Support parent's rights

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I support the reasonable proposal of the governor and hope that the school boards will follow the law when implemented


This is a terrible policy decision.

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This is a terrible policy decision.


OPPOSE

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It's the 21st century.

Why, in a country which supposedly prides its values of...*checking*... "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", are we still basing our laws on one narrow, myopic religious viewpoint?

Why can't we trust 2 adults to live whomever they love?

Why can't we trust a human being to know themselves better than anyone else?

Why are we trying to demonstrably harm people by legislating away their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>Not following medically appropriate care for students due to personal beliefs is child abuse. Over 40% of untreated trans children will have and possibly follow through on suicidal ideation. Refusing to acknowledge their gender and respect their medically necessary gender affirming care is tantamount to endorsing kids killing themselves to save your own feelings of discomfort. Be an adult. Learn how to use their correct pronouns and get over whatever micro control urges you have that are making you place your personal fears above the care of children that need this in order to be healthy.  </p>


About Time

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<p>About time normalcy return to Virginia. So tired of the few freaks whining . Thank You Gov. Youngkin for putting parents and children first. Common sense laws are what we need. I support  Gov. Youngkin </p>


Discriminatory 'One-Way' Policy

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This policy separates based on sex.  It is discriminatory.  To provide 'special' accommodations impacts others.  All students want more privacy when they dress and undress for sports or PE.  And all students want to feel safe when entering a student rest room.  You are opening pandora's box while discriminating on those who are not transgender.  Leave it alone and let the families figure it out.  Schools are for learning not social program institutes.  The one thing I agree with is a 'family' restroom.  Often times children may want more privacy for multiple reasons.  (menstrual, diarrhea, etc).

I saw a local news segment of a female student using special school policies instituted to feel free to enter a boys locker room and flash them as they were undressing.  Please, just leave this social issue out of the school environment.  Do the minimal by providing a family restroom.  If a child is uncomfortable undressing in a respective locker room, that is something they need to work on with a counselor - they need to undress and dress in the locker room of their birth gender.

The school is for learning.  You post all the 'legal' statutes and constitutional rights on this policy.  How are our kids supposed to be able to read such historical documents if you are NOT TEACHING THEM cursive.  Just trying to point out a significant logical perspective.


Too focused on parents to the detriment of the kids

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Transgender youth are more likely to deal with ignorant or even outright abusive parents due to the prevailing atmosphere of transphobia in our society. Rescinding the 2021 guidance revokes important protections for kids and teens who may need a safe haven away from home. Passing the 2022 guidance will force victims of transphobic abuse to repress themselves even outside the home, degrading their mental health and increasing risk of self-harm

Section II. A. 2. is especially revolting because it strips all agency and autonomy from the child. This is extremely dehumanizing. All people, including minors, should be allowed to decide their name and pronouns for themselves. Parents are NOT "in the best position" to "determine... what names, nicknames, and/or pronouns, if any, shall be used for their child" because they are not their child. The child is their own person and deserves to make those decisions for themself and have them respected by the adults in their life. Please recognize that children and teens are conscious human beings with individual lives separate from their parents.


Schools shall respect all students.

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The document claims to respect transgender students yet specifies to abide by the parents' wishes and not the children themselves. By reporting the children's activities to the parent(s) in regard to whether or not they wish to transition socially, schools are putting transgender students at risk of being exposed to discrimination and harassment at home due to the parent(s) possibly holding discriminatory views of their own. If the parents are first told via third-party instead of their children directly regarding their children's new chosen identity, it sends across the message that said children do not trust them regarding this information, and possibly for good reason for the matter of bigotry within the household as well as the possibility that the child wishes to approach their parent(s) on their own pace and comfort at a later date.

I also take issue with the wording in the document. Principle D talks about protecting students from discrimination, but "on the basis of his or her sex," while speaking of transgender youth in principle A as having "a gender that differs from [their] sex." The phrasing of this can be taken as transgender youth being unprotected by possible harassment and discrimination, and thus opening them to such negative actions.

Speaking as a resident of Virginia since birth with loved ones who are LGBT+, have faced discrimination from being LGBT+ after being forced to come out by a third-party, and thus were unable to escape harassment due to the source being from their own families who they are dependent on: I oppose this document to the utmost as it is.


Follow the research by medical and mental health professionals--stop the hate toward trans youth

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Follow the science--all the major medical and mental health organizations agree that we best support trans and nonbinary students with gender-affirming care, inclusive schools, bathrooms that are open to all genders, use of pronouns, and curricula and libraries that represent the full range of LBGT students and families. Educators deserve to be able to teach and students deserve to be able to learn in environments that affirm the range of gender identity/expression. Medical doctors must be able to practice without state interference from religious and political zealots. Student athletes deserve to compete regardless of their gender identity/expression. This is simply misplaced hate being used by politicians to cover up their failed economic policies using trans youth and families as scapegoats. The real groomers are almost exclusively heterosexual conservative religious married men who are sexually attracted to children.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>This provision is needlessly cruel and goes against the basic moral principals underlying common human decency and respect. Religion should never ever be used to harm and degrade anyone, much less children and young adults. Shame on the Youngkin administration for twisting religion in such a way that goes directly against the teachings of Jesus </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Keep your politics out of peoples pants, please and thanks. </p>


I fully oppose this.


I SUPPORT YOUNGKIN

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<p>I support these policies because they protect ALL children and still make accommodations while keeping payers informed. </p>


Support Youngkin!

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Total support for Governor Youngkin's new school guidance policies concerning so-called transgender children.


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I oppose this in the strongest possible manor.


New Pro-student and Pro-parent Policy

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New Pro-student and Pro-parent Policy, I support Gov. Youngkin's policy.  Parents are the first teachers of their children and have an irreplaceable role in guiding them and ensuring their well-being.

This policy supports the integration of the family in Virginia Society and corrects a policy designed to sunder the family.

The new policy should be accepted.

Thank you.


Strongly support parents rights - pls make Fairfax Co PS abide

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<p>I strongly support these changes. Most of those who oppose probably didn’t bother to read the document. The language was very well crafted. It is supportive of all students, follows the law, and clearly directs compassion and respect above all else. Please follow Fairfax Co PS closely as they will not adhere to this. Also take note of the school board’s recent motion to support teachers who teach CRT and who drafted the motion. </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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this is a horrible bill to even consider. Taking away a child's right to use a public bathroom just for being trans is just plain cruel and whoever is responsible for coming up with this bill should put in jail


VA raised and VA public school educated mom. Strongly oppose this anti-transgender proposal.

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I am a VA raised and educated mom and I strongly oppose this unnecessary proposed "guidance". Please stop using wedge issues to divide our community, instead of bringing us together. Shame on those who'd use partisan politics to hurt vulnerable children!


New school policies for transgender students in Virginia

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I am completely opposed to Youngkin's new school policies for transgender students.  They are wrong.  He is trying to accumulate power in the GOP on the backs of these students.


STRONGLY SUPPORT,  this policy change

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Trans is a mental illness.

No amount of surgery or hormone therapy actually changes a person in terms of physical sex.  Their DNA does not change. Their biological sex at birth will remain for life.

Schools do NOT have the right to teach gender identity to young children.  Drag queen story hours and performances are NOT appropriate for ANY school setting.

Schools do NOT have the right to "gender swap" or offer "gender affirming care" without parental permission.

Using the wrong pronoun should NOT have a penalty.

Schools/CPS/DFS do NOT have grounds to remove children from their parents on the grounds that the parents aren't supporting their gender choice.

Most of the comments on this are repeats from people that want it to look like this is an unpopular policy when in fact, more people support this than not.


Protect Parents' Rights and Stop Groomers

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Please protect the sanctity of the parent-child bond.  Do not allow school staff to trick vulnerable young people into a fantasy about transgenderism - a wholly fictional, exploitative, medically irreversible assault on the body and a life destroyed by mental illness and sterility.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>I STRONGLY OPPOSE this guidance. This bill does not help youth, it actively harms them. Forcing youth to adhere to a completely wrong and uneducated belief held by some is dangerous and will have detrimental consequences. You cannot be in favor of "protecting our children" while actively not protecting all children. This bill protects no one and only causes harms. Do not pass this bill. </p>


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Transgender policy

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<p>People seem to forget that this is still a democratic country, so why should the majority have to submit to a minute number of people who  obviously need and certainly deserve some good mental health assistance. GOD made Adam and Eve, man and woman; anything else is not real nor possible.  How dare you confuse our precious children of GOD by not calling them by their legal, parental given name. No one is a pronoun. Parents are 100% responsible for their children, not a school, school board or any related quasi communist organization. ALL children are already protected by civil rights laws, let's stop this nonsense and focus on catching up the lost two years of the pandemic debacle. </p>


In Opposition of the Current Matters Against the LGBTQ+ Youth in VCPS System

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The audacity and levels of ignorance within this policy is immeasurable. The children apart of the LGBTQ+ community ought to be equally treated as those outside of the LGBTQ+ community. Equality is for all, not for a select few; this ideal once held prestigiously by one and all seems to have gone out the window and into the heap of garbage that is bias. Why a child here in the Commonwealth of Virginia cannot be allowed to be comfortable the way they wish to feel or to express themselves, I will not understand. As children, we were raised to respect others and to treat them with the same respect as we want to have. This is the exact same principle here, being severely neglected and ignored. I wish this policy Gov. Youngkin has made to be altered or removed entirely so that all children can be treated equally and can express themselves equally.


SUPPORT

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<p>I support Youngkin's policies about school safety. Children need to be safe in schools. Allowing young men in the female restroom makes them feel uncomfortable and puts them at risk for indecent exposure, assault, or worse. There are already policies to protect children. There is no need to create confusing rules about using the bathroom. </p>


Oppose This Anti-Trans Measure!

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This policy is disgusting and denigrates trans kids instead of validating trans kids. It's nothing short of sadistic to purposefully discriminate against trans kids in this way.


Legal discrimination and erasure?

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How cruel! My daughter has an 8 year old trans friend and he deserves to be called by his preferred name and receive any medical care he needs. The goal is to build strong, kind, smart, confident kids and cruelty and denial are so harmful and illegal.


Bad Idea for Virginia

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<p>By comments apply to the transgender law being proposed by Youngkin. It's a bad idea and harmful to children dealing with gender identity issues. No child would wilingly choose to be transgender given the stigma, anti trans sentiment, intolerance and laws like these seeking to ostracize and minimize their struggles. Why should the governor stick his nose into micromanaging teachers and schools who know far more about taking care of a students well being than Younkin. BAD IDEA not right for VA. There are far more important topics he should be tackling than pronouns. </p>


Oppose Youngkin policy

I oppose Governor Youngkin's draft model policy because it:
Is rooted in transphobia and seeks to further harm trans and nonbinary kids.Seeks to erase trans and nonbinary youth from the classroom. This creates a hostile & potentially dangerous school environment.Requires teachers and school staff to forcibly “out” students to their parents against their will in some circumstances, such as where a student seeks counseling.Prohibits teachers and school staff from supporting trans & nonbinary students, such as using a student’s affirming name & pronouns.Creates bathroom and sports policies that prohibit access and/or participation in activities consistent with their gender identity.

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I oppose Governor Youngkin's draft model policy because it:

Is rooted in transphobia and seeks to further harm trans and nonbinary kids.
Seeks to erase trans and nonbinary youth from the classroom. This creates a hostile & potentially dangerous school environment.
Requires teachers and school staff to forcibly “out” students to their parents against their will in some circumstances, such as where a student seeks counseling.
Prohibits teachers and school staff from supporting trans & nonbinary students, such as using a student’s affirming name & pronouns.
Creates bathroom and sports policies that prohibit access and/or participation in activities consistent with their gender identity.


Fire the FCPS SCHOOL Board

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<p>The schools should answer to the parents.  They are robbing children of their innocence. Support the Governor’s policies!  Enough with the social engineering policies! </p>


Support New 2022 Model

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I support the new model 2022 regulations and the rights of parents to make these decisions without interference from the public school system.


The FCPS Policy shies how perverted the school board members are!  Vehemently oppose this!

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<p>The FCPS opposition to the Governor’s policy demonstrates how perverted snd immoral the school board is. Parents are the ultimate authority, not the schools board </p>


This policy will destroy the lives of trans students - I STRONGLY OPPOSE

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The proposed policy is blantantly transphobic and cruel. Forcing transgender students to endure dead-naming, misgendering, and harrassment is CRUEL. Virginia schools should be a safe space for ALL students. This policy will increase the suicide rate for trans youth, prevent them from receiving support at school, and embolden queerphobic students and staff to harrass trans students. If you believe in human decency and empathy oppose this bill. Understand the damage this policy will inflict on our state's students. Understand that thousands of students' support networks. Understand that cruelty for political gain has no place in Virginia


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly urge opposition to this harmful policy </p>


Strongly Support the new law

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A child can't get a tattoo without parental consent, however,  they are mature enough to understand the repercussions of this? I am certain that some of the children really do need the mental, emotional, and physical support system for when they do make decisions like this however I am certain that with all the peer pressure and "special accommodations" for such "unique" students that way to many children who are not getting attention at home are doing this for the wrong reasons. Not because they feel the need to, but because they want to be special, they want to be different - and they're not standing out otherwise. We are HURTING our children with all of this. If you let kids do what ever they like things will not turn out well. I think there was a book written about such a thing... anyone read Lord of the Flies?


I oppose this new policy - it is cruel, hurtful and unnecessary

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I am a voting Virginia parent. I oppose this blatant political stunt.

This is a typical republican unnecessary, dogwhistle, cruel and hurtful policy. If they can hurt someone, they will. Learned well at the knee of Trump.

This change in policy is a solution to a non-problem designed  to attract votes from a base that comes blindly running when called, and parrots hate. Heartbreaking, but not surprising.

Youngkin has delusions of grandeur and wants to be president. His new policy has to do with getting him publicity and votes, not children' well being or some version of "parental rights."

It should be withdrawn and forgotten.


Do not do this.


Vehemently Oppose

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In medical school, we are taught the evidence-based importance of gender-affirming environments for transgender youth. This new policy claims to put rights in the hands of parents; however it fails to address the many gender-diverse children who are living in households that do not support them. These children are at risk of devastating mental health consequences, especially if school can no longer be a safe haven for them. Even transgender children who do live in supportive households will be less supported at school under these guidelines. This is, frankly, a health risk to these children. It will achieve nothing except putting transgender children at risk of greater discrimination, less affirmation, and ultimately more mental health consequences. These proposed guidelines are cruel and dangerous to some of the most vulnerable children in our state.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose legislation. </p>


I am a native Virginian and with all this nonsense being taught in our schools I strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose any trans gender or lbgtq policies being taught in our public schools. If a parent wants this type of environment for their child they need to either home school or find a private school to send their child. </p>


Oppose

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I oppose this attempt to misgender students and force them to use restrooms that are not for their gender. I have never been afraid of transgender people and I hate how the right is using them as scapegoats and trying to force conversion therapy and detransitioning. Accepting a person's gender is life saving, and studies back this up. Puberty blockers are safe and have studies backing this up. If they're not safe, then why do we use them to stop precocious puberty?

I oppose this attempt to harm transgender students.


Oppose the policy on treatment of transgender students

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I strongly oppose this policy. There is no more room for hate. This will increase the suicide rate.


Good

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The craziness attacking basic biology needs to end.


Parent who supports LGBTQ+ youth and opposes these policies

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<p>The concept of "parental rights" is being used to politicize education and to discriminate against LGBTQ+ youth. My family's values include support for all people and, especially,  ensuring that LGBTQ+ youth are not subjected to unnecessary harm. Rather than supporting parental rights or developing compassionate and effective policies based on data, best practices, and input from those most likely to be impacted, this guidance seems to be designed to create yet another false division among Virginians. I support a return to policy-making that is grounded in compassion, data, and a focus on impact and outcomes. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p> This policy change will hurt children, especially vulnerable populations. Trans youth are far more likely to experience depression, anxiety, self injury and suicidal thoughts as compared to peers. It is not acceptable for school to no longer be a place where kids, especially kids in the LGBT community, no longer feel safe.   Please protect trans youth and their families with acceptance and support, not with hate and discrimination! </p>
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Oppose

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<p>Hi! This is not only transphobic and homophobic, it’s also racist, as many native communities recognize trans/non-binary folks. Do better. </p>


OPPOSE

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<p>I strongly condemn any effort to dehumanize ALL LGBT kids including the abuse of religion and politics to oppress their right to self determination. </p>


Bravo!!

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Thank you governor for ensuring parents continue to make proper decisions for their children. Can the schools just please get back to educating our kids?! How about a little english, science, math, history ...

It's enough already with the ignorance of the immoral child Predators on the left thinking trans anything belongs as subject matter of the day. Stop cramming your b******* down everybody's throat. We simply don't care what you do, and you don't have the right to continue to abuse innocent and confused children to further some godforsaken political powerplay.


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this anti-trans policy. It’s cruelty for the sake of political power. </p>


Oppose - this policy is political - it harms children

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Medical professions oppose this.  Parents of trans kids oppose this.  It accomplishes nothing but harm to trans kids.  Trans kids are more likely to be bullied and disrespected with a policy like this in place.  Please don’t enact this.


Oppose

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As a parent and an educator, I oppose the 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia's Public Schools. I am concerned that the policies jeopardize the safety and well being of LGBTQ+ students who already face an increased risk of suicide. It is my sincere hope that the numerous public comments in opposition on the thread are heard and that the 2021 Model Policies are returned.


OPPOSE

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<p>All students deserve to be protected and respected regardless of their gender identity! </p>


Opposed

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Opposed. You are going to kill people with this. You are going to kill CHILDREN with this. You will have the blood of children on YOUR HANDS. Super pro-life of you. Oh wait. You only care about life as a means to control women. Trans people are PEOPLE. HUMANS.


Protect and support trans and non-binary students

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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.

ALL kids should be supported and protected.


Strongly oppose

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I strongly oppose this policy change. I do not believe the Governor has the authority to change Virginia law. He is simply pandering to a far right conservative base. He is exhibiting no respect for the students involved. This change is not legal and not humane.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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<p>Strongly oppose </p>
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Government, leave our LGBTQI students alone!


Oppose

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This puts teachers in a terrible position of violating a student's right to be heard and acknowledged as an individual. Using preferred pronouns hurts no one. Stop legislating things that are none of your business. You have also embarrassed our commonwealth with this policy and put teachers in a position of having to break laws to preserve relationships with very at risk students. Seriously, can we focus on something important, like how no one can afford college or how there is a mental health crisis among our youth? What are you actually doing?


As a parent and mental health provider to children and families in Virginia I oppose

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I oppose these transphobic policies seeking to restrict transgender students from having a safe space at school. Shame on Governor Youngkin! These oppressive policies result in increased suicidal ideation and completed suicides. Over half of all transgender and non-binary youths consider suicide, not inherently because of their gender identity, but because of the lack of acceptance and oppression they face daily. Leave our kids alone and worry about the REAL issues.


Opposition to forcing the misgendering of students and policing bathrooms

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Children are not in danger of each other in public bathrooms. Forcing students to use the wrong bathroom is unfair to their basic rights. Likewise, children know who they are. Over 98% of kids who start HRT continue to use it into adulthood willingly and happily. Let them tell you their pronouns.


Parents should always be notified when it comes to their kids

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Parents should be notified of anything concerning their children and get to sign off on it. School officials are known for trying to push their own agendas down childrens throats. If the worry is trans children will self harm because they don’t get to be called by their preferred pronouns then these children should be seeing a psychiatrist for mental health help.


Support parental rights, not lunatic alphabet mob

Caveat: if a parent chooses to medically castrate their child with puberty blockers or whatever woke nonsense, then I’m fine with it - get another lost soul out of the gene pool.
That said, non-woke children shouldn’t have to suffer through the mindless hypersexualization being forced on schools by the alphabet mob. There is plenty of time to become a sexual deviant after graduation - keep public schools focused on educating the mind, not on bizarre proclivities that are not legal to perform until the age of consent.I’m a retired teacher and it was my displeasure to have a woke ideologue as a principal for my final years teaching. Needless to say, the school was a battleground for children that wanted to learn and maintain reasonable behavior & social standards. By the time I left, I had numerous children at each grade level (6-8) claiming to be trans. And the majority were girls. Just hideous.

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Caveat: if a parent chooses to medically castrate their child with puberty blockers or whatever woke nonsense, then I’m fine with it - get another lost soul out of the gene pool.

That said, non-woke children shouldn’t have to suffer through the mindless hypersexualization being forced on schools by the alphabet mob. There is plenty of time to become a sexual deviant after graduation - keep public schools focused on educating the mind, not on bizarre proclivities that are not legal to perform until the age of consent.
I’m a retired teacher and it was my displeasure to have a woke ideologue as a principal for my final years teaching. Needless to say, the school was a battleground for children that wanted to learn and maintain reasonable behavior & social standards. By the time I left, I had numerous children at each grade level (6-8) claiming to be trans. And the majority were girls. Just hideous.


Anything but affirmation is violence

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<p>The proposed measure will serve nothing but to endanger the lives of children. All data proves that affirming transgender students improves their academic performance and survival rates. To do otherwise is to explicitly enact violence on children. </p>


Strongly opposed to this

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It is a well-known fact that unsupported transgender youth have a much, much higher likelihood for mental distress and suicidal ideation/actions than supported transgender youth. Requiring that transgender students be outed to their parents can actually be incredibly dangerous to children who may be at risk for violent assault and abuse at home. Some may even be kicked out due to their identities; LGBTQ+ youth disproportionately experience homelessness in this country, their chances of being so 120% higher than the general population.

Transgender students deserve the respect and autonomy that is regarded to every other student without a second thought. This bill is the epitome of anti-equality legislation that will put the lives of countless children at risk in multiple ways and condones harassment, bullying, discrimination, rejection, neglect, and abuse from children and adults alike. Politicians should create policy based on the advice and guidance of experts in the field and not to pander to the most extreme fringes of their base.


I am completely for this!!!! Parents should get a say in what pronouns are used

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First off no one should be forced to call someone a different pronoun than what they were born. If you are a male I will call you one. Parents should have to sign off on any changes concerning their children.


I fully oppose this.


I support the New school Policies on transgender

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I agree 100% Parents and guardians have 100000000%  FREEDOM of CHOICE, FREEDOM of SPEECH, FREEDOM of EDUCATION, FREEDOM of BELIEFS, FREEDOM of SCHOOL CHOICE, FREEDOM of VALUES, FREEDOM of WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW and WHERE, FREEDOM TO RAISE THEIR CHILD or CHILDREN THE WAY THEY CHOOSE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF GOD ALMIGHTY AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE HOLY BIBLE!

I DO NOT SUPPORT TRANSGENDER, LBGTQ, OR ANY OTHER FALSE, MAN MADE NAMES USED TO DECEIVE PEOPLE! YOU ARE BORN A BOY OR A GIRL AND THAT'S IT! YOU DO NOT GET TO CHOOSE, IT IS NOT A  FREEDOM OF CHOICE! TRANSGENDERISM, LGBTQ AND ANY MAN MADE NAME IS A SIN, IT IS DEMONIC, IT IS SATANIC, IT IS A LIE, IT IS FALSE, IT IS OF THE DEVIL!

GENDER CHOICE IS NOT LEGAL NOR IS IT TRUTH , IT IS NOT A QUESTION, THEREFORE IT SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE ANYWHERE WITH OR WITHOUT PERMISSION! NOT IN SCHOOLS, NOT IN PUBLIC, NOT IN CHURCH, NOT ANYWHERE! NOT EVER!

I REBUKE AND CAST OUT GENDER CHOISE, GENDER CONFUSION, GENDER CONFLICTS AND EVERY DEMONIC GENDER AGENDA DOWN TO THE FIREY PITS OF HELL, IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME, AMEN

GOD BLESS AMERICA!


I support our Governor and applaud his efforts to review and revise appropriate action.

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


Oppose this attempt to cause teen harm rates to skyrocket

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<p>I may not live in Virginia, but I know for certain that I would never want to visit a state that denies basic human rights. Why would you want to? The Virginia Tourism Corporation touts inclusivity, yet here is the state trying its best to do away with tourism money with hate and for what? To increase the already alarming teen suicide rates? Who would want something like that? Study after study shows that LGBT+ teens are at risk and Virginians say "let's make it worse". </p>


Oppose 2022 policy

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I oppose this policy. The actions in this policy are unequitable and place students at serious risk of harm, bullying, harassment, discrimination, abuse, violence, and abandonment.

The 2021 policy protects students more.


No evidence for how this improves anything!

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<p>This isn’t giving parents rights it’s taking them away and giving more power to the government. The 2021 guidance is a model that was well thought out and sets Virginia schools up for success. The 2022 proposed guidance document is a shameful joke. I feel bad for whatever low level intern drafted this garbage. Support our students and our parents. This proposal is invasive and divisive. Shame on this administration for once again pushing wedge issues to sew divisions among residents of the Commonwealth. For someone who campaigned on wanting to move Virginia forward I can’t understand why this would be a primary focus. Most Virginia families are worried about inflation and all governor Youngkin wants to talk about is where children go pee? Keep the 2021 guidance. When this document is approved I encourage local school boards to disregard it in its entirety. </p>


Governor is bullying Virginia children and it's shameful

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Shame on the Governor for bullying our children! This is fundamentally wrong that the Governor is promoting hateful and discriminatory policies. It's disgusting.


Support for Youngkin Policy

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Finally having a common sense approach to the “rights of transgender “  students in our public schools that ensures the safety for ALL students not just choosing to protect the transgenders.   Coupled with a parents right and responsibility to know and shepherd the heart and development of their own child is fundamental to the success of our educating system and more importantly our society.


Support Youngkin’s Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students

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


Support change in transgender school policies

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I support the proposed changes to the transgender policies in our schools.  I don’t believe schools have the right to deceive parents or hide information from them about about their children. Schools are tasked with educating children  so that they will be literate and able to one day join the workforce and provide financially for themselves and their dependents. It is the right and responsibility of parents to guide and protect their children and shape their values. The school has no right to come between parents and their children.

While I believe that no child should be mocked or disparaged, I don’t think speech should be compelled when it violates one’s beliefs or conscience.  Compelling teachers to use certain pronouns violates their right of free speech and possibly their religious protection.

I am very concerned about privacy rights of children in schools.  I don’t believe any child should have to share locker room, bathroom, or shower spaces with children of the opposite biological sex.

The incredible rise of transgenderism gives every indication that it is due more to societal influence than anything naturally occurring.  The current cultural push on children to consider gender as something that can be changed is more ideological than something that can be supported scientifically. Encouraging children to make decisions that have lifelong effects is unnecessary and wrong.  That our school are pushing children to make these decisions without the knowledge of their parents is inexcusable.


Oppose --  data shows this will hurt transgender young people

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Research shows that unsupported transgender youth are more likely to have emotional trouble and even suicidal impulses than supported youth.  This policy ignores likely realistic outcomes of increasing risks to transgender youth.  I therefore oppose it.


I support Governor Youngkin's Policies

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I absolutely am in favor of these policies and appreciate Youngkin's efforts.  Thank you!


Be the kind of parent your kid wants to talk to

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The new policy seeks to negate the dignity, agency, and humanity of trans kids. Parents should seek to be the kind of parent their child can approach and talk to about anything. If your kid is afraid to tell you about feelings of gender dysphoria, or afraid to ask you questions about their body, then you are the problem.


Approval

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Finally someone with some common sense in Virginia. I support the Governor and his policy.


Oppose

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<p>People use religion to mask that which they are uncomfortable with. This policy is cowardly and ludicrous. </p>
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One has a moral responsibility to not obey unjust laws like these ones!

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Morally, we must stand up to this type of hate. Putting trans youth in harms way is NEVER justified. Stop the nonsense now!


Model policies

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Gov. Youngkin is definitely on the right track with policies for school children.  We need these

policies to protect our school children and the school staff.


This policy supports bringing families together not separating them

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Families are stronger when they are together. If there are differences in life we work through them.

When my child went off to college to college, then I was no longer responsible for their decisions.

 If my child is under 18 and does something wrong, the legal system also looks at how I raise them.

 We need to support parents and children working together.


If a person under 18 has to go to a pediatrician... Then parents need to be involved

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Parents should be involved in their children's lives until the child is an adult.

If a child is emancipated, then they can be under own.

 Parents are absent enough from raising kids these days and so it is in some situations. Let's not find a way to further separate children and parents.


These new policies will harm children and must be rescinded!

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<p>Trans youth need to be protected from other students who would harm them. Boys do not want to encounter trans male to female students in the boys bathroom and evidence shows that these encounters endanger the trans youth. In the same way, girls do not want to encounter female to male trans youth in the girls room. These policies will make everyone uncomfortable and unsafe and there is no evidence to support them! If a child does not want a their parents to know they are trans it’s because the parents have failed to create a safe environment at home. It’s not right to make the child suffer for the parents failures. These policies are just bigotry. </p>


I support New Pro-Parents, all Children Policy! Parents & Children FIRST! GOD HONOR COUNTRY & FAMILY

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As a parent of FIVE 5 children I totally Support the new policy! Protect Family & children who are the basic cell of every society! I grew up in a communist country for 23 years and I have seen what destructive & murderous communist system has done, to children, family, society and entire country. FAMILY, GOD, HONOR & COUNTRY!


I fully support Gov Youngkins policy.

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<p>I fully support Gov Youngkins policy/guidance. I support parents rights and responsibilities! </p>


I am completely opposed.

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I am completely opposed.


Terrible proposed policy

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This will harm children and is contraindicated by science. Politicians should create policy based on the advice and guidance of experts in the field and not to pander to the most extreme fringes of their base.


Mind your own business

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The Supreme Court has on many occasions decide and upheld that Freedom of Religion also functions as Freedom from Religion. You can't force anyone to practice or observe your religion.  That responsibility is part of that fundamental right.

Freedom of speech prevents anyone from determining what others can or cannot say, but that has limits once it crosses the rights of another. You are also not allowed to prevent others from responding to the things you say.

Most of the constitutional rights have this duality. It reflects a firm belief of those that wrote them in "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. A policy that is one of the most important rules of Christianity in the Bible. American Christians need to relearn that rule as they are morally bankrupt these days. Glenn Youngkin needs to relearn that rule if he wants to be anything but a fake Christian.


Governor’s Transgender Policy

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<p>I strongly AGREE with Governor Youngkin’s policy! </p>


I strongly oppose the guidance

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I strongly oppose the model policies on the treatment of transgender and non-binary students. I can't believe this is even being debated. I am a member of the LGBTQ community and experienced bullying and harassment as a student growing up. Most of what is being said about transgender and non-binary individuals is fueled by hate and fear mongering. The new proposed policies exclude the rights of those who love and support their children as they are, and puts in harms way those whose families are unsupportive. For some school is one of the few places where they are supported.


School policy on transgender support 100%


Thank you Governor Youngkin!

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Finally a Governor who stands up for parents rights… protecting our children is #1. Thank you thank you!


Support this guidance!

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<p>Thank you for considering parents in this guidance. Parents should be included in their child’s change of gender. As a parent I would want to know if my child is transgender. Our children already feel so much entitlement, this would only add to it. I can’t imagine finding out from the school that my child is trans, by way of phone call because of an incident. This is crushing to parents and their relationship to their child. </p>


SUPPORT THIS POLICY 1000%

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Absolutely cannot validate boys in girls private areas or on girls sport teams and vice versa - do what you want as adults but leave our boys and girls as they are - no they them or shehe - keep children safe


Family First

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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 their 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.


Firmly Oppose Youngkin’s Attempts to Restrict Children's Freedom

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<p>As a current Virginia resident for over 40 years, I find it appalling that Gov Youngkin is aggressively targeting children in schools. For children, schools should be a place where all children are welcomed and encouraged to be themselves, to feel included and safe to learn together, that all have something important to contribute. A governor who seeks to create a school environment that targets children by excluding children from others, restricting children, attacking children’s inherent value and integrity is incredibly wrong. A Governor who seeks to RESTRICT FREEDOM cannot be trusted. </p>
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Why not let people be who they want to be?

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This policy is going to hurt trans youth who do not get acceptance at home, by forcing them to not be accepted at school as well.  But who are we kidding, that's the exact goal of this heavy-handed approach by Youngkin...  to call out, ostracize, and otherize people who are different than they are.  So the result of this is going to be those kids whose parents love and accept them no matter what will jump thru the hoops thrown up by this change to make sure their kid gets the acceptance they need, but the kids who do not have that support, either because they aren't accepted at home, or are not yet ready to discuss with their parents, are going to be made to feel like chattel, with no agency over their life.  I mean, schools are not out there giving after-school gender reassignments....  if a student wants a teacher to refer to them a certain way, is that so bad?  I guess if you are Youngkin, it is.


Do not target trans youth because of the actions of predatory men

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This is a horrible policy. Our schools should be a place where ALL students are accepted - and their parents respected. This sets up trans youth (who are far more likely to be victims) for even more abuse - and it allows THEIR parents wishes to be ignored if they support name/pronoun changes for their children by allowing teachers to misgender them.


Governors Policy for Treatment of Transgender Students

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<p>As a parent and constituent, I fully support Governor Youngkins policy.  I strongly recommend this policy is put into place to protect our children and parental rights. </p>


This policy takes away parents’ rights

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If parents and their child agree on the name a child is to be called, this policy still allows a teacher to call them something else!  As usual, the governor is only in favor of freedom when it aligns with his narrow minded bigotry.


Against trans policy

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<p>This policy will hinder the mental, emotional, and even physical development of our youth. Protecting our youth is our only hope for a promising future. We are reliant on the younger generation to keep the world moving with and for us. If we eliminate the self esteem, self confidence, self worth and hope that these children can be whomever they choose, we’ve lost any chance of a bright future for ourselves. As someone who discovered himself in Virginia, it saddens me to see this movement. Virginia is for lovers. And lovers encourage each other to be individually unique. </p>


Keeping secrets from parents is the behavior of groomers

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The number one sign of a child sexual molester is an adult who asks kids to keep secrets from their parents.  Yet, that is the policy that Northam and Congresswoman Wexton supported.  Pure evil.


Monstrous policy from hateful people

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<p>Children aren't property, even of the child's parents. Compelling teachers to disrespect a student because of the child's parents intolerance is inhumane. Children are human and capable of determining for themselves how they want to be addressed. </p>


Parental rights are constitutional rights and are non-negotiable

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The Supreme Court has interpreted parental rights of directing the upbringing their children as a fundamental, substantive due process right.  In order to change that, the Left needs to amend the US Constitution.  Those are the rules of the game.  If you try to make an end run around a Constitutional amendment as Northam and his comrades attempted, you are actively opposing our Constitution.  That's un-American.


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

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<p>Oppose.  Why is the governor proposing policies to persecute children.  All children should be treated with dignity and respect at school.  This includes Teachers and Administrators  using a student’s preferred name and pronoun.  Student’s should have the opportunity to use the bathroom they are comfortable using.  Policies such as these are teaching cruelty and disrespect.  It is very sad we are having this a conversation.  </p>


Acceptance of the future is necessary!

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Back in the 70s when homosexuality was removed from the American index of Mental Health Disorders, there were MANY people battling hard against homosexuality. Those people who push against difference and future ideas that our kids want to live by, are pushing against the future of a nation and world where acceptance and kindness rule. Where technological and spaceflight advancement would have much more room to grow.

We need these kids to be happy, healthy and inspired by their country! This current course of action will set back humanity by a number of years and inventions untold. These people need to be happy to have the motivation and creativity for new technologies, for science, for exploring planets, running countries/states/cities.

Imagine the feeling that your own country is passing laws to specifically target you and the growing number of people like you every day, telling you that you cannot live the way you want. That's a nightmare generation for the government to deal with, and the unruly will get more numbers and power than you ever thought they could.


I stand for Trans Rights

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<p>I have a number of students who use different names and pronouns at school. This allows them to express themselves in a way that feels authentic to themselves. I have students who have mental health struggles and suicidal ideation because their families will not love and accept them for who they are. There needs to be a place where they can go and feel validated by adults in their lives. I provide that for them in my classroom. I want them to know that I am always there to protect them and advocate for their rights as students. They have a right to a place that makes them feel safe and I will fight to keep their voices heard. </p>


State Guidelines Make us Less Free

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I am opposed to Governor Youngkin's guidelines and policies regarding transgender youth. These guidelines grossly misrepresent the science around sex and gender, both from a biological and sociological perspective. Biology is a lot less clear about the sex binary than popular culture has us believe, and gender itself is a social construct put in place by dominant and often colonizing cultures, and is thus not rooted in fact, but in norms and values constructed by any given culture. When a state apparatus chooses and enforces the norms and values for a given society, we are less free. And when we are less free, we are subject to oppression from the state apparatus and from those who uphold it. These guidelines will oppress and actively harm children who do not conform to the strict norms and values provided for them. We need to understand that all of us get to choose who we are free from this oppression.

"There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom." - Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed


Support Youngkin's policies

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Governor Youngkin's current policy supports the opinions of the majority.   Stop caving to the wishes and ideas of the few that are in opposition just because they cry the loudest.


I support parents rights and responsibilities


I am strongly opposed.


This will bring harm to trans kids.

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This will bring harm to trans kids.


Please 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 their 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.

Student participation in sex-specific athletics, school activities and events should be determined by sex, e.g., for overnight travel accommodations and locker rooms.

Students should use the bathrooms that correspond to their sex. Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available in accessible areas and provided with appropriate signage, indicating accessibility for all students.

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


Classic education, NOT Indoctrination

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We as a society need to get back to schools doing what they were originally made for.  Teaching kids to read, write and do math.  We are falling behind the world in education  while other countries laugh at us but apparently what passes for education these days is Social Justice Indoctrination.


Policies on transgender students

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I support Governor Youngkin.  Parents rights should not be usurped by schools and their employees.


transgender

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No way should transgender now female/born males  be allowed in female restrooms!


Thank you for protecting parents AND children!


Thank you Governor Youngkin!

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<p>Thank you Governor Youngkin!  I strongly support the 2022 Model Policies that affirms the rights of parents; which will ultimately affirm the rights of children to be raised and guided by their parents. </p>


I do not support Governor Youngkin and his supporters who are afraid of people who are different

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Governor Youngkin and his supporters are displaying classic symptoms of fear. What do they fear? Progress. Losing their self righteous dominance over people with less money or who allow love to flourish unbound.

Allowing children to be different, to have self guided destiny doesn't harm you or your family. Stop fearing the unknown and different. Get to know those who display diverse attitudes. When you give them a real chance you will understand and appreciate diversity.

I do not support your heavy handed branding of those who are different, nor your attempt to force them into the bathroom that they aren't able to use. Shame on you.


pro parent policies

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Transgender policies

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Parents have the primary role and responsibility in helping* their figuring out these issues not schools.


Changes

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<p>There is enough problems in our school system without the Governor adding more. The world has changed and society changes with it. Transgender, non-binary,  and really all children should be respected.  Not judged for being true to themselves.  The pronouns aren't that hard to learn.  Respect our children and their lives. </p>


Strongly opposed to Governor Youngkin's reforms

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I strongly oppose Governor Youngkin's proposed rollbacks of protections for trans kids. Please, keep these harm-reducing protections in place.

Elizabeth LaPrelle


Let parents do their job

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In favor of the governor's changes.


Parents and students are also gay, bi, and trans.

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<p>LGBT Americans are also parents and students. This “ parental rights bill” excludes lgbt Americans and even non-white Americans from being considered parents and students. This excludes their viewpoints/perspectives. Do not pass. We shouldn’t treat our fellow citizens so cruelly and force them to be who they are not. </p>


Opposed to revisions to current law

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As a public educator of 20+ years, I am strongly opposed to the changes Governor Youngkin has proposed to the current law. The proposed revisions are contrary to what many organizations focused on students and their well being have advocated for, including the American School Counselor Association and the National Association for School Psychologists. These organizations have drawn conclusions about what is best practice for trans gender students in schools  based on research, not opinion. I hope that my elected officials are wise enough to trust research over opinion and make the decision to reject the proposed revisions.


Parents are childrens’ primary educators.

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I support Gov. Youngkin’s policy for the following reasons:

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 their 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.

Student participation in sex-specific athletics, school activities and events should be determined by sex, e.g., for overnight travel accommodations and locker rooms.

Students should use the bathrooms that correspond to their sex. Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available in accessible areas and provided with appropriate signage, indicating accessibility for all students.

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


Full support: Children are the sole property of their parents and families

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In truth, there is no need for legislature to reinforce our God-given, inalienable rights. Children do not make decisions for themselves while under the sole care and discretion of their parents and family. The school and the government have their own jobs, and it is never to hide information from parents about their own children. That is reprehensible and unconstitutional in usurpation of parental power/responsibility.

There is no excuse for those in opposition to reality.


Gen Z would like to thank you for this policy.

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Good afternoon,

Thank you governor for instituting a policy protective of parents’ rights to know how their children are being raised. Please note that, despite some walkouts, many in gen Z continue to support these policies, as some will be parents one day. Afterwards, please do more about issues like abortion, and continue standing up to woke school districts and judges who continue to get around your laws. Hopefully something can be done about them one day.


Seymour Butts

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Governor Youngkin,

Since you seem to think that people should have the right to call other people whatever they want, flagrantly disregarding someone’s preferred names or other means of address, I am going to call you Governor Seymour Butts from now on. And your pronouns are “she/her.” Because that’s what I feel like doing.


Save Kids Lives

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<p>We need to show our kids the love they deserve by respecting them as people who are growing and finding their place in the world, not as obedient property of their parents. Trans affirming policies save children's lives,-- that's a fact, supported by research, not this conservative panic reminiscent of the "satanic panic" of old. The biggest difference now is that adopting these policies will lead to dead kids, who could've lived full and happy lives, who were outed, who could be abused by their parents, who could be emotionally traumatized for life. These aren't just matters of personal opinion, or something to listen to a demagogue about. These policies will have a death toll if enacted. I do not think anyone who loves their kids wants to see anyone else's come to harm, let alone be shoved into a system that encourages their harm. Let trans kids be trans, let them play sports, let them grow up like they want. Those that survive will never forgive you. </p>


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<p>I support parental rights, common sense, and the Natural Law. </p>


Pray for the Children and Teens of Unsupportive Parents

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As the proud Mother of a non-binary teen who is brave and strong with keen introspection, I am most concerned for the mental health of other children and teens who have been building up their own strength to allow their parents and family into their unique world.

Children and teens often open up to their friends first to test the waters of acceptance.  And then slowly will open the door to their most precious loved ones.  I believe this proposal will firmly slam that door shut for far too many of our youth who will no longer have the freedom to express themselves at school to build their courage.

If Governor Youngkin decides to keep going down this path, I pray he increases resources to Virginia’s mental health services for children and teens as there will be a significant need for additional support.


New transphobic policies will harm trans youth

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Policies like these place the rights of parents to command and control their children over the rights of children to express their true selves without facing discrimination. Children who feel unsafe to come out at home could soon find themselves feeling unsafe to be themselves at school as well, meaning they would feel forced to conceal themselves and feel shame about who they are. Imagine how alone this situation would make someone feel. This has the potential to cause serious harm to children's mental health.


Support Gov Youngkin

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Thank you Governor Youngkin for pushing back against this woke madness. The woke mob is trying to trample on parental rights and force us into their insane world, and it needs to stop. What they are doing amounts to child abuse. Parents know what's best for their children. Please keep up the good work!


Support the Governor's  pro-parent policies in public schools

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I support the Youngkin administration's proposed model policies which uphold parents’ right to guide their child’s development. We need to restoring the role of parents in public education.

Of the many ways which the "woke" education system has left the mainstream of societal thought is allowing students to use the restrooms, locker rooms, and showers of their choice. What if your daughter is taking a shower at school when the entire football team declares that they identify as girls that day. Should they be allowed to join your daughter in the shower?

Another concern is the punishment and even firing of teachers who address students with the pronouns appropriate to their biological gender. To force them to say what they believe to be wrong is a violation of the teachers' first amendment rights.

There are many other concerns, but I need not list them all. Just suffice it to say that the Governor's proposal is the right way to go.


Wholly support Gov. Youngkin. "Trans kids" does not mean what people might think it does.

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I would strongly encourage anyone opposing these policies in the name of "vulnerable" kids to research what "gender affirmation" actually entails. Research the double mastectomies being performed on healthy girls. Look up the "phalloplasty," if you have the stomach for it. Research what so-called "puberty blockers" actually do. (If you've been told they're reversible, or a "pause" of sorts, you've been badly misled.) This is where the road of "social transition" leads, and ideologically motivated teachers nationwide would like to take your kids down that road without your knowledge. Remember why these policies are being proposed in the first place: because a young man in your state "identified"  his way into girls' restrooms and committed sexual assault—twice. He is far from a one-off. Predatory males are taking full advantage of people's misguided compassion in women's spaces not just in Virginia, not just in the United States, but the world over. Parents have a right to know what's being taught to their kids, kids with this particular brand of mental distress deserve far, far better, and Gov. Youngkin's proposed policies are an enormous step in that direction. Kids deserve to grow up, girls deserve privacy, dignity, and safety. Gender ideology is antithetical to these things. Thank you, Gov. Youngkin, and please: tell the public EXACTLY what you're opposing in all its gruesome detail. People need to fully understand how horrendous this ideology is.


PARENT OF CHILD WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS A BOY BUT DESISTED

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<p>I am a licensed California attorney, whose daughter thought she was a boy, because her public school told her that she could have been in the wrong body.  I ignored every doctor, therapist, psychologist who told me that she would commit suicide I did not transition her. The teacher's hid her male identity from me.  They had never met her but changed her name to a boy's name. I pulled her from the public school, shut down her social media and held her tighter. She is a happy female with all of her body parts and growing up to be a lovely young woman. I should have been able to trust school teachers not to foist lies on her.  I am a democrat of 30 years who will never vote for a democratic candidate so long as the woke mob controls our party. I never thought I would see the day that authentic meant chopping off body parts. </p>


Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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When you were a child or a teen, did you have things going on in your life that you would have been horrified to have someone else tell your parents without your consent?

Remember what it was like for YOU growing up and have a little compassion for what trans kids are going through. If they aren't "out" to their parents, then it's for a reason. And expecting educators to violate trust with their students for a "parent's rights" over students' safety is dangerous.

Would it have been your parent's right to know what you were doing as a teen? What you were experimenting with as you formed your identity? How would someone tattling on your finding your way have impacted your safety and security?

Instead of taking cheap shots at an already marginalized community, why not seek to build community and "live and let live." Use your political power to help those your serve rather than seek to demonstrably harm children and families.


Parents

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<p>I strongly support Gov. Youngkin’s proposal.  This is common sense.  It protects the family by enhancing parental rights and protects children from bullying by organized anti-family organizations.  It especially protects our girls from harassment and sexual abuse in school bathrooms and locker rooms, examples of which we have seen already in Northern Virginia and elsewhere. Children are loved and protected best by their parents, not by the state or organized teacher unions. </p>
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Protect our children


Virginia Dept. of Education policies

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I support the new policies being proposed by the Virginia Department of Education that are pro-parent.  Having been a child in school, and having been a parent of a child in school, I know from experience the role parents play in the proper education of their children.  They are the first educators and have the love and interest in the well being of their children that no one else has.


Listen to and protect children - oppose the policy

I am a high school senior who's lived in Virginia my whole life, and I strongly oppose the proposed policy. The fact that the model policy is ready to take away incredibly significant rights from children, subjecting them to abuse, humiliation, cut off financial support after turning 18, and more, is shocking and unprecedented in the year 2022. To accept the policy would go against years of research proving the spectrum of gender and the validity of exploring it in a safe place, as well as against the vast amount of public outrage.Know this: if this policy is accepted, we will know that the government does not represent the interests of its people, that the Virginia Department of Education does not care enough about its children to listen to them, and that no amount of expressed humanity from queer voices is enough to convince officials to give them the bare minimum of basic rights -- to exist in a safe place. That would be incredibly disappointing, and I will truly remember it for the rest of my life.

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I am a high school senior who's lived in Virginia my whole life, and I strongly oppose the proposed policy. The fact that the model policy is ready to take away incredibly significant rights from children, subjecting them to abuse, humiliation, cut off financial support after turning 18, and more, is shocking and unprecedented in the year 2022. To accept the policy would go against years of research proving the spectrum of gender and the validity of exploring it in a safe place, as well as against the vast amount of public outrage.

Know this: if this policy is accepted, we will know that the government does not represent the interests of its people, that the Virginia Department of Education does not care enough about its children to listen to them, and that no amount of expressed humanity from queer voices is enough to convince officials to give them the bare minimum of basic rights -- to exist in a safe place. That would be incredibly disappointing, and I will truly remember it for the rest of my life.


Bigoted

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<p>The law is bigoted and discriminates against queer children.  And yes, children can be queer just as they can be straight. </p>


Strongly opposed to announced policy change

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I write to express my strong disagreement with and opposition to the proposed guidance on transgender students announced by Gov. Youngkin.  I believe this policy to be illegal and dangerous.  It is illegal because it seeks to subvert the law applicable in the Fourth Circuit, as set forth in Grimm v. Gloucester County, 972 F.3d 586 (4th Cir. 2020), which the U.S. Supreme Court left intact when it went up on a petition for certiorari.  It is dangerous because it exposes children to physical and psychological harm, for no other reason than to promote the selfish political interests of an ambitious governor, who feels it is more important to appeal to forces of ignorance and intolerance than to do his job and protect citizens from harm.  Cruelty is not just a side effect of this proposed policy; it is the point of it.  I believe that the governor knows full well that this policy will never be allowed by the courts to be implemented.  It is fairly evident that it has been proposed by him to curry personal political favor with a fanatic and militant base of voters.  It is also evident that the futile efforts to vindicate this policy are going to cost the Commonwealth millions of dollars in legal fees and costs, for no good reason.


I support Gov. You gkin’s reforms

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Gov. Youngkin’s reforms are sensible and fair.  They respect the sensibilities of young people experiencing  sexual/gender confusion by offering single bathrooms.  They respect the privacy of self-conscious adolescents in locker rooms and does not require them to disrobe in front of students who are of the opposite sex.  It provides protection for female students against a repeat of the tragic assault several females have had to endure because of the poorly thought out policies in Loudoun.
parents in Loudoun had a right to have their concerns heard and respected. They were not adequately respected, and both students, parents, and the reputation of the school system. Suffered. At the same time, as is the policy in most private schools, bullying must be punished and  mitigated against without exception.  I have found this issue has been less and less taken on by teachers in recent years, and bullies know exactly what they can get away with. It takes teachers, staff, counselors, and every adult on hand to put a stop to bullying.


School board members will be held financially responsible for negligence if they vote against DOE.

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When you opt to keep your grooming secrets from parents and a sexual assault or suicide occurs, you will be sued. Get your checkbooks ready.


Protect our children

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Boys should not use the girls bathroom and girls should not use the boys bathroom. Boys should not play in girls Sports. Be a man and play in boys sports. You are what your born. If you're birth citificate says your a boy your a boy if it's says your a girl your a girl. An old wise tale. A Leppard can't change it spots


Thank You Governor Youngkin

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Thank you Governor Youngkin for pushing back against this woke madness. The woke mob is trying to trample on parental rights and force us into their insane world, and it needs to stop. What they are doing anounts to child abuse and to be perfectly honest, I believe these psychos need to be charged with these crimes. Parents know what's best for their children more than some pink haired Gender Studies teacher that is at odds with reality. Please keep up the good work!


Kids have rights outside their parents beliefs

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Gov's law will harm kids


Parental right and responsibility.

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<p>I strongly support the Governor in his effort to give parental control back to the parents. As he said the children do not belong to the state (or the school board). </p>


Thank you Governor! I support these policies!

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Thank you for putting in place some common sense policies. Parents should be involved in all aspects of a child's education and the school system should not be encouraging kids to lie and keep things from parents. Thank you!


Full support for proposed 2022 policy for treatment of Trans Students

Stephanie Chartrand, Prince William County

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I fully support the proposed 2022 guidelines for treatment of trans students in Virginia public schools.   It is reasoned, legal and fair.  It is critical that the State not come between parents and their children.  The State is NOT a co-parent and never should be.  Parental authority over their children is of utmost importance.   Schools need to stick to their main mission- education.  Keep ALL political movements and views OUT of the schools.


In support

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The woke left continues to harm our sons and daughters...  as a parent I support youngkin...


Thank you for 2022 model policies

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Thank you Govenor Youngkin for protecting every child and every parent!


protect trans kids

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<p>strongly oppose. As someone who visits Virginia often and puts a lot of money into the state tourism wise, if this is passed and put through you will never see a cent from me ever again. This is a disgusting breech of privacy and constitutional freedoms. </p>


Violates Disability Act

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If gender dysphoria is a legit medical condition, reasonable accommodations would need to be made. No different than making entrances wheelchair accessible.


Your parent cannot tell you what gender to be

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Telling a child they have no choice but to identify as, dress as, act like, look like, and so on is  just as crazy as the notion of telling a kid who wants to be an artist or musician that they’re going to be a doctor or lawyer instead and there’s nothing they can do about it. It’s absolutely disgusting and it hurts those children because they’re just going to be miserable.  This has been proven over and over with cases of conversion therapy leading to people killing themselves, men staying in the closet for years, even marrying a woman just to come out later in life. And I feel so sorry for these people because they never get to know how good it feels to be yourself and express yourself. F Youngkin, I’ll keep telling kids they have right to make their own path in life, not to listen to that idiot.


Yes I agree. Protect furry rights and trans rights.

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Protect all kids in school whether furries or trans or both.


Strongly support 2022 model policies

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<p>I strongly support Govenor Youngkins 2022 model policies </p>


Oppose this 100%!!! Protect furry rights! Furry rights are human rights!

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Furries deserve respect too! We should be able to dress up for school without our parents giving permission to the school. And we want to be called by our furry names.


Backwards policy

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I do not support this policy. This is taking Virginia backwards from the progress that has been made to support young transgender people.


I support Governor You blind parental rights policy

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We all need to get along in society. Love Wins Always!


Trans rights

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Trans people are human.

Treat them as such.

 Cis people don't keep calling a guy named Bill, Frank after being corrected. Why is it ok to call trans people the wrong name?


Trans people deserve rights

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If i'm refused to be allowed bottom surgery then how will I have sex with your wife, secretary and mistress? D:


I strongly appose this policy.

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This is just a republican, christian right attack on our trans youth without any regard for these kids well being.


Oppose!!

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I oppose this cruel attack on trans kids!!


If you think boys should be allowed in little girls bathrooms then your pronoun is moron.


Thanks to Gov Youngkin for upholding God-given rights of children!

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Students should use the bathroom that corresponds to their sex.  Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available for all students.

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


Truth in Science

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There is male and female God created both he knows best end of story


2nd comment - The new policy is fair.

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I have read many of the comments and do not understand how the people who oppose it mischaracterize it as hateful or bigoted.   Students suffering from gender dysphoria should never be bullied or harassed.  (See below f from the policy.)  But at the same time parents must be engaged fully in the raising of their children as the primary educators.  The State is secondary at best.  These are minor children and the parents will have to deal with any long term treatments or effects - not the teachers who pass the kids on year to year.

I fully support this new policy. Thank you Governor Youngkin.

"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."


Strongly support Governor Youngkin for gender identity in the schools.

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<p>Strongly support Governor Youngkin on gender identity. </p>


Governor please protect GIRLS rights which are human rights!

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Girls are being erased from society. Bring back our rights. We have the rights to private bathrooms and changing facilities and sports teams.


This will only harm children.

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Transgender children are already harassed by many of their peers and many of the adults in their life. And now they're going to be criminalized for trying to be happy? As someone who isn't transgender, I find this even being suggested to be disgusting and only trying to attack children.


Support parental rights and put an end to sexual assaults

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Seems like a no brainer to stop the sexual assaults


Trans Rights are Human Rights! LEARN THAT

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Trans Rights are Human Rights, and Glen should have NO say on whats best for trans kids when he has not talked to acutal trans people or the experts that seek to understand them!


Discrimination Against LGBTQ+ Students

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Governor Youngkin's proposed policy changes for transgender students are the perfect example of discrimination against Virginia's LGBTQ+ students. Study after study has shown that depression and suicide rates are higher among LGBTQ+ young people. These proposed changes will further alienate young people who are already struggling against overwhelming hate. Not all kids have supportive parents who love them unconditionally. Not all parents accept their children unconditionally. Children who only feel loved and accepted at school where they are celebrated for their individuality will suddenly find themselves not accepted at home or school. Why can't we treat everyone with love and respect? Why can't we encourage children to be themselves?


Judge finds transgender teen guilty of Loudoun County bathroom sexual assaults

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The George Soros agenda has true sexual consequences for our children. wake up!


This policy is not appropriate or desirable

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The proposed policy which places parental decision-making as a determining factor in their child's sexuality is inappropriate and wrong.  No person, regardless of their relationship to another,  should have a say in someone's sexuality or gender.  Personal autonomy in private decisions such as self and identity are not an aspect of education, nor should it be construed as such. Additionally,  by forcing a parent into such a personal decision on the part of a student potentially exposes the student to harm, ridicule, or domestic violence.   Just because the governor says that shouldn't happen does not mean there are not parents and families that could react negatively and expose a student to emotional, psychological, or physical damage.

Separately, this policy in no way advances a students educational progress or opportunity.  School policies should support or address educational needs.  This policy only serves to marginalize an already vulnerable community.

Lastly, the governor is attempting to establish policies that will result in a negative effect on business and dissuade future residents form calling Virginia home. Virginia is for Lovers is our state motto.  Let's not make it Virginia is for Those Who Wish to Control Others.


Kids should not be forced to be someone theyre not


NOT ALL OF US WANT TO BE FORCED TO LIVE AS “CHRISTIAN” NATIONALISTS!!

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From WAPO:

Contrary to statements that suggest otherwise, the 2022 model policies do impose a specific ideology. Christian nationalism is not relegated to churches, extremist groups or religious-political leaders; it exerts control and fosters political violence through public policies and institutions that seek to exterminate non-White, non-Christian, and non-heteropatriarchal thought from the nation.


OPPOSE. This model policy promotes disrespect, harassment and bullying contrary to its stated intent

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Much of the model policy document hinges upon this:

"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."

In my layperson's reading, I don't see anything in the 14th Amendment that says anything about a parental right to care, upbringing, or education of their children. The document cites several court precedents that made this determination, and on this basis it concludes that [the parental right to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children] "is well established and beyond debate. Empowering parents is essential to improving outcomes for children." But of course Dobbs (1) showed that precedents can be ignored and (2)  ruled that a mother does not have the right to direct the care or upbringing of even her fetus, so this conclusion is dubious and most certainly not beyond debate.

The other debatable aspect of the model policy document is its assertion that school personnel or other students cannot be compelled to use someone's preferred pronoun or name, as that would be a violation of their 1st Amendment rights. Interestingly, the same model policy document says that "every effort should be made to ensure that a transgender student wishing to change his or her means of address is treated with respect, compassion, and dignity in the classroom and school environment", that "all children in Virginia have a right to learn, free from unlawful discrimination and harassment" and that "bullying of any student by another student, for any reason, cannot be tolerated in our schools". Is not calling someone by a name and gender with which they do not identify disrespectful, bullying, and harassment?


I support this policy!!

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There is no room in our schools for a select few disturbed children and parents to cause harm to children in school. Keep this crap out of school!


Transgender Issues in VA Schools

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Unless asked, no one but a parent should be involved with a child dealing with such life changing issues.  As for the bathroom issue, single stall bathrooms should be made available for all students negating  the need for shared space with people of the opposite sex.


More transphobia from extremist right wing pedophiles in government

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Conservatives only have one agenda and that is to deflect attention to others when we know that most conservative men in America are pedophiles and have been systematically grooming young girls to marry 40 year old men.


I am against this hateful and evil attempt at suppressing a marginalized community

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I am a citizen in Elkton, VA and am appalled that our governor has chosen to target children to rally his base. Schools should be welcoming for all who walk through their halls, not just those who look like you and share your values. People seeking to exclude their children from others are welcome to 1) homeschool as they see fit or 2) send their child(ren) to private school. Public education, free from bigotry, oppression, exclusion or othering is the right of every child in our United States. A Governor who seeks to RESTRICT FREEDOM cannot be trusted. Public schools should be for everyone.


Quit condoning transphobia and campaigning for bigots and election deniers!!

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The Republican Party has lost its way- denying elections (unless they win, of course) and doing whatever they can to erode democracy. They lie, cheat, and steal for that is the only way to achieve their unpopular agenda.

Governor Trumpkin is just another anti democratic politician. Ran on lies and campaigns for racists and bigots.

Pray you don’t end up with blood on your hands for you are certainly not a good Christian.


Gov. Youngkin's 2022 proposal regarding transgender education by schools

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Keep this area under the guidance and direction of parents.


Permission to Bully Students

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These guidelines are nothing but bullying in disguise. Calling a child by a name that is not theirs is the same thing as a hateful nickname. This is bullying, plain and simple.

Forcing the child to use a different bathroom is even worse. This is an invasion of privacy. If you are so worried about someone seeing/being seen, the solution is simple.  Provide multiple stalls in bathrooms for both groups, make the doors taller so that no one can see over or under them, and make sure that the doors don't have gaps. I've seen doors exactly like this in public restrooms; there's no reason that they can't be installed in schools.  How to pay for them? Use the money you save on lawyer fees defending these ridiculous proposals.


Protect children from Loudoun County Karens

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No more Karens.  Support this policy!


I support this policy

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This is a very well thought out policy that takes ALL children into consideration (not just a very small number of them). Thank you, Governor Youngkin, for following through with your campaign promise.


I support Governor Youngkins 2022 Policy changes

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I support the proposed policy changes in their entirety.


Keep parents involved in their Children’s education

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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 their 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.


This policy will only cause harm to children

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Many try to say that this policy will protect cis children but in reality the only thing it protects is the feelings of a handful of transphobic adults.

What this policy will do though is cause real harm to children.
Forcing children to adhere to parents wishes at all times and forcing teaches to out lgbt+ children to parents will allow bad parents to abuse their children which will have a severe detrimental effect on their mental health.


OPPOSE! OPPOSE!! OPPOSE!!!!!

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What basis do you have to overrule all of the major psychological associations that have designed standards of care for trans minors over the last several decades?


Congratulations for having courage

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Strongly support reinstating both this common sense and science based policy.


I approve of Governor Youngkin’s policies on transgender students

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Thank you for giving the minds and bodies of our students back to the care and keeping of their parents, as God intended.


Let kids express themselves freely!

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Kids all go through phases- some phases stick and others do not! By simply choosing a different pronoun- does not mean you have changed  your identity!  Kids experiment- free of parental eyes and constant judgment.

there are a lot of households that don’t let kids experiment- households where girls can’t can’t wear makeup or certain clothes- will then you need parental concent for everything? Who cares what they want their pronoun to be- let the kids be!


Worst governor ever! Promotes hate and transphobia!

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These policies send a message of hate and rejection towards transgendered youth! Virginia will live in shame until you leave office, and things go back to normal then. Worst governor who deceived the naive and ran on lies! Please tell me how that is being a good “Christian”?

I was taught that we were all made in the image and likeness of God. Apparently not according to some “Christians.”


This proposal is unethical.

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Trans students deserve to be safe and respected in school. Misgendering them, banning them from the correct bathrooms, and disrespecting their identities is unethical and cruel. Trans people are not a threat, and discriminating against them is discrimination on the basis of sex.

Ostracizing a child and deliberately invalidating who they are as a person is cruel. To force a kid into the wrong bathroom is cruel. This entire proposal is cruel, and is founded on nothing but bigotry.


Youngkin's policies aren't right for Virginia

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<p>I don't understand why the governor wants to take the state backwards in civil rights.  We've been through enough to have rich white trash sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong.  I'm ashamed of my home state today.  </p>


Governor, you are NO leader

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You make assumptions that parents are being robbed of an opportunity. It is a choice to become a parent and to parent daily. You falsely promote your own agenda. I will continue to support students, parents, families, and educators to do what is best for their own situations. SHAME ON YOU!


VIRGINIA IS DEFINITELY NOT FOR LOVERS WITH THESE POLICIES!

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Republicans continue to strip away basic freedoms, and this is just another example. Think beyond white, “Christian” men, and find some compassion for all. These are bullying and hateful policies that are a disgrace to a large amount of Virginians. Cannot wait until you are out of office, and there is a return to basic human decency!

Not all of us are “Christian” nationalists and transphobic!


TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

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<p>idk who this youngin thinks he is </p>


We should be promoting democracy and not hate!

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These policies send a message of hate and rejection towards transgendered youth! Virginia will live in shame until you leave office, and things go back to normal then. Worst governor ever who deceived the naive and ran on lies! Please tell me how that is being a good “Christian”?

Promote democracy and humanity and not hate!


This proposal is cruel and harmful

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<p>How these children identify is literally nobody's business but their own. Leave them alone you psychopaths. </p>


Transgender youth policy

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Children have inherent natures, adults can't chose these characteristics for them, no matter how well intended the adult may be. Children who are transgender have a hard enough time without being singled out. What is needed is an empathic flexible policy. One that makes room for all children. Please reconsider this proposed policy and replace it with one that allows for the mental and physical well being of these children.


You’re going to lose my tourism dollars

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If Virginia passes this cruel policy, I will never set foot in your state again. Say goodbye to my tourism dollars. I will also never organise and event there.


This proposal is cruelty.

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The people behind this intend to cause harm, stoke hate, and soak up as much power as they can. It’s mean-spirited, insensitive, and callous.

Leave trans people alone. Please stop being so cruel and horrible.


Protect women's sports

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I support Governor Youngkin. Protect women's sports and protect women's privacy rights.


A gross violation of human rights

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<p>This is a disgusting attack on trans kids and even basic freedom of expression. How the alleged party of freedom could ever endorse this is an affront to any notions of small government or anti government overreach. </p>


If liberal women weren’t so intolerable, there would be a dad helping to raise these kids.

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Nuclear families with a MASCULINE father present would eliminate all of these trans issues. Yes I am well aware that doesn’t fit the progressive agenda.


THINK BEYOND THE BATHROOM!! THIS IS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS!!!

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These policies take away the freedoms of transgendered children, while stoking the flames of transphobia. We are not all Christian nationalists. Quit forcing your shortsighted,  bigoted policies on all of us. You are a disgrace- the worst governor ever. The only freedoms you care about are those of straight, white, “Christian” men!


I oppose Gov Youngkin's proposed Transgender school policies

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I am opposed to Gov. Youngkin’s proposed new transgender policies for public schools.

First, the Governor’s policies are in conflict with a law passed by the state legislature in 2020 – only 2 years ago.  This will lead to legal battles that will be costly to all taxpayers because the policies do not follow the existing law.  They will waste time and effort by all who work in the school system who will be in fear of doing something wrong when no one knows the current status of the transgender policies.

Second, our public-school teachers, administrators, and school boards have been mistreated, disrespected, and undermined for years – especially during the COVID pandemic.  In addition to what should be their only responsibility, namely teaching, they have been told to do so much more.  They have been charged with acting as police and disciplinarians, personal counselors, health-care workers, custodians, computer technicians, and given other work that reduces the time and effort they can put into teaching our children.  This is much of the reason we have a teacher shortage in our schools – they have been asked to do so much more than teach.

The Governor is placing even more burdens on teachers that are not relevant to their job of educating children.  We want our teachers to develop children into critical thinkers who can understand the subject matter being taught and distinguish between facts, opinions, propaganda, and other types of information.  How can teachers do this if they need to worry about addressing a student by their birth-certificate name, reporting a student’s gender identity to the parents, police the bullying from some students, and generally deal with an atmosphere of fear these proposals will create in the classroom.  We cannot keep adding more responsibilities onto our teachers and public school system.

Third, we want our children to learn how to be tolerant of others who are different from them or who do not always agree with them.  We want to show them how to respectfully disagree and explain their own behaviors, choices, and beliefs. Yet these proposals foster disrespect and a lack of tolerance for others’ differences.  Teachers and other adults working in the school will not be allowed to model tolerant behavior for the students to learn.  The anti-bullying proposals will not help.  Students will watch their teachers and administrators disrespecting certain students by using Gov. Youngkin’s required actions and words.  Then some will follow in a manner that sets apart other students as outcasts and unaccepted in school for the person they are.

Overall, these proposed rules create an atmosphere of FEAR in our public schools:

Teachers and school workers will fear violating a rule and be distracted from teaching

Transgender students will fear being more marginalized than they already are

For no rational reason, other students and parents fear because there may be transgender students in their school; and these proposals incite them to have more fear

Fear of "the other" has been used throughout history to create irrational discrimination and violence against those who may be different in some way.

I urge you to withdraw these guidelines and allow the 2020 legislature approved law to be enforced.  This will allow our teachers and other school officials to get back to the work of educating our children in schools without additional fear.