom by A.) taking away some of the teacher’s ability to respect a


This involves a child's health and a parent's right to notice on all health issues.

Jim Myles, Republican Nominee 11th Congressional District of Virginia

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The "trans" movement appears to be a novelty taking root in our public schools.  This is a serious mental health issue, included in the DSM V - 302.6, Gender Identity Disorder in Children; 302.85, Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescents or Adults; 302.6, Gender Identity Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.

I am a former Social Security Administrative Law Judge that heard thousands of cases, many involving child disability.  It is my opinion that to have untrained school personnel trying to treat serious physical and mental health issues without a parent's knowledge and consent presents a serious danger to the child.  Only qualified health professionals, together with a parent or legal guardian, are equipped to deal with serious physical and/or mental health issues in our  children.  This must include but not be limited to diagnosis and appropriate treatment for health issues.  These qualified health professionals have the education, training and experience to address these issues, with licensure and notification requirements to protect children and families.  This is not a school issue, not at all.  Any school personnel that interfere in a child's physical or mental health without parental consent should be held to account.


GREAT JOB GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN

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GREAT JOB GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN


I strongly oppose this action!

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These draconian rules aren't merely cruel to a child struggling mightily. They are a dangerous wall, designed to discourage children from seeking out assistance from a sympathetic adult, precisely at the moment when they may need that guidance most.

Every kid, including trans and nonbinary kids, deserves to feel safe to bring their authentic self to school.


So wrong and damaging on so many levels

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This is, at its core, the imposition of a moral agenda; one despicably masquerading as a rights issue. And just like the similar recent Roe v Wade debacle, once again the rights (and well-being) least considered are of those individuals most severely impacted. Human beings deserve to be who they are openly and to be positively supported regardless of what views their parents (or anyone else) might wish to impose upon them, and to support these new measures displays a serious lack of understanding of just how deeply so many would be seriously impacted. Either that or a cruel, callous disregard.

The silver lining here is that these regressive measures are really not where we’re ultimately going as a society and will be rectified in the coming months and years. Just unfortunate there will be a lot of suffering and legal wrangling in the meantime. We have to be better to our fellow human beings than this! Hang in there those about to suffer, know that you have support and that we will get past this.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Stop the discrimination and persecution against our transgender students. This policy will have the effect of increasing youth homelessness, suicide and depression among youth and increase dropout rates. This policy will do all harm and absolutely no good. Transgender students should be afforded dignity, respect and safety in their schools, and the freedom to be fully themselves and live their truth. As an educator, I provide a safe space and unconditional acceptance for all of my students. </p>


Trans Rights are Human Rights

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it's terrifying enough that kids have to go to school every day with the fear that they could be killed and to now not feel safe in their own body and identity? they should not fear being outed before they're ready and the schools should not have the rights to police these kids or their bodies.


Support for Governor Youngkin

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Parents are responsible for their minor children. It is not appropriate for schools or government to be disingenuous towards parents regarding their children.


Strongly Oppose

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Our most vulnerable children deserve better than this


Strongly Oppose New Transgender Policy

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As a concerned parent of a student in Virginia Public schools, I am writing to STRONGLY oppose the new transgender policy put forth by the Governor. Forcing teachers to out kids to their possibly unsupportive parents is dangerous and misguided. ALL kids need support and transgender kids are among the most vulnerable among us. Their teachers and school should be a safe place for them to get support. Trans rights are human rights!


Parent opposed to the new guidelines

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As both a parent and someone who has worked with LGBTQ youth I strongly oppose the withdrawal of the 2021 model policies.  LGBTQ youth are at higher risk of suicide and homelessness.  Allowing students to choose their preferred form of address in school no more impinges on parental rights than a student asking for a gender-conforming nickname.  By allowing the same basic courtesy to ALL students, schools can provide room for self discovery, individuation, and autonomy while protecting some from the risks that may arise from being “out” in their homes.  Addressing a person the way they prefer to be addressed is a basic kindness, that can be extended to students without cost, and may improve outcomes for a group at high risk.


OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose ALL actions that roll back efforts to protect trans kids. We are ALL made in God’s image and God does not make mistakes. These actions will only increase the toll on  students, teachers and families. When need to care for and support ALL children so that they can grow up and be functioning, contributing members to society.

Thank you.


Why are you attacking our children? Give them a safe place

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In a world where so much hatred is going around, why would anyone want our children to feel less safe and have less of a voice? Let them have a safe place. It doesn't hurt anyone for them to be their authentic selves. It breaks my heart that this is even a discussion. There are so many horrible things going on in this world and this is NOT one of them. How a person chooses to express themselves is of no concern to anyone else.

It's really a sad thing to see where VA is going with Youngkin in office. Please do not let this happen.


Oppose

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<p>STRONGLY OPPOSE the guidance. Being accepted in school saves lives, don’t dehumanize our youth </p>


Completely support parental rights!

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I support the Governor on this issue!


STRONGLY oppose this is disgusting

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I strongly oppose this horrible decision


STRONGLY OPPOSE: Fix REAL problems and stop using our children as pawns

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I strongly oppose the adoption of this proposed model school policy. There are real issues at stake in the Virginia Public Education system and burning time and precious resources elevating on discriminatory practices for the sole purpose of political pandering is both outrageous and disgusting. The content of these proposed changes represents an ideology that runs counter not only to scientific understanding of human development, but also to evidence-based best practices in ensuring child welfare. There is no legal standing for its adoption because this policy, as proposed, violates legal precedent and constitutional protections already established and upheld in our Commonwealth. Given its lack of legal merit, notwithstanding the grave harm it proposes to inflict on a minority of students, who are already among the most vulnerable of our children, exerting any legislative effort in adopting this policy will prove fruitless, unnecessarily burdening the judicial system with challenges and appeals, at the expense of all VA taxpayers. This policy's only purpose is to serve as a political dog whistle, speaking to engage a specific population of voters, many of whom have no stake in the outcome this policy seeks to effect, i.e. how transgender and non-binary youth are treated in a school setting.

I am a lifelong Virginian, a product of the VA public school system, and my daughter attends VA public schools. I live, work, pay taxes, and vote in Virginia and I am thoroughly disgusted by the current administration's attempt to grasp at political points from atop the backs of children. I vehemently reject this ill-conceived policy.


Gender Identity Issues in the Schools

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Thank you for taking the time to consider all of these comments and act in a manner that is in the best interest of the students.  As a psychotherapist, I am well aware of the high suicide rates these young people have due to their difficult path, lack of acceptance, and at times, harassment.  The experience of struggling with gender identity is a private struggle, and these young people should not be outed before they are ready for public conflict.  I am concerned that the lack of support in these proposed policies will add additional stress to these already stressed students when there is no research to support that there is any risk in allowing them to use the bathrooms of their choice without discussion.  I believe we adults want to model an environment of love and acceptance for all students, no matter their struggles.  What an opportunity for us to model this for all the students of Virginia.  Then we can go back to the focus of education.

Thank you again for your consideration.

Susan J. Virginia, MSW, LCSW


Unbelievable, the hatred this Admin and Republicans have

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It costs literally nothing to be supportive and affirming to the trans community. Using correct pronouns, an affirming name, and protecting trans kids from hateful parents is such an obviously correct thing to do. The danger that these guidelines will put trans kids in should make you ashamed to be a public officer. Countless studies have shown the positive affects support has had for LGBTQ+ children and the harm that things like conversion therapy have done. The idea that parents always know best for their children is false and the reason many people end up with trauma as adults. It is also heavily rooted in this idea that children are the property of their parents.

In terms of trans people using the correct facilities, there is no reason to force trans people out of their correct spaces. The dangers that you all say exists does not and there's almost no evidence of it. Trans girls are often harassed at a similar rate to cis girls and do no more harm than cis girls. If you really wanted to protect girls you would be doing more to fight the endemic of violence perpetuated by cis men. Cis men perform acts of violence and sexual assault in much more public places at a much higher rate to women and yet we still allow them to enter these spaces. Maybe we should spend less time using marginalized groups to hate other marginalized groups and focus more on the real issue at hand.


Teacher strongly opposed

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<p>Teachers are here to help students grow. We need a level of trust to connect with all students. The idea that we have to "out" a child is disgusting. Frankly it's dangerous and will lead to unsafe situations for students. </p>


I'm STRONGLY opposed to this policy change

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You can't claim "respect for all students" in a policy that actively discriminates and demeans a group of people.


Transphobia kills children

As an alumni of Prince William County schools, I'm proud of the students for protesting this proposed policy. Transphobic policies like this lead children to suicide. It's disgusting to require teachers and staff to misgender students who don't have written permission from their parents to be transgender, and it is incredibly dangerous to require educators to out transgender students to their families. This policy is going to kill children. Please do some research on the dangers of transphobia:Transgender teens 7.6 times more likely to attempt suicide - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/transgender-teens-7-6-times-more-likely-to-attempt-suicide"52% of all transgender and nonbinary young people in the U.S. seriously contemplated killing themselves in 2020. More than half thought it would be better to be dead, rather than trying to live with rejection, isolation, loneliness, bullying and being targeted by politicians and activists pushing anti-trans legislation." - https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/05/19/terrible-time-for-trans-youth-new-survey-spotlights-suicide-spike---and-hope/?sh=541ac961716e
"Multiracial transgender and nonbinary youth reported higher rates of suicide risk, with 55% seriously considering suicide and 22% attempting suicide in the past year" - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/multiracial-lgbtq-youth-face-heightened-suicide-risk/
"22% of transgender boys and men reported attempting suicide in the past year, compared to 6% of cisgender boys and men." - https://time.com/6173081/suicidal-thoughts-lgbtq-youth/

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As an alumni of Prince William County schools, I'm proud of the students for protesting this proposed policy. Transphobic policies like this lead children to suicide. It's disgusting to require teachers and staff to misgender students who don't have written permission from their parents to be transgender, and it is incredibly dangerous to require educators to out transgender students to their families. This policy is going to kill children.

Please do some research on the dangers of transphobia:
Transgender teens 7.6 times more likely to attempt suicide - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/transgender-teens-7-6-times-more-likely-to-attempt-suicide
"52% of all transgender and nonbinary young people in the U.S. seriously contemplated killing themselves in 2020. More than half thought it would be better to be dead, rather than trying to live with rejection, isolation, loneliness, bullying and being targeted by politicians and activists pushing anti-trans legislation." - https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/05/19/terrible-time-for-trans-youth-new-survey-spotlights-suicide-spike---and-hope/?sh=541ac961716e

"Multiracial transgender and nonbinary youth reported higher rates of suicide risk, with 55% seriously considering suicide and 22% attempting suicide in the past year" - https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/multiracial-lgbtq-youth-face-heightened-suicide-risk/

"22% of transgender boys and men reported attempting suicide in the past year, compared to 6% of cisgender boys and men." - https://time.com/6173081/suicidal-thoughts-lgbtq-youth/


PLEASE PROTECT ALL THE CHILDREN NOT JUST THE ONES YOU APPROVE OF

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Being neurodivergent as a teen was difficult enough without knowing what caused it, I can only imagine what it's like for a child going through puberty questioning themselves on a more fundamental level. Please protect ALL of the children, and not just the ones you approve of. Narrowing down the ways that children are safe to discover themselves just makes it that much harder. Please give them the space to grow!


This policy endangers children

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I have been a sponsor for a middle school GSA for six years and the number one reason sisters job or club is because they are afraid of being kicked out of their homes BY THEIR PARENTS. These are  11-13 year old children who are afraid of their parents and want help. My job is to help students take to their parents about who they are in a eat that makes them feel safe but this law would not allow me to. This law hurts children. Parents do not always know best. Done parents are abusive and this law protects abusive parents, not children.


Support Parental Involvement! How can you support MH and NOT want to work with parents.


Support New transgender policy


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I support LGBTQ youth. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSED -

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<p>Bottom line - This policy will cause harm to children.  It will isolate them and encourage harassment and abuse towards them by peers and even teachers. These children need to be supported, not vilified. Schools have real issues - retaining and attracting excellent teachers, helping children catch up after disrupted learning. Please focus on issues that will HELP our schools - versus this divisive and cruel policy. </p>


STRONGLY AGREE WITH GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN

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STRONGLY AGREE WITH GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN


SUPPORT WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!!!!!


Do Better For Our Students

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<p>As a transgender graduate of the Virginia School system I must oppose this policy change. There is no excuse beyond veiled bigotry for this change. LGBT folks exist, and by forcing us to hide you are encouraging our deaths, and it's hard to believe that is not what many of this policy changes supporters want. LGBT kids exist and no matter what rhetoric is used to try and obstificate that it will not change. Do better for out students. </p>


Strongly Oppose!

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


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This proposed legislation is ridiculous; teens need to feel respected and understood in order to develop into mentally healthy adults!! </p>


Strongly Opposed to Proposed DOE Model Policies on Transgender Students

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<p>The preamble to the proposed DOE Model Policies on Transgender Students (MPTS) claims that the 2021 MPTS was ideologically driven. Yet the proposed substitute 2022 MPTS is CLEARLY a religiously tinged, non-scientific approach to the realities of being transgender. I oppose causing harm to kids based on a wrong headed notion of parental rights actually meant to enhance the Governor’s political ambitions. </p>