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<p> Fully support try he policy by Youngkin!  </p>


Please do not do this

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There is a lot of research showing that these policies are very harmful to children, even resulting in suicide. It is extremely alarming that Virginia may implement such dangerous policies. Do not do it!


TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

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trans kids deserve to feel safe in school


Strongly support!!

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<p> Parents should definitely be the ones giving permission for this kind of major change.  </p>


Strongly support

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<p> Please help all children be safe. Transgender students in restrooms has resulted in assaults. Assigned restrooms for those with special needs should be available. At the high school where I taught</p>


Hateful. Do not / would never support.

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<p> It's a hateful policy. We have a governor that wants to harm children for the sole purpose of gaining a little MAGA clout in the anti-civil-rights d!ck measuring contest going on between our republican governors in this country.  </p>


Dangerous and Insulting

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I strongly oppose the proposed VDOE guidelines on the grounds that it will compromise the freedom and safety of transgender students. Schools should be a safe place for students to learn and while doing so they should have the freedom to express themselves however they see fit provided they aren’t causing harm to others. Research shows that transgender children are at high risk for suicide without supportive environments, and I strongly advocate that schools ought to be one of those environments; It could be the only such environment a child gets.

It is an insult that this legislation opens as aligning with anti-bullying efforts while at the same time rolling back inclusive protections. Shame on you.


Fully support


School board

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Please no trans information or activities for our young children. Teach our young skills to live in the world there forced to engage in. No personal or social agenda to upset or change their life’s path. Parents are and should be a child’s navigator to adulthood.


Please stop oppressing children.

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<p>This law is cruel and bigoted. </p>


Transgender youth

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How can you treat citizens of the USA with such hate. Our country was founded by people fleeing religious persecution. Yet you are persecuting a segment of our country just for their belief system. Here is a quote from our Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,  That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever and Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness" Now because in your eyes you don't like something you are willing to toss out the words and ideals that this country was founded on. You should be ashamed to call yourselves Americans.


Support for Parents to be in charge of their Kids

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<p> This bill gives parents back the rights they should always have regarding their own kids. It is disturbing that the school systems think they can hide anything about the kids from their legal guardians or make any decisions related to their welfare. Schools need to stick to academic instruction on assigned courses only.thank you Gov.  </p>


Support Our Governor

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<p> Strongly Support  </p>


Oppose Hypocritical Policy

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<p>Letting trans kids be themselves isn't a matter of opinion and isn't a matter of social agenda. Bathroom issues aside, to create a policy that forces people to use names and pronouns that aren't theirs is active discrimination. If you told me your name was Glenn and I continued to call you William purposefully, you would call that harassment. So to state in these same policies that you don't support discrimination and harassment against trans kids is a hypocritical slap in the face. The only thing this policy will support is increased suicide rates among trans youth and that blood will be on your hands. </p>


Opposed to dead children

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Suicide rates WILL rise under this insane policy. Keep our children alive and vote Youngkin out!


Support

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<p> I have recently had friends who were teachers in the VA public school system leave their positions due to the 2021 Model Policies. I have also known students that left the public school system and enrolled in private Christian schools because of the current document in effect. The governor's proposal is sound and I am in support of this change.  </p>


I support this policy I support children


strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this model policy. </p>


Cringe


100% SUPPORT the proposed transgender school policy changes

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<p> I fully support the governor's proposed transgender policy changes in our public schools.  </p>


TRANS PEOPLE ARE NOT EVIL

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<p>Trans people are just another subset of people, one that needs support from their neighbors and love from friends. The propoganda around Transgender people is putrageous, and full of lies. Please, listen to what they have to say about themselves, not just the fearmongering that is spread.Every human has the right to be themselves. A society that polices gender expression is a society of fearful, controlling apes. Do you wish to be a fearful, controlling ape? </p>


A sad time to be a Virginian

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<p>This whole stunt makes me ashamed to be a Virginian.  Students that identify as LGBTQ already face stigma and harassment from their peers, often parents, and society in general,  just for having the courage to be who they were born to be. Yet the Virginia state government, under the Youngkin administration,  feels the need to further marginalize LGBTQ youths, to shame them, and to violate their human rights, in order to score some cheap political points. This administration and Republicans in general cry about how we need to protect the unborn, about how we need to protect children from predators, etc., but I guess that ends if those same children then exercise their free will and opt not to conform to society's expectations for them. Then it's a course reversal and parents rights trump human rights and individual rights and the freedom for expression, to include expressing the innate truth of who one was born to be.  Instead of focusing on more pressing and consequential topics, such as the Virginia economy and jobs, transportation infrastructure, childhood poverty, drug addiction, unaffordable housing, policing and community safety, the Youngkin administration has decided to fight culture wars.  I reserved judgement for Youngkin when he was elected, but this decision to target LGBTQ children, is a cheap shot and speaks volumes about who he is as a person, and who he is as a leader. Maybe he should take a look at high school students trying to illegally vote next....  </p>


Morning be forward supporting all

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<p> This guidance harms transchildren and anyone supporting this should be ashamed of themselves. Why does being kind to someone and THEIR identity affect anyone else negatively? It shouldn’t. This is a step back</p>


Strongly oppose. Undue harm will come from this change.

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I am a parent to 2 school-aged children who has the supreme privilege to live and work in a progressive part of the state, Albemarle County. ACPS has taken actionable steps to ensure that ALL students feel safe and protected coming to learn each day, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. AND yet, there is still far more work to be done in our community.  It is deeply disturbing to think that all of the work that has been done to secure these freedoms for all of our community members' children may be swiftly undone with this horrendous proposal. Beyond negatively impacting my progressive, blue bubble, the youth of the entire state stands at risk due to the proposed 2022 model policies. If enacted, these policies would cause specific harm to non-binary, gender-expansive and trans students. Furthermore, this gross over-reach of the government would pave the way for the broad harm and denial the humanity of ANY of our students, who may find themselves "outside" of the currently accepted standard, whatever that may be.  Protecting the rights of the non-binary, gender-expansive and trans students, protects the rights of us all. Strongly oppose this attempt to take a giant step backwards in personal autonomy, privacy and equal rights for all.


Strongly Support Governor Youngkin’s Transgender School Policy

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<p> I strongly support this policy as it protects parental rights and protects sports programs for girls. Thank you</p>


Support

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<p> Parental rights and child protection  </p>


Fully support the sanity changes Mr. Youngkin proposes.

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First, moderator—or some such—should delete any and all “comments” which are patently spam, repeated multiple times in minutes.

As for the proposed policy directive, it is about time sanity reigned in Richmond and—by extension—in local school boards.  Unless and until adolescents are deemed adults and responsible in every way for their decisions, including self-support, it is the parents, not the State (or any lower arm thereof) who are the sole arbiters of all decisions regarding the lives of their children.


Strongly Support This New Approach

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<p> No matter one’s belief system</p>


Leave transgender students alone!

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Please leave transgender students alone! We just went through this with Gavin Grimm and I hope the ACLU takes notice if your actions! I am not impressed with your policies!


Support

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<p> Though we need to find a solution for Trans Rights</p>


Sad and pathetic

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<p>Oppose - Younkin is endangering students </p>


Strongly support!!!! Thank you Youngkin!

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<p> Strongly support Youngkin’s updated policy.  </p>


Oppose

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Oppose - trans student should be treated equal to anyone. Trans people are people.


I support this policy this family-friendly policy

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<p> Our family is very much in favor of this proposed model policy from the VA DOE on the privacy</p>


Do not implement the guidelines - damaging to students and communities

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<p>I implore you to NOT follow through with the proposed VDOE 2022 Regulatory Guidelines on the grounds that they place teachers, parents, and above all students, in an impossible situation.  I have seen first hand the trauma experienced by trans kids when they are not accepted, as they bring it with them to college, where I teach.  It is incorrect to characterize this as a parental rights issue, as we are talking about a policy that will take away what is for many students, the only lifeline they have.  It also places teachers, who care deeply about the well-being of their students, in a precarious position where their jobs may be in jeopardy because of their commitment.  This is a bad set of guidelines.  DO NOT FOLLOW THROUGH. </p>


Great Bill! Fully support!

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<p> Thank you for your continued hard work for our children!  </p>


Teach Respect for All Children

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<p>Our schools should be showing and teaching respect for all people, all children, NOT singling a particular group out for disrespect. There is no basis in reason or science for these proposed policies and they will harm not just trans kids but all kids as they teach a hateful lesson. </p>


Strongly support

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<p> Let parents to parent their children! Teachers should stick to academics  </p>


Let my kids be whatever they want!

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It is none of anyone's business what is underneath my child's skirt. Let them be who they are going to be nit just who you want them to be!


Oppose new policies

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<p>These youth are just trying to be who they are. I don’t agree with the new policies put forth by this governor. For a party that is for freedom, the hypocrisy is telling. </p>


GENDER DYSPHORIA IS REAL PROTECT TRANS CHILDREN

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<p>please they aren’t hurting anybody </p>


Strongly support my governor


Protect Trans Youth


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

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<p> I support this policy change</p>


Strongly against. Bigotry won't solve anything.

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How can you claim to be against discrimination when this proposal will put a giant target on trans kids backs? This is appalling.

Some kids are trans. Some kids are gay. Some kids have blue eyes. Get over it, and stop using your bigotry as a cudgel to make kids conform to your ideas of what you think they should be. You won't 'un-trans' kids by constantly misgendering them, you'll just make them miserable and increase their risk of suicide.


Support

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<p> Young teenage boys do not need to be supplied with policies they can exploit to use on our girls.  </p>


Opposed

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Opposed to this unsafe proposal.


Strongly support

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<p> I support this.  </p>


Trans students identities should be respected

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I strongly disagree with any policy that does not allow students to present as they wish in the school system. Pronoun requests from students should be respected simply as common courtesy -- the views of the teacher or other responsible adult on gender should be irrelevant. Sports team affiliations should be un-gendered.  You want to play baseball not softball? We shouldn't care what gender you are. You want to play soccer on the team that happens to be comprised mostly of boys? Allow it. You want to play soccer on the team comprised mostly of girls? Allow it. Youngkin's policy idea is simply a lesson to children that rudeness and disrespect are allowed if you are an adult speaking to a child, but not the other way around. It harms the well being of our youth.


Fully support

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<p> Thank you for keeping parents’ rights in place. Government schools need to worry about teaching mathematics</p>


Read the Actual Model Policies (Transgender students in public schools)

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The guidance information for the comments tells you nothing about what the enforcement of the Model Policies will be like. Schools have more important things to worry about than policing gender. We should have model policies on how to close the learning gap created by the pandemic and focus on the real danger of school shootings.

The guidance document makes the policy sound reasonable and as if it is a compromise between varying rights.  The Model Policies show that its purpose is to target transgender students.

One of my daughters friends began to transition to transgender in high school.  All of this student's school friends were incredibly supportive and accepting. The student's friends understood that at his core he was still the same person they knew and loved.

Youngkin's is fanning the flames of culture wars that Virginia has managed to stay above.  This is not good policy.


I support parents rights

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<p> I fully support the proposed policy which restores parents rights to guide their children’s moral values and remain fully informed of any changes that involve their children. Thank you for not allowing a very vocal - and radical - minority to force their views upon all of us.  </p>


This is horribly unsafe for students

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<p>As a newly minted resident of the state of Virginia, this police is abhorrent and will put already vulnerable children in harmful situations.  This is nothing more than a political stunt, to win the support of bigots. I guess cruelty really is the point. </p>


Strongly oppose 2022 "model" policy

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The 2022 model policy seeks to reverse civil rights protections for some of our most vulnerable youth and further undercut, control, and punish K-12 teachers in the midst of a teacher shortage. Do better, Virginia.


Giving children basic human rights is suicide prevention

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Queer trans humans have existed for all of human history. We cannot know someone better than they know themselves. Regressive policies that deny basic human rights, is not only embarrassing, it's dangerous. Providing safe homes is our job as parents, but that doesn't always happen, especially is less educated/more religious areas, so giving kids a safe environment at school is critical to their survival. I oppose any legislation that takes away children's voices about their very existence, and that can cause devastating effects. I oppose this Bill wholeheartedly.

LGBTQIA+ are all around you, we aren't going away, so it's time to make the world safer for us.

Sincerely,

A queer, nonbinary 35 year old who was that kid who needed a safe place.


Gender dysphoria is mental illness and needs treatment!

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Transgender affirmation is the one of the CRUELEST things you can do to a kid.

The chemicals used (Lupron) are used for chemical castration. These “treatments” are not reversible.

We are in a death match with neo Marxism (see Gramsci, Foucault, Marcuse) as they hoped for. Time to wake up to it.


Protect Our Children

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With the lot of issues facing our schools today (i.e. school shootings, improving teacher  recruitment and retention, the effects of the pandemic, etc.) I cannot understand why this is at the forefront of our governor's agenda.  As a parent and professor, I have encountered students who are afraid of the repercussions of their gender identify in all aspects of life and the very least we can do as advocates (as all educators should be) is to protect these students while in school.  With that being said, I oppose this policy for targeting an already vulnerable population.


Grandpa says support please save my grandchildren


This is WRONG

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<p>This is wrong. Leave children to decide who they are and how they interact with the world. Stop policing and silencing them. </p>


Why I Strongly Oppose, Perspectives from an Adolescent Mental Health Clinician

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I am a former school social worker and currently work as an adolescent therapist. I've spent the last ten years of my career deeply embedded in adolescent mental health and to say that our teens are in crisis is an understatement. I strongly believe that this policy will only create further harm.

Adolescence is a time of exploration of self and limiting an individual's capacity to not just explore who they are, but voice who they are is not only wrong but inhumane. As supportive adults in the lives of children (and this includes school personnel) it is not only our job but our responsibility to help kids develop into adults that trust AND know themselves. When kids don't have a voice and don't feel validated in their experience, they don't feel real. They don't feel important. It is no surprise then that suicidal ideation and self harm among teens has sky rocketed.

When we respond to children who are exploring themselves by saying you're wrong or you can't do that or you don't know what you're talking about they feel invisible, unimportant and like they can't trust themselves. Imagine a society where children were brought up in a world where when they shared something about themselves and were told: I'm so glad you're talking about this. Thank you for sharing this with me. Tell me more. I believe you.

This policy is not about "supporting" our children and it's certainly NOT about protecting them. This policy is based solely out of fear and represents a collective capacity on the part of Governor Younkin for cruelty.


Fully support

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Strongly Oppose, Due to Mental Health Implications and Risk for Increased Suicide

Rachel Featherstone, Greater Richmond Perinatal Mental Health Coalition

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These proposed policies seek to develop a hostile environment to children who are at a higher risk of self harm and suicide.  If enacted, the toll will be atrocious and the blame will be on the current administration.

None of the research supports this policy, as protective or supportive of any students, staff, or school.

Very Respectfully,

R. Featherstone

Nurse Practitioner of Psychiatry and Women's Health


The state is not the parent

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<p>Thank you for recognizing the role of government and caring about our education system and the health and well being of children </p>


PROTECT TRANS KIDS

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<p>They are just kids like cis kids just trying to live their lives and be </p>


Oppose this cruel policy

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While this policy includes a prohibition on all discrimination, harassment, and bullying, the intent and impact of this new policy is intentionally discriminatory and allows for state-sanctioned bullying.

This policy will be extremely harmful to nonbinary and trans students.

The policy does not allow to use non-binary pronouns, and allows for teachers to bully students by calling them by a different name and pronoun.

Schools should be a safe place for student's education.  This policy makes schools far less safe.


Strongly oppose model policy

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I strongly oppose the Virginia department of education adopting the model policy Glen Younkin published. These policies will directly result in trans youth feeling less safe at school. Robbing children of the opportunity to learn in a safe environment is disgusting. Parents should have no right to discriminate against their children.

Do not push this policy on schools that have no interest in implementing them.


PROTECT TRANS KIDS

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<p>They are just kids like cis kids just trying to live their lives and be happy </p>


Truly Disgusting

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<p>I'm unsure where in the constitution there is a directive for such a blatantly harmful policy. I don't believe there's any passage in the Bible where God calls to make children's lives a living hell as they sort through figuring out their identity in this world. Forcing kids to confront the conditioning of their parents before they're ready, before their parents are ready, is cruel. Not only that, but for a party that claims to be about personal liberty, this policy would strip that away from families who need the freedom and space to deal with these issues without government intervention. It's gross. Please have compassion with your policy. </p>


Vehemently oppose

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<p>This policy is a model of disgrace and does NOT reflect one ounce of compassion, dignity, and respect for our children's privacy. Parental rights are code for subordinating children's right to bodily autonomy. I strongly oppose this shift to the 2022 model policies proposed by Governor Youngkin as doing exponential damage to our youth for NOT trusting them. Trans and nonbinary humans are HUMAN and deserve every respect and care from our communities as they are BRAVE and COURAGEOUS for living their authentic truth that goes against the expectations society has set for them. These proposed policies fly in the face of teaching and modeling consent, a concept that our culture is struggling to operationalize and which will make our culture stronger when we learn that consent and respect are inextricably linked. In addition to the damage this does to youth and American culture where freedom to be authentic is a core value, putting teachers in a position to harm children by eliminating safe places for them to be themselves while surveilling them with the intention of reporting on their identity is going to drive out more teachers. We already have an underfunded teacher pool, this is going to make things worse! Stop the hate and start showing real compassion. Do not implement these policies. </p>


Support the changes

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<p>Children are highly susceptible to the influence of persons in power in their lives. Teachers have a long standing effect on the shaping of a child's mind in the education system. As such, this should be treated with a great responsibility. It is not the role of the education system to guide a child's sexuality. Parents should always be aware of what their kids are learning and experiencing within the system. Transparency should be paramount. This is a good change.   </p>


PROTECT TRANS KIDS


Cruelty to our children

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


Strongly Support. Stop the genital mutilation of children.

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<p> Strongly support. Stop the genital mutilation of children.  </p>


Cruelty to our children


New policy

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I support Governor Youngkin and his new policy

concerning Transgender issues


WE DISSENT


Strongly support the 2022 Model Policies

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I strongly support the 2022 Model Policies.  I support empowering parents.  Parents have rights and a God given call in the training and protection of their children.  Religious freedom must be protected.  I do not support cultural and social transformations in our schools and I do not want parents silenced in their religious or moral beliefs.


Parents Support this Activists and Groomers  Dont

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<p>No matter the number of voices, those who want to harm children and destroy families should not influence this polich </p>


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Gender affirmation is suicide prevention

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The policies outlined here pretend to be compassionate in protecting our youth.  However, their safety is not in jeopardy with the existence of trans and nonbinary people!  In fact, encouraging people to embrace who they are and acknowledging them for that is a perfect example of LOVE.  People who are treated the way they ask and have their gender identity confirmed by others, particularly in their classrooms and by adults who impact their lives, are more likely to live happy and fulfilling lives.  Denying them these basic human rights will lead to an increase in depression, anxiety, shame, and suicidal thoughts or actions.  We all deserve to express ourselves authentically and openly without fear!


Support for Youngkin!

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<p> These are children. Don’t the parents already see how their children are living. Conversations need to happen.  </p>


Fully oppose

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<p>Fully oppose PROTECT TRANS KIDS </p>


CRUELTY TO OUR CHILDREN

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<p>This is as mean as you can get. </p>


CRUELTY TO OUR CHILDREN


Common Sense laws!  100%

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Thank you governor for protecting our children from these fools!


Support for Youngkin!


Support

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<p> It’s parents rights on the line not the school board who only follow the dictates of those who think they know best. Biological you are either male or female. There’s no in between! We are walking a precarious line that borders on rebellion to God Almighty!!!  </p>


Fully support parental rights and the lessening of school board authority .

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The pressure so many of these children are undergoing from the school staff is horrendous.  Children are very susceptible to authority and should be protected from making life changing decisions from those who do not have their interests first and foremost.  No teenager has the brain to really understand what they are really facing.  That is what parents are for.  Give back authority to the parents!!!!!!


Fully Support Governor Younkin Policies to Protect Children & Families

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We Fully Support Governor Younkin. To protect children, to allow parents to parent their children. To protect children and families from the evil political agendas of the left that destroy children, families and this country for their own means and lust for power.


Leave trans kids alone

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<p>Trans kids are already at significantly higher risk of homelessness and suicide. They’re not hurting anyone, why are you so determined to make their lives worse? If you really want to protect kids, let’s do something about bullying and school shootings </p>


Common Sense :)

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Thank you Governor - Finally a common sense document.  As a parent I fully support this approach.

I encourage all to read this.

No Bot here.


I oppose

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I greatly oppose the propositions that Glen Younkin is proposing. Trans people and people of all sexuality should not be subjected to being “outed”. It should be a basic principle that u should be able to have privacy in your own life and identities. I understand the concern for bathroom usage of trans people but there are homosexuals that pose the same “threat” you think trans people do, the problem is not trans people or homosexuals, it is bad people to at do bad things. Thank you for reading this.


No support.

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<p>Nothing like the Nazis always screaming my rights and freedom looking to put down and hold back someone else.  Virginia never disappoints on it's backwards views.  </p>


Support the policies

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<p> The new policies provide balance in caring for each student and the views and values of their parents. It returns the responsibility for children to their parents. It also respects and better balances the rights and dignity of each student. Children with gender dysphoria will receive more balanced care under the supervision of parents in partnership with school personnel as needed rather than the possibility that parents be excluded from the conversation. Overall</p>


I oppose this harmful policy

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Please do not implement this anti-trans policy that will harm our children.


GAYS AGAINST GROOMERS

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Gaysagainstgroomers.com

Hey leftists- how many regretful children with mutilated bodies would you need to realize kids are being groomed into this lifestyle?

The detransition phase has already begun...

Support the new proposal and let parents protect their children.


Governor's Transgender Policy

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This is very wrong and dangerous to our children.  The governor does not understand that some parents are closed minded and mistaken about the consequences of a non traditional sexual identity if not lived authentically. If the school does not support these kids they are prone to many problems including depression and even suicide. They have nowhere to turn.


Fully support this.

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<p> Fully support.  </p>


I OPPOSE this policy

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<p>These proposed policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids. You should be ashamed!! </p>


FULLY SUPPORT - THANK YOU!

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<p> Thank you for supporting and reaffirming parents’ roles in their children’s lives. It is essential that our state recognize and respect the role of parent</p>


CRUELTY TO OUR CHILDREN


THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING PARENTS RIGHTS!!!!

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Parents should ALWAYS have the last say in a childs upbringing!


Strongly Support Parental Rights!

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<p> Strongly Support Parental Rights!  </p>


CRUELTY TO OUR CHILDREN

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<p>This is as mean as you can get. </p>


I support the governor new policy.

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


Strongly oppose

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These model policies have the potential to ruin or end the lives or countless transgender students in Virginia. The policy's emphasis on parent's rights comes at the gross violation of human rights in schools.

If these policies are to protect parent and student rights alike, let students socially transition and choose their bathroom. Students should be able to pursue a physical or hormonal transition, but outside of school only. This would have no effect in after-school events, but would let students explore their identity in the safety of their school.

Our schools should serve the students and give a safe learning environment. These policies put the millions of students in VA schools at risk.

If parents want to be a part of this conversation, they must provide a loving and unconditionally supportive environment, so their kids would come out by their own choice.

There is no reason to deny children their own name in schools.


Support support support


Strongly support parental rights

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<p> This should be common sense that parents make the decisions for their children and should be fully informed by the education system concerning the care of their child. This is not a socialist state where children belong to the state. School systems should not be indoctrinating children with gender ideology potentially putting them on a path they may not fully understand the full weight of their decision. It has been documented that transitioning is very difficult for adults. Why would we push and encourage this decision on young children when growing up is already so difficult. Those that are truly trans should be treated with the same respect and kindness as everyone else and this policy is in agreement with this. What the opposition wants is to encourage this on young developing minds when they do not bear the responsibility of seeing the child through the whole process. They are not responsible for the mental health</p>


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP

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As anti American as you can get!


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP


I support sanity


Model Policy for Treatment of Transgender Students

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I urge you to adopt the 2022 modifications to the policy issued in 2021.  The new policy appropriately recognizes the primary role of parents in the upbringing and education of children.  Public institutions should not hide from parents the manner in which they are counseling, identifying or handling interactions of their children with others.

Further the revisions will further privacy and safety of the majority of students who are reasonably uncomfortable sharing showers, lockerrooms or overnight accomodations with persons of a different biological sex.

I am grateful to you for taking this initiative to restore decency and order in the schools.  Nothing in the legislation calling for this model policy dictated that it supplant the judgment of school boards or parents on these sensitive topics and overturn the wisdom of the centuries as to the immutability of sexual identity.  Thank you for stopping the role of schools in promoting surgery or other permanent alteration of student bodies in the absence of parental consultation and concurrence.


Strongly support


Go Youngkin!

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I support governor Younkin!


Cruel abusive policy. OPPOSE!

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Cruel abusive policy. OPPOSE!

 This proposed legislation does not protect children. It protects parents who want to maintain their bigotry. 0 children are being protected..


100% DO NOT approve

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I am a parent of a current HS student and two others that are now in college and grad school.

I adamently disapprove of this guiance. This guidance is only designed to drum up culture wars and divide our children and ultimately the state of Virginia. They will only alienate trans kids and open them up to discrimination and bullying. This lends itself to depression and potential for suicide. When the administration leads the discrimination charge it gives the OK for other kids to follow. If this is such a small percentage of our students, why make such a big deal of it? Let them live and let live.

You scream "parental rights" but what about trans kids who are in homes with parents who would abuse or disown them if they find out about? Funny how it tends to always be the "God loving" ones who then beat the crap out of their kids for something they regard as a "sin." How about the rights of we parents who want our kids to go to school in a united and harmonious environment? BTW, non-trans kids don't care about any of this.

This is nothing but a political ploy to elevate our governor with the Trump base so he can run for president and our kids are pawns in his lousy game. Please do all of our kids a favor and withdraw this guidance. Thank you for allowing me to send this comment.


I fully support the new policy

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<p> I fully support this policy. Parental rights and input are critical</p>


This policy is a disgrace

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Talk about government overstep, public schools have no right to dictate how children identify. This is some alarmist , the political right has built a straw-man depicting the desecration of "American values" out of fear of losing control overs matters they nor anyone else has a right to control. Even if you think children are "making a mistake" by identifying a particular way, this is no justification for government intervention. I am not sure how much disinformation has led to this proposal or whether it is born from pure malicious intent, but I can say that this is an attempt to bully kids into doing what the governor thinks is proper and a clear transgression against already fragile freedoms. Life is short and policies like this ensure trans youth, who already have an astronomical suicide rate, are subject to dire, possibly fatal consequences. And for what? So we can all wipe our hands in satisfaction of a job done? Just another day brutally oppressing people because you think they are different and dangerous. One would think the conservative party would be interested in protecting peoples' freedoms: I am not sure how meddling with private affairs at school fits into that worldview. People deserve to be themselves in peace without governments stepping in.


Support!! Support!! Support!!


100% DO NOT approve


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP

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As anti american as you can get!


Strongly support

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<p> Strongly supposed protecting all children and our constitutional laws  </p>


Support Youngkin

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<p> I fully support Governor Youngkin. Transgender students NEED the help of their parents. They do not need to be further secretive about their identity crisis. Childten’s brains are not fully developed so why would any responsible adult allow a child to make a change as drastic as trying to switch genders or wanting to dabble in using new pronouns? How does being secretive benefit anyone? Being secretive is what people do when they’re being DECEITFUL. When we are honest</p>


Thank you. Continue to protect kids.

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Those who advocate the poisoning and mutilation of children, lying to them and deceiving their parents, are forcefully condemning you. Good. Let them.

Thank you for standing firm for families, science, and basic decency.


Parental Rights Matter

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<p>These days the term 'follow the science" is the buzz word.  Except when it comes to the transgender situation, following the science is not allowed.  Today they talk about the sex "assigned"  at birth.   There is no question that a boy is a boy and a girl is a girl the moment they are born.  Their sex is not assigned.  It is what it is.  The policy that is being proposed by the governor is fair and I fully agree with the proposal.  Parents should have the say over how their children are raised  until they are considered adults by the law.  </p>


ADOLF HITLER OPPOSES NEW PROPOSAL

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You mustn't let parents get in the way of the indoctrination!

- Adolf


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP


You are harming our children

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<p>Glenn Youngkin, how about we start calling you Glenda. You wouldn't like that would you, that's not your name. It is the same for these children. Just because you don't understand it and don't relate, doesn't mean its wrong. Why do you even care what these kids do. Just let them live their lives in peace. Stop intentionally harming our children. </p>


Fully Support Youngkin's re assertion of parental rights

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The fact that so many commenters are afraid to put their name on this comment form should alert everyone to the strange external parties involved in this "debate". But debate requires honest assessment of the issue at hand. Parents remain in charge of their kids until age 18, unless a child decides to emancipate via court action. The previous education policies from 2021 effectively had school personnel stepping in and blocking parents from knowing what was going on at school regarding their children. Simply reasserting parental rights should not be unleashing such a storm of vicious opposition. Thank you to the Youngkin administration for being bold, standing up to the bullies who threaten anyone who dares to speak their own opinions on this issue. The tide is turning and parents are waking up. Parents are on all sides of the political spectrum (except perhaps the most militant "trans rights" activists...those who see trans rights as superior to all others). The mighty parent political power has been awakened.


how is this cruel? Parents need love and support too!

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<p>Many are posting on the cruelty of this. What is cruel cultivating an environment for kids to lie to their parents about potential serious mental health issues. </p>


Hateful. Do not / would never support.

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<p> It's a hateful policy. We have a governor that wants to harm children for the sole purpose of gaining a little MAGA clout in the anti-civil-rights d!ck measuring contest going on between our republican governors in this country.  </p>


Transgender students

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<p>Gov. Youngkin's proposed policy change for transgender students is horrible and spiteful.  </p>


Strong support Trump 2024


Supporting trans students.

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I am opposed to harmful policies that discriminate and hurt our trans students.


Supporting trans students.


OPPOSE. Please do better by ALL kids!

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OPPOSE. Please do better by ALL kids!


Thank you- Strong Support for the 2022 policy

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Thank you for protecting the rights of parents and students.  There are too many examples of parents being excluded from the process of educating their children on topics that should be handled at home.  Schools have no right to indoctrinate or support decisions by children that are harmful and contrary to parental wishes.

Students, especially female students, have the right to participate in activities without being forced to dress, use restroom facilities, and participate in sports with members of the opposite sex.  The rapes in Fairfax schools committed by a "transgender" boy are proof that girls and young women are threatened by current transgender policies.

Please do not base any decisions on the vocal 0.6% of the US population.


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Thank you Govenor Youngkin! Sanity is returning to VA...


Yes!!

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<p>Yes, I absolutely support this bill.  Parents need to be involved in their children’s lives & decisions up to +18 years of age. </p>


We awe family and we support


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I support Glen Youngkin! Protect our children!


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP

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As anti american as you can get!


Love all the "oh-so wise" comments here opposing parents having basic rights for their own children!

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Parents have the right to be involved in their child(ren)s life.  Period. Support this policy.


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP


Strongly support Youngkins policy!  Thank you for protecting our children

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<p> Strongly support Youngkins policy. The madness needs to be stopped. Thank you for protecting our childrens safety and sanity.   </p>


Parents are the legal caregivers. These are minors!

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<p>You have no right to take the parental rights from the parents. Only parents can decide what you teach their children! Quit trying to take parents rights away! </p>


Appalling Policy! Protect my child from bigotry!

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<p>I don't know how anyone can think that refusing to acknowledge who a person tell you they are. How arrogant, at the very least, and how damaging to the children. Shame on you if you support this nasty mean proposal. </p>


Oppose as a parent and professional

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My child has expressed their gender as different than their assigned sex at birth from at least age 3 (possibly before but we were not picking up on the cues).  My kiddo has had to affirm themselves since that age as kids in daycare would ask "Is [NAME] a boy or a girl?" over and over.  At some point in elementary school, the general curiosity of children stopped and they just accepted my kiddo just as they are.  My kiddo still struggles with a few sheltered/intolerant/unaware peers who question their gender, but the ADULTS have been the ones who seem to have the hardest time accepting people as they are.

Gov. Youngkin's proposal is saying that we ADULTS lack the potential to adapt, learn, and "do better."  He is essentially saying it is too complicated for us ADULTS so we must force young people to do what makes sense for US, even if it places THEIR lives and livelihood at-risk.  He is also vilifying the expression of anything that privileged ADULTS cannot comprehend.

He is saying that affirming our youth is too distracting in the school system.  What I find is that THIS is distracting us more than anything.  It is making some parents focus on hate and fear rather than love and acceptance, it is making children focus on fear and shame rather than feeling safe and affirmed, and it is making schools focus on anything but what they should - educating our children.

Trans and non-binary youth are at high risks of suicide.  This proposal places our children at-risk emotionally and physically.  And the ADULTS will be to blame.


THANK YOU  Yongkin for sensible policies protecting children, parents rights, and girls sports!

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Thank goodness for your bravery in standing up to a dangerous ideology that strips parental rights, marginalizes girls, and endangers young children to school abuses. Schools should have NO right to hide important information about children from their parents. The rabid lobby suggesting otherwise is putting children at risk of abuse by school staff, all behind parents’ backs. Parental permission slips for name/pronoun change is sensible and still allows for trans students expressions in a safe and structured way. And most importantly, you are protecting the hard-earned rights of girls to participate in sports. I didn’t vote for you, and oppose most of your policies. But these new DOE guidelines are a major victory for reason, sanity, and scientific fact. Thank you for not letting the extreme fringe in aggressive opposition scare you from doing the right thing.


need parent consent

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<p>I support Youngkin's new policies which protect our children, This are minors who needs parental consent and support </p>


I support this change.

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<p> Schools should stay out of gender identity and sexual preferences. They should be respectful of all students while sticking to providing education. Parents should provide legal documentation of name and/or gender change to require school staff or students to address a student by biological/legal name/pronouns. No biological male should be allowed to compete in female sports or enter bathrooms/locker rooms; vice versa for females participating in male sport or enter bathrooms. I certainly don't want schools teaching gender/transgender topics or casually discussing with students. Teachers are not there to be a friend . Students don't need to know what staff do on weekends or in relationships. It's called boundaries. In the end</p>


Opposed to proposed VDOE guidelines

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The proposed guidelines will be harmful to many students and teachers alike. Each human has the right to be treated with dignity and respect which is directly opposite the proposed guideline.  It also goes against the idea that parents have rights to raise their children as they wish. This proposal has no place in the Commonwealth. Please strike it down.


Support  but needs to be stronger

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<p>This helps.  But democrats were trying to ruin childrens lives.  Keep up the good work and continue to protect children and parents. </p>


Great idea! Support the whole family

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<p> These are the right direction for the commonwealth! Keep supporting families!  </p>


Gov. Youngkin's proposed rules for treatment of transgender students

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<p>This is a very misguided policy.  Students at this age are trying to determine who they are. Identify is an important but fluid subject at this age, and probably until full maturity of the brain.  There is argument about when that happens, and it probably is quite individual, but maybe age 22 or there about.  The thing middle school and high school students are most inflexible about may be any attempt to force them to decide, and especially to decide for them. The common sense rule is to push only when it's critical for health or classroom control reasons, either of the student or others, to do so. I strongly believe that treating each student with respect but allowing them time and room to decide for themselves questions of this nature. </p>


strongly oppose

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I'm concerned for the safety of gender expansive students when this goes into effect and I strongly oppose it.  School should be a safe place for personal expression.  My son is free to use his middle name instead of his first name at school: no one has ever consulted me on this or asked me to submit paperwork because no one considers that choice right or wrong, good or bad.  The only reason to submit paperwork noting gender pronouns is to make sure the parent knows their kid is doing something "wrong", akin to a behavior problem.

The research is clear: transgender children are at high risk for suicide without supportive environments.  I do not think parents have rights that exceed their children's individual rights nor do I think parents should guide what children learn in a public school: that should be determined by experts and educators.  And more than anything, I want our children to be safe and supported at school so that they can learn and become productive citizens - whether I agree with my child or not.

The way this legislation opens as aligning with anti-bullying efforts while effectively rolling back inclusive protections is insulting to the intelligence of Virginians.  Parental consent and policing bathrooms does not improve the way students treat one another: it only encourages mistreatment by making certain identities appear wrong, punishable or undesirable.

Ask for my consent on field trips.  Keep me informed on curriculum changes, failing grades or behavior problems.  Identity is NOT a behavior problem, it's a freedom and privacy to be protected.


100% supportive of this policy change!

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Thank you Governor Youngkin for drafting this new policy that will begin to stop the lunacy practiced by our public schools.  My family and I are 100% supportive of bringing common sense back into this debate and including parents in this key issue.


Support Youngkin

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<p>Parents have a right to be informed.  I support Governor Younkin for supporting parents.  </p>


SUPPORT. MY kids, not yours

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<p>Thank you for this common sense policy change to protect ALL Virginia’s children and help parents to be the PARENTS of their own children. If a child needs help, the parents are the first responders. If a child needs help, the parents can help them best. I will not go into the rape and attempted rape in Loudon County, but will say again, thank you for protecting ALL children in the Commonwealth. </p>


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP

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As anti american as you can get!


LOCK YOUNGKIN UP


Strongly support

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<p> I strongly support this change that protects parental rights and allows them to keep informed of all aspects of their children’s health and wellness.  </p>


A perspective from a transgender child who would rather become a transgender adult than a corpse

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It is hard enough as is to be a transgender student without these policies. It is hard to be called by different names at school and at home, and it is hard to be misgendered all the time -- both by accident and maliciously. It's difficult knowing that without significant medical care, I will never be perceived like the gender I am. It is hard knowing that most people see me as a girl who doesn't think she is one. It is hard knowing that at any given time, a significant proportion of the population thinks of me as delusional and wants me dead.

Before I changed my name, I dreaded being called on school, or even introducing myself to others. I hated being perceived for any reason, because I knew I would be called by a name that belongs to me but is not Me. If I had not been able to change my name, I would be a shell of a person that I am now. If teachers had not called me by my new name, I would refuse to participate in class. If I am not to be called by my correct name, then I would rather not be called at all.

Do you know what it is like to be assumed to be the gender you are not all the time? Do you know what it is like to have to introduce yourself not only by your name, but also your pronouns? Being misgendered can ruin a few hours of my day, if not the whole day. It makes me unconfident in myself and even more aware of the body that I was not meant to be born in but cannot change before I become an adult. Do you know what it feels like to feel like an alien in your own body? I don't hate my body. My body does its best at being alive and being a place for my soul to reside in. I think my body is alright, I love it even because I live in it. And I'd rather change it; I'd rather look more like a boy that I know I am. But I can't do that until I'm legally an adult. So I have to limit myself to only being called by my chosen name and by pronouns that match who I am. But some people don't even do that, because they say they've known me for so long or because they think I am a delusional little girl.

Don't you dare make it easy for people I see for seven hours every day to call me by a name that I didn't choose. Don't you dare take away my right to freely identify as who I truly am. My identity is not an ideology.

If I wanted to be a pawn, I would play chess.


100% support

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The 2021 guidance is disgusting. I support the 2022 guidance 100%.


Strongly support a parents right to raise their child.

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<p> School systems are not medical professionals that are in the profession of diagnosing gender dysphoria in children. School systems do not pay the medical bills of these children.  </p>


FULLY SUPPORT!!!

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<p> FULLY SUPPORT!!!  </p>


Don’t let this pass.


FULLY SUPPORT!!!


VOTE HIM OUT

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Don’t allow transphobic policies into our school systems!


Strongly Support 2022 Policy Revision

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I strongly believe in the right (and responsibility) of parental involvement in their child's education and support the 2022 revisions to this document as written.


Fully Support

          I fully support this revision to the transgender policy. Children need permission from their parents in all other facets of their lives, why is the ability to change genders any different. In addition, society has determined children are incapable of making their own decisions until they are 18. Why would we allow a child to decide their gender? This policy is not too burdensome to have the parents make the request. Something of this nature should require parental consent.

From the other side of the table, the other children in the school deserve protection. This policy will only allow the documented cases to use the bathroom conforming to their gender. That is not too much to ask.


Strongly support


Support the Plan

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<p> I fully support the Governor's plan. The guidance engages parents in their children's education and treats ALL children with respect and honor!  </p>


https://segm.org/Sweden_ends_use_of_Dutch_protocol    follow the science

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Strongly support.

Surely some of those who oppose the new policy are sincere in their mistaken beliefs.  But anyone who does not recognize the right and importance of parental authority is a fool or a tool of Marxist ideology.  We see you, Karl.

In the '90's, the ACT UP group demonstrated in New York with the chant - "We are Here, We are Queer, and we want your children!"  Those who oppose the new policy are answering "Here they are - take them!"  Shameful.


Gov. Youngkin's transgender student proposed policy

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Good day -

I fully support Gov. Youngkin's proposed transgender student policy.    Educational core efforts at schools should focus on raising academic results in reading, math, science, critical thinking etc. ; and NOT on social behavioral engineering campaigns for students.

Thank you for your attention.


I vehemently oppose this policy

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This policy will directly lead to an increase in student suicidal thoughts and behaviors. I am a nurse, and the evidence shows that trans individuals who do not receive support from those around them have an increase in suicidal thoughts and attempts. I also have a history as a CPS social worker and know that not all households are safe and supportive for children. Requiring parental notification, approval, and participation in order for a student to be able to be treated as their genuine gender is unnecessary and cruel.


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Let kids be kids, even transgender ones!

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Let transgender children play sports! Let transgender children go to the bathroom! Let transgender kids be kids!

I strongly OPPOSE Gov. Youngkin's policies that exclude transgender children and make them more vulnerable than they already are.


Please reconsider policy

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<p>Please reconsider your recent policy regarding trans youth.  I understand that you believe that only parents should be able to say what name a child uses, but that is simply not how it works for so many trans, gay and binary youth.  I worked in homelessness for many years and far too often the reason a youth was homeless was because they had come out to their parents.  What name a person prefers doesn't harm anyone else in their world, but it can make a world of difference to the individual figuring out how they need to present themselves, especially during the difficult developmental stage of adolescence. </p>


I fully support this; previous policies interfered with parents

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<p> This policy is reasonable and does not endanger trans students as feared by others commenting. Their language is hyperbole and present a false dichotomy. This policy returns rights to parents while still protecting all students</p>


Totally support this bill!!

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Curb the schools and bring back the parents!!


VOTE HIM OUT

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This is cruel to our children


VOTE HIM OUT


Strongly support Youngkin


Strongly Oppose

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<p> The proposed policy changes are deeply harmful to the mental health of Virginia’s transgender children, and seem to have no logical legal basis, making this purely legislated bigotry. Respected studies have shown that transgender students who live in an environment of non-acceptance are at catastrophically higher risk of suicide—yet our self-proclaimed “pro-life governor” would put thousands of Virginia students at risk with this policy change in order to score a few political points. In the midst of a crisis level teacher shortage and students who are woefully behind in the wake of the pandemic, VDOE is wasting time and resources in an attempt to ostracize transgender students who just want to be accepted for who they are as they access the public education guaranteed to them by law. Our governor is pandering to the fearful and bigoted parts of his base, possibly with his eye on a 2024 presidential bid, and he’s putting children in harm’s way to further his own political aspirations. A decent person would be ashamed of such behavior.</p>


Youngkin Rocks!!!!

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Protect our rights and our kids!!!


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>This is awfully dangerous for Trans kids, in so many ways. From causing an unsafe environment for the kid to causing mental health problems to go severe. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE


YES! SUPPORT!

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<p> It’s about time we stand up for what is right! The world says everything is acceptable! Really?? You better think again! Pass this and we will start to get a backbone again instead of letting anything fly! That’s what’s wrong with the world today - especially the school system! Don’t give them a teddy bear and a coloring book - teach them right from wrong they need discipline!  </p>


Strongly support

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<p> This is a an issue that should be discussed between the child and their family. The family can then speak to the school. Schools need to focus on education and not social justice issues and taking the role of parents.  </p>


State-sanctioned child abuse

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The legislation is designed to harm one class of students in order to make popular a political administration and ease any discomfort unaffected parents may feel. The pointed refusal to call trans students by their names and genders will only increase the likelihood of suicide. It seems obvious that this is the intended purpose, as some vocal individuals would rather not have to think about this entire class of people. In truth, referring to students as their preferred names causes no harm to the person speaking to said students. Playing with kids' lives in order to score political points is disgusting, and bad governance. I am a parent, and I oppose this legislation.


I oppose the guidance.

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<p>I oppose the guidance. </p>


I support the 2022 model policies.

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<p> I support the 2022 model policies. Thank you Governor Youngkin!   </p>


ING END HIM

This needs to stop. This is killing children.
Republicans pretend to care about fetuses, but turn around and kill trans kids with this .
Eventually a trans kid is going to shoot themself on your doorstep, and you're not going to be able to change those optics.Newsome should get cancer asap.

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This needs to stop.
This is killing children.

Republicans pretend to care about fetuses, but turn around and kill trans kids with this .

Eventually a trans kid is going to shoot themself on your doorstep, and you're not going to be able to change those optics.

Newsome should get cancer asap.


2022 MODEL POLICIES ON THE PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGINIA’S

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I am in full agreement with these changes and believe they are very important for the safety of our children. Schools should be for academic learning only and should never override parents ability to raise their children.


Parents Should Always Have Rights not the School system

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The bill is not an attack on kids its to corral the out of control school systems and their administration that think they should be able to do whatever they want to our children in regards to the way they think, the way they act and the way they behave. The school systems should not be hiding things from the parents regarding our children...period. We should always know what is going on with our children. The subject of transgenderism is a mental health issue and there are many children that are scarred both mentally and physically later on in life from being pushed into this idea and then regretting it. Are the schools going to take care of these kids later on in life if that happens? No but the the parents will. The schools are only to teach our children subjects like Math, English, History, Science, Languages, Art, Theatre and technical based classes. It's a parents jobs to shape our children. To teach our children right from wrong, to help them with any issues and to teach them to be good people not the school system.

My children shouldn't also have to be concerned about someone who is transgender in the bathroom area with them. Why don't we care about the ones that are uncomfortable? What if a girl doesn't want to change in an area where a boy who is now says they are a girl is changing? Just saying don't worry about it they are transgender doesn't remove someones discomfort or unease. Instead the school system treats them as the bad guys. They are not and you shouldn't force children to accept things that they may not believe is right but teach them tolerance and respect for others.  But respect should also be given in the other direction as well.


Thank You Governor Youngkin!!! Support!!


Not the transphobia

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<p>This proposal is transphobic and I hate it. Transphobic measures like this drastically harm the mental health of especially young people. Suicide rates will go up. </p>
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I DO NOT SUPPORT

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

This is ridiculous. There are several reasons people do not go by the name on their birth certificate and none of those reasons are anyone's business. I have a relative who goes by their middle name, which is not a nickname associated with the name in their record. This is wasted energy.

"[School Division] personnel shall refer to each student using only the pronouns appropriate to the sex appearing in the student’s official record - that is, male pronouns for a student whose legal sex is male, and female pronouns for a student whose legal sex is female."

Why is it a goal to contribute to mental distress of students? THIS IS HARMFUL.

"Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this section, [School Division] personnel shall refer to a student by a name other than one in the student’s official record, or by pronouns other than those appropriate to the sex appearing in the student’s official record, only if an eligible student or a student’s parent has instructed [School Division] in writing that such other name or other pronouns be used because of the student’s persistent and sincere belief that the student’s gender differs from his or her sex."

You claim to have a zero tolerance on bullying, but are literally mandating school personnel to bully children with this policy.

I could keep citing specifics, because there are several more problematic statements in this document. Anyone in support of this should be ashamed of themselves. Let kids be kids and lead with love. These policies are discriminatory and transgender children will suffer. Nobody is at risk by having to use the same restroom as a trans person. We are all just in there to do our business. Get over yourselves and spend your time and energy doing something meaningful.


VOTE HIM OUT


In support

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<p> Fully support this!  </p>


Listen to kids & parents (strongly oppose)

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Kids all over Virginia walked out in protest of this proposed guidance. They're not adults yet, sure, and I'm not suggesting that they vote - but they can provide valuable insight about what keeps them safe and learning. These rules only make things worse for all kids, trans or not.

Further, this guidance claims to center parents, but then overrules anything parents on the ground say, too. It's terribly written & unhelpful to the real constituents of schools: the KIDS and PARENTS who use them.


I support this policy this family-friendly policy

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<p> Our family is very much in favor of this proposed model policy from the VA DOE on the privacy</p>


VOTE HIM OUT

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This is cruel to our children


I Support

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I fully support Gov Youngkin's proposal to put the power back in the parent's hands. This never should have gone so far. School is for teaching educational subjects like math, reading and science. It is NOT for teaching moral or political issues. Thank you for Gov. Youngkin!


SUPPORT FULLY


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I oppose changing protections for transgender students. These are children’s LIVES we’re talking about! It’s our responsibility as adults to protect them!


FCPS ALUMNUS - STRONGLY SUPPORT

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Virginia NoVA resident since 2000. Strongly support this policy.


STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS POLICY

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This policy will actively harm young trans kids as well as create dangerous precedents for school and government overreach into personal freedoms. Liberty and justice for all means the liberty to try on new styles and personal expressions without policing from teachers!!


Support!

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<p> Stop mutilating kids  </p>


Support!! Keep the Groomers Away From The Kids

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The “teachers” that “help” these confused kids are nothing more than predators. That’s why they hide it from parents.


Policy will harm children

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<p>This policy is wrong on so many levels.  All students need to treated with respect and dignity, not just the ones who are heterosexual.  The children who are LGBTQ need support from teachers and administrative staff, they don't need to be made to feel less than their peers.  It is very brave of them to come out to their friends, teachers and classmates.  Adding restrictions and roadblocks makes it harder for them to be their true self.  This in turn leads to bullying, depression and often suicide.  Don't take away the rights of these children which will make them feel less than their peers.  </p>


SUPPORT

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<p>Strongly support putting the accountability back on the parents to be informed when their MINOR child makes a decision such as this.  Read the amendment people.  </p>


VOTE HIM OUT

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This is a cruel to our children


I support Youngkin's new model policies which protect children

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<p> Parents have primary responsibility for their children and can best guide them.  </p>


Strongly OPPOSE this policy

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The proposed policy changes are extremely harmful to the mental health of Virginia’s transgender children. Respected studies have shown that transgender students who live in an environment of nonacceptance are at much higher risk of suicide. VDOE is wasting time and resources in an attempt to ostracize transgender students who just want to be accepted for who they are as they access the public education guaranteed to them by law.


I support

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<p> I support this.  </p>


Yes do this - I support science and biology

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<p> Schools should be for learning not social experimentation. I am for science and biology</p>


In full support!

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<p>These guidelines are respectful and will help the student who are part of the transgender and non-binary community feel immensely safer </p>


We support you and will fight alongside you!

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<p> We support you and will fight with you!  </p>


Full support - these are minors who need parental consent/support

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Full support of this policy - these are minors who need parental consent/support.
I also have a daughter who will be in Hanover County schools in a few years - it is inappropriate to have males in the bathroom with her.


Strongly oppose these evil policies

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<p>I strongly oppose Gov Youngkins anti trans agenda. Kids should be able to come to school as their authentic true selves and feel free to express themselves. These policies are nothing but harmful. The fact that we would put our youth at risk for some radical evangelistic beliefs is so wrong. Shame on the Youngkin admin for putting our kids on the back burner for their egos. I’m embarrassed and ashamed of VA right now, do better! </p>


REJECT this harmful policy

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Please REJECT this harmful, harmful policy.


I strongly support Gov. Youngkin’s policy.

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<p> Children need time to grow and find themselves. They should not be made to declare their gender at such an early age. There is plenty of time for that when they reach the age of reason. This policy provides for parents to legally request their children be called by pronouns indicating gender other than what is on their birth certificates if they and their children feel strongly about it. Transgenders did compose approximately half of one percent of the population before this targeted campaign began. Now</p>


100% SUPPORT

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<p> 100% SUPPORT More parental rights!  </p>


VOTE HIM OUT

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<p>He does not represent Virginia </p>


VOTE HIM OUT


Fully Support

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<p> I fully support this model.  </p>


Fully SUPPORT this bill's protection of the rights of VA girls and women

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Our family voted for Gov. Youngkin for many reasons, but the primary one was his commitment to safeguarding the rights of Virginia girls and women.  Transgender activists have been pushing a misogynistic platform which is totally untethered from material reality.  This bill protects the hard-won fight of girls to compete fairly in sporting competitions, and to have their privacy respected in vulnerable situations, such as in bathrooms and locker rooms.  It also protects those students and teachers who do not describe to the pseudo-religion of gender identity and do not want to be coerced to lie on a daily basis.  Thank you for this bill, which has our 100% support.


Strongly support this updated policy.

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<p> I strongly support everything this updated policy restoring rights to parents with respect to their children's education.  </p>


Strongly support!!

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<p> Parents should definitely be the ones giving permission for this kind of major change.  </p>


Oppose

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Dear Governor Glenn Youngkin and the Virginia Department of Education:

We are the healthcare professionals who take care of Virginia’s children and families, dedicating our lives to serving you and your children in your greatest moments of need. Rooted in our tenets of healing, beneficence, and self-determination, we are called to advocate for the transgender and gender-diverse youth for whom we care, who will be irreparably harmed if the proposed 2022 Model Policies on Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools 1 comes into fruition.

Affirming a child’s gender identity, whether at home, at the doctor’s, or in school, is crucial to the child’s health and wellbeing. We know the statistics, that in 2021, over half of all transgender and gender-diverse youth considered killing themselves, and one in five attempted suicide.2 But for us, these statistics are more than numbers; they are the names and faces and memories of children we’ve met and cared for. In their moments of hopelessness, we find hope together knowing that when a child’s identity and pronouns are honored, their suicidality lessens.2

Unfortunately, the aforementioned proposed school policy enacts dangerous barriers to the safety of transgender and gender-diverse children. First, in mandating schools to inform unsupportive parents of their child’s identity, this policy obliterates the one affirming space a child may have and increases the risk of suicide and abuse by unnecessarily provoking parental hostility and rejection. Additionally, it bans any measure to affirm a child’s identity without written parental instruction by requiring school employees to use the student’s legal sex and name instead of affirming their pronouns and name. This extraordinarily harmful mandate has no legal basis. The referenced US Supreme Court cases of Troxel v Granville, Wisconsin v Yoder, and Pierce v Society of Sisters refer to matters of familial visitation and the right to withdraw from public school - not a parent’s right to deny their child’s identity and access to critical health services, such as gender counseling.

Furthermore, the proposed policy mandates students to participate in extracurricular activities and use bathrooms according to their assigned sex, despite legal precendent considering this unlawful discrimation.3 In fact, this proposed policy eliminates every effort in its predecessor to create a nurturing and supportive environment, apathetic to the psychological and physical consequences to our transgender and gender-diverse youth. This policy claims that, “All students have the right to attend school in an environment free from discrimination, harassment, or bullying,” yet persecutes children by denying them their identity. Any policy that directs teachers and staff to mistreat their students in this way is discriminatory at best and deadly at worst.

As Virginia’s healthcare workers, we are the ones who see children in emergency departments when they decide their lives aren’t worth living anymore, when the trauma in their bodies manifest as seizures or psychosis or debilitating pain. We are the ones who listen to these children weep as we try to convince them that their future is bright and real, that the bullying will one day be in the past, that acceptance of who they are will come. When we say that this proposed policy will devastate our children’s safety, we know from witnessing it ourselves. This policy will negatively impact the health and wellbeing of our children, leading to higher rates of suicide and self-harm, and we demand this proposal be denied.

In support of Virginia’s trans and gender-diverse children,

Your healthcare workers


Harmful to students in a vulnerable position. Do not support. This does NOT protect students

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<p>This is harmful to trans and nonbinary students. </p>


I fully support the revised policy

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<p> A review of the guiding principles illustrates the shift in focus to parents rights</p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE - Please REJECT this harmful policy

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Crazy this is the direction we are headed in. I strongly oppose this policy. In a country where LGBTQ youth are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers and suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death, why are we creating schools to become a more hostile environment? This policy will be abused, cause more LGBTQ youth to feel like they have no other resources or community standing with them. As a non-binary adult, if this policy was enacted when I was in school - I would not be here. Period. Please reject this harmful policy and protect ALL youth in schools.


VOTE YOUNSKIN OUT

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This guy is a joke, ruining VA one day at a time


VOTE YOUNSKIN OUT


strongly oppose

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I oppose this policy for targeting a small group for the sake of political points and political distraction. Retaining teachers, improving graduation rates and reducing the reality of lockdowns and threat of school shootings are all much bigger issues but get sidelined by the furor over trans students. I have children in high school and I work at a university. Gender expression is changing in all these age groups. Whether it's a temporary or permanent change for the student or society, I can't say, but it's certainly not something to legislate. Whether a student goes by a different name or changes their gender appearance is not something that hurts anyone else, but makes a big difference to the student involved. These guidelines say they want to eliminate indoctrination, but prohibiting personal expression and identity as in  these proposed guidelines is far more indoctrinating than allowing varied forms of expression.


Support

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<p> Though we need to find a solution for Trans Rights</p>


Strongly OPPOSE - these new directives place children's lives at stake

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These new directives are going to immediately put some of our most vulnerable kids at risk. Please trust the experts here. These kids will face more discrimination at the hands of teachers no less! Support our kids to be their best selves and to be safe in their learning environments.
I also oppose these political stunts as they make VA less appealing to residents and business.
i hope this is rejected in full.


Your new law is stupid as hell, LGBTQ+ LIVES MATTER


I OPPOSE the proposed policies

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Schools can be an important place for self-discovery for young people, and as such these environments need to be safe places where everyone can decide for themselves who they want to be. Some of these journeys happen slowly and in private, and to force them to be made known to others the individual may not trust is very damaging, even years afterwards. If you support these policies, please ask yourself honestly why that is, and make sure that you're not placing your own opinions before the personal freedoms of the next generation. Thank you for reading.


Vote out democrats

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Vote out any/all democrats


Allow kids to exercise their own choices

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Keep the politics of a presidential hopeful from tainting our Virginia policies. Our kids practice the skills of adulthood by voicing their ideas and individual preferences in the safe setting of schools. Children and parents often disagree and real harm can be done if kids can't escape the pain of nonacceptance by family while in what should be a safe place. To take away someone's identity choice is stripping them of their fundamental self-image. Encourage conversations and exploration of viewpoints between family and students, please don't insert yourself in a rights debate.


How can anyone support this?

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<p> I'm not a parent</p>


Terrible proposal and harmful to mental health of our transgender children

Paul Kaplowitz MD, American Academy of Pediatrics

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Medical organizations including the AAP of which I am a member are strongly opposed to this policy which will do no good and will hurt vulnerable children who are struggling with their gender identity and deserve our compassion, not inflexible rules


100% agree.  Fully support.

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<p> Parents have every right to know what is going on with their children while at school.  </p>


Support!! Support!!

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Thank you Governor Youngkin for bringing common sense back to Virginia! Those that oppose this are blind leading the blind, and they are destroying these children, they claim to help.


In support of

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<p> CHILDREN should not be given this power! It is a parents job to raise their children until they are 18. Once they are of age</p>


Common sense. 100%support

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I read the policy ro my wife. She said "well that makes sense." I worry because often that is the death knell of many policies. They make sense.


This policy makes me embarrassed to be Virginian

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I get it, being a parent is scary. When your kids enter their teen years it is psychologically appropriate that they are exploring their identity. That happens to also be the time they are able to make more decisions for themselves, and parents naturally lose control over them. They're not their precious babies anymore, they are becoming themselves. It is also natural to fear what you don't understand.

HOWEVER, that doesn't give parents the right to decide any of this for them. Fearing that your kid thinks they are genderqueer, or nonbinary, or trans, or gay, or bi, or anything else you don't understand or approve of is understandable! Fear turning to anger, wanting to blame some outside force or supposed liberal culture for the way your child is changing, is understandable! Resisting these changes rather than supporting them is an understandable reaction! HOWEVER it remains a parent's duty to support their children, no matter what struggle they are having while keeping your own struggles to yourself.

This policy change may make parents who are in this position feel a little better, but it won't make your children any less who they are, regardless of how you feel about it. The only effect it can have is to make it harder for them to express themselves, to overcome the psychological challenges of growing up and forming identity. Yes, they are young. Yes, they will make mistakes in this and every other regard. Yes, it is your job to protect them in a dangerous world. But part of protecting them is teaching them to protect themselves, and that includes from bigotry and small-minded politicians trying to make a name for themselves at the expense of one of the most marginalized groups of people in America.

Do better, Virginia.


This is wrong

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<p>So much harm can come from this. </p>


This is cruel and as unamerican as you can get

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<p>Always taking rights away </p>


Yes to conversation! Has anyone actually talked to these kids? SUPPORT YOUNGKIN FULLY

Parent and Fairfax county lifelong resident

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I have talked to many girls 12-17 years old in many group settings.  One time they brought up a convo on who is gay/straight etc., I'm an adult so when I came in they hesitated but I said "no go ahead"  no one wanted to commit to being straight. It was all pansexual, asexual, bi, queer (which for the record "queer" is totally offensive to the older generation and many older people within the LGBT community refrain from using it).

The consensus with the girls were them saying they could chose to be whatever they want and that they don't feel attraction but will love who they love because they love them. I get where they are coming from but that takes away the understanding that most gay people know they are gay from a very very young age.

These kids are hitting puberty much earlier now and also being exposed to so much. I remember having boys who were friends back in the 80's and they were showing me the sears catalog because they were so excited to look at the ladies in underwear.

Most kids today no matter how much media protection you have as a parent will be exposed to pornography at very young ages.

No one discusses brain development etc., these kids are much to young to handle being exposed to things like this, not to mention all the societal pressures via media/peers.

It helps me as a concerned parent have a better understanding of their fear/confusion.


For being “prolife” you sure hate the living.

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This attacks already at risk children. Many who have zero support at home. The schools, the possibility of reading a book about sex, or sexuality are not “making children gay/trans/other”. They are trying to make a supportive environment for all.
there are plenty of terrible parents who will beat, harm, kill, or throw these children onto the streets who come out as LGBTQ+.  All this does is remove the one place they may feel like they can be themselves in the name of “parents rights”.

not everyone is a good parent.
it has been shown that these kind of policies lead to INCREASES in child SUICIDE & self harm.

every child deserves to learn In a place they (might) fee safe and accepted as a LIVING BREATHING HIMAN BEING.

the Christian thing to do is help them thrive. Not “out them” before they are ready. Or treat them with so much disdain & disrespect by not even allowing them to be called by the name/ pronouns that make them comfortable. Shame on you.

if trans and non binary kids can not be called by the name of their choosing than NO NICKNAMES SHOULD BE ALLOWED for any student regardless of gender. you will be called by your given name as written on your birth certificate and any changes must be accompanied by a doctors note detailing why you need any other accommodation as to why Micheal wants to go by “Mikey” or Susan prefers “sue”. As that’s NOT their given name from birth.


Strongly oppose policy that targets a small minority of children for no reason

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<p>According to VHSL there are 9 transgender athletes in the state. I do not have data on how many transgender students are in the whole commonwealth but I can estimate it will be in hundreds at most. So for such a small number of students a policy is being drafted that is specifically targeting them only for some societal or religious views. LGBTQ+ students need the support and the government does not not need to be one against them. </p>


Full support

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<p> Thank you Governor!  </p>


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

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Strongly oppose governor's revisions


You’re hurting LGBTQ+ Children

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Besides the fact that the entire argument about LGBTQ+ individuals and children is an issue where religious individuals are forcing their religious views on other individuals, which is illegal, it’s very clear that you are actively hurting LGBTQ+ children. Are you ignoring all of the data that says that LGBTQ children have an increased suicide rate? Are you ignoring all of your students who want to be free to express themselves safely? Are you ignoring the fact that you are giving other staff and students an opportunity to discriminate against transgender students? I honestly can’t understand what has led you to believe that this is any form of a solution. You are legally requiring transgender students to be outed to their parents, which is exposing them to abuse. You are requiring everyone around them to actively misgender and disrespect them.

At the end of the day, I’m going to have a hard time convincing a bunch of old white straight men that their religious views are harmful to others. I’m going to have a hard time trying to fight against someone who legally has the right to hurt my peers and my friends. But at the end of the year, and at the end of the decade (or two), I’m going to outlive you. The world is changing, and you might not be able to see that, but you sure can’t stop it. And when you’re no longer in power, someone else will take your place. That someone will have watched their peers being emotionally abused by their school system because it was legally required. That someone might know a transgender student who took their own life due to the helpless feeling of knowing that they will never be accepted as they are as long as they are stuck in that school system (for 7+ years). And I think you underestimate their ability and drive to ensure that that never happens again.


STRONGLY SUPPORT

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<p>Thank you Governor Youngkin for recognizing parent's rights and protecting our children from the liberal indoctrination agenda of our kids!   </p>


Parents matter

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<p>Thank you for restoring what never should be questioned—that parents are the primary educators of their children and schools should never interfere with that relationship. I’m also grateful that girls and boys can have safe bathrooms again, both for their physical safety and their emotional well being. I do not want my daughter sharing locker rooms or bathrooms with young men. And I do not want my sons to have to worry about females coming into the locker room while they are changing or to see young women changing their clothes in front of them, regardless of how they present themselves. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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I strongly oppose these model policies, which discriminate against LGBTQ+ youth and would cause more harm to an already vulnerable minority. These young people need to feel supported and safe in their environment. Schools should be a safe space for them. Teachers and school administrators should be welcoming and accepting, even if their parents are not.

According to The Trevor Project, transgender and nonbinary young people who feel accepted by the people in their lives, including teachers and fellow students, are less likely to suffer severe depression and/or attempt suicide. Those who reported gender identity acceptance from at least one adult had 33% lower odds of reporting a suicide attempt within the past year.

Virginia schools should be encouraging acceptance of trans and gender-nonconforming youth rather than forcing them into the gender "box" they were assigned at birth.

These model policies are a violation of the Virginia Human Rights Act. The act states: "Safeguard all individuals within the Commonwealth from unlawful discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, or disability in places of public accommodation, including educational institutions and in real estate transactions".

These policies are not about treating students with privacy, dignity and respect, or about giving parents rights. They are pandering to right-wing zealots who want to impose their religious beliefs on others. This is government overreach and should not be allowed or enforced.


Strongly oppose

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This is a blatant attack on the rights of parents, students, and our society in general. We already have one Texas, and do not need to create another one through regressive and ignorant legal shenanigans like this.

Please keep your focus on running for national office, and out of things that you are ignorant of, like school policy, compassion, science, faith, and good stewardship of Commonwealth culture and resources.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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These proposed guidelines are a direct attack on LGBTQ+ students. It's disgusting and discriminatory and will not be put in place without a fight. Trans rights are human rights, this would set us back decades in progress. Please don't allow your brainwashed ignorance to cloud your empathy for children. WE ARE PEOPLE! WE ARE HUMAN. AND WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.


FCPS ALUMNUS - STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I graduated from FCPS in 2015 and currently work with LGBTQ+ youth and young adults as a social worker in training. I am also trans, but myself and most of my trans friends were not out in high school. Without this 2022 anti-transgender student policy, the Virginia school system is already a hostile environment to trans and gender non-conforming children. While in grade school I witnessed how my trans peers were punished for exploring their gender or asking for very simple social support. As an adult, I have flourished in academic and social environments where my chosen name and pronouns are not an issue and where I can use any bathroom knowing I will be safe. Children should have access to the same dignity and respect. SCHOOL SHOULD BE A PLACE OF SAFETY FOR CHILDREN, and we STRONGLY OPPOSE this measure, as it will put trans and GNC children in unsafe (and, frankly, depressing) situations at a critical period of their lives. Listen to trans children!


This policy is intended to harm children. Completely opposed

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<p>This policy will kill children. Maybe focus on giving teachers the pay and resources to actually educate. Maybe focus on providing funding enough to hire enough bus drivers so children can get to school. Maybe focus on having resources available for students to be prepared to become adults like financial management and life skills. </p>


Republicans love taking your rights


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Strongly oppose these harmful policies

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I strongly oppose these evil policies. Kids should be able to come to school and be their true authentic selves. Shame on Gov. Youngkin and anyone who supports this. The fact that we would put our youth at risk for some radical  evangelical beliefs is absolutely wrong. This is harmful and embarrassing VA do better!