Stongly Agree- Thank you Governor

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<p>I stongly agree with this policy and believe it to be commonsense.  Thank you Governor Youngkin for bringing logical thought and policy back to the educational system. </p>


OPPOSE

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Educators who have commented on this forum know the real world Mr. Youngkin. They know the transgender students and they know their parents. They also know there was no issue to contest until you riled Virginia, and now the nation, to your pandering hatefulness. You only have 3 years left here in Virginia and hopefully the nation rejects your hate. Go back to church and pray for forgiveness for what you've done to innocent children.


thank you for this common sense approach

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<p>At my child’s school one of the teachers put up a life size transgender rainbow flag on his classroom wall. it’s larger than the maps of the world adjacent to it. if that isn’t shoving this ideology down the throats of our kids then what is? when you have entire clusters and friend groups of (mostly) girls suddenly saying they’re trans and concurrently have schools hiding this new identity from parents there is a problem. if you have not had this happen to your perfectly normal feminine daughter and your family you have literally no idea what is happening. thank you governor youngkin. as a lifelong democrat i voted for you on this issue and because the dems would still be pushing remote school if we hadn’t kicked them out of the governor’s office. </p>


This is DESPICABLE

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I strongly urge you to throw out these horrible, bullying, hurtful policies and stick with the 2021 model policies that are truly inclusive and supportive of our children, as opposed to discriminatory and WILL lead to negative consequences. Do the right thing and reject these policies immediately.


Proper Public School Policy

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• I applaud updating the policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.

• I also support the new policies’ removal of language that encouraged school officials to follow procedures to essentially deceive parents when their children are making potentially life-altering decisions regarding their gender identity in a school setting.

• The original policy had language that created a wedge between parents and their child, at a time when they need to have more communication—and I support the new update that removes this barrier.

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

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

• Middle and High School years can be very challenging, so I’m glad we already have comprehensive bullying policies to ensure a safe environment, while still respecting the rights of all students. That’s why it’s important schools have the freedom—as this updated policy allows— to address bathroom/privacy issues on a case by case basis with parents—and not through a one-size-fits-all pressure tool that treats all districts/communities the same.

• It is imperative that you finalize these updated 2022 model policies as written without removing any of the key protections to restore parental involvement in the process and protect children’s privacy and safety rights.


YOUNGKIN POLICY IS COMMON SENSE

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The present policy is an overreach and in conflict with parental rights. The Youngkin model language allows for safety, clarity and does not force conflict with parents. Transgender issues should be left to children, their parents and physician/ psychologists. The school’s only interest is safety, clear rules and regulations, and non-interference with matters best left to the family. The present policy is ADVOCACY masquerading as a newly “created” right. No thanks. I am FOR the new policy.


VASP comment on guidance document

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VASP support school psychologists in the promoting and advocating for the educational and mental health development of all Virginia's students, schools, families, and communities.  The 2022 model policies on the privacy, dignity, and respect for all students and parents in Virginia's public schools states two guiding principles that are consistent with our ethical guidelines: "1. Schools shall serve the needs of all students: The department is committed to working with school divisions to ensure a positive, safe, and nurturing learning environment for all students.  Each student's individual needs should be taken into consideration by their school, and 2.  Schools shall respect all students:  All children in Virginia have a right to learn, free from unlawful discrimination and harassment."  As highly trained school based mental health professionals we support all students in accessing education in inclusive and affirming learning environments.  Research shows that school climates that promote wellbeing of students and staff have increased academic achievement and decreased behavioral disruptions.  Sections of the new policy are in direct conflict with areas of best practice.  Policy decisions should be based on research and data and guided by subject matters experts.  As a profession, we are passionate about the importance of the public education and hope that these guidelines can be amended to be wholly consistent with ethical practice promoting safety, belonging, and respect for the good of all students and staff.

Thank you,

Virginia Academy of School Psychologists


Thank you

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Thank you for updating these policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.


I strongly support Gov. Youngkin

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Gov. Youngkin gets it.   He knows we need to treat our children like students not like lab rats in some Woke social engineering lab.    He knows we need to prepare our students to become productive members of society not social activists.    We spend thousands of dollars each year on their “education” while their ability to read, write and do math are on the decline.

Stop the child abuse!


Tired of Fearmongering. Let's address address real issues facing FCPS.

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Current FCPS guidelines allow trans students to request that other students and teachers refer to them by their preferred name and/or pronouns and directs schools to convene a support team for the student, which may consist of "classroom teacher(s), administrators, school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, and/or other staff members as appropriate" IN ADDITION to the student's parent(s) and/or guardians. The members of this support network are appointed with input from the student and the student's parent(s) and/or guardians.

The current regulations direct this support team to "develop a student-specific support plan to provide the gender non-conforming or transgender student with safe and equitable access to all school and school division facilities and activities, addressing any particular issues raised by the student or the student’s parents or guardians".

As you can see, current FCPS guidelines ALREADY actively include parents and guardians in decisions regarding addressing a student's gender identity in schools.

The proposed changes in “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools” will compel teachers to only refer to students by their legal name or "associated nickname" UNLESS parents provide documentation of a legal name change (e.g. passport, birth certificate, etc.). It makes it more difficult for students and parents to exercise autonomy over how their identity is addressed in schools. Furthermore, the most current research on LGBT+ students finds that trans youth are at an increased risk for bullying, depression, and suicide. These risks are increased when students are misgendered by their loved ones, teachers, and peers.

As an educator at FCPS and a former FCPS student I am disgusted at this blatant attempt by the current administration to use FCPS students as political scapegoats rather than addressing ACTUAL issues facing FCPS. Not only will this measure actively harm an already marginalized population it will also hamper the ongoing attempts to retain and attract qualified educators while we are CURRENTLY FACING A TEACHER SHORTAGE.

Stop wasting our tax dollars on this nonsense Youngkin.


Strongly Support Gov. Youngkin's New Policy

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Teach matters/subjects like we used to do, ones that make sense-math, writing, history, reading and stop with the nonsense.


Strongly OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose of this legislation.This document blatantly attacks transgender students of whom many are already vulnerable in their school environment. Parents that are not supportive of their child's choices do not deserve the parental rights to take away that student's identity. As much as I agree that parents do deserve rights over their children, this document takes that way too far putting a certain group of students at risk. Let's be honest, not all parents are loving and empathetic. Clearly, with some of the other comments I've seen, many people are not to be trusted by making rash illogical comments spouting their beliefs that sex it purely biological. I worry for my fellow classmates that will be affected by this document. They already have it so hard now, but with the fear of being outed or dead named at school from this legislation, I am honestly scared of how they will cope.

I agree that parents do deserve rights over their child, but not all parents deserve the right to decide how their child identifies. Please give back the rights of our transgender community.


Thank you for protecting our children, Gov. Youngkin.

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<p>The insanity has to stop sometime. Thank you for doing something. </p>


Stop the insanity

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<p>Thanks to our Governor, we can see lidght at the end of a long dark tunnel we've been lead into. I support his policy changes! </p>


Parents Rights

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Protecting students begins with protecting parents rights. Parents demonstrated their concerns about how the schools in Virginia are being politicized to advance the left leaning ideologies. The voters turned out to reiterate the voices at the local school board meetings. This will continue until the voices are heard and acted upon. We need to restore the basics of education and teach without excluding the parents.


Thank you Governor.

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The right thing for our educators, parents and children.  Thank you!


Public school parent strongly opposed to new model policies

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I am a parent of two teenaged children and have never felt my rights to be infringed on by policies and practices in the schools.

Instead, I have been pleased to see schools take steps to support and protect young people as they grow and develop - nurturing students as learners and humans.

These model policies will cause direct and immediate harm to trans and non-binary students, and will cause even greater difficulties for young people who are trying to figure out how to be themselves in a complicated world.

This is done under the guise of "parents" rights - but the goal of the school is to support and serve students, not parents.


U must use thou thee thine when u address me. Identify w old English Norse ideology

If u don’t it’s violence and I will kill myself. Yes that’s how dumb it is

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Fake liberal brainwashing that wanting to be the opposite sex is common and normal.


Support Youngkin's Direction

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I support Governor Youngkin in his efforts to return children to their childhood and parents their right to know how their child is being educated.


Common Sense transgender policy

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I SUPPORT Gov. Younkin's policy 100% !!!


Strongly Support

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<p>I strongly support Gov. Youngkin's policy to protect children and I support the updated language that acknowledges students and teachers can’t be forced into compelled speech that violates their constitutional rights, including First Amendment and religious freedom protections. </p>


I support governor Youngkin's policy

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I support parents being involved in their children's education. As opposed to our school board, I support separate and safe bathroom facilities.


I Strongly Support Governor Youngkin, His Stand for Truth both Medically and Morally

Dr. Brad Davis, Antioch Baptist Church Ministries

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I greatly appreciate our Governor's recognition and reliance on actual, factual Truth!

He understands that society cannot continue to exist with subjective, relative philosophies of Truth!

I fully support in every way our Governor's decisions!


I FULLY SUPPORT THE GOVERNORS PROPOSAL

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<p>I strongly support the proposed guidance. Do not allow the loud minority to dictate what happens in schools.  </p>


I support all trans- but get the hell out of my daughter's locker room

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<p>Since when does protecting "your rights" take away my child's rights?  The right to shower and change in her school without boys leering at her. The right to safe bathrooms. </p>


As a parent of three, children's health and safety are my primary concern

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I'll keep these brief: Any adult who thinks that so-called "parental rights" matter more than the health and wellbeing of our children needs to rethink love, care, and responsibility. Parents don't have rights. We have duties. Children are our charge, not our property. I strongly oppose Youngkin's foolish surrender to the politics of hate.


Strongly oppose

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One in three trans kids do not live in safe accepting homes.. schools are safe places.. stop trying to Texas and Florida our Virginia!!!


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose this bill that is based in fear, not science, and certainly not intended to protect the safety, health, and education of ALL children. Youngkin is pushing this political performance under the guise of parental choice and at the expense of kids' lives: LGBTQ youth are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers (Johns et al., 2019; Johns et al., 2020). That is a fact based on scientific study. Worrying that boys will suddenly flood girls' bathrooms is a myth based on fear. I strongly believe that my children, and all others, will only benefit from models of inclusion that demonstrate how everyone— including their trans and non-binary peers—deserves to feel safe at school.


I strongly support Gov Youngkin

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I strongly support Gov Youngkin on parental rights


Strongly OPPOSE Youngkin's policy

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<p>I thing his policy about parent's having the ultimate say about their children's sexual orientation is totally wrong. </p>


New Policy that Protects Girls and Women and Respects People who Think Themselves Trans

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Dear Virginia,

I am an educator in Virginia, and I support the proposed policy.

The policy understands and supports the important role of parents in the lives of their children.  It also does not force teachers to lie to parents.  A teacher should never be in a position where they are told by a school policy to hide from parents what is going on in their child's life.  The current policy assumes that the government knows best and that parents are "hostile actors" in their child's life.

It also required teachers to affirm transgender students in a false perception of reality.  Science demonstrates that their are --baring abnormalities-- two sexes in mammalian species including homo sapiens.  To say otherwise is a denial of reality, the scientific method, and a violation of the individual conscience.

The old policy threatened the health, safety, and opportunity of females within our Virginia school system.  We have documented evidence of rape and other sexual oppose in school bathrooms.  We also have evidence of girls and women being denied full participation in sport including loss of event placement, records, scholarships, and participation opportunities.

Studies increasingly support the view that "affirming gender care" harms said students in the long run.  Positive students for "trans-identification-- in some case have unscientific methodology and, therefore, suspect conclusions.

Opponents too often resort to ad hominem displaying a self-damning disrespect to those who support the proposed VDOE policy.  They also exhibit a prejudice against religion.  Their lack of character only underscores the falseness of their position.  Some of the comments in the thread bear witness to this.

PS.  The proposed policy does not go far enough.  It should also recognize the right of conscience and the right not to compelled to speak a certain way as, for example, using a student's preferred pronouns.

Thank you for reading my comment.


I strongly oppose Youngkin’s policy

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I am a cisgender boy, I am writing this as someone who won’t personally be hurt by this. This policy is inherently despicable and only contributes to the erasure or abuse of children who want to live in peace. There’s a reason our school’s staff and students are standing up in protest.

Protect the rights of our transgender youth, not the right to systematically destroy them.


Restore Parents Rights & Protect Students

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Thank you Governor Younkin for updating policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are included in the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.


Do we celebrate and affirm the anorexic to vomit so she can align her body w feelings

Stop “affirming” mental disorders/ confused youth. You get what’s encourage

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Please stop these lies and hurting kids


Opposed: Treat children with respect, dignity, and protection

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I am writing to express strong opposition to Gov. Youngkin's proposed policies and in support of allowing students to elect to use their chosen gender conforming pronouns, bathrooms, names, etc.

Transgender children are some of the most vulnerable people in any community and they need our support and protection. The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that more than half of transgender male teens who participated in a survey reported attempting suicide in their lifetime and  29.9% of transgender female teens said they attempted suicide. Among non-binary youth, 41.8% of respondents stated that they had attempted suicide at some point in their lives.

Transgender youth also face high risk of abuse at home, including being kicked out and experiencing homelessness.

Young people learning to embrace, explore, or negotiate their gender identities suffer from depression and feelings of hopelessness and we, as a community, can combat that. I want Virginia to protect vulnerable people and give them accommodations. But more than legal compliance, I want our community to support every child and fight against the high rates of depression and suicide reported in this population.

Governor Youngkin's policy in opposition to simply acknowledging the gender and humanity of these children underscores how quickly such kids become the targets of bullying and cruelty.


FCPS ALUMNUS - STRONGLY SUPPORT

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Let common sense prevail.


Support parents' rights and protection of truth

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Thank you for updating these policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.

• I support the new policies’ removal of language that encouraged school officials to follow procedures to essentially deceive parents when their children are making potentially life-altering decisions regarding their gender identity in a school setting.

• The original policy had language that created a wedge between parents and their child, at a time when they need to have more communication—and I support the new update that removes this barrier.

• I support the updated language that acknowledges students and teachers can’t be forced into compelled speech that violates their constitutional rights, including First Amendment and religious freedom protections.  Trust should be protected; lying to our children about their God-created gender is unkind and not at all loving.  They need affirmation that God created them biologically as one of two genders.  Those who struggle to accept that should receive appropriate help, not "gender-affirming care" that allows them to believe they can change their gender, which is biologically impossible.


Trans is fake. Mental disorder. How about some firm parenting on being a man or woman

Do we affirm the anorexic to vomit so she can align her body w her feelings


Parental Rights Matter

Fredericksburg Virginia Patriots, Regional Tea Party

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When I was going to school many years ago, it was to learn reading, writing, and Arithmetic, along with proper english and our countries great history. This sick sexual garbage was unheard of and unacceptable in a God fearing society. Evil has infiltrated everywhere now and we are left to home school our children to assure the right values and morals.............


I strongly SUPPORT Youngkin’s education policies

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<p>Our children deserve the protection of fully informed parents and guardians. Their persons, who, know and love them best, must remain the primary decision makers. I support policies that maintains the age old primacy of parental rights. The state has no business supplanting this sacred boundary.  </p>


Parents should not be assumed to be abusive without due cause.

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Parents should be informed by public school officials whenever their child has a request for alternative name listing. This is critical to family life and  all concerned adults should work toward the benefit of the child.


Education Policies

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<p>I want to thank Governor Youngkin for proposing some common sense education policies that address the nonsense that’s been going in the public school system.  I live in Loudoun County where tragically not one, but two young ladies were raped by the same transgender punk.  This occurrence should NEVER happen again.  I hope to see some new school board members be elected dry soon.  And get the pornography out of our student libraries.  Enough is enough.  </p>


I Support Gov Youngkin

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Thank you for protecting our children and restoring parental acts. The gender confusion and gender dysphoria mania doesn't follow the science. XX Chromosomes and XY Chromosomes dictate our sexuality not feelings because our feelings change. Please understand a child is easily influenced or indoctrinated in the early stages of life. When activists suggest doctors made a mistake on your birth certificate and you can select a gender...that is totally inaccurate. We don't allow kids to buy cigarettes and alcohol because we know they don't have the acumen to make prudent decisions. It's child abuse to allow them to make life-altering decisions.


FERPA, PPRA

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<p>I would assume this policy has to comply with, and does comply with, federal law, including the Family and Educational Rights Act of 1974 and the Protection of Pupil Rights Act of 1978. The laws ensure parental rights until the child turns 18. </p>


LOL i can relate to that Ron. SO TRUE!

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My family would like to express SUPPORT for Governor Youngkin.


Supporting our Governor

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Schools have no business grooming our children for sexual perversions and confused life styles.  The truth, as established by nature and our creator God, is that all mammals and humans are born as either male or female.  This is established scientific fact.  The option is mental illness.
I support our governor’s policies to protect our children from sexual predators.


Student protections for all- no mixing biological genders in areas where privacy is expected

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There are students who have been seriously affected by having their expectations of privacy and innocence disrupted by the sharing of a bathroom or locker room with a biologically different gender. We can require kind behavior,  but to demand all children give up their privacy is to be the bully. We worry about the safety of our children precisely because we recognize they are children.  It is the responsibility of adults to protect and guide. To protect someone dealing with their own issues should not mean forcing all those around them to change their behavior as long as that behavior is not unkind and a danger. .

The policy of making those declaring themselves transgender share all spaces is actually promoting that line of thought, it is promoting transgenderism. It is better to promote a tolerance of others that allows an individual their own values at the same time.


When i was a child i put on a dress. My dad slapped me and told me to stop acting like a moron.

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Today I have 3 children and couldn't be more straight.  What if my dad hadn't slapped me and told me to stop acting like a moron? What if he handed me a baby doll and started calling me a girl's name?  I would probably be wearing a dress right now.  It is up to parents to teach their children!  Unless of course they prefer the attention of being able to come out on Facebook as a trans parent.


Parental control

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Parents are responsible for our children, not the state!!  This is a fundamental tenet of Western Civilization and source of our strength.  Please vote to maintain parental control.


I strongly support parental rights

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<p>I want to express my FIRM SUPPORT of the measures that Governor Youngkin has designed to balance the needs of protecting the dignity of all students as well as the rights of parents to be involved in the development and upbringing of their children.  The state and government exist to carry out the business of education, support the family and protect the people, not to usurp the job of the parent who is the first and sole responsible party in the upbringing of their children.  Only through open dialog and partnership can schools participate in healthy care for children who have been entrusted to them.  The state and the school system does NOT have the right to exclude parents from the discussion. I applaud Gov. Youngkin's work to strike that balance to hold schools accountable to include parents in the teaching of their children.  </p>


I oppose this policy.

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Public school should be a safe place for all children.


RESTORE PARENTS RIGHTS IN EDUCATION

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Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,

Over the past two years, schools across the United States have excluded parents from vital matters regarding the education and wellbeing of their children.  Former Governor Ralph Northam's 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia's Public Schools did just that. Those policies said: "There are no regulations requiring school staff to notify a parent or guardian of a student's request to affirm their gender identity, and school staff should work with students to help them share the information with their family when they are ready to do so." But your new Model Policies On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools return to parents the right to direct their children's upbringing.  I absolutely support these policies! Thank you for supporting parents and parental rights in education. It's vital that you move forward with these policies and restore parents' rights to direct the education and upbringing of their children.

God Bless you,

Rick


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose discrimination against LGTBQ kids. </p>


RESTORE PARENTS RIGHTS IN EDUCATION

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Dear Virginia Department of Education Officials,

Over the past two years, schools across the United States have excluded parents from vital matters regarding the education and wellbeing of their children.  Former Governor Ralph Northam's 2021 Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia's Public Schools did just that. Those policies said: "There are no regulations requiring school staff to notify a parent or guardian of a student's request to affirm their gender identity, and school staff should work with students to help them share the information with their family when they are ready to do so." But your new Model Policies On the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools return to parents the right to direct their children's upbringing.  I absolutely support these policies! Thank you for supporting parents and parental rights in education. It's vital that you move forward with these policies and restore parents' rights to direct the education and upbringing of their children.

God Bless you,

Debbie


Strongly oppose Youngkin's new school policy

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I strongly oppose the new proposed policy about the rights of transgender and non-binary children in school. I am the parent of a non-binary 6th grader as well as two cis-gender children. I have been deeply grateful for the experience all of them have had in the Fairfax County Public Schools. My non-binary child has been welcomed, accepted, and respected for who they are. I know that experience has helped them feel confident and safe. This policy has the potential to take that away. My child is already worried about ways they might be impacted and has a hard time understanding why their existence is so threatening to people.

Please keep our schools a safe and accepting place for all children as they discover who they are and learn about the world they live in.


Strongly oppose!

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<p>These proposed model policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids. Protect trans and nonbinary kids. RESCIND these model policies. </p>


Please click to read

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<p>Jews were oppressed when they were shoved into gas chambers.  African Americans were oppressed when they were forced into slavery. The crazies on the left have these kids believing they are oppressed because adults don't want to go along with their nicknames for each other. How do you call one person a they or them? I believe trans kids should have the SAME rights as every other child without discrimination! Wear a dress and put on makeup if that makes you happy. That DOES not include the right to require others to play fantasy games with your nicknames or enter little girls locker rooms. </p>


Support Gov Youngkins Position

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<p>Government should stay out of Parent-Child relationships, and alter the past position. </p>


Strongly Oppose!

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<p>Stop governing by creating fear. Trans kids deserve the respect to live their lives without the government creating obstacles. Government is supposed to help its citizens not villianize them. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I'm a voter and mental health caregiver who supports the children of Virginia, and therefore STRONGLY OPPOSES these proposed policies. They are ignorant and fear-based and not in line with existing medical and psychological evidence about how to keep our state's trans and nonbinary kids healthy and safe.  This proposal increases the potential for harm to students' physical and mental health. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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We call ourselves Christians, and have no awareness of our own cruelty.

Stop. Take a breath. Ask yourself, "am I honestly scared of boogeymen in the girls bathroom...or do I simply fear anything different from myself."

You can still change your own mind.


I agree with Gov. Youngkin.....

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Parents should and always BE IN CONTROL of their own children, not some morally inept person who has a degree in "education".  As a grandmother, I am shocked that this would ever be an ISSUE in AMERICA!!  I DID homeschool 2 of my kids when I didn't like the way some teachers "talk" to their students......and mostly teachers who have NO CHILDREN!  They are ignorant and have NO CONSCIENCE at all of the innocence of our children!  God help them!! Our children are our MOST PRECIOUS TREASURE AND ASSET........PROTECT OUR CHILDREN AND LET'S LET SCHOOLS "BE SCHOOLS".....LET THEM ONLY EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN IN THE SUBJECTS LIMITED TO READING WRITING AND ARITHMETIC, and the electives of Science and Art, and such.  Parents are in charge of their children's "personal" topics, and no school should have that right to force these thoughts on our innocent children!!  WAKE UP AMERICA....WAKE UP VIRGINIA!!


I STRONGLY SUPPORT. Take a chromosome test if you’re confused! Enroll in sex ed, take it until you

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Take sex ed until you pass the class! These kids belong to the parents NOT THE SCHOOLS! Parents have EVERY RIGHT to decide what they want their kids to be exposed to when at school!

It seems like we no longer have schools these days. It seems more like we have INDOCTRINATION CENTERS!

If you have a confused child who doesn’t know what sex they are, then give them a chromosome test. Or let them see the EXPERT’S FACTS listed under GENDER on their BIRTH CERTIFICATE! You will find that a PROFESSIONAL has already determined their sex.

Oh and that chromosome test is a good idea for anyone who has had a “sex change” to see how successful the surgery actually was! I think they’ll find out that merely making a banana look like a donut doesn’t actually change your sex. It just mutilates the banana! You know this if you passed sexual education.

Thank you for updating these policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.

The original policy had language that created a wedge between parents and their child, at a time when they need to have more communication—and I support the new update that removes this barrier.

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

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

Middle and High School years can be very challenging, so I’m glad we already have comprehensive bullying policies to ensure a safe environment, while still respecting the rights of all students. That’s why it’s important schools have the freedom—as this updated policy allows— to address bathroom/privacy issues on a case by case basis with parents—and not through a one-size-fits-all pressure tool that treats all districts/communities the same.

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


Gender and Sexuality Issues

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I support the new language and updated policies to restore parental rights over their children's gender and sexuality issues while in school.  I am also in favor of the updated language that empowers schools to make their own decision on how to best protect children when in their care.  Please finalize the updated 2022 model policies as written without removing any of the key protections to restore parental involvement in the processes and to protect our children's privacy and safety rights.  Blessings to all involved!


Governor, please don't let boys come into our shower after practice

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Governor, can you please make the adults stop letting boys into our locker rooms, and shower rooms, and bathrooms? It isn't right for them to change with us. I love all my classmates and want them to be happy. But the girls on my volleyball team don't want boys watching us when we are changing at school.


I Strongly Support Parent's Rights to Govern their Child's Educational Environment

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I support the new policies’ removal of language that encouraged school officials to follow procedures to essentially deceive parents when their children are making potentially life-altering decisions regarding their gender identity in a school setting.

The original policy had language that created a wedge between parents and their child, at a time when they need to have more communication—and I support the new update that removes this barrier.

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

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

Middle and High School years can be very challenging, so I’m glad we already have comprehensive bullying policies to ensure a safe environment, while still respecting the rights of all students. That’s why it’s important schools have the freedom—as this updated policy allows— to address bathroom/privacy issues on a case by case basis with parents—and not through a one-size-fits-all pressure tool that treats all districts/communities the same.

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


FULL SUPPORT of new policy

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This new policy is level-headed, fair, CONSTITUTIONAL and sensitive to the needs and varied views of all citizens of the Commonwealth.  We live (or strive to, anyway) in a pluralistic society and we share neighborhoods, schools, roads with people of all walks of life and cultures.   The previous policy elevated the rights of one particular group, and frankly, a minority of minors, over all the rest.   For those who oppose, I appeal to their sense of reason and hope they try putting the shoe on the other foot.  Turn that prism around and try to see the issue, even just for a moment, from the other side.   I have done just that.  Children struggling with gender identity issues need tenderness and grace and love, YES! Governor Youngkin agrees with this.  READ HIS POLICY!  This takes NOTHING away from those children and families who struggle, but rather it protects first amendment rights for ALL.   It RESTORES the parents’ rights to make decisions on behalf of their children.   If abusive situations are occurring there are already avenues in place to pursue that tragedy.   When so many different people with so many different views hope to live together in peace, we all must lose a bit of what we want or desire.  That is healthy compromise.  A child in a wheelchair might have to use a special bathroom with railings and this may indeed set them apart or force the need to use a different bathroom, but those around them treat them with dignity and respect and it is a non-issue.  It is impractical to convert every stall in every school to become wheelchair equipped.   The special needs of a trans child (and yes, they are special, as this is not a “mainstream” condition, but one of troubled mental health) can be managed as practically as those of the one with a wheelchair.  There is no need to upend the majority of the class to flip the scale in favor of this rare minority.   My so-called “cis-gendered” daughter is very anxious about boys coming into the girls’ locker room and bathroom.  Let us protect HER sense of peace and safety as well.   This new policy straddles both worlds.   Plus, good parents want and need to know what is happening in their children’s minds and hearts.   We want to help.   Let US decide what that looks like.   We have rights under Virginia State Law as well as from God Almighty, Himself, and the old policy violates those parental rights.   This restores them.  Hiding critical information from parents leads to groups like we have now sending unvetted and unknown “queer friendly adults” in an Uber car to pick up your son or daughter to whisk them away to “ RE home” them.   This is KIDNAPPING, folks - government sanctioned at that!  Traffickers use the same methods.  This is not Peron’s Argentina.  This is not 1930’s Germany.   Let’s keep some middle ground so people can legally come to a place where we can agree to disagree and continue to live and thrive in beautiful Virginia in safety and peace.   Thank you, Gov. Youngkin, for thinking globally and drawing a policy with a broad stroked brush that considers the sensitivities and needs of all!!


Transgender Legislation

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Supporting Gov. Youngkin's proposed legistlation


Agree with and SUPPORT the new Policy!

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Agree with and SUPPORT the new Policy!


Support our Governor's parental rights agenda

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<p>I fully support our Governor's actions to support parental rights and to put a stop to the nonsense that is being pushed by radicals.  No child should be unprotected from wrongful bullying, but NO child should be allowed to steer the ship in the school systems.  It is ridiculous that parents are not notified of their child's mischief.  Until a child is 18 they should follow rules...that is why we have them for ALL of us at any age.  What If we each determined how we would drive each day and decide that we are not going to stop for any red lights?  This is an over the top example, but we need structure and responsibility in schools, not destructive actions by the ones who should be there to learn, not direct. </p>


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


Support 2022 Model Policies

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Regardless of your position on the transgender issue, I think it is hard to argue that parents are usually their child's greatest supporter and want to see them succeed and be happy. Upholding parents' fundamental rights to determine how their children will be raised, particularly on a subject with such far reaching, and in most cases, irreversible consequences only makes sense. Also, biological males must not be allowed to share areas where girls will be in various stages of undress. To allow this is unsafe madness.


Strongly SUPPORT this policy!

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Strongly SUPPORT this policy!


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<p>I strongly support Governor Youngkin's policies protecting parental rights in schools.  In my opinion, "treatments" of gender dysphoria such as hormone blockers or permanently body-altering or life-altering surgeries, are completely inappropriate for children under the age of 18.  And the advocates of "transgender rights" know this, or they would not be trying to hide what is going on from parents.  All parents have a right to know every detail of exactly what is going on  in the public schools they fund, in all parts of the curriculum, but especially with regard to the sexual education curriculum.  And all parents have a right to complete information about the safety and health of their children during school hours, especially when permanently life-changing medical interventions are being aimed at the children.  I strongly support the protection of parental rights in all of these matters, so that parents may properly protect and nurture their children, according to THEIR OWN sole judgment.  The law (and school policies) should always presume that parents know best and care most in all matters pertaining to their children, except in those rare instances where there is clear evidence of physical abuse.  Parental rights must be protected.  </p>


Oppose politicians acting as Doctors

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I oppose this policy that is harmful and against medical best practices in trans youth mental health. Research from WPATH, APA, Trevor Project and other reputable medical sources, trans kids deserve human rights such as using their preferred name and pronouns. They deserve to play sports k-12. They deserve to be safe in schools and this is not a safe policy. Just this week a teen was kicked out of her house for coming out to her parents. She’s being adopted by another family who works for my husband! This will keep happening. These kids will be homeless your administration is completely naive to think these kids can trust their parents to not turn on them. These kids will kill themselves when they are given zero adults to turn to for support. If their parents don’t know they are trans, there is a reason for that and it’s fear! You’re white washed Christian policy is baseless and factless.
Nelson Mandela said it best…“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived; it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

Do better Glenn


I 100% support the Governor's transgender policy!

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<p>I support the Governor's transgender policy 100%. </p>


I OPPOSE

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Children deserve safe places to learn.  In the way that all our social and civil agreements go, this safety necessitates equal and equitable rules.  ‘Parental Rights’ can be and are used as a way to circumvent these social and civil rules to harm a student, harm other students, disrupt learning, or harass teachers.  Parental rights are important, but this document goes too far.

Students are also deserving or respect.  This document is unnecessarily harmful to trans and non-binary students, who are already at higher risk than other students.  These students, who are often depressed, anxious, or suicidal, should not have to learn under the further stress of being outed to unsupportive family or misgendered/deadnamed due to an unsupportive parent’s wishes.  Students are learning themselves and the world; we should be taking steps toward a world that makes school a stress-free environment so students can focus on education.

Rights aren’t a pie; you don’t have to take rights from someone to give them to someone else, and that’s exactly what this document seems to do.

I oppose this document.


Approve VDOE’s newly proposed Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students

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VDOE’s newly proposed Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents uphold parents’ God-given and constitutional right to guide their child’s development.

The new policy will, with single user restrooms and other adjustments to a horrible policy, permit freedom for religion and the ability for parents to exercise their duties to their children.

Make no mistakes, these "God-given and constitutional rights to guide their child’s development" are parental duties that they must fulfill.

I fully endorse them.


Supports protecting girls sports in schools

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It is ridiculous that this even needs to be discussed. Why do adults want to allow boys on my soccer team? Weren’t they kids once? Who does it hurt? The girl that is sitting on the bench because a boy is 6” taller and 59 pound larger playing defense. Protect trans rights? At whose demise?


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>The proposed legislation is government intervention in private family affairs at its absolute worst.  Young people should have the right to be trusted to make their own decisions, including decisions about their names and how they dress (?!???!  Are we Iran now??) and above all they should be treated with dignity and respect.  The proposed model legislation is simply cruel and unnecessary and shameful.  </p>


Support Governor Younkin’s Policy

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Thank you for updating these policies to restore protections for basic parental rights and ensuring that parents are no longer cut out of the process—especially when it concerns how gender and sexuality issues are handled with our kids at school.

I see so many comments about “trans-gender rights”.  Where are these “rights” stipulated? Where does it say a boy who thinks God made a mistake and he should’ve been a girl has a “right” to use the bathroom of their choice. where is it written a boy can be a girl at school and it be deliberately hidden from his parents who are responsible for his health, safety, welfare and care? What about the rights of girls to feel safe and comfortable in the bathroom or locker room?  Why are so many advocating against them, more than 99% of girls in school to be made to feel uncomfortable?

We are sadly a society where people jump on the popular bandwagon of whatever agenda is making headlines instead of carefully considering all of the ramifications of the decisions we make.

Let’s get Bibles back in schools, get Teachers back to teaching reading, writing and arithmetic instead of forcing their radical beliefs on students to indoctrinate them into a life of struggle, hate and depression.


Trans Lives Matter

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<p>As a transgender parent to students in the Virginia public school system and as someone who was a student in Virginia public schools, please don’t reverse the 2021 policies. </p>


Pro Transgender legislation not appropriate for VA education. We oppose all such legislation.

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Pro Transgender legislation is not appropriate for VA education. We oppose all such legislation.


Transgender students

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<p>Vehemently opposed. Stop intruding into people's lives in cruel ways.  Unalienable rights is part of the Declaration. This is my Declaration of these selfsame unalienable rights to own my own self, to own my own body; you have no right to my body, my identity, and my self. </p>


Let Parents Be Parents! Strongly Support!

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The new policies honor the sacred role of parents in the care of their children during school, athletics and other activities.

Parents know their children’s needs better than anyone. If children are struggling with gender dysphoria, they need guidance and emotional support from parents. Under the new policies, school officials must keep parents fully informed, and require schools to enforce laws, regulations and policies that prohibit and deter bullying or harassment.

The new policies protect the fundamental religious liberty interests of personnel and students.


My family supports policy to keep boys out of my daughter’s bathroom


Support for Parental Rights

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Parents are the primary educators of their children and, at times, delegate that authority to others, including public and private institutions. In addition to education, parents are also legal guardians, caretakers, and fulfill other roles for their children. I support the Youngkin administation's commonsense policies to affirm parental rights, which have a deeply rooted tradition in our country. The government should not, and with these policies will not, have the ability to undermine parental authority. Of course children with gender dysphoria should be treated with respect and compassion. At the same time, their parents need to be fully-informed participants in their education and care.


Youngkin's Transgender policies

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Support Youngkin's policies.  Schools must not usurp the right of parents to raise and guide their children and make medical decisions.


Oppose

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As a mother of 3 kids, I want my kids to be raised in a world where tolerance and understanding is not only taught but also lived in the schools, where they spend most of the day. Kids have the right to be respected for who they feel in their deepest heart they are.


Strongly oppose

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<p>Forcing trans students to use a single user bathroom when no other student is forced to will single them out and embarrass them. There are studies that show it increases depression, assault rates, and suicidality. Not to mention the Grimm vs Gloucester case, in which the school had to pay damages for forcing a trans student to use a single user bathroom. I oppose this new policy, it infringes on equal rights for students. </p>


SUPPORT OUR KIDS -- STRONGLY OPPOSE this fear-based, ignorant proposed policy

Susan K, Albemarle County Public School parent

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I'm a voter and mom who supports the children of Virginia, and therefore STRONGLY OPPOSES these proposed policies. They are ignorant and fear-based and not in line with existing medical evidence about how to keep our state's trans and nonbinary kids healthy and safe. Pediatricians overwhelmingly disagree with this proposal and see its potential for harm to students' physical and mental health. And as one Virginia pediatrician stated, "Ironically, these new guidelines will do just what the administration claims they’re against. They’ll impose the ideology of a few on the lives of all Virginians despite the fact that an increasing number of American voters support LGBTQ rights."


Strongly OPPOSE

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My time in typing this is wasted, considering the governor has already gone on Fox "News" to say he's enacting this harmful policy regardless of what the public comment says (so much for "parent's rights"! - I guess "parent's rights as long as they agree with me" was too long for the bumper sticker) , but nonetheless...

Trans kids deserve to be called the name they want to use, and be protected and supported in the care of our school staff. I see people asking "what rights do trans kids not have?" - well, the governor would like to take away the one I just mentioned - being called the name they prefer. They also do not have the right to exist peacefully and without harassment in our schools. They are targeted and bullied relentlessly, causing grave psychological stress. Data shows they are at much higher risk of suicide, and that is worthy of extra support that might help them feel safe.

Not every family is a storybook one where kids are loved and supported every day no matter what. Allow trans kids the ability to have ONE safe(r) space in their lives.

Also, it is sickening to equate queerness or trans-ness with being predatory. These kids just want to live their lives the way they want and be left alone. Instead they are being used as political pawns in furtherance of presidential political ambition.

I strong OPPOSE these policies.


Protect Trans and non binary Children!!

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I strongly oppose Govonor Youngkin’s attempt to reverse the much needed protections for our Transgender and Non binary youth.  There is no reason to attack an already vulnerable population.


Policies based on fear

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<p>This is a unlawful policy that is based solely on fear of what you don't understand. No student was being harmed, and school was a safe haven (as it has to be), and enforcing this new policy will increase bullying, abuse, assault and suicide on our children. </p>


Having read both, I strongly oppose the 2022 Model Guidelines

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I read through both the 2021 and the proposed 2022 model guidelines for the treatment of transgender students. I am a parent of two public school children in Virginia and I am very concerned that the new guidelines would strip away protections and rights from transgender students. The model policy sets an unreasonable threshold for even being considered transgendered and the definition of a transgender student explicitly refuses to grant acknowledgement of a student as transgendered without active parent support. This is ridiculous! Since when does a parents consent make someone gay, lesbian, straight, bisexual or transgender? This is an unreasonable hurdle and one that will cause harm to students who are not in supportive families.

I grew up and still live in a very conservative religious community in Virginia and LGBTQ+ youth often do not come out to their families for fear of rejection or verbal, psychological and/or physical abuse. How is this model policy protecting those students? The schools are not teaching parents, it is the students who are spending a third of their day 5 days a week plus extracurricular time outside class in the protection of the schools and so it is the students that these policies should focus on protecting. Efforts to make this about parents is simply a disingenuous effort to eliminate transgender protections as a whole. Keep the 2021 model guidelines and give transgender students the freedom and protections necessary to thrive in school and let the students decide if and when to come out to their parents on their own terms as individuals with their own protected rights. Parents don't need protecting, students do and that is what this policy should be about.


LCPS School board members will be held personally responsible for the sexual assaults they created

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All school board members are officially on notice. You will be held personally responsible both legally and financially for any sexual assaults that occur to girls as a result of your negligence.


Thank you

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Thank you for proposing to restore parents role as parents.


Parents Matter - Thank you

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<p>The Left has infiltrated TOO much politics in education. </p>


Yes! Agree!

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Making the other 99+% of students very uncomfortable due to the gender dysphoria of a few has been unacceptable. Help the special needs students that are about 13-14% of the student population!!!! Why leave them out? Get rid of Samantha Hollins!


Special Education Students and Families Deserve Respect, Too

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Virginia needs a special education guidance book JUST LIKE THIS to help STOP the abuses inflicted upon our special education students.


Strongly support new legislation

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I didn’t vote for you last time but I will next time if you can protect our kids from this nonsense.


Restoration of Parent’s Rights

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<p>Thank you for updating these policies to help restore parental rights. I fully support this Important change. </p>


New Transgender Guidelines

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<p>It is unconscionable that politicians would think it is right to make decisions concerning the health and well being of children. It is the responsibility of parents and doctors. Never policy or guidelines. </p>


I strongly support parental rights

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Who is in charge these days?  The children or parents.  I always thought it was the adult.  The adult/parent should take responsibility for their child.  NOT the other way around.


What rights do trans kids not have?

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What rights do trans kids not have? They have  the same rights as every child in Virginia. They desire additional rights. They desire the right to change the English language and make you change it with them. They desire the right to enter bathrooms and locker rooms and make other people feel uncomfortable. Well society has rules. Get over it.


Take back our kids and our schools!

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TAKE BACK OUR KIDS AND OUR SCHOOLS


New school policy

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Parents know their children's needs better than anyone. If children are struggling with gender dysphoria, they need guidance and emotional support from parents. Under the new policies, school officials, must keep parents fully informed, and require schools to enforce laws, regulations and policies that prohibit and deter bullying or harassment.


Put this new school bathroom policy on November election ballot, let Virginia people decide

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<p>The same people who want to get rid of electoral college now insist that bullying of general population by LGBTQ community is somehow a God given right. Justice for all and pursuit of happiness are American values that need to be protected and followed, but not at someone else’s expense. Let each school convert one or more of their bathrooms into LGBT use only and leave the rest of the school bathrooms as originally designed. Since by law child is a minor until 18 years old, only child’s parents are responsible for their child in all aspects, physical and emotional. Thus, parents, not children, need to let everyone know how to refer to their children and parents’ directive needs to be respected. I am pro new guidelines and wish that all parties involved in this issue find solution acceptable for all. We all want the best for our children while they attend public schools. Maybe we Virginians need to vote on this matter and let our ballots speak for us or maybe our school districts email a survey to all parents to gauge the response and act accordingly. The process needs to be transparent and show the will of all Virginia parents. </p>


Government overreach— infringes upon right to life, liberty, & pursuit of happiness

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I believe that these policies infringe upon the rights of students’ rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nowhere in the United States Constitution does it say that harassment is free speech. What logical reason is there for there for a parent to need to know about the decision of their child in regards to something as simple as pronouns? It’s government overreach. Students in many other states are also allowed to pursue sporting activities that align with their identity. This should be the case in Virginia as well. States should be revising their policies to reflect the guidances of the American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics—that people who identify as a gender different than theirs assigned at birth *are* whatever gender they identify as.


Power to the Parents! RESPECT WOMEN AND GIRLS SEX BASED RIGHTS, #FirstDoNoHarm

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<p>What rights do “trans” children not have? Male children don’t have the right to use the female restrooms. Oh no what an atrocity. I wonder if the young women and girls buying into this new misogyny of NLOG (not like other girls) by claiming to be boys or “non-binary” actually use the boys room?! I’ll take a wild guess and say no.  Why do they not? Prolly for the same reason we don’t let foxes in the hen house. How about this, we make all the boys and mens rooms “gender neutral” and keep the womens/girls rooms and spaces the womens and girls rooms and spaces.  Why is it always the female spaces that are made unisex when it was already hard enough for women to actually gain their own restrooms in the first place and when there is a much longer queue for the womens restroom so allowing males would only make that problem worse. Why does this nebulous belief in gender identity seem to trump all the civil rights of everyone else? Including the disabled. I’m sorry but if anyone thinks that it is ok for anyone to be able to self identify into a different sex class and therefore able to self identify their way into another sex’s private spaces then you need to get your head checked. Anyone with common sense can see the safeguarding issue that comes with this. Humans can’t change sex and girls deserve to have their rights privacy and safety especially at school. They also don’t need to be led down the path of irreversible medical harm. Especially when the VDOE is getting their guidelines from the sadly captured ACLU and organizations like WPATH. Parents please do your research on WPATH and check out the amazing investigative research Genevieve Gluck has done on this once fringe organization started by a pedophile and fetishists in her actually feminist publication REDUXX. Also please for the love of all things good read The Cass Review ffs which was the reason for the Closing of the worlds largest gender identity clinic, The Tavistock in the UK. Read the stories of detransitioners. They aren’t hard to find especially nowadays as the waves caused by these policies being pushed years ago are now crashing down hard on our shores. Keira Bell would be a good start. The detrans subreddit has tens of thousands of members and gains 2,000 per month. I know growing up female is no piece of cake but try as you might their is no identifying out of sex based oppression. There’s nothing wrong with being a gender non conforming girl or a lesbian. Sisterhood is powerful and being a pawn to billionaires and their sick motives is not. We already have more 13 year old girls getting more unnecessary mastectomies then anywhere else.  Planned Parenthood prescribed testosterone within two visits without taking into consideration a females medical history including mental health and whether she has suffered sexual trauma or child sex abuse both of which are symptoms that manifest these days as “rapid onset gender dysphoria”.  Girls don’t destroy your bodies with testosterone as you will never be able to reverse the damage it causes ie: permanently lowered voice, male patterned hair growth and baldness, atrophy of your reproductive system which will cause early onset menopause , brittle bones/osteoporosis and early onset dementia. Do not give up the rights your foremothers fought so hard for you to have. Be brave, your safety matters more then the feelings of delusional pornsick boys and men. Stop lying to these men and boys who say they are women and being validation stations for them. Pick up an early edition of Our Bodies Ourselves instead of some BS neoliberal book on queer theory. Do not fall victim to the lies you are being fed and end up as a bunch of useful idiots and a target market to be capitalized even more on. And men and boys please realize that no matter what you do yu will never be a girl or a woman and women and girls are not human shields or doormats that exist to validate you. Anyone that tells you different is lying. If boys who like to dress and act in feminine ways feel threatened by men and using the correctly sex spaces for them then that is an issue for boys and men to deal with. Don’t bully gender non conforming boys and expand the definition of male hood to include all men and boys. No matter how boy chooses to dress he should feel welcome in male spaces.  Women and girls rights are not up for sale and the VDOE needs to be EDUCATED on these issues from sources that aren’t handpicked by quacks and academics with a degree in “gender studies and queer theory” which used to actual be Womens studies. The very term gender identity was coined by a pedophile and the trans flag was designed by another pedophile. Parents do yourselves a favor and look up the term for Autogynephilia. Check out the podcasts “Whose Body is it” and “feminist current” which is also an online publication. Other resources are WomenareHuman.com, PITT- Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans, Genspect, Keep Prisons Single Sex, Abigail Shriers book Irreversible Damage, Kara Dansky’s book The Abolition of Sex, TransgenderTrend, WomensDeclarationInternational, ThisNeverHappens, GenderMapper, Kellie Jay Keen aka Posie Parker, Womens Liberation Front, Reduxx.com, The Podcast Womens Voices, Womens Liberation Radio News, The Deprogrammer, Jennifer Bileks 11th Hour Blog. Also the public group on Facebook It’s Not A Fetish.  News flash yall transwomen wanking in womens restrooms is now a porn genre. Also the percentage of women and girls being secretly filmed in bathrooms and locker rooms has gone three the roof.  For those not faint of heart do an internet search of “sissy hypno porn”. Also check out the Interview with Brette and Anna by Benjamin Boyce on his podcast Calmversations. STOP CONFLATING SEX AND GENDER IDENTITY!! One is a material reality and the other has now become a religious belief not based in reality at all! Check out what your children are doing online, who they are talking to, many young confused kids are being introduced to kinks and fetish by online “friends” they generally think are their own age when more likely then not they are actually talking to grown men who are lying about their age. You are the parents, it’s up to you to do your best to safeguard your children and you should definitely check out all your childrens socials and trust me they all have more then one account so don’t be fooled to easily. Check their history and their direct messages on every platform and every account they have to see who they are talking to.  Because if the schools aren’t feeding them this BS there are definitely adults online that are going out of their way to groom your children. Women and girls it’s time to stop being kind and start standing your ground and standing for all women and girls! It is time to be courageous and brave! If women and girls are willing to sacrifice their lives for the right to choose what they can do and wear and be educated (all things they can not identify out of) then we should be able to stand up for ourselves, our rights and for eachother!! No one is going to save us but ourselves! The time is NOW! </p>


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

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Support the new policies.


New proposed pro-parent policies

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The family is the strength of our society. For this reason I support the proposed pro-parent policies of the Department of ED pro-parent policies.


Trans Rights Are Human Rights

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I stand with the students who have protested Gov. Youngkin's new guidelines putting restrictions on transgender students in the state’s public schools. These guidelines will only harm transgendered students and do nothing to promote learning. Students should use appropriate school facilities, which may or may not be the sex they were assigned at birth. It should be determined on a case-by-case basis. Likewise, students should not be forced to disclose their gender identity to their parents if they don't want to.


Protect trans rights now!!!

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Protect transgender people and their human rights!