Strongly Oppose

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<p>Students deserve to have a certain level of comfort in schools. The Commonwealth claims to respect the individual characteristics of each student, but changing this policy goes directly against that. Students in school are at a critical point of exploration in their life, from their opinions, appearance, and even their gender and sexuality. Suppressing any of these things is detrimental. Students who are exploring their gender are not doing so "for fun" or because they want to dominate the opposite gender's sport, or use the opposite gender's locker room or bathroom. They are exploring who they are, and who they are comfortable being. They feel uncomfortable in their own body and seek to find a way to be who they are. </p>


I support keeping bathrooms,changing rooms, sports teams, sleeping quarters, and separated based on

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<p>Please keep spaces safe for biological girls and boys. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose the implementation of this policy. As a product of the Virginia public education system (which Youngkin and his children are not), the caliber of our schools is a point of pride and should stand above this discriminatory and exclusionary ideas masqueraded as “family-focused” policy.

School is, and should remain, a safe place for students everyone but especially those who do not have the support system they deserve at home. This policy directly contradicts the spirit of that while also focuses on an aspect that has NOTHING to do with education itself.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>For the safety of others, if you are truly a person of representing everyone, do NOT implement this policy. </p>


Strongly Support

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I strongly support the measures in this bill.  Parent's should be involved in any decision about the health and well being of their child/children.  And the rights of all children are important. This proposed legislation achieves both of these objectives.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


Strongly Oppose


I agree with the Governor 100%.

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<p>While I agree that the safety of all children should be taken into consideration I also feel that the old policy concerning bathrooms did not take the safety of girls into consideration.  They should also feel safe walking into a bathroom and not having to fear that someone stating they are transgender (however has an another motive) is in the restroom.  I also feel that if a child is expressing that they want to be the opposite gender that the parents should be informed.  That is where the discussion should take place. With the parents at home. Teachers need to concentrate on education of the core basics and deter from or not feel forced to talking to child about how they can become a mermaid if they want to.   </p>


Strongly oppose

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Virginia is turning into a very homophobic state. Not allowing people to use a persons CORRECT PRONOUNS AND NAME and instead using a name that is incorrect and just wrong? It’s like taking a pickle, sure it used to be a cucumber, but your not gonna call it s cucumber! Your gonna call it a pickle! What your doing is saying, no this pickle never has been a pickle and never will be a pickle, it is a cucumber. No matter what everyone else says. You are wrong. Do you see the problem yet? Ok, maybe my metaphor doesn’t have the same meaning. Say you have a transgender student. They recently came out and there parents don’t support them. They don’t have friends in this example so just go with me here. So they feel awful about the self’s and feel like something is wrong with them. They go to a teacher to try to find support only for that teacher to also tell them there’s something wrong with them. Well now there’s no one to support them and they feel awful about themself. What do you think is gonna happen? Are you TRYING to raise suicide rates? Because that’s what it looks like your doing! Seriously, do you want kids to have there identity thrown out a window and say, hey, you know how you have your rights? Yeah no.

Thank you for reading you homophobic people, and have an awful day/night.

(PS: try to think of the consequences before enacting on them for a change)


Strongly Oppose

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I strongly oppose this bigoted and harmful policy. Besides causing distress to trans teenagers by misgendering them, this policy will also encourage harassment and abuse towards them by peers and even teachers. It's disgusting that vulnerable children are being victimized for their gender identities by the institutions which should be protecting them.

The authors of this policy should be ashamed of themselves. This is just wanton cruelty by people who know they are on the wrong side of history.


Oppose Youngkin's 2022 rules for trans students

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<p>I strongly oppose Governor Youngkin's proposal to remove the 2021 model policies to protect transgender students. As a parent of two students in public school, I wholeheartedly support my right as a parent to make decisions in the best interest of my children. However, my children live in a safe environment without abuse. Life without fear is not the case for many children in the Commonwealth. Removing these freedoms and protections endangers the physical health of trans children and increases their likelihood of mental stress. Youngkin's proposal draws from his own experiences and does not consider the hardship many in our community face. </p>


Keep the leftist warrior grooming camp out of schools

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We know their true intentions now and will always support the side of a sane society


Strongly oppose


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>Strongly oppose </p>


Mom who Opposes

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As a parent of a queer student, I am fortunate to have a wonderful relationship where my husband and I can openly discuss our child's gender identity and sexuality.  Unfortunately, we understand that many kids in the high school do not have as great a relationship, and they do not feel comfortable yet coming out to their parents.  Please let schools be a safe space for kids to learn and be themselves.


Do not bully vulnerable children

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Youngkin's anti-trans policy amounts to bullying vulnerable children. Allowing this to go forward is obviously morally reprehensible. These children need to be supported, not vilified. Anyone that would support the organized harassment of children for political gain (which this transparently is) should not be allowed to make decisions for any educational institution.


Strongly Oppose

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This policy would have an overly negative effect on the education of Transgender youth and all students in Virginia:

-When transgender people are aware of anti-trans policies being introduced into their state, they report higher levels of discrimination, greater depressive symptoms, and a decreased sense of belonging.

-Students experience better mental health outcomes when school officials respect their gender and use their chosen names.

-Research shows that when transgender students feel more connected to their school, they are less likely to experience symptoms of anxiety and depression. Schools that adopt the Youngkin administration’s proposed policies will operationalize anti-trans policies and harassment.

-All students deserve to feel safe, and transgender youth report being physically threatened or harmed at twice the rate of other student groups. Outing students will only increase this.

-Having non-discrimination policies reduces LGBTQ+ bullying and increases the presence of positive mental and physical health indicators.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I encourage anyone that believes a conspiracy that public schools are brainwashing youth to spend at least a couple days substitute teaching or learning the state curriculum provided by the VDOE. Requiring teachers to check with parents about nicknames is ridiculous, teachers don't have that much time on their hands nor do they really care because making a child feel seen and cared for leads to better school performance. There is scientific research to support that!

Teachers are not encouraging students to identify as other genders. TEACHERS DO NOT WANT TO PARENT YOUR CHILD. If you have particular requests for how your child is to be educated, then refer to private/home schooling, otherwise they SHOULD be exposed to alternative viewpoints and people who are different because THAT'S THE REAL WORLD. Exposure to differing perspectives is a great way to develop critical thinking skills, teachers are not molding your children to think like any single political side, they are teaching them how to use information to format THEIR OWN THINKING.

I support students in the classroom and I support parents who want to work with teachers to help their child reach their full potential. I do not support policies that do not support students.


Stongly Support

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<p>Srtongly Support </p>


Oppose

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<p>For many children, school is the place where they practice being in the world. This policy targets a small number of vulnerable kids who we already know are at risk, and stigmatizes them for political points. We already know what the outcome of these choices are - severe risk of harm and suicide. Trans kids aren't a risk to anyone at school. Treating them with kindness and respect? No cost. Having policies that support them are easy wins. But instead, you're using vulnerable kids as political fodder. It is disgusting. You talk about the rights of parents, but fundamentally take away the right and ability of parents to protect their trans kids. This is a policy rooted in hate, and you should be ashamed of yourself. </p>


Strongly Oppose Policy

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<p>My child deserves the freedom of persecution under this policy.  I strongly oppose this Policy.  Many kids cannot be free to be themselves if the Governor gets this passed.  Kids will suffer.  </p>


OPPOSE

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This abhorrent policy will harm children. Strongly oppose.


Why so many Republicans molest kids?

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Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Dennis Hastert, Boebert's husband, Ralph Shortey, Ben Gibson, Ruben Verastigui, Adam Hageman, Anton Lazarro, Tim Nolan, Josh Duggar, Gym Jordan...

Republicans hate trans kids but they sure can't keep their hands off them.


SUPPORT TRANS KIDS


Oppose. Saddened.

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It is heartbreaking to me that the “trans agenda” that many speak of is believed to be a weapon that will hurt our children. No. It’s not. There is no trans agenda. This is what there is: opportunity. There is an opportunity to support children as they grow and change into the human being they are destined to be. By creating these channels of negativity and mistrust, children that are aiming to discover who they are and will become WILL GET HURT. This is NOT how to protect children. I was blessed enough to have friends and teachers that kept my personal growth and change private from my family, who surely would have been quick to stunt everything that I was learning. Think of the children. Think about their emotions, thoughts. Put yourself into their shoes.


Protect trans kids

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The science is clear, trans kids are real and they know themselves, and their outcomes are better when they receive affirming care and are in affirming environments. So many trans people died before the 2010’s because of inadequate care, especially children. Adult discomfort or fear about children who are different from them is reprehensible before it comes with such a heavy and lethal price. Everyone in support of this bill and the people who proposed it should be deeply ashamed at the depths of moral abdication they have all Peres themselves to be led to. Trans kids are real, so are their experiences, gender is not an ideology, and deciding there’s more of something just because you can actually see it now doesn’t make it a new thing.

protect trans kids. If you ever claim to care about any kids, then you should care about trans kids. Allow no legislation that harms them or denies them. live the ethics y’all claim to have, and protect trans kids.


Strongly Oppose-Support Trans/Gender Variant Rights

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I work in a field in which the residual impact of discrimination continues to influence people's lives, well-being, self-perception, job opportunities, and mental health.  I strongly oppose any legislation or government policy or guidance that would communicate discrimination and make unsafe the lives of trans and gender variant youth and adults. Data suggests that trans individuals are more likely to contemplate and attempt suicide but there are ways to protect trans/gender variant youth - including respecting pronouns, creating safety in schools, allowing individuals to be the expert on who they are and supporting the identity they identify with (without requiring "approval" from outside sources). Please show you value all individuals, and oppose this.


This policy is absolutely horrible

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<p>One in five trans people attempt suicide. My brother is trans and in November 2020 he attempted suicide, where he was in the hospital for a month. My family and I are extremely lucky that he is okay and alive, but that does mean that everyone came out of it with serious trauma. Passing this bill will heighten the already higher suicide rate of transgender youth, along with making them extremely unsafe everywhere they go. Just writing this has made me sob, not only thinking about my brother, but all of the children that this will affect if put into law. </p>


This policy is absolutely horrible


Strongly Against

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Stop this hateful crap!

More important things to be concerned about.

Stop being a hateful GOP stooge.


Proposed changes to transgender guidlines


Absolutely disgusting policies

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<p style="text-align: center;">Governor Youngkin’s new policies towards transgender students are absolutely disgusting. They are based solely on hate and ignorance, and will cause many students to suffer for no good reason. </p>


Strongly Support

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The 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity and Respect for all Studends and Parents in Virgnia’s Public Schools are a welcome change and will enhance the safety of children in Virginia schools as well as restore trust among parents.

First, parents have constitutional rights to raise their children.  (See Supreme Court cases of Stanley v. Illinois and Troxel v. Granville among others.)  Virginia’s schools have no authority to undermine the rights of parents in critical matters related to the health, emotional well being and safety of their children.  Prior Virginia policies have done exactly that.

Second, prior Virginia policy effectively socially transitioned children without parental knowledge or consent.  Social transition (accepting a trans-identifying persons claim to be a sex other than their biological sex) is not easily reversible or harmless.  In fact, social transition is strongly correlated with progression to medical intervention. (1)

Medical intervention consists of irreversible and largely experimental treatments, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery.  Recent studies show that medical transition does not necessarily lead to positive outcomes for patients. (2) In fact, earlier this year, Sweden’s National Board of Health, which for years was an aggressive proponent of medical intervention for children, called for “tight restrictions” on all hormonal treatments for minors (puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones). (3)

Given the lack of proof of a positive outcome, why should Virginia schools violate parents’ constitutional rights and set young children on a path to a lifetime of expensive, risky medical care IN SECRET AND WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT?  There is no proof that Virginia’s parents are transphobic bigots who should be excluded from involvement in their children’s lives.  There is no proof that Virginia’s prior policies led to better outcomes for students or families or classrooms.  Instead, it seems apparent to anyone with common sense that Virginia’s prior policies turned teachers and administrators into clandestine agents, required to lie to parents about matters of the utmost importance to a child’s well-being.  The 2022 Model Policies are a step toward restoring parents to their rightful place as protectors of their children.

(1)  de Vries, A. L., & Cohen-Kettenis, P. T. (2012). Clinical management of gender dysphoria in children and adolescents: The Dutch approach. Journal of Homosexuality 59 (3): 301–320.

Zucker, K. J. (2019). Debate: Different strokes for different folks. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 25(1): 36-37.

Steensma, T.D., McGuire, J.K., Kreukels, B.P., Beekman, A.J. & Cohen-Kettenis, P.T. (2013). Factors associated with desistence and persistence of childhood gender dysphoria: a quantitative follow-up study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 52 (6): 582-90.

(2) D’Angelo, R. (2018). Psychiatry’s ethical involvement in gender-affirming care. Australasian Psychiatry 26 (5): 460-463.

Haupt, C., Henke, M., Kutschmar, A., Hauser, B., Baldinger, S., Saenz, S.R. & Schreiber, G. (2020). Antiandrogen or estradiol treatment or both during hormone therapy in transitioning transgender women. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 11.

(3) Care of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (2022).


OPPOSE

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Studies show that supporting trans youth saves LIVES.  I support life saving policies and strongly oppose any measure that will harm any child, including anti trans policies.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Trans children should be allowed to use whatever name, pronouns, and bathrooms they want. Simple as that. Let them live and express themselves in their truest form. </p>


Approve

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I have read through this proposed change and find nothing harmful.  This change should go through.


STRONGLY SUPPORT


Oppose- this policy may cost children their lives

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This policy and guidance is nothing more than political theater that will literally cost children their lives. Transgender children often live in homes where their gender is not validated by their family. This leads to a direct increase in suicide and suicidal behavior. This guidance of forcing the parent to request, in writing, that a name or pronoun be used is yet another barrier to having a child be safe and validated. School needs to be a safe place for children. Safe physically and emotionally.

I am concerned that the far-right wing agenda of this Administration will cost children their lives. I strongly oppose this document and using children as political theater.


Strongly Oppose

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Isn't Youngkin's new hate campaign (i.e  LGBTQ "policy") un-Constitutional?


Representation Matters - Stop the Cruelty

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<p>Trans students deserve a safe, non-threatening school environment just like their cisgender peers get. As a parent of a trans student in Arkansas, I’m sending all the love and support to not only the LGBTQ students but also to their ally’s who are speaking out against this act of cruelty towards their friends. I’m am so sick of the bullying coming from adults who are supposed to have ALL of their constituents best interests in mind. Enough of the ostracizing and demeaning acts of cruelty to our amazing youth! Shame on you. You will never silence or erase them because they KNOW who they are. </p>


Strongly Against

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Stop this hateful crap!

More important things to be concerned about.

Stop being a hateful stooge.


This issue should be between the child, their parent(s) & their religious figure head.

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<p>This issue should be resolved between the child, their parent(s) & their religious views (beliefs). Government has no place in the decision-making process; however, they should guarantee a safe & healthy environment for each & every student </p>


Strongly Oppose!


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This would be a disaster for our trans students who already face extreme difficulty and challenges, and whose rates of attempter suicide are far higher than other youth. Do not send Virginia back in time. </p>


Strongly SUPPORT

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As a psychotherapist, I strongly support including parents in children's lives. Studies show that when a child socially transitions, they are more likely to take puberty blockers and hormones, which will permanently alter the child's body. Children cannot consent to this and they are never born in the wrong body.


STRONGLY OPPOSE


Parental rights are restored with this policy

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Thank you for proposing a common sense solution to this issue.  Every policy in education should face two tests:

Does this respect parents rights?

Will this support a positive academic outcome for children?

This does both, and then some.  It solves many issues related to the conversation about how we ensure parents are in control of the upbringing of their children and respecting the rights and dignity of all students.

Educators that are interested in the social transformation and indoctrination of Virginias’ youth have no place in taxpayer funded government schools.  Anyone that wishes to have hyper-sexualized conversations absent of parental consent with youth should be looked at as a groomer, and nothing less.   This great investigative piece by an independent journalist shows what the radical NEA wants to expose our children with, and I don’t see how this doesn’t have criminal implications:

https://christopherrufo.com/sexual-disturbance/

I am very thankful that the Youngkin administration has taken this issue head on and provided a policy that respects the well-being and dignity of all students, takes authority over children away from government educators and returns it to parents, and neutralizes a social issue that distracts us from what Virginia schools should be doing - providing a quality education to every child, regardless of the ZIP code they live in.

Well done!


SUPPORT


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I OPPOSE the guidance.  It's harmful to all students.


We laud the change in Policy:   Guidance Document, Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender S

Miriam Ben-Shalom, Hands Across The Aisle Women IN Coalition

Hands Across The Aisle lauds the Department of Education's proposed changes in the Guidance Document, Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.  We believe that no child is born in the wrong body and that the grooming going on in schools must be stopped.  While we acknowledge that there _may be_ the very rare real transsexual student, the vast majority of these "transgender students" are really victims of a social contagion.  There isn't even any solid definition of what being transgender is except that someone says they ARE!  They do not need "validation" or "affirmation", they need decent talk therapy to help them through puberty.  Statistics say that 90% of these so-called transgender students get over it and go on to live as their biological sex so it behooves schools to alert PARENTS if something off-kilter is going on with their child as opposed to lying and enabling behavior that parents are not told about.Do not bow to the transgender juggernaut.  Do work to preserve children as they are, not as medicalized, sterilized, and sometimes mutilated "authentic" humans.  These children are our next generation.

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Hands Across The Aisle lauds the Department of Education's proposed changes in the Guidance Document, Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools.

We believe that no child is born in the wrong body and that the grooming going on in schools must be stopped.  While we acknowledge that there _may be_ the very rare real transsexual student, the vast majority of these "transgender students" are really victims of a social contagion.  There isn't even any solid definition of what being transgender is except that someone says they ARE!  They do not need "validation" or "affirmation", they need decent talk therapy to help them through puberty.  Statistics say that 90% of these so-called transgender students get over it and go on to live as their biological sex so it behooves schools to alert PARENTS if something off-kilter is going on with their child as opposed to lying and enabling behavior that parents are not told about.

Do not bow to the transgender juggernaut.  Do work to preserve children as they are, not as medicalized, sterilized, and sometimes mutilated "authentic" humans.  These children are our next generation.


Oppose Vehemently

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This guidance document is a thinly veiled discriminatory effort against trans children and an undercutting of the public education system. Schools should be teaching in accordance with accepted academic thought, not through the lens of parents' political leanings. Adjusting curriculum to reflect parents' wishes is at odds with offering children the most well-rounded and full education available. For the future of an educated America we should be teaching children with all resources available, not just the ones advocated for by small-minded parents.


New Policy is Abhorrent and Dangerous

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As an educator, as a Virginian, and as a human, I strongly oppose the proposed policy regarding transgender students in schools. The bottom line is that all students deserve to be respected, loved, and valued for who they are at school.

Teachers work hard to earn the trust of all of their students and this policy will make it even more challenging to develop those relationships. Students will not be able to confide in them without fear of being outed to their parents. As I student, I confided in teachers as a neutral third party. This proposal effectively removes that confidant for many children around the Commonwealth. Additionally, the student is the only person who can decide who and when to come out; it is not the decision of the teachers, parents, or the Governor.

This policy enables transphobia in schools and our communities by requiring written parental permission for students to be called their preferred names. Parents who "don't believe" in trans people will continue to dead name and misgender their children. Those uncomfortable coming out to their parents will not be able to express their true selves.  If schools are meant to be safe spaces for students, that needs to include ALL students, including the trans ones. The proposal recognizes schools should be safe places for all students but does not take into account the harm that will be done by outing students to transphobic parents. If students cannot find support at home or at school, where are they supposed to find it? This policy is reckless and absolutely more dangerous to trans students than the 2021 policy, regardless of what the Governor says.

All in all, this policy is absolutely abhorrent and I truly hope the Governor and the Board of Education reconsider the dangers this will pose for the mental health of students across the Commonwealth. This is very clearly political theater and the Governor is using the children of the Commonwealth as pawns.


Strongly oppose, this will hurt children

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This change is cruel and will hurt LGBTQ+ students. As someone who came out as gay in a Virginia public high school, I know doing so under this new guidance would have driven me deeper into depression. This change will drive children to suicide and the governor will have blood on his hands.


Your anonymity is awfully telling...

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All of you supporters of this motion...put your ing name on your opinion, cowards.  First and Last.  Or do you feel like your opinion is something to be ashamed of?


Stomgly Opppose

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<p>This is an absolute violation and is concerning as a parent of a young child.  Really overstepping boundaries and opening the door wide open to discrimination of an already marginalized group. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This policy will kill transgender youth, and it will be murder by your hand if permitted to take effect. </p>


Protect Trans Kids

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I strongly oppose Governor Youngkin’s proposal targeting trans youth in schools. It is a myopic, and frankly hateful, attack on some of our most vulnerable children. The American Academy of Pediatrics found in 2018 that half of trans male teens and 30% of trans female teens had tried to kill themselves. These numbers have not changed significantly in a decade. Why make things worse for our children? (I use the collective “our” because we must provide for, and protect, every child and especially children who are underserved by our current policies and practices.)

As a Virginia taxpayer, I also take issue with the Governor using children to push his own political agenda and his personal political ambition. This proposal is unconstitutional, and significant litigation will ensue if and when it is enacted. That litigation will be costly and will take our public servants away from their substantive work to instead defend discrimination. I do not want my tax dollars used to support this discriminatory policy.


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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This policy is cruel, helps no one, and will absolutely harm countless children.


Trans kids deserve to exist

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You can't force people to not be trans. All you do is make them feel lonely and unworthy. This is unacceptable. Every child deserves to be loved


Support Parents

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All the negative comments clearly haven't read the proposed guidelines,  Parents not only have the responsibility for the well being of their children they have the obligation.  All this policy does is to ensure parents are involved and not side lined by political activist agendas.  In the cases where the child fears threatened due to parental abuse then these situations should be reported to social services by the school counselor.  There is nothing in this policy that threatens any transgendered student.  Accommodations are encouraged such as single bathrooms.

All I see from the anti-comments is more demands that schools replace the role of the parent.

I support this model set of guidelines as do the majority of Virginians, not the well orchestrated attacks by politically motivated activists.


STRONGLY OPPOSED - Government should stay out of Virginia schools!

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I thought that individual freedom of expression and lack of government oversight into personal choices were core American values. This policy violates both in an attempt to control and harm children. It’s shameful that so many Virginians - especially our leaders - are afraid of trans and non-binary people being themselves.


Look at the Science

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I have a friend who has done lots of research into brain development in children. I asked her why she thought there were so many children questioning what their gender.  She said that the research is suggesting plastics are causing abnormalities in the brain, including gender development.
I really can’t offer you any more information than this. Considering how many children and families gender identification affects, it would be good to look at the cause behind it. Invest in real research. It can’t be that all of a sudden, children, at young ages, start questioning whether they are a boy or a girl without something behind it. Stop blaming parents and teachers!!
What is most important in childhood development is that children are free to express themselves. Putting them in boxes, and then putting a lid on it, will lead to mental issues, self-worth issues, and possibly suicides.
“Do on to others, as you would do unto yourself.” There must be a compassionate way to address this.  You can’t force it to go away.  Try harder.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>These restrictions of trans rights are egregious.  These new policies are acts of violence on trans children, and they severely compromise the safety of queer and trans children.  ALL children in schools are entitled to having a safe and comfortable environment to learn in.  This is both devastating to trans children and teachers.  We have a teacher shortage, educators will be caught in terrible position that could cause them their jobs if they do not comply with these ridiculous guidelines.  These proposed rules by our governor will strip trans students of their rights, and is a strategic political move to make him an appealing presidential candidate to conservative, fundamentalist voters.  These proposed rules are sickening and disturbing. </p>
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In SUPPORT of policy changes that will protect children from emotional/physical sexual manipulation

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The development of children is complicated enough without malevolent attempts by agenda-driven outside agents to — at the least — confuse and — at the most — damage irretrievably the entire life and future of a child.  Where do these efforts come from?  The motives seem to be either grooming or outright destruction of human beings.  Not all that long ago such efforts would be called child abuse and the authorities would be sent in.

It is not okay for people in a position of trust — teachers — to be slyly subverting our youth against the knowledge and wishes of the parents and other citizens who are paying taxes to schools to do one thing:  teach reading, writing, math and other subjects that give kids skills to make a happy life for themselves.  It is not the place of the schools to interrupt the development of kids that will ultimately cause them loss of social skills, inability of having families and possibly even suicide.

It is not okay for the education industry to be secretively or even defiantly teaching and encouraging self destructive ideas to kids, any more than it would be okay for them to teach kids how to manufacture weapons that would blow up themselves and others.


SUPPORT


Common sense returns!

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As a parent I strongly support these changes. It protects all students and partners with parents to make best decisions for that families. Thank you for some common sense!


Strongly Oppose the new policy

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Dear Gov. Youngkin,

Why are you putting the rights of parents above the rights of students? Repealing the 2021 policy is to appease parents not to protect students. I strongly feel that you’re going backwards instead of forwards in society and inacting this new policy goes in the wrong direction of progress.

Sincerely,

Lauren Reardon


As a parent & teacher: OPPOSE! OPPOSE! OPPOSE!

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<p>These kids will walk out every day and I will be there cheering their efforts because they are stronger than us. Pleas register to vote. Please vote. Please help these children know they’re supported by the state and their communities even if the elected officials are being culled by vile lies and misinformation and pure ignorance. </p>


hey! teachers! Leave Them Kids Alone

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Please stop inflicting life long trauma on these kids and just let them be their authentic selves. Leave your own sexual and gender hangups at home. Or better yet, take them to therapy sessions. Stop shoving kids in closets and let them grow free range.


WEF cronies have taken advantage of kids.. trans agenda gone to far

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Support Youngkin and kids from radical agendas of Klaus S


Strongly Opposed

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I would say that given the correlation between trans repression and suicide, there is a compelling state interest in interfering on behalf of trans rights (ie not outing them to their parents involuntarily and certainly not singling them out with guidances like this). Suggesting that this issue does not rise to that level of interest, as this document attempts to, makes it hard to believe that children's wellbeing is actually what's being valued here.

Do better.


Consider other ways to empower parents

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Revisions to the state’s guidance on K-12 education treatment of transgender students was, according to Gov. Youngkin (paraphrased) a way to empower parents in their participation in the public school system. Parents have plenty of ways to be involved in their children’s education. The revised guidance comes at the expense of vulnerable students and teachers, who would have to violate their right to privacy. Requiring that students be referred by the gender they aren’t if they weren’t given written permission by parents compounds the prejudices and hatred transgender people experience, particularly for young students.

Rather than revise the already thoughtful and thorough guidance with regressive guidance that that placed students and educators at risk, highlight the numerous ways that parents can be involved in public school system.


Strongly oppose this rollback of human rights

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<p>The new model policy is cruel and regressive. We anticipate the courts will overturn it, but in the meantime I want to register my strong opposition, as the parent of two public school students. </p>


This document violates numerous instances of settled law

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The proposals in this document violate Grimm v. GCSB, Article 8, Section 7 the Constitution of Virginia, and Section B-1 of the Virginia Human Rights Act, as well as inflicting harm on transgender children and their families.


I STRONGLY oppose the Transgender guidance from Younkin

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<p>Instilling a sense of self is part of educating children.  Educators are there to guide kids strength within to learn.  How can a transgender child learn if they are singled out for being who they are? </p>


I strongly oppose


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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Why is it that people want to move back in time so bad? When thinking about historical civilizations, progressiveness is how a civilization advances, and this bill will not advance society and instead will set them back and kill hundreds of children along with it.


STRONGLY OPPOSE


Don't take us backward! Oppose these proposed rules!

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It's not about parents rights. As a parent I have a right to support my trans teen. Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming students have human rights that should not be wantonly violated. Physical and mental safety should take priority over political games. Do not make Virginia synonymous with hate.

REJECT THIS PROPOSAL AND RETAIN THE EXISTING PROTECTIONS FOR TRANS YOUTH.


Student Rights

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OPPOSED TO YOUNGKIN's TRANSGENDER POLICY!! If he's so worried about education, how about providing all students a learning environment where they feel safe and welcome.  Narrow minded to believe you can exclude and subvert the rights of some yet somehow provide equal education to all.


I support this policy

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I support Youngkin's Model Policy on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents.


STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS BILL

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glenn youngkin is actively minimizing the ability for trans people to feel safe in an environment where they should be. If you support this legislation you do not support human rights: plain and simple.


In support of the Governor’s new policy

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I am a mother of two daughters, both in public schools in VA. The stories my oldest has told me about things that go on in her school have been so concerning. Half her friends are changing names and genders. And there are teachers there who have made it clear they will not share those things with parents. She, being a young teen, also struggles with insecurities and wanting privacy, and the thought of biological boys in the locker room or bathroom has caused a lot of fear and anxiety. Our girls are also athletes, and I was a female athlete my whole life. Biological males being allowed to dominate girls sports has been devastating to watch. It would mean the world to me that my daughters will have the chance to compete and shine fairly in their sports. Please approve this policy change, for all of the young girls of Virginia and all the parents in the commonwealth.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Discrimination, cruelty, and hate are not welcome in Virginia. I fully support the LGBTQ+ community and will advocate for their rights (especially children). Please focus on policy that actually helps rather than hurts people. </p>


Completely SUPPORT

Hi - secrets do NOT need to be kept between students and schools - that is  breeding ground for abuse. Parents should be informed and be able to guide and direct what goes on with their children. This also includes parents who support their children's transition - no one is trying to stop anyone from transitioning - just trying to keep the schools from undermining families and parents. Stick to academics.


SUPPORT


Parents vs. Activists

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Parents rights and decisions about how their child is raised should not be undermined by Trans Rights Activists who are well organized but don't necessarily have a child in school. Parents are trying to protect their children while trans rights activist are trying to push their agenda on everyone and put a wedge between parents and their children. Eventually parents will find out what the school has done if this is allowed and it will break all trust that has been built over the years between the family and the school. Parents will continue to pull their kids out of school to homeschool if they can't trust the school. Gender ideology does not belong in schools and neither does excluding the parents about what is happening with their child. We love our kids more than anyone else and will do anything we can to protect them. As a parent of a child who identified as trans for about a year and then she stopped on her own, I can tell you that kids are doing this because they mistakenly think it will solve their other problems. When adults allow a child to socially transition they are more likely to eventually medically transition and that leads to a life of hormones and surgeries that are harmful and irreversible. These poor kids need reality and truth, not a fantasy that they can become the opposite sex. Get real people! This is a medical scandal with our kids being the lab rats. Please help parents stop this insanity!


Opposed

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This is cruel and abusive to children. Shame on you.


Strongly oppose- violation of individual freedoms and promotion of abuse

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This new policy goes against every step forward we have made as a country to promote individual liberties and reduction in harm/abuse.  This policy promotes harm to children through weaponizing adult actions.  It requires schools to out students to their parents- which should be no one's choice except the individual student's. It places the child in danger of abuse from parents with opposing views, the psychological and possibly physical abuse that can come from a guardian's opposition can be enough to cause suicide---that blood would be on politician's hands. It INCORRECTLY refers to gender as an ideological belief---Just like race, gender is a sociocultural construct that was created in order to promote a hierarchy of power. On top of which, ideological beliefs have NO place in governmental policy.  Separation of church and state clearly states this and the government continues to do a poor job of enacting this separation. Your religious beliefs have place in government policies- you're free to have them, but you canNOT use them to create policies by which other people have to live.

There is absolutely NO harm being done to individuals asked to use a student's preferred name and pronouns in a school setting, but the physical and mental harm being done to students when they are refused the acknowledgement of who they are as a person can be detrimental to their overall health and wellness.  There is no argument to be made here in terms of what will cause the most harm. This policy WILL compromise inclusivity as well as safety for students in a school setting. It WILL lead to further mental health issues for kids with an increased risk of suicide.  Passage of this will be detrimental to our children and will continue to take our state and country back rather than forward.  There are plenty of peer-reviewed research studies that come to the same conclusion.  USE the research, not your religious beliefs or individual feelings. DO NOT PASS THIS.


Trans youth deserve protection from discrimination

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Trans youth deserve to be protected under the law. Protect these children, accept these children, love the children.


Strongly Oppose - Protect Kids

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A nation that cannot defend its most vulnerable children has no right to call itself the great, let alone greatest on earth.


STRONGLY Oppose

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As a middle school educator, I strongly oppose this legislation. The opening sentences are a smokescreen. This proposal will harm children, full stop.

This is bullying by adults. What a horrible example to set.


STRONGLY SUPPORT.PUBLIC SCHOOL IS NOT A PSYCHOLOGY FACILITY...HOME-SCHOOL !

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Public School is not a Psychology facility.


The suicide of trans children will on this administrations hands.

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<p>I strongly oppose this policy change. I believe it is 100% okay to have personal moral beliefs and to not let one’s own children behave in a way that the parents disagree with. But by imposing these rules in schools, it will exponentially increase the suicidality of trans youth, which is already a massive problem. The blood of trans youth will be on this administrations hands if they push these new policies through. I hope you can live with that. </p>


Strongly Oppose; does not insure children's safety

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This legislation and our governor are more concerned with "parents' rights" than the actual safety and fair treatment of all children in the public school system. Protecting the well being of children must sometimes exclude parents in abusive situations; forcibly outing trans youth will result in unsafe living conditions for many of them. The state of Virginia should follow the practices widely accepted by the medical community when dealing with trans kids and not ideas made by close-minded politicians.

If you want to respect all children then you will not put these guidelines into effect.


Strongly oppose!

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I strongly oppose this hurtful policy. Withdraw it.


Transgender

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Oppose transphobic policies and discrimination in any form. Sad so many fixes needed to improve our Virginia’s education system that this is Youngkin’s priority!


This is bad and hurts kids

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<p>These kind of changes don’t protect anyones freedoms and instead trample on the ability of kids to feel safe in schools. The purpose of education should be to educate kids not only in science and math, but to be kind and care for each other. With these changes the message being sent is that teachers simply don’t have to show that to their students. I strongly oppose these changes. </p>


Absolutely barbaric

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<p>Absolutely barbaric. How pitiful. How shameful. We will not let ignorant and baseless policies like this undermine our love for people of all genders and sexualities. Policies like this put LGBTQ students at even higher risks of suicide and depression. School should be a safe place for students to express themselves freely. If we cannot protect children in school, we should be ashamed of ourselves. </p>


trans rights

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I cannot believe that people would even think of doing this to literal children. Trans rights are human rights and that should NOT BE DEBATABLE!


Strongly support - suggest that no one make a comment until they’ve actually read entire doc

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this policy has guiding  principles of parents being involved in making the decisions tor their children and the school serving the needs of all children. This is not anti any group and those who say it is should be asked to identify which part they are referring to specifically.


SUPPORT 100 %

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I support the Governor. Parnets First!!!


SUPPORT


Youngkin Transgender Policy - Strongly Oppose

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This policy will recklessly and callously endanger transgender youth, a marginalized group of people who already have higher suicide rates than any other group in their age bracket. This statistic directly correlated with the availability of gender affirming care, such as access to trans literate therapists, access to HRT (hormone replacement therapy), and the ability to explore their identity in a safe and nurturing environment. Forcibly outing trans youth and restricting their access to safe and supportive care will not only increase the risk of hate crimes and bullying, but will also have a severe detrimental effect on these student’s mental and physical health. I am a thriving and successful transgender adult who came out in my late teens, and I can say with confidence that this policy would have caused incredible amounts of psychological stress and turmoil, and would have probably resulted in a suicide attempt on my part. Trans people face enough obstacles as is, this policy is simply cruel, reckless, and irresponsible and will have a horrible effect on the psyches of trans youth.


The proposed model policy is discriminatory on its face and undermines parental rights

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The proposed model policy does little to support transgender and nonbinary students or their parents and will only stigmatize and harm some of Virginia's most vulnerable students.

Although the policy states that it seeks to protect the rights of parents to determine what is in the best interest of their children, the policy achieves quite the opposite. Take, for example, a transgender student who has socially transitioned at school and whose parents support them. The proposed policy permits, contrary to the parents' support and desires, school personnel and other students to misgender and use the incorrect name for their transgender child while in school. The policy has zero regard for the extreme harm and harassment this will heap upon transgender students in cases where their parents affirm their chosen gender, name, and pronouns. Similarly, for students who may be questioning their gender identity but do not feel safe to raise these discussions at home, the policy requires school personnel to affirmatively expose these students to potentially unsupportive parents who may engage in child abuse (such as conversion therapy or worse to suppress their child's gender identity.

Finally, the proposed policy's requirement that sports be segregated based on assigned-at-birth sex is not evidenced based and causes the exclusion or stigmatization of transgender student athletes. Additionally, requiring sports to segregated by assigned at birth sex (rather than gender identity) is more likely to do harm to cisgender female athletes because in the high school setting that me be required to compete against transgender male students who use testosterone (i.e. students who were assigned female at birth and transitioned to male).

Finally, the proposed policy likely subjects the Commonwealth to litigation for violating the Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.

Accordingly the policy should be rejected and the 2021 policy should be retained.


Strongly Opposed

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Having read both the Document in Effect and the Proposed Document, I am strongly opposed to the Proposed Document. The Document in Effect is a carefully-researched, nuanced, and well-balanced document that may have room for improvement, but represents a quantum leap forward in the treatment of students as future citizens and individuals capable of independent thought. It offers safety, security, and guidelines for preserving the basic human dignity of students that do not interfere with the goals of educating all students.

It is not the place of the schools to enforce a parent's will upon their child, nor is it the place of a school to enforce a parent's will on all parents' children.  Schools must be driven by evidence and research, and they must be places where students are prepared to live their own lives in a society where people exist who are beyond their personal scope of experience. Parents exercise their control within their own homes, and the existing document does nothing to violate that control. But it offers to students the best opportunity and the resources necessary to live a life that recognizes they will one day be their own person. The Proposed Document squelches such efforts and denies students their basic human rights. Rights that are still guaranteed to them, even while they are under the guardianship of parents. It limits personal expression and sets up an environment in which students are afraid to express themselves and take control of their own identities, knowing that they have no safe place to turn to. The Proposed Document should not be adopted.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This legislation will hurt people. </p>


Vehement Opposal

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It is staggering how someone who considers themselves a compassionate adult would ever support policies that will literally and demonstrably drive children to suicide.  All under some bogus altruism of protecting kids?  Anyone who supports this motion or endeavors to silence the voice to trans youths is a ing monster and should be ashamed of themselves.  These are our kids you're villifying you absolute wastes of carbon.  How dare you.


Let’s get back to children first!

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<p>It’s sickening to me what these policies are doing to our young children.  Good for Youngkin </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>This harms marginalized trans students and makes an unsafe learning environment for them and violates WPATH standards of care. Strongly oppose such a gross misuse of school power. </p>


DESPICABLE TRANSPHOBIA

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gender and biological sex are two different things.

this is nothing but hate and discrimination


Strongly Oppose Transgender Guidance

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My trans son graduated a year ago and is safely in Canada. Being on the boys crew team was the most positive experience of his HS career, and he earned a crew scholarship. With this, he never would have had the opportunity.

You're also entering into dangerous "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" territory here. If teacher's religious beliefs are sufficient to misgender students, what's to prevent students from claiming a religious belief requires them to refer to any teacher who misgenders students as "F***face"? The courts have already said they won't rule on what is a valid religious belief, and what is not. Allowing teacher's religious beliefs to change how they treat a class of students that is already suffering from social stigma is cruel, harmful, and opens the doors up to all sorts of havoc you don't want.


I strongly oppose

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These policies will hurt non binary and trans people and make them unsafe at school and at home! These proposed model policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender Kids. Please support them by not passing this!


Agree, social transition should only be done with parental approval and oversight

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It appears in many cases that gender dysphoria is transient, which is why many countries are demanding more oversight for interventions in response to it.  There is no test to determine when it is not transient, in young children, however, when not socially transitioned, they almost always have grown out of it in the past.  For adolescents it is not clear how many will grow out of it (or have gender dysphoria go away with better self understanding, often people find it is related to other issues such as self hatred, trauma, being gay, being on the spectrum, anxiety, etc etc, which are not uncommon in adolescence!).

In contrast, social transition is a powerful psychosocial intervention that appears to make gender dysphoria persist.  This can affect the entire lifetime of a young person if the persistence leads to drugs and surgeries, which currently are easily and quickly available.  See, for example, Levine et al, 2022, "Reconsidering Informed Consent for Trans-Identified Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults."  Gender dysphoria is poorly understood, so this intervention is not only powerful, it is experimental.

Social transition is thus 100% the business and decision of the parents, schools should not be making these decisions for young people, they are neither qualified, nor is it their right.

Please see what Genspect.org says about this at https://genspect.org/guidance-on-social-transition/ .

Schools have no business making these important choices for a family about their child.

Please pass this guideline.

PS This is not a political issue.  But if you are a Democrat thinking this is only something Republicans want because of politics, please read the evidence reviews, the studies, etc.  I am a Democrat, too, lifelong.  It's not a political issue.   segm.org has many studies and segm.org/news has a lot of information about how policies are changing in response to better understanding.


Oppose

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Laws like this will kill children.


Transgender policy

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STRONGLY OPPOSED

A teacher here replying keep teachers out of this. Teachers have no business  to be in the middle of a child and their family! School personnel are not qualified to manage life altering decisions for minors. Keep transgender ideology AWAY from kids! It’s hard enough for parents to filter their online choices. We depend on schools to be safe. Keep transgender services for those adults above 25.


Strongly Opposed- Actively Harmful

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This will directly cause harm to and endanger transgender students by making them open to transphobic harassment and abuse, such as outing a student to transphobic parents, placing them at risk for discrimination and abuse by their parent(s). It will also create a transphobic environment in schools, making transgender students vulnerable to transphobic harassment and bullying by both peers and school staff members.


Strongly Support!

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Thank you cor revisiting this policy that removed constitutional rights of parents in the upbringing of their children! Additionally, thank you for upholding constitutional freedoms to not compel speech, whether teachers or students! We appreciate these recisions that bring protect all students and parents!


Oppose

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Don’t put bigoted Belief’s into the law


STRONGLY support Gov Youngkins protection of children and parents rights

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STRONGLY support Governor Youngkin's decision to provide safety for girls in keeping males out of their restrooms and locker rooms. Also support parents rights to raise their children and not allowing schools or any other entities to alter them or provide them with harmful puberty blocking drugs, political rhetoric or sexual indoctrination that goes against their families values and rights


Strongly oppose

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Gov. Youngkin, kindly reconsider this policy. Yes, parents are important, but so are the needs of individual children. Surely you can craft a policy that gives parents oversight but protects the safety and dignity of youth who are struggling (yes, STRUGGLING) with their gender identify. Thank you.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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Students deserve to feel safe and respected at school. Not only is this completely irrelevant to public education, it serves to further isolate queer children and will cause them to feel monitored and othered. This is an attack on trans and non-binary students and a dangerous step for a Virginia Public Schools. Students do not need intervention from teachers and administrators into their personal lives and choices and deserve autonomy and safety. Teachers do not have the resources to enforce this policy, and this will make it more difficult for them to focus on their actual jobs at a time when retention rate for teachers is at an all-time-low.
As a Virginia resident, I strongly oppose this policy and all thinly veiled homophobic and transphobic polices that are being introduced in schools.


STOP HYPERSEXUALIZING CHILDREN


Strongly oppose

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Glen Youngkin's terrible policy of abusing trans and gender nonconforming students and even staff is an inhumane policy that is not rooted in reality but rather in bigotry and cheap fearmongering to score political points. I have a degree in psychology, sociology, and criminology and everything that I know screams that this is a terrible idea and will only lead to needless and cruel suffering and protects no one. It is throwing our children under the bus for a political hit that isn't even in the best interest of the people. It's just cruel, and evil if one believes in that. This policy does nothing but harms the communities in Virginia and shows that people like Glen Youngkin do not care for our children, do not care about the individual freedom and liberty of their fellow Americans, and show a gross lack of care for the lives and safety of their fellow human beings showing that they see others, and in particular, those who are largely seen as weak and unable to defend themselves as mere tools to be used politically to try and claw at power, no matter how many harmed people they have to step past or how many bodies they have to step over. This policy is terrible and should be abandoned and rejected immediately. There is no place for it in a society that actually cares about its kids and our fellow citizens. This is simply barbaric and it will lead to harassment, child abuse, and yes, even death, but for Glen Yongkin and those like him, that is just the cost of doing business, or even worse, might just be the point.

Please reject this Policy and protect your students.


Strongly Support New Policy

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<p>Virginia children are the wards of their parents until emancipated or reaching the age of majority.  As a result, the parents are the ultimate arbiters of how the child is raised.  The existing policy is heinous, taking away the moral and legal rights of parents to help and guide their child about something fundamental--the child's sex and sexuality.  The existing policy seeks to replace parents' judgment with the educational bureaucracy's judgment; it needs to be overturned with the proposed policy, returning parents to their proper societal and legal roles. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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I am writing to express my extreme opposition to this policy. It is our duty to protect and affirm ALL children even if that means protecting them from hateful adults who would try to bully and berate them. If the policy as proposed had been used to determine our stance on slavery or interracial marriage, then we would still be a state of slave holders and interracial marriage would be banned. Just like Virginia was in the wrong in Loving vs. Virginia and the Supreme Court had to intercede and correct the mistakes of our Commonwealth, bringing this policy into effect would have the same results. We cannot allow Virginia to stand for state sanctioned bullying and should strive to protect the rights of ALL individuals not just the rights of those who look and act like the majority. We must resist the urge to act based solely on feelings and see that EVERYONE has the right to privacy, safety, and security within the public setting. Learn from the mistakes of our past and protect trans and non-binary youth.


Strongly Oppose - protect trans kids

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<p>I am a parent of two teenagers, I live in Virginia, and I strongly oppose this policy change. Please keep in mind the most vulnerable students who will be in danger of bullying from this proposed policy change. </p>


Transgender in our schools.

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<p>I am in strong opposition to this. </p>


I support the new guidelines

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I support the new guidelines!


Opposed - this guidance will encourage bullying

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This guidance opens the door to bullying, bigotry, and hate crimes occurring within schools under the guise of religious freedom. By asserting, that the government and its employees, i.e. teachers, may not compel a students speech or behavior, you undermine the fundamental element of the teachers role, to educate.

Imagine this example: a student asserts the belief that anyone who eats meat is subhuman and going to hell. If that vegetarian spent every moment of their free time at school, terrorizing, bullying , and trying to “save” everyone who eats meat, this would clearly be a problem for the school to deal with — and yet also their exercise of religious freedom!

The current policy opens the door to such unmitigated demonstrations of hate within all institutions of public education, whether the target be meat eaters or transgender individuals. Instead, our schools should teach tolerance and respect for differences regardless of religious beliefs.


Strongly oppose

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Since the Governor obviously wants trans people to dissappear, he should put his money where his mouth is and openly advocate murdering them. Have the courage of your vile, antiAmerican convictions, Governor!


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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We can't force our children to be "outted" to their parents!


Transgender in our schools.

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<p>I am in stro g opposition to this. </p>


Cruel and unusual

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This guidance, if put into practice, goes against all the medical facts about appropriate treatment of transgender youth to maintain their mental and physical health and wellbeing. Studies show that when their identities as transgender are not affirmed, trans youth are more likely to attempt suicide than any other group, and many do. I know in my son’s case, the recognition of his identity starting in middle school, by his fellow students, and his teachers and school administrators was a huge factor in his recovery after his own suicide attempt. This guidance document represents a cruelty and disregard for the personhood of trans youth that is difficult to express. It should be withdrawn.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Trans youth have thought a lot longer and harder about their identity than anyone else in the world by the time they come out to someone. Children deserve the right to safely explore who they are. LGBT youth have high homeless rates because of unsupportive parents. This will increase the homeless CHILDREN population, and put lives at risk. Please reconsider. Children are people too, regardless of what you think of them. They are thoughtful and trying their best to fit into a hard world. Do not make it harder. </p>


My daughter thinks she’s a cat, so do we encourage her to become one?

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Strongly support the bill


SUPPORT


Support Children, not this policy

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The governor has turned an open and accepting commonwealth into a cesspool of political pandering. The only group that will be impacted are the children who are told that they are not equal or worthy of protection. They go through enough bullying every day. They don't need the governor and his team to add to it.


Strongly Oppose Youngkin’s Chgs to 2020 Bill that Currently Protects/Accommodates Trans Students

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I strongly oppose Gov Youngkin’s proposed changes to the VA Depart of Education policies that require respect, dignity, accommodations, and protections for trans students in VA schools. The Gov is responding to a minority of voters rather than considering the majority who support these policies (as he’s doing on so many issues).


This is murder

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This policy is killing queer and transgender students.


opposed

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Unless a child is in danger or poses a danger to others, private conversations should remain confidential. Sometimes children wish to confide in an adult that is not their parent. This is not a bad thing. A teacher/ counselor can encourage a child to tell their parents, but it is up to the child. School should be a safe space for kids. A kid questioning their identity or sexuality is not in any danger.


I strongly oppose these policies.

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<p>I strongly oppose these proposed policies. </p>


More barely veiled discrimination against minorities in VA schools

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As if the Governor's wildly misleading screeds against the political boogeyman of "CRT" weren't enough, he's now attacking the very existence of students who don't conform to his personal social views under the guise of "parental rights". As a parent of a cis kid, I was never asked what bathroom my kid should be using, what pronouns the teachers should use, or what name they should call him; he was allowed to do that, even in PreK. So why should another kid not have that right? Why should teachers, who know these kids better than the state board, or the millionaire Governor, lose their ability to their jobs to the best of their ability for his cheap political points?

Virginia has great schools, some of the best in the region; stop letting politics and bigotry chip away at that.


Strongly OPPOSE TRANSPHOBIC legislation

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I strongly oppose transphobic legislation especially targeting children who are marginalized. Bigotry should not be accepted anywhere but especially not in places that should be safe for children. The Governor has forgotten that Virginia stands for love, not hate.

Families of trans children are now in crisis trying to navigate this rollback of protections...

"The proposal from the Virginia Department of Education would require school personnel to refer to children only by their legal name and the pronouns corresponding to their sex assigned at birth — unless a parent submits legal documents that show their child’s “change of sex.” It would require schools to notify parents “before counseling services pertaining to gender are given” to students, and it would limit student participation in sports and other gender-separated activities based on the gender reflected in their official school record. Under the proposal, students would also be forced to use bathrooms according to their gender assigned at birth, though it does recommend that schools offer single, non-gendered bathrooms for anyone to use."

This is extremely harmful to students, especially LGBTQ+ who are already vulnerable and at risk from bullying, mental health, and suicide.

https://dcist.com/story/22/09/19/youngkin-transgender-students-virginia-schools/


Strongly oppose - this will kill kids

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As a parent of a child that this policy applies to I can state that this policy will harm at risk youth. Do you want to be the cause of a child’s preventable death? Do you want to be listed in their obituary?


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This is a horrifying policy created to throw red meat to a conservative base while doing real harm to young people. It should not take effect. </p>


Guidance document


Strongly OPPOSED

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These policies serve a nothing more than a 'model' for the literal persecution of children. Stop it.


STRONGLY OPPOSE


This bill will harm and children

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I strongly oppose this bill. This bill would mean a huge government overstep, which doesn’t seem to go along with the beliefs that conservatives claim to hold. The government is wasting time, effort, and money on something that truly doesn’t concern them.

More importantly, transgender children are just regular children. They’re regular children who are already at a greater risk for bullying, mistreatment, and abuse. A simple google search will show the correlation of these factors to LGBTQ teen suicide rates. As adults we have the responsibility to see that children are protected, respected, allowed to grow and have a normal childhood. This bill supports none of these things. This bill encourages a breech of privacy for both children and their families. This bill encourages adults to bully and abuse children.

Furthermore, this bill requires an inappropriate level of surveillance from teachers and schools who should only be focused on teaching kids, not trying to piece together their gender identity and out them to their parents. Teachers already have so much on their plates as it is, it’s foolish to expect them to involve themselves in something as personal as a child’s gender identity.

This bill is a breech of privacy, a waste of time and energy, and a slap in the face to our democracy. Children should be allowed to be children without the threat of bullying and hate from adults!


Support the change

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Be kind but to everyone and not just to those who decide to transform.


Common Sense Restored - 100% Support

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I’m writing in support of the Youngkin administration’s new model policies, “On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents In Virginia’s Public Schools,” which enshrine the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their child while respecting all students across the Commonwealth.

Thank you for your commitment to parents’ rights in education. I urge you to implement the policies as written and restore the right and responsibility of parents to make the best decisions for their children.


Vehemently OPPOSE.

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<p>Anyone who truly cares about children's well-being wants nothing to do with this discriminatory action. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>Policy like this is what gets trans kids KILLED. This is a human rights issue, not parents rights. There is no reason to out trans kids other than to put a target on them. Younkin does not care about our children if legislation like this passes, and would be responsible for any violence formed against them as a result. </p>


I support the trans community, including kids!

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This proposed policy is hateful and harmful. As much as you might want to close your eyes and ears, you KNOW that not all families are loving, functional and kind. That's why teachers are mandatory reporters, you KNOW kids get abused in homes. And kids who know they will be abused for WHO THEY ARE need a place to be safe, and that should be their schools. We are judged by how we treat the least among us, and right now that's trans-folks. Treat the kids like humans, not chattel owned by their parents. Many trans kids ARE in loving homes, and that's great, but look out for those who aren't. Let kids explore and learn about themselves while they explore and learn about math, history, the arts, etc. Additionally, don't burden teachers with extra limits on what and how they refer to their students. There's enough of that already.

Now let's talk about private spaces. I'm cis-het woman and well recall school locker rooms and bathrooms. And this was LONG before the LGBTQ+ community was comfortably "out". No one was peering around looking at each others' bodies. You just change and get on with it. Or, you go in a private stall to change if you want, just like using the toilet. It really doesn't matter who's around you. And let's let go of the myth that boys are going to claim to be trans-girls on occasion to try to get in the bathroom with them. That's just not the way this works. Call out bullying for bullying, but don't pretend you're protecting anyone, because you're not.

I've never been afraid in the presence of a trans person OR anyone in the LBGTQ+ family. I've been afraid plenty of times in the presence of cis-het males. Let people use the bathroom of their choice. This is settled law. Gavin Grimm proved Virginia wrong at the Supreme Court, and you are trying to score political points on the same misguided behavior.

Virginia isn't your fiefdom and you cannot legislate. Stop trying to score political points on the backs of vulnerable children.


Strongly oppose

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Since the Governor obviously wants trans people to dissappear, he should put his money where his mouth is and openly advocate murdering them. Have the courage of your ty, antiAmerican convictions, Governor!


Support

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Parents are the primary role models and teachers of their children. A change such as this should not be solely in the hands of other adults in the child’s life. These are not light decisions and frankly one that must be determined at home with the lead of the parents.


Strongly Oppose

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Governor Youngkin is fueling his presidential campaign with "culture wars," and is willing to hurt transgender and nonbinary children to achieve political fame. This policy, if enacted, will ultimately fail and be withdrawn, but not before many vulnerable children are harmed.


Absolutely Oppose!!!

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<p>I am disgusted by what Youngkin is presenting.  It completely takes away the basic rights of trans kids.  It puts them in harms way.  Couched in pretty language of "parental rights" it is nothing but a gash in the protection that trans kids received by Northam's decrees.  </p>


Oppose

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<p>Our Arlington, VA family supports the rights of transgender, non-binary, and gender fluid students and we encourage Virginia to remain committed to providing school environments that are welcoming, safe and supportive for all students. We strongly oppose the proposed Virginia policies affecting transgender students. We support Arlington's Policy J-2 Student Equal Educational Opportunities/Nondiscrimination and Policy Implementation Procedure J-2 PIP-2 Transgender Students in Schools. All Virginia students should feel safe in school. </p>
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STRONGLY OPPOSED

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I am under no illusion that the current administration is at all interested in these comments, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try. These policies are only meant to be punitive to anyone who is "different". Schools are meant to be safe spaces, but I guess between active shooter drills and SRO's busy arresting students of color, it's too much "extra effort" to give basic respect to CHILDREN who know themselves better than some administrative arbiter.


OPPOSED!  This is horrible!!!!

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OPPOSED! This is horrible!!!!


Opposed

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<p>The number one priority of the VDOE should be protecting students and ensuring their individual needs are met. This guidance would have the direct opposite effect. For some kids, the only people they have that support them and that they can trust are the educators in their life. This guidance would take that away. I’ve read through some of the comments in support of the guidance, and it is clear that those supporters haven’t read/doesn’t understand what the guidance actually says. </p>


Do not change transgender student policies

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I am proud of the current policy regarding transgender students in Virginia's schools and do not support the proposed changes. I see this as another nail in the podium Gov. Youngkin is building from which to run for higher office, not as anything positive for our children. It should be rejected.


Opposed


OPPOSE. DON’T FORCE YOUR BIGOTED MORALS ON CHILDREN

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Stop trying to take trans children’s rights and safety away because you aren’t comfortable with them. Work on yourselves and on being accepting.


Totally support the governor, parents and children are a team and they need to decide what’s best

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The support for Transgender youth is not a bad thing, kindness is never bad!! However telling young children that they need to hide facts from their parents is nothing but politics.

Governor Youngkin is incredibly reasonable and we support him.


SUPPORT

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School can't override parents


Strongly Oppose

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We do not need any additional discrimination, that is not what Virginia is about.


cruelty to children for political gain

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Gov. Younkin shows by this action that he will sacrifice the mental health and safety of youth to gain publicity to advance his national political ambitions. This is sickening, but given today's Republican party, hardly surprising. He will be complicit in the future suicides of some of these teens.


A shameful policy from a shameless man

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Inflicting pointless pain on young people already in pain to score political points. You really can't go any lower.


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I wonder when conservatives will realize they're the bad guys that restrict freedom


OPPOSE. Existing policy is adequate & fair. Proposed policy creates an unsafe school environment

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OPPOSE. Existing policy is adequate and fair. Proposed policy creates unsafe school environment.

The removal of necessary protections for transgender students harms students, burdens educators, and has no legitimate purpose.


OPPOSE.  Too much government overreach

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Being Republican used to mean less government.  Why are we making laws that take away a school's ability to help students?  We need to not be afraid of a few transgender kids to where we start regulating school and family decisions, and punish children.  Shame on this governing body to attack already bullied children to act righteous.


Strongly Oppose

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This policy is nothing more than bigotry disguised as "protecting the children" when instead it cause undo harm to both trans kids and cis kids alike.


Strongly oppose!!!

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<p>Trans or not, these are children we are talking about. They are developing and figuring themselves out.  Their identity does not need someone else’s approval to be valid. If you loved your children you would want them safe and happy, period. If your kid is not trans this has nothing to do with you, mind your own business. STAY IN YOUR OWN LANE. Stop trying to control the bodies of women and children. They are not making anyone trans it’s not contagious. </p>


OPPOSE

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<p>I’m against limiting people on representing who they truly are. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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You are defrauding these students by pledging to protect them and then hurting them when they are vulnerable. Its hard enough being a trans kid, but now to have adults whom they have never met force ideals onto them that they dont understand - that is criminal. The medical happenings and identity of a child is not for old men in legislatures to ponder over. Its for the kid, their parents, and whomever else they decide to include. You are ripping that away from them in a perverse display of sexual immorality and censorship. Keep your hurtful rants and ramblings on facebook and out of the laws, thank you.


Thank you, Governor Youngkin

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Your proposal, is exactly the right thing to do. Keep the parents at the forefront of being informed and guiding their children's education. Be not dissuaded from this effort.

Thank you!!


Strongly Oppose, from an educator

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This proposed policy is a dangerous political ploy that will serve to only hurt our most vulnerable children. Many who are in support of this policy cite “parental rights,” without considering the sad fact that not all students come from loving, supportive homes. Outing students as being transgender to their families could have devastating consequences for them at home, such as conversion therapy or abuse.

Transgender students are at an increased risk for completing suicide, but respecting and using students’ preferred names and pronouns can significantly reduce that risk. According to a study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than half of transgender male students have attempted suicide and 29.9 percent of transgender females had attempted suicide (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2018/09/07/peds.2017-4218). If, however, adults use the child’s preferred pronouns and name, transgender students experienced 71 percent fewer severe depression symptoms and a 65 percent decrease in suicide attempts (https://news.utexas.edu/2018/03/30/name-use-matters-for-transgender-youths-mental-health/). A simple act of respect can have life-saving impacts, and yet this policy would stop teachers from administering this life-saving care.

Please do not allow political culture wars to kill our students.


Oppose

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Strongly opposed targeting trans students


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Gov. Youngkin's trans policies

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I strongly support Gov. Youngkin's trans policies.  When did it become the responsibility of females to sacrifice their designated spaces and opportunities so that an infinitesimal minority of males can feel better about themselves?


If we care about our children, we must reject this policy change.

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In this country, every 45 seconds a young person who identifies as LGBTQ attempts suicide. A huge reason for that is the bullying and ostracism that occurs at school. The proposed policy changes endanger the safety and well-being of children who are among the most vulnerable of our population, children who sometimes only find their safe place in a trusted teacher, counselor, coach or administrator.

Nearly 40% of the homeless youth population are in that situation due to lack of acceptance at home. I long ago lost count of how many kids I have worked with who are court-involved due to either mental health crises or criminal charges stemming from toxic home environments created by parental rejection of their identity. While we like to believe that parents will always do what is best to protect, nurture and show love and acceptance to their children, every day my job proves to me otherwise.

Please take politics out of our schools and allow our kids to be safe simply being themselves.


In support

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As a mother of a child who has suddenly declared themselves transgender, and has had her school affirm this while withholding information from us, her parents, I 100% support this policy.  Schools, teachers, administrators should not play the role of social engineers and should not include gender messages into the curricula.  Parents are and always should be the final authorities with respect to their children’s protection and education.  No one knows our children like we do.  Thank you.


Strongly OPPOSE

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Strongly oppose Youngkin’s plan

and demand fair treatment for all


Strongly Oppose

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If we truly value the safety of all of our children, this should not be allowed to pass.  Forcing teachers to misgender children has real, harmful consequences. Forcing teachers to "out" a child to their parents is a violation of the child's rights and their dignity. And having a child use a bathroom incongruous with their gender is setting a vulnerable level child up for potential violence against them.  This policy is disrespectful and lacks dignity and empathy for our kids.


This will kill children

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Weird how open contempt for citizens has become standard policy for state governments, and this policy is part of that.


Parents need to know what is happening with their kids!

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<p>Parents are there for their kids, and they need to know! Hiding from parents is dangerous and schools are not really effective at protecting kids. The appropriate agencies exist if a teacher feels they need to report something. Why this needs to be different? There are many kids who are simply falling for the social media confusion, and it doesn't get better,only worse, and the ones who are hurt are the kids and parents! Schools should be advising against social media and shouldn't allow cell phone use in school! The detransition rate keeps going up, and suicide after transition is just as common! There is no greater pain for a parent than seeing their child suffer or seeing their child die! </p>


WE SUPPORT THIS GUIDANCE

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The ACLU fully supports this guidance


These policies will only hurt children

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<p>Statistics have shown that when queer/trans students are kept from using their chosen names/pronouns, using their preferred bathroom, etc. chances of suicide increase exponentially. These policies are killing children. There is nothing harmful about allowing someone to be who they are. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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I have a step son who is transgender and a step daughter who is heterosexual. When my son announced he was gay, I think he was just testing the waters to guage if we would support him or deny him. A few weeks later he told us he was actually transgender but didn't know if we would support him or even if we would understand. He was 13 years old at the time. It hurts me a little to think he didn't understand that the people who love him most would continue to do so unconditionally. It worries me most that those who are meant to protect him and create a safe learning environment for him would take those things away from him. Worse, it would rob him of the chance to tell us himself by outing him to us. If children are lucky, they'll go off to college or enter the workforce as adults. They're going to meet lots of people. They're going to have to be professional in their interactions with coworkers, customer, contractors, etc. They will have to be tolerant in order to do so. So, why punish the kids who are using different pronouns or otherwise identify as LGBTQ+? Why rob "normal" children of getting early exposure to different people who, at the end of the day, are just children like them? Why set them back to not already have an understanding of how complex individuals are? All are deserving of compassion and kindness. These policies are coming from a fearful place and perpetuate hating "others". From a political standpoint, you're not protecting anyone. From a historical standpoint, you'll be remembered as a bigot twisting the mission of educators by empowering them to go on a witch hunt. From a southern standpoint, this is un-neighborly. From a religious standpoint, my Lord and Savior said all are loved and accepted. A true evangelical would save souls by following Jesus' teachings. I pray you make the right decision based on compassion and understanding. Bless you.


In Support of Governor Youngkin's Transgender Guidelines

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I am a retired Naval Officer who served over 26 years in the Navy.  I was widowed when my daughter was 10 years old.  I have seen many changes over the years regarding alternative sexual identity.  I have come to accept the fact that 'gay' individuals and transgender folks have been with us since the beginning of time.  Today I have many friends, some of them Gay.  Their sexual orientation does not affect or offend me.  However, I take STRONG exception to allowing a biological male to use the girl's or women's restroom.  I do not know what percentage of the population we are talking about, but it has to be a very small percentage overall.  Why should the majority  have imposed on them policies which not only deny their rights but offend the moral upbringing of the majority of the people in this country.  I am all for stopping and or pushing back on descriminatory policies and acts directed at minorities, whether religious, sexual, moral, racial, etc.   But not at the expense of everyone else.  My granddaughter will be entering school soon.  If the policies will be in effect which ignore her sexuality and forces her to allow boys in her restroom - I will strongly suggest that my daughter homeschool her children.


Strongly Oppose

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I am a parent of two in Leesburg, Virginia.  I strongly oppose the Governor’s guidance that weakens protections for transgender kids.  All children deserve to attend school free of discrimination and harmful bias.  Misgendering students hurts kids.  These policies are a  cruel rollback of progress and tolerance.


Strongly Oppose

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Schools should be safe spaces for children. They have the right to expect respect and privacy. Outing LGBTQ+ youth to their parents or anyone else puts them at risk. 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide. Every effort should be made to reduce these numbers by making these children feel safe and accepted. Stop pretending you care about the children when you are just shoving them into graves.


Strongly FOR Parental Rights

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<p>The government is not the parent and parents have the right to know of any life changing events that are happening with their children at their tax payer funded school. The fact that a a few parents may object to their child's lifestyle choice, is not a reason to override parental authority for ALL parents. </p>


Strongly Support

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<p>I strongly support Governor Younkin's proposal. </p>


Strongly opposed

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<p>I strongly oppose this backwards policy </p>


Oppose--protect ALL children.

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No one who works in a school thinks this is a good idea. Public school is designed to teach our kids how to function in society, which includes being inclusive and being a good citizen. This "guidance" just seeks to divide.

Jesus would be opposed to this, truly. There is nothing here that says "love thy neighbor."

Any parent who is afraid of a school hiding information from them should really take a look in the mirror. If your kid feels safer at being at school than in your home, perhaps you should examine your relationship with your kid.


Thank you

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Thank you for defending the rights of parents and for protecting our children from predatory teachers with woke agendas. All students should feel safe, and that includes the majority who the woke leave behind.  Very proud to have voted for you.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose this policy.

This policy cruelly targets transgender students in Virginia by (1) requiring that teachers inform parents that their child is trans (2) giving parents legal power to dictate what name and pronouns their child uses at school with their peers and teachers (3) forces trans children to use bathrooms and locker rooms that do not align with their gender in the name of biological sex.  This policy will increase bullying and alienation and exclusion  of transgender students leading to more transgender students taking their own lives.

Parents, if you demand to rely on your child’s school to tell you that your child is trans, it means you didn’t parent accordingly and your child doesn’t feel safe being themselves when they are in your care.  Parents, you can not untrans your children.  This policy will lead to increased support for conversion therapy, which actively harms queer children and child increases risk of suicide.

For the safety of trans children in Virginia, this policy CANNOT be adopted.  Children will inevitably die because of it.


Strongly agree with this proposal

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<p>Please keep fighting for parental rights. This ideology of lgbtq is irrelevant in school. Children are there to learn not to be used for this agenda that’s being pushed by the left. Children shouldn’t be taught about this in school as it’s not the place or time for that. Please keep fighting for our children to not be groomed by the people who support these lgbtq ideologies as it affects our children tremendously. </p>


STRONGLY oppose this proposed rule

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I would like the State Board of Ed to fix our failing education system, rather than drumming up fear about a tiny minority percentage of young people in the hopes that the political partisans will be satisfied.

If the State Board of Ed doesn’t actually have plans or ideas to IMPROVE our schools and increase student performance, they should just say so and resign rather than target students with hate, and ostracize students who don’t comport to their own PERSONAL opinions.  These members represent the entire state, not just their political sycophants.

Try actually solving problems… I realize it’s more difficult than attacking a small minority of people, but  we ALL lose because of your incompetence… not just those children whom you seem to delight in harassing.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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This bill will, undoubtedly,  do great harm to Trans youth. It's a bully bill. I am strongly opposed to it.


Psychological Abus

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I completely disagree with Governor Youngkin's proposal to limit the freedoms of Virginia's LGBTQ youth. Forcing these minors to adhere to ancient social norms, and allowing their teachers to contact their parents regarding the situation without the student's knowledge can and will be psychologically damaging. The governor should be working to unite Virginians and not tear them apart over these types of issues. The world and life evolves, and stripping these minors of their rights is the first step in rolling back rights for other groups of individuals as well.

I strongly urge the Department of Education to reject this policy.


Oppose, this policy places politics over student’s saftey

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This policy makes Virginia Schools less safe for transgender students.


FULL SUPPORT

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They are trying to hypersexualize preteen children, STOP.


Strongly Oppose

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Protect transgender children from the adults who are way too concerned with how they identify, what’s in their pants, and less concerned with protecting them, fostering independence, and ensuring that they receive a safe and excellent education!


Strongly Oppose!!!

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<p>This is cruel and barbaric. </p>


Strongly opposed

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The proposed legislation is antithetical to the concept of personal liberty. Everyone should be free to express themselves as they wish and be treated with respect, including children.

If enacted there will be dire consequences for the mental well-being and safety of transgender and gender-nonconforming students. It will also set a terrible precedent for public school systems getting to dictate the individual expression of students.


I support Trans rights, I oppose this guidance

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Trans rights are human rights. Children, especially teens, are autonomous people who can make informed decisions about themselves and identity without their parents. Kids are not their parent's property


Strongly opposed


No one is caring

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No one cares about what people are, if you want to be a boy and dress and call yourself a girl, or vise a versa do it. But your way of life shouldn't be pushed on all just as you guys have gotten rid of GOD in school, and look at the decline since!!! But yet we went along with it, now stop trying to force this down people's throat. We already policies in place for all to be treated as humans. If we keep writing all these policies for everyone different we will be slaves, LOOK WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT YOU CAN NOT DENY THAT, NOR SCIENTIFIC FACTS, BORN A BOY YOUR A BOY, BORN A GIRL YOUR A GIRL!!

DON'T SHOVE IT DOWN OUR THROATS. We want academics  that is what school is for stop all this nonsense ALL OF YOU