Youngkin s Policy on transgenders and bathrooms.

I fully support Governor Youngkin s proposed transgenders policies that keep boys and girls from sharing the same bathroom. All the way around it is s bad idea if one steps from the fantasy world of ideology and into the world of reality.in reality females need to feel safe and have privacy from the opposite sex.  It’s not the time to set Womens rights back years. I also believe That's it’s wrong to use children to promote  a political ideology and subject them to unneeded stress. Already we see  a rise in mental problems  because government is overstepping it’s rights and forgetting that it’s place is not to busy itself with genderism.  Nor is school a place to make the majority feel uncomfortable and afraid . They are Children.
thank you, Teresa Langille

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I fully support Governor Youngkin s proposed transgenders policies that keep boys and girls from sharing the same bathroom. All the way around it is s bad idea if one steps from the fantasy world of ideology and into the world of reality.
in reality females need to feel safe and have privacy from the opposite sex.  It’s not the time to set Womens rights back years. I also believe That's it’s wrong to use children to promote  a political ideology and subject them to unneeded stress. Already we see  a rise in mental problems  because government is overstepping it’s rights and forgetting that it’s place is not to busy itself with genderism.  Nor is school a place to make the majority feel uncomfortable and afraid . They are Children.

thank you, Teresa Langille


DISAGREE

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I strongly oppose. This is not protecting children and trying to excuse this with the label of parental rights is outrageous! Children will be put in many dangerous situations such as being outed by their teachers to their parents. With that being said, so many kids will have a potential risk of abuse, and becoming homeless. This is doing all harm and no good, these kids will not be protected whatsoever, and will be facing so many harmful situations.


Strongly Oppose Youngkin’s Transgender Policy Proposal

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I strongly oppose this policy proposal, which would create a hostile and potentially traumatic school environment for many children in our state.


I support Governor Younkin's position.

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<p> I support Governor Younkin's position on trans gender issues.  </p>


FULLY SUPPORT!!!

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<p> FULLY SUPPORT!!!  </p>


VERY STRONGLY APOSE

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please dont do this to us i very strongly apose and seeing this happen would absolutely mentally destroy me and many others. Stop being so selfish and only thinking about the parents. Its US KIDS who you should think about many queer teens are already in terrible Situations and doing this would make it worse. we are not just kids, we are people too! we have feelings we need to be heard this is not okay and we cant let this happen! america is supposed to be this amazing free country where everyone is free to live how they want and things like this are having an opposite effect. I AM STILL A KID! i shouldnt have to be worrying about my rights and ability to be myself to be taken away! i should be able to be a kid! i should just be worrying about when i can go to the mall with my friends or if i might be able to find a girlfriend NOT worrying about if i can feel safe being myself and that i have to hide who i am! school is supposed to be a safe space! yet once a month we have to have lockdown drills and worry every day about having someone come into our school and try to hurt us we should be able to go and learn and get an education we yet have to deal with bullying assault harassment hate crimes and wanting to die. this is not rhe free happy paradise we are being told it is and we have to pretend it is. we dont need more things to happen to us. I WANT TO BE MYSELF!! WE WANT TO BE OURSELF!! and thus isnt even fair because all the straight cis kids have no problem and some even think this is okay causing us more problems we will fight back if you do this. we wont let it happen. i will fight for my rights till the day i die. and i will stand by those words forever.


STRINGLY OPPOSE

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I strongly OPPOSE the policies proposed by this Governor.  The harm to our students by implementing these policies will be irreparable. Schools are supposed to be a safe place, a place where students can grow and express themselves.

On the one hand, this administration doesn't want to teach the factual history about slavery, because it might make one group feel bad about itself, but then wants to institute policies aimed at exposing, ridiculing vulnerable students' PRIVATE MATTERS.

Let's do what public schools were meant to do-- nurture and teach our children.


I fully support the new policy

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


Protect all students

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I fully appreciate the concerns of transgender student, but all students need protection against those who would abuse open restroom policy.


Fully support the proposed policy

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<p> A civilized societycannot survive without guiding principles that remain timeless. Parents have the right to remain fully aware</p>


I completely support.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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These proposed model policies are contrary to state law and will be extremely harmful to transgender and nonbinary kids.


Save the suicide of kids and support this policy


I support Governor's change

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Fully support the Governor on this one. This is more than treating all with dignity but a social re-engineering. I do not have children is school but would not want my child to be exposed to the opposite sex without some parental input.


Strongly Support This New Approach

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<p> No matter one’s belief system</p>


Your policy endangers people’s lives.

Steve S - parent of two who opposes your anti-trans policy

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Your policy caters to conservatives - why not work to support your constituents who are under resourced and under represented? Your policy will endanger lives, young lives at the cusp of adulthood. Those who live through this will remember the hatred you’re building. Try being an ally. It’s pretty easy to live and let live.


Former teacher - OPPOSE

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<p>Fully oppose. Kids need support, and this doesn’t support them at all. </p>


I support this very strongly!!!I

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<p> I believe this is what we need. Makes good common sense. Parents need to be aware of what is being taught to our children.  </p>


strongly opposed

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it discriminates kids in a place where theyre supposed to feel safe


I Fully Support the Proposal

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<p> As a parent of two school-age children who attend public school</p>


I support Gov. Youngkin's new policy

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I support every parent's right to be involved in what is going on in their children's lives. It is NOT up to school boards to keep information from the parents or to keep them out of decisions regarding their children's life and health. These decisions are potentially life altering. All too late the children will realize the impact these decisions can have on the remainder of their lives.

Students need to feel safe in school. I do not think most female students feel safe/comfortable with a biological male (no matter how he identifies) in the female locker room or restroom. And vice versa.

This will also support teachers that feel they have their hands tied in being told to withhold information from parents. This will also help teachers get back to teaching not engage in social engineering. The schools are failing to teach the students. Teachers need to focus on teaching period.


Completely support this.

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<p> Those who don't support it just don't understand it.  </p>


I strongly support the governor on this


Prove me right

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As a recent Virginia resident coming from the much more tolerant Northeast, I have absolutely no faith in the bigots of this state. So yeah, go ahead and attack innocent trans kids who deserve all the love and respect as any other person. Prove everyone right when they call this state and the South in general a bunch of bigoted, backwards, hate filled fools. Keep this up and you'll send all the industries and intelligence to greener pastures where people know that America is really about inclusion, liberty and justice for all.


Strongly Support - common sense

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These policies are common sense.  I strongly support them


Listen Up Parents

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Why can't parents recognize the fact that their children are people? We will tell you our secrets when and if we feel comfortable around you. Do not force yourself into our lives like this.

Please.

Having a gender is not a problem that should be surpressed.


Opposed

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<p>This a narrow mind, hateful and harmful policy.  This has nothing to do with protecting children.  If I was a teacher I would walk out if this passes. </p>


I strongly support

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<p> The family unit is the fundamental organizing principle of our society. No government has the right to break up the family unit except under the most extraordinary circumstances. Schools that set themselves up as “substitute parents” are grossly out of bounds. Schools have no right to transition students’ gender without parental consent. They cannot give students Tylenol without parental consent! This policy also protects young women and girls from biological boys with serious mental health problems and preserves women’s right to fair and equitable completion in sports. Thank you to the Youngkin administration for protecting girls and families from the craziness of the trans movement!  </p>


Policy Needs Better Language to Support Trans Kids

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Our nation's youth are in a mental health crisis. This policy has the potential to further marginalize the young people who most need the resources available via our school systems - where they spend most of their waking days. The role of government is to protect citizens' constitutional rights. By requiring children to use bathrooms, locker rooms, and participate in sports teams according to their sex assigned at birth, Gov. Youngkin is disregarding the state's role in looking out for some of our most vulnerable children. Appendix 1 (sample policy), Section III, Paragraph D, sub-section 4 reads: "personnel shall refer to a student by a name other than one in the student’s official record, or by pronouns other than those appropriate to the sex appearing in the student’s official record, only if an eligible student or a student’s parent has instructed [School Division] in writing that such other name or other pronouns be used because of the student’s persistent and sincere belief that the student’s gender differs from his or her sex." However, section G then goes on to state that students must "participate in sex-specific school activities...and use of school facilities." Do more! Carry this parental right through the entirety of the model policies. Allow the parents of transgender students to tell the school system that they want their kids to participate in the sports teams and use the locker rooms of their chosen genders. I fail to see how that could cause harm or duress to any other student - any conjecture to that effect is fear-mongering. Our youth are FAR more open to embracing each other for who we are than their parents (and Gov. Youngkin) are.


Trans children

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strongly object to Youngkin’s order


Strongly support

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I strongly support single-sex facilities which provide greater protection for girls and women. Girls and women should not be anxious when using bathroom facilities or locker rooms. The failure to protect girls and women when sex crimes are outrageously high is a human rights issue.

I strongly support single sex sports.  Girls and women have the right to compete in a fair competition with other girls and women.  No amount of deluded thinking can erase the physical and social advantages of boys and men when it comes to physical sports.


Fully support!!!

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<p> Our family fully supports this! Thank you Youngkin!  </p>


Strongly oppose - makes kids less safe and takes away parents’ views

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This policy claims to be for increased child safety and parental choice but the policies achieve the opposite result. If a child is in a home where the parents are supportive and where the child will not face reprisal for their gender identity, then the parents likely already know their child is transgender. Therefore, the only effect this policy has is to inform parents where the child did NOT feel safe that their child is transgender. Thus, this policy can only result in increased violence and abuse to children. If the home is safe, the parents likely already know, if the home is not safe, the parents likely do not know. So the only effect is to create a further unsafe home for the child. Therefore it decreases child safety.

In addition, this policy requires teachers to refer to the child by the name and gender on their official school records. This policy decreases parent input in how their child is treated at school. A parent may want to request that the school refer to the child by a different name (new name, middle name, nickname, etc) or by a different pronoun and this policy prohibits parents from having any say in what their children are called at school. There is no purpose to this policy other than to discriminate and harass students, including students that are not transgender.

Overall this policy makes students unsafe and erodes parental input into their child’s school experience. The policy is a not-so-thinly veiled policy to discriminate transgender children. I strong oppose this policy and it makes me afraid for my child and other children. You should be ashamed of yourselves.


NO!

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Save trans youth. Stop praying on people who cannot vote to defend themselves.


Fully support

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<p> I fully support parents' rights to know everything going on with their child/children and for the parents to be the sole parties that choose how their children are raised.  </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE - understand what you are supporting if you support this.

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<p>Educate yourself on trans people and children. </p>


State Education doctrine and reform

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I strongly support what Gov Youngkin is trying to do. All parents and not the schools have the right to raise their children in a safe and healthy manner without the government interfering.  The parents should always be contacted if their child is having an issue at school whether it be gender or any other issues. Parents need to be able to intervene. When did the school system start raising our children? What gives them the right to parent? This is America not Communist China!!! The laws currently on the books regarding child abuse an neglect should be maintained.
The public schools should only teach our children on how to improve their knowledge so that they can be able to successfully live in our world, mainly get ahead and get hired for jobs.

Gender issues should only be discussed between parents and their children!!


support

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<p> Why do you fear parents being informed about their children?  </p>


Opposed

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I support transgender student rights to identify/name/use pronouns as they request. This includes using restrooms matching their identified gender. I do not support the forced “outing” of transgender students due to the high risks to mental health and physical safety.


Grandma supports


Strongly oppose- a bathroom ban? really?

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<p>Why are we going back to policies that harm people? Leave the kids alone. Some of them don't have safety at home or with their parents. Why would you require parental permission for the school staff to use another name? or different pronouns? or get a court order to do so? Can't the student just ask to be treated the way they want to be treated. I think that's called the golden rule and it's basic kindness. We all see that you're inserting "parental rights" to manipulate the narrative like you did with education in your election. Your wedge issues are really just hot button attention grabbing social issues that have no business being legislated. You can't legislate morality or personal decisions one makes about their identity. DON'T TREAD ON ME. </p>


Strongly support


Opposed to this political sham

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I am strongly opposed to these policy changes.

I am a parent who is very involved in the lives of my children including their education. This change is not about parental involvement. Parental involvement is about supporting your children - in being individuals who deserve love and respect even if their views do not align with your own. It is respecting their right to feel safe in their own home, their school, and in their own body. It is not about controlling them or forcing them to conform. That is an unhealthy and often abusive situation. While we’d like to believe that all “involved” parents do so out of love and support, there are plenty of parents who stay involved to police their children in an effort to control them. School is often the only safe place for children who face abuse at home. The teachers and counselors should be trustworthy and supportive safe adults, not encouraged to betray the confidence and safety of students. What you are suggesting is dangerous and toxic, sending the message loud and clear to students that you don’t care about them. You only care about politics.


Opposed

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<p style="text-align: left;">Children need support regardless of their personal issues.   It does not matter what the issue is, or when the issue becomes apparent to the child or his parents.  </p>


Oppose

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I strongly oppose your guidance. As a mother of an elementary school child in Virginia public schools I ask that you rescind this guidance. It is hateful and cruel and will not benefit the well being of the children in this state. Thank you!


We awe family and we support


OPPOSE

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<p>Nonbinary and trans kids KNOW who they are. The proposed policies are insulting, patronizing, and dangerous. Nobody with general common sense and empathy supports them. This has been proven through the student walkouts that happened today, Tuesday September 27th, all over the state. PROTECT TRANS AND NONBINARY KIDS <3 <3 <3 </p>


Strongly oppose.

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<p>In a world where we’re empowering students to feel independent in their lives (whether in workforce, community, etc.), how dare we strip them of their right to an identity. This decision is marginalizing and potentially harming an entire population. </p>


Fully Support!

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<p> Fully Support!  </p>


Oppose !!

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<p>This policy is disgusting and it endangers so many kids </p>


Great idea! Support the whole family

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


If you care about student's safety, oppose this

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This policy will make students feel unsafe and alone, which during the current mental health crisis is absolutely unacceptable. Transgender students often feel scared due to harassment over their identities, and this will just make it worse. If you want to prevent child suicide, this policy cannot pass. Making it so the most vulnerable children in society will be constantly harassed and discriminated against is something no good person should support.


Fully Support, thank you Governor.

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<p>It’s about time someone stands up to the left’s agenda!  Kids who think they are trans are having a mental health issue rooted in their home life or have been manipulated with the recent onslaught of garbage health and human services websites and forums perpetuated by people looking to make a name for themselves at the cost of these children. This proposal reinstates a small dose of common sense back into our schools.  </p>


Very Strongly Support!!

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<p> Stop the grooming and brainwashing of our children!  </p>


Strongly OPPOSE the draft policy

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<p>As a social worker who works in violence prevention and a spouse of a public school teacher, I strongly oppose the draft policy put forth by Governor Youngkin and urge the VDOE to reject them. These policies will create a hostile and potentially dangerous school environment for trans and non-binary students. School should be a place where all students feel safe and can thrive. Transphobia supports violent environments and violence towards trans and non-binary students. These policies could have detrimental effects on students’ mental health. A 2022 peer reviewed study by The Trevor Project’s researchers found that trans and non-binary youth who reported gender identity acceptance from teachers and peers had significantly lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year. I strongly urge, if Virginia supports their students and wants them to thrive, please reject this draft policy. </p>


Strongly Opposed

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This policy will allow schools to perpetuate discrimination against nonbinary and transgender students. As a junior in high school, I find it extremely disconcerting that we are adding restrictions rather than working to increase equality and inclusion of all students, particularly Queer students. About "45% of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including more than 53% of transgender and nonbinary youth" (2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health). This statistic is our reality. The Model Policies will only make circumstances for transgender and nonbinary students worse. If Youngkin really believes, as he has stated, that “there is no greater priority than the health and welfare of Virginia's children,” then we must reconsider this DOE draft.


Support this policy for open communication

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<p> I fully support this policy! Parents should always be informed when it involves their child and school. Parents should not be shut out when it comes to their children's health and well being  </p>


Girls deserve safety, privacy, and dignity

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<p>Everyone knows that growing up can be awkward and embarrassing. School is where kids deal with social pressures, status quo, and worst of all, trying to concentrate, learn, and feel comfortable while going through puberty. As a female, and as for many other females, my first periods were embarrassing and definitely private. My worst fear would have been opening a pad or trying to relax and insert a tampon knowing there were males in the bathroom with me. And the changes our bodies go through during puberty? Also notoriously awkward and embarrassing, I can't imagine being forced to change for gym in front of males. Girls deserve to feel safe, it is a fact that the biggest threat to females is males. We have girls all over the country with constant urinary tract infections because they don't feel comfortable using bathrooms with males. How are they supposed to pay attention and learn in class if they're focused on trying not to pee? Young males can be brutal, especially to young females. To put our young girls in the position of having to complete the most awkward and private actions (going to the bathroom, taking care of their periods, changing clothes) in front of males is cruel. I beg you to remember how you felt when you were that age, would you have welcomed the opposite sex into your most private spaces? Young girls have enough to worry about with extremely high rates of eating disorders, self harm, abus, and suicide. They deserve to use the bathroom and change clothes in the company of the female sex only. </p>


Strongly Support

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Strongly Support. Cannot believe it’s come to this.


Strongly Support

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<p> I strongly support the involvement of parents with their children’s choices  </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE. These policies will directly lead to kids’ death by suicide.

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As a queer Virginian, I strongly oppose the proposed changes to the policy on transgender students. Forcibly outing students to their (potentially unsupportive) parents will lead to abuse, as I have witnessed first hand from the unsupportive parents of transgender friends. Many of my trans friends have contemplated or attempted suicide, in part due to lack of support from their family. Suicide rates for trans kids are already astronomical; policies designed to discriminate against trans kids in Virginia will only increase our child suicide rate.

Additionally, school should be a place where students can learn, and forcing a student to wear clothes and use a name/pronouns that do not suit their gender identity is distracting and traumatising.

Lastly, if the well-being and safety of trans students is not enough for you to halt the implementation of these policies, they are also contrary to state law per the ACLU of Virginia.


Strongly Support - Society Needs Parents

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I strongly support giving parents back the right to be parents. Our society will suffer if we continue to undermine parent's ability to raise their children. If a kid cannot legally have sex, vote, drive a car or smoke a cigarette, how are they considered mature enough to make decisions that impact mental and physical health without parental consent either? This double standard ONLY applies to "trans" kids. Stop the erosion of parental rights.


THANK YOU YOUNGKIN!!!

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<p>I fully support the new model. I'm tired of my kids feeling pressured into situations they are not comfortable with. Like the walkout today!!! When a teacher informs their class of the walk out and then says they'd like to show their support it kinda sets up kids to feel pressured to go even if they don't want to. Or the masks. Kids vaxed boosted had still caught Covid yet still felt pressure to wear masks because other kids/teachers wore them. One teacher when masks were mandatory asked a student if he wanted to be responsible for someone's death because he had it below his nose (doubt any of the kids in that class went maskless till the teacher did).  </p>


Support

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I fully support this policy that is common sense and keeps the parents involved with decisions regarding their children in the schools.

Thank you.


Youngkin is a disgrace!  Strongly oppose!

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<p>Protect our kids!  Strongly oppose this proposal. </p>


Stop pandering to less than 1 percent fully support this

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<p> Reviewed the whole document. Fully support this. When did commonsense became a crime.  </p>


I support TRANS students across VA

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<p>I support trans students </p>


I support this very strongly!!!I

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<p> I believe this is what we need. Makes good common sense. Parents need to be aware of what is being taught to our children.  </p>


Support our children and basic human rights! Trans rights, always.

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SUPPORT ALL CHILDREN. Act and lead with love towards humans of all forms. Trans rights are basic human rights.


Abhorrent policy. Fully oppose

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<p>For a “pro-life” administration, you seem utterly complicit in supporting the deaths of trans kids by suicide as a result of not being allowed to be their authentic selves, evidenced by many studies. Yet another repugnant move by a billionaire governor who cares only about a small fraction of Virginians. I will be embarrassed to be a Virginian if these partisan moves, made in the name of a fractured sense of justice, continue to be made </p>


I support Governor Younkin's position.

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<p> I support Governor Younkin's position on trans gender issues.  </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSED Trans rights are HUMAN rights

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I am strongly opposed to Youngkin's proposed (illegal) transgender rules in schools


STRONGLY OPPOSE: Trans rights are human rights.

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I strongly oppose the proposed regulation, and strongly support the existing regulation. Trans rights must be supported by every school system, in an even handed, fair and compassionate manner, as detailed in the 2021 regulations. The proposed 2022 regulations do not support the human, emotional and intellectual needs of all students. Maintain the existing regulations, and do not pretend that we can return to the "ideal" social mores of the 1950's. As a society, we must move forward with human and civil rights, not backwards.


Fully Support Parents rights


I went to school in Virginia and this is a cruel attempt to go back 70+ years

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I went to middle school and high school in Virginia in the 80's and 90's and even then there was an attempt to treat students with dignity and respect for their privacy.  The proposed policies are an attempt to enforce some twisted version of religious beliefs on students who depend on school as a place to learn and be safe and respected.  It pretends to be about parent rights, but really it is imposing the Governors beliefs on all students and schools.  Further the whole point of schools is to help children grow up to be strong, kind, confident, adults, and sometimes to protect them from those parents to give them space to do that growing.  This proposal says 'no' we must abuse them, no matter the cost, to fit some deranged view of how things should be, not how humans are.

Plus much of it would be impossible to enforce, are schools going to check students genitals to try to guess their 'sex'?  And much of it will just be over-ruled, even by conservative courts as nonsensical, descriminitory and cruel.


Support the new model granting parents rights to make decisions for their children

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<p> I support respect Parents rights to make decisions with respect to their children and not the Commonwealth of Virginia. If a parent chooses to relinquish this right</p>


Our trans students need support too!!!

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School needs to be a safe space for all students, especially this very vulnerable population. I oppose this  bill!


Pass pass pass strongly support

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<p> Love Youngkin  </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose this policy in Virginia's schools </p>


Strongly oppose

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Parents do have the right to be told when a child under 18 asks to be called a different name, but the child should have the final say.

Keep religion out of the government, and out of our schools.  If you don't agree with something because of a strong faith-based idea, then don't do it, council your children to not do it, then leave everyone else alone to make their own minds up.  No one is being hurt by treating people with courtesy and respect.  Why is that something the governor wants to regulate? I can think of no reason other than to pander to his own religious beliefs and to the political beliefs of the people he wants to have vote for him.  These children are not hurting anyone.  You don't have to like it, understand it, or want it, you just have to respect their choice.  If you are hurt by just being around it, that's ultimately your problem to deal with.


Strongly Oppose

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These regulations are going to harm so many people in Virginia. Protecting all kids means protecting ALL kids. Nobody is harmed by allowing students to use names and pronouns that they identify with, but many people can be harmed by forcibly disclosing this information to parents. As a Virginia high school student, I knew multiple transgender students who were in unsafe home situations where they were threatened with financial abuse, physical harm, and even with being taken out of the country. This was in the last few years. Children are going to be harmed by these regulations, which have no basis but in attempting to stoke a culture war that does not exist.


Strongly support the Governor and common sense

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<p>I am totally in agreement to change the current policy that was put in place by the previous governor. Can we just use common sense?! I support Gov Youngkin and am grateful that he is willing to make changes. </p>


Oppose, oppose, oppose!!!

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Protect some of VA’s most vulnerable kids!


Support Parental Rights. No litter boxes.

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<p>Support. Parents should be involved in their children’s education. </p>


Support the Proposal

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<p> These kids need help not more confusion.  </p>


Virginia Schools Parental Rights/Transgender Model Policies.

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<p>Governor Youngkin kept his word which is one of the reasons he beat the D'crat.  I fully support this policy.  My only wish is that folks with an unusual sexual calling would simply stay in their lane and leave the rest (the majority) alone.  I'm happy that our governor is trying to ensure that Virginia's school-age children are protected from the constant and never-ending need of 'some' who feel it is necessary to convince everyone about their thoughts and beliefs.  I feel sorry for the trans kid questioners who are being led down a dangerous path, believing that by changing who they are sexually will be the solution to their unhappiness.  The truth is when you listen to other kids who did the same and now are a little older and wiser, they know it was never going to make them happy but will likely hurt and betray them even more.  This really does need to be in the hands of parents, not school teachers.  It goes way deeper than the classroom and school administration.  It goes to the core of our creation and reason for existence.  Many will disagree but prayer is always the answer to the heaviest crosses.  </p>


Strongly Support

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<p> STRONGLY in support of Gov Youngkin’s Policy change.  </p>


Fully Support!!

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<p> I fully support this. Thank you for standing up to the woke agenda hurting our children!!  </p>


OPPOSE

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<p>Trans lives matter </p>


STRONGLY oppose

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Refusing to accept children for who they are leads to bullying, depression, self-harm, and often suicide. Don't restrict who people are allowed to be. Opposed in the strongest possible way.


Strongly Support


Beyond Disapproval

A Concerned Loudoun Valley Highschool Senior

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This new policy endangers student's rights to privacy and safety. If this is the direction Virginia is going down then we have a serious problem on our hands.

Gender shouldn't be something reported like a crime. If someone wants to share their preferred pronouns then they will share it to people they trust. In many cases this means that their parents are not a part of that crowd. There is a reason parent's aren't always involved in this, and it's due to the fact that we can be scared of them. If a parent disapproves of anything that isn't cisgendered, then this will risk the student's home life JUST to get some respect at school. You need to respect students as their own individual people.

Also to anyone who believes that going through a sex change surgery is mutilation there are a couple things wrong with that.

You have to be 18 to get one. This means that by the point they are ready for surgery their mind has developed enough to understand that this is what they need to be happy.

It is not your body. You should respect your child for being the individual that they are, and if they act in ways that you don't agree on then talk to them directly. Don't reign down your terror on others.

God bless our country, peace.


Fully support

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<p> Thank you Governor!  </p>


I support Youngkin's new model policies which protect children

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


Parent who Strongly Opposes

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You aren't standing up for parents. I am a parent, and this order is hateful and doesn't represent how I raise me children to be kind towards everyone.


OPPOSED : Trans Kids are Human. They Deserve the Same Respect Adults Receive

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Trans kids are human beings that are SEPARATE from their parents. If they identify differently than the gender they were assigned at birth, then they deserve the respect to be referred to by their chosen name and gender. A person’s identity is not up to their parents, their school, or to anyone else on this earth.

Youngkin, if this bill is passed, I’d like you to know that every successful and attempted suicide of a young trans person is on you.


Strongly support

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


Absolutely agree!!

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Thank you for standing your ground for our kids!  Boys should not be in girl sports and vice versa!


Strongly oppose

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<p>My family strongly opposes the proposed changes by Youngkin. Trans rights are human rights. Be a good human. </p>


I AM OPPOSED to Glenn Youngkin’s proposed policies for the treatment of transgender students

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I am asking the Governor and the Virginia Department of Education to rescind the proposed policies concerning transgender students. The Governor's decision to enact these cruel policies is illegal and harmful to transgender students. They are not based on science or compassion. They claim to give parents more say in their children's education but instead, will lead to students being outed before they are ready and increased bullying, suicide, and harassment of youth.

Every parent wants to ensure children’s safety and freedom and to encourage a vibrant and engaging learning experience. But the Virginia Department of Education is rejecting those shared values by advancing policies that will target LGBTQ kids for harassment and mistreatment simply because of who they are.

Schools can be an escape for many students that have home situations that are less than loving and supportive. Respecting who they are and using pronouns they associate with, can help to make them as comfortable as possible in the classroom, therefore giving them the ability to concentrate fully on their lessons and activities.

I hope that the Department of Education decides to provide that same sanctuary for students that are struggling with their identities and their families' attitudes towards them. Because Trans kids deserve that kindness like every other child on this planet. That is a basic human right.


Protect Trans Kids

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Trans kids should not have to go through their parents/guardians in order for their pronouns and chosen names to be respected, and I am furious that Youngkin would endanger children just to score political points


Oppose

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i oppose this draft. Decisions regarding the public should be made with professional input on how the decisions will effect the people involved. This is not a decision to be made based on a man’s religious opinion


Showing Support for the Kids

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So proud of the kids walking out. Stand against transphobia!


Strongly Support This

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<p> I SUPPORT THIS  </p>


STRONGLY SUPPORT GIVING EDUCATIONAL CONTROL TO THE PARENTS!   This is parental love, not hate!

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People who see parents wanting to guide their children as hate are misguided and have a warped world view.  Taking educational control away from parents is a communist tactic, one which has been quoted for years.  “Give us a child until they are 5years old.and they will be ours for the rest of their life.  This cannot be allowed and so I will strongly support the Governor’s directive.  My 18 years as a youth leader allowed me to see a distinct difference in behavior between those with involved parents and those without.  Those without are prone to many troubles with socialization and low self worth.


Oppose

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<p>I greatly oppose your changes to the DOE policy on students' rights. </p>


Strongly OPPOSE!!!

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This is a disgrace.  Youngkin is a disgrace. Do better for VA kids!!!


Yes! Strongly Support

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<p> This policy empowers parents. Fully support.  </p>


Strongly oppose.

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Strongly oppose this policy!


Protect Trans Youth

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I am a high school student in Virginia and I am firmly against Youngkin's draft model policy. These policies, if enacted, would have very real impacts within my school community. I know several trans students who would be harmed by this legislature, especially the inability to go by a non-legally-given name. In more severe cases, students could be outed to their family, stripped of their fundamental right to privacy. Please consider the magnitude of these threats to autonomy and privacy and the harm that they have the potential to do.


Support

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<p> As a school board official</p>


Support for Gov Younkin's change

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<p>There should be no secrets between schools and OUR children. Parents should be made aware of anything involving their children.  We do not co-parent with the school system or the government. </p>


Why is this still happening

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I just don't get why people think kids don't have rights to privacy and being able to be themselves. If a kid felt comfortable coming out to their parents they would do it on their own accords. The thing is many households would deny their child or children safe and loving households if they found out they were trans. Its ok if you think parents should help kids be more comfortable with other people knowing their identity. But it shouldn't be up to the government to decide if parents or guardians should be involved.


Strongly Against Recent Change in Policy Towards VA Trans Students

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This policy is cowardly and incredibly regressive and needs to be rejected across the board. It reminds me a lot of the unhinged ‘Satanic Panic’ hysteria of the 1980s. Youngkin’s administration is throwing out red meat to his Evangelical base. As always, the cruelty is the point with such targeted policy and legislation.


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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These policies will be reason many LGBTQ kids harm themselves or are harmed by the school system.


I Support the 2022 Model Policy

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<p> I support this Model Policy. It uses traditional values to help address a new social concern</p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>I strongly oppose </p>


Support for Youngkin!

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


Oppose hateful attacks on LGBTQ+

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Support children by keeping them safe: that means educating them, feeding them, keeping them clothed, keeping them healthy, keeping a roof over their head, and keeping them loved. None of that is possible if a subsection of children are being attacked by the state, by a political party, and by hateful activists.

Trans rights are human rights. Support all children. Love all children. Oppose these vicious, hateful, underhanded attacks against kids.


A vile policy that only makes sense if you want deaths

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I strongly oppose this document in it's entirety for 2 main reasons, as follows:

This document outlines and sets the stage for gross violations of privacy and autonomy

The implications and outcomes of this policy are undebtabely extreme violence and the infliction of deep trauma against children

The only reason to support this document with any semblance of logic would be if you wished to inflict pain and potential death on children, forcibly outing this information to the parents of vulnerable children can and will result in physical, verbal, and emotional abuse in cases. Support of this document will lay blood on the hands of all supporters and those complicit in it's enacting.


SUPPORT

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<p> I support this amendment being passed. Parents should absolutely have the right to be involved and make decisions for their children. It is irresponsible to allow children to make decisions that could be devastating to their future. As children</p>


Common Sense regarding schools

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I recently retired after teaching 32 years in Virginia's elementary schools. Thank goodness Governor Youngkin wants to protect ALL students' rights!

Many businesses have single use restrooms for families. My school had several. Install them in schools. Problem solved regarding bathrooms for transgender and public restroom shy students. The same could be done regarding locker rooms. That way cisgender students' rights are also protected.

Again, cisgender student athletes need their rights protected in school sports. Where are all the women's rights activists anymore? Crickets...... I don't have a suggestion for inclusion of transgender athletes, but we all know it's unfair for cisgender girls to compete against a transgender girl.

Regarding parental rights? Of course parents should be involved in their children's lives and decisions. It's called guidance as children are not adults and should NOT be making life changing decisions. Let them make these decisions when they reach the age of 18 or even older, preferably.

Teachers should be busy teaching their students subject material and not influencing their students regarding gender identity. We're NOT qualified for that! That is what school nurses, counselors, and parents are for. If the parents are a concern, there's child services, etc. to consider.

Not sure if anyone will ever read this, but I'm SO glad that common sense seems to be prevailing in our state government!


Transphobia

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<p>Excuse me unless you have ever thought in your life that you could be trans than you should have no say in our rights. You are a bunch of old people that say you want to protect us, but what you’re really doing is putting us in danger. Had it ever crossed your mind that trans people are hate crimed constantly, we are being killed just by being ourselves. People we know are killing us or shaming us for being us. You are killing the next generation. The people you swore to protect are going to die, take the time to look up trans students suicide rates, now add a few thousand because of your laws. I normally do not use harsh language, I like facts, and the facts are your laws are going to kill people, young kids that do not deserve it. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean that it’s evil. Do your research before you open your mouth about something you are not entitled to. Because honey you are not entitled to control my rights I don’t care if you’re the dang president, you have no right to control me or what I do, neither do my parents. </p>


Support

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<p> Strongly support affirming parental rights of parents and not the state! Thanks for common sense. How many of the other people actually read what these policies do? Hiding life altering decisions from parents is criminal and extremely arrogant and pretentious of the state to think they could have those conversations better.  </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>This hateful policy is vile. It targets one of the most vulnerable populations already at a higher risk for suicide. Huge government overreach. Leave trans kids alone! </p>


Agree with this policy

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<p>Totally agree. Common sense finally made it to the governor’s mansion. </p>


Support-

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<p> Protect ALL children  </p>


100% AGAINST - TRANS LIVES MATTER

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Gender is a social construct (a big word for some of you) and EVERYBODY has a right to choose their gender, like how is this affecting you and your daily life? How will it hurt you to use somebody’s preferred pronouns? What religion or belief tells you to disrespect people, cause I’m pretty sure Christianity is about loving people for who they are. The school division should protect discrimination based on gender as well “as on actual national origin, race, religion, sex, disability, political beliefs” (page 17 of 20). The authors of this document/policy intentionally left out gender, however this mistake needs to be corrected to protect all children from harassment, bullying, and discrimination, not just straight, white, cisgender, and privileged children.


American Association of Pediatrics study on Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior

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According to the American Association of Pediatrics in the study "Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior," 50.9% of Female to Male, 41.8% of Nonbinary, 30.0% of Male to Female, and 27.9% of Questioning adolescents have attempted suicide. The new policy will not change how any student identifies, but it will take away safe spaces to discuss and learn about themselves. By taking away support and outing them to potentially abusive parents these rates will only increase.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20174218/76767/Transgender-Adolescent-Suicide-Behavior?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000


Strongly Oppose this policy!

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Support trans kids! I strongly OPPOSE the draft policy and want the VDOE to reject them!!


Oppose - Youngkin in a hypocrite!!

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<p>I hope one of Youngkin’s kids comes out of the closet , instead of just trying to vote illegally multiple times. Oh wait his kid’s go to high priced private schools (at least one out of VA) instead of VA schools, glad he gets to dictate policy as a f’ing hypocrite! The fallout of his backwards policies will be on his conscience, and the idiots that blindly follow. </p>


Oppose

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<p>I am a born and raised Virginian, a product of Virginia public schools, and a Virginia tax payer and I strongly oppose this ill-conceived proposed regulation. </p>


Thank you, Governor!

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<p>We finally have someone in the Governor’s mansion that cares about parents rights.  Thank you for fighting for us, Governor, this is why you were elected.  The majority is over this nonsense. Keep fighting! </p>


What ever happened to VA is for lovers?

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So on top of what teachers already having to deal with, you’re adding this to their load?
Not only that, but not allowing  the trans community to speak freely about who they are? This is THE MOST unloving thing you could do for the community…  We want equality but this feels like it’s taking a huge step backwards…


Strongly oppose

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<p>As a parent and teacher I strongly oppose this bill. We should support not shame our youth no matter their presentation. </p>


Strongly support

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<p> Fingers crossed this will pass. Much needed change!  </p>


Fully support

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Thanks for defending parents' right and protecting our children.


Fully support


Strongly oppose


Strongly oppose

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<p>This policy is vile. It targets one of the most vulnerable populations already at a higher risk for suicide. Huge government overreach. Leave trans kids alone! </p>


Schools provide a safe space for kids who can’t be themselves at home. You’re taking this away!!!


Strongly support parental rights!

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From Genspect.org

“Many transgender organizations advise schools to “affirm” students’ gender identities by using the names and pronouns students request, and letting students use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. This is known as social transition.

While well-intentioned, affirming a student’s gender identity or publicly celebrating a transgender student’s courage are not neutral actions: they can  unintentionally influence students’ identity formation. Identity formation is an important psychosocial stage of development for young people between 12 and 25 years old.

The role of the school is to foster a tolerant and caring approach to all students and to ensure that there is no bullying or hostility towards any student. It is NOT the role of the school to influence identity formation. Social transition is a powerful psychotherapeutic inter vention and so it should not be carried out without clinical supervision.”


Fully support!!!

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<p> Our family fully supports this! Thank you Youngkin!  </p>


Transgender Policy

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I strongly oppose Glenn Youngkin policy, Transgender Rights Matter!


Vote no on this change

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<p>This change in policy goes from acceptance and support- what our kids need- to meanness and control.  Going backwards in time- instead of accepting reality and trying to provide a supportive atmosphere.  </p>


Strong support Trump 2024


This policy will drive children to suicide.

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Not accepting children for who they are leads to depression, bullying, assault, and eventually death for the child.  This policy places the rights of unrelated strangers above those of vulnerable individuals.  I oppose this in the strongest possible fashion.


Oppose to Youngkin’s dangerous model policies for the treatment of transgender students

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<p>I strongly oppose Governor Glenn Youngkin’s proposed model policies for the treatment of transgender students. The Governor's decision to enact these cruel policies is affecting students across the Commonwealth, and we must undo the proposed policies. </p>


Against this

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<p>In typical Republican ignorance, the governor (sadly a neighbor of mine), is trying to fool people into thinking that this Model Policy is somehow empowering parents into the lives of their children. IT DOES NOT. It's a typical Republican tactic of fear, uncertainty, and doubt to scare people into thinking that if the parents were only MORE involved than their kids will somehow, magically be straight Christian republicans praising the guidance of Trump. Nothing can be further from the truth. Study after study show that Trumpkin, I mean Youngkin's, policies negatively effect those who need the most help and protection. Trumpkin should be ASHAMED that he even proposed these changes. It does nothing but cause alienation and heartache. Do NOT drive a wedge into our country by ramming through policies poll after pool find the majority of people DO NOT want or support. </p>


Strongly Oppose

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The governor's proposed policies of state-sponsored bigotry and discrimination against transgender youth.  Why is this a priority?  These policies are abhorrent and have no place in an enlightened society.

Virginia is a blue state.  Please cease cramming this culture war BS down Virginians throats!


Words matter

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As a parent and teacher, I understand and see the positive impact of good relationships on students. I see schools constantly reaching out to families providing knowledge and resources to help families in the important work of raising children. There is not a school that I know that doesn’t welcome responsible, civil support and volunteer help from the community.

The changes proposed here are not positive ones. Words matter and these assume a bias about transgender students and further put schools and parents at odds with each other instead of looking at what is best for the child.  I do not understand transgender, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be kind and supportive as the person works through their growth. I can call them by the name they wish, I can see them as they see themselves and use the words that matter to them.  It is a simple way to show kindness. It shouldn’t take parent permission to be kind. The consequences are too great as I learned first hand this week upon learning of the death of a student. No more.


Strongly support


Fully support

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<p> Fully support Gov. Youngkin! Fully support!  </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE

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I strongly oppose the 2022 draft model policies. I urge the VDOE to reject them. Youngkin's draft model policies are rooted in transphobia and seeks to cause further harm to trans and non-binary students.

I am trans myself and work with trans and non-binary youth. Trans affirming school policy matters to me because all youth have the right to express themselves authentically in their educational spaces. For the safety of trans and non-binary youth, the VDOE must reject these policies.


I Strongly Strongly Support This


Oppose

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I strongly oppose these regulations. My trans child has the right to not live in fear at school.
My child just wants to get an education, but all of these regulations create too much anxiety, fear, panic, feelings of isolation to focus on learning.


Wholeheartedly Support!

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<p> Long past time schools got back to work and focus on what is important in the REAL WORLD! Pushing these nonsensical ideologies have only helped to lower our standing in the world and have done nothing to improve the education of our children. Ignore the woke</p>


Strongly Approve of this Common Sense Policy

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Finally some rationale sanity is being restored to the Commonwealth! Parents need to be the ones helping their children with these sensitive issues not teachers that think they know our kids . If a child at 18 decides to change their identity / gender that is up to them but until they are 18 they need to have their parents involved.

Not sure why this is so controversial?  School unions and teachers need to be working with parents not against them!


I fully support this policy. Northern Virginia doesn’t rule all of VA

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<p> It’s time we get back to basics. Ultra liberal northern Virginia doesn’t represent all of VA. Their ideology is dangerous and needs to be stopped. It isn’t the schools right to make decisions for my child that is my job. Children have no idea what they identify as because they are still developing who they are. Keep this out of our schools and let our children develop organically.  </p>


Parents- you are not entitled to control your child’s entire existence. DO NOT SUPPORT

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<p>This will do irreparable damage to trans kids. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>Strongly oppose </p>


Support ALL Kids!

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It’s so important to support ALL OUR KIDS!! Including Trans kids! I strongly OPPOSE the draft policy and want the VDOE to reject them. It’s imperative that we retain current enlightened policies that treat individuals with appropriate kindness and understanding everyone deserves! It’s the floor (absolute minimum) not the ceiling!!!


Transgender Policy in VA

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<p>I strongly support Governor Youngkin in his support of parental rights in relation to transgender and all students.  The parents are the best advocates for their children and the schools should not be hiding things from the parents in relation to life altering decisions.   </p>


FULLY SUPPORT - THANK YOU!

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


I strongly support Gov. Youngkin New Model Policy (2022) for treatment of transgender students

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I support any policy that keeps parents in the loop with what is happening to their children at school.  Children should not be allowed to transition without their parents knowledge.  Parents have more information about what is happening with their children psychologically than does any teacher or administrator.

I have seen many posting on the internet by children boasting their breast removal.  Changing your anatomy does not change your DNA.  Children should be encouraged to accept themselves, recognize that "male" behavior and "female" behavior don't require hormones or amputation. Adults can help children to understand that irreversible choices made as children are often regretted in hindsight.

That I am even writing what should be commonsense to the world is frightening.  Why is no one looking into why so many children want to change their gender.  Is it some environmental contaminant or social contagion.  Why is no one studying the cause of this phenomenon.

Sincerely,

Kate Taylor


Support the policies

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


OPPOSE!!!

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<p>Transgender kids are human beings and deserve to be treated as human beings. Removing protections for this vulnerable population of CHILDREN is reprehensible. </p>


I STRONGLY Oppose this policy change.

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<p>I STRONGLY oppose this policy change.  This will harm these students long after graduation!  Lack of education  that LGBTQA is biological and not a choice .  I am disgusted that in 2022 the GOP consistently wants to take us back to 1950.  LGBTQA, Women, BIPOC. Parents have always had a say about their children's education .  The only reasons some think other wise is the scare tactics used only for political gain , power.  Enough! </p>


Strongly support Youngkin


Strongly Oppose


Trans people are humans too.

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Please respect the rights of the LGBTQ community and stop using this issue for political purposes.


Strongly opposed, Trans right are human rights!!

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Trans right are human rights. We have separation of church and state for a reason. Keep your religious bigotry out of our classrooms. Signed, a teacher.


Support

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<p> It is a parents right to know what is happening with their child and the child's right to have their parents support them. Taking a position that all parents are not supportive of their own child is evil but does point out how the current public education system views parents roles in THEIR kids lives. Where will these public school employees be for the kids when they graduateandove to another school</p>


Trans kids matter. I oppose.

All kids have a right to be respected and to speak up for themselves.Respecting trans kids saves lives. I oppose this ill-advised set of policies.

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All kids have a right to be respected and to speak up for themselves.
Respecting trans kids saves lives. I oppose this ill-advised set of policies.


Opposed

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<p>I strongly oppose Youngkin's proposal. It hides behind a veil of "parent protections" what should be a student's freedom of self expression and identity. It harms no one to use preferred pronouns, but can be damaging to the student who is forced to conform to what's comfortable for the governor. </p>


Fully support this change in transgender guidance

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I would like to say that I fully support Governor Younkin's suggested changes in transgender guidance in the public schools.  Having parents who are not fully informed about potential suicidal ideation is dangerous for the children themselves. Most suicides take place at home. Parents who are not fully informed of depression, gender dysphoria, and other tendencies which often lead to suicide attempts are unable to take proper steps to to ensure the safety of their children. As chest binders and other tools to present as the opposite sex can actually cause long-term damage to the developing body it is absolutely crucial that parents be aware that such things are being used and that they have a say in their use.

This is also an issue for school safety as we found inLoudoun county last year.


Fully Support - Thank you Gov. Youngkin

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<p> Governor Youngkin - thank you for putting our children's wellbeing back in our hands. Schools should focus on teaching math</p>


Fully Support!

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<p> Fully Support!  </p>


Support Trans Youth

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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA11): "The research is clear. The data does not lie. If Virginia moves ahead with this policy — one that mandates school environments that are inherently unwelcoming and unaccepting of LGBTQ youth — trans and nonbinary students in our Commonwealth will face a significantly greater risk of suicide than their peers. Rather than do all you can to keep Virginia students alive and well, you are headed down a path of guaranteed pain and heartache for this already vulnerable group of young people."


Trans rights are human rights!

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<p>Trans right are human rights! </p>


be fr

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y’all, we live in the south. lgbtq children can be bullied and abused by anybody based on others’ religious beliefs, and intolerant parents can pose some of the highest risks. oppose.


I fully support this; previous policies interfered with parents

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


Support

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<p> I support parental rights. I support biology. I support Governor Youngkin. I support common sense. I support a biological female's right to privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms. I support a biological female athlete's right to participate in sports and to compete against other biological females.  </p>


Freedom of religion means freedom of ALL religions. Keep your beliefs to yourself!!!!!

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Give children the privacy they deserve and DO NOT PASS THIS


Transgender Student Proposed Model Policy


I fully support this

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<p> I am in support of this.  </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Strongly oppose this legislation. Do not enact. </p>


Support

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<p> Thank you governor younkin for protecting my child and our family.  </p>


Transgender parental rights

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I strongly agree with this policy change. Parents must be informed of any change in the education or handling of any changes in their childrens education.


Fully Support/This Policy is Completely Unconstitutional. It should not exist.

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<p> Transgender Accommodation Policy Changes from the VDOE: </p>


Strongly disagree

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Strongly disagree with not letting transgender or any child the right to state who they are!


Recent policies

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I just wanted to say that schools should focus on teaching kids and stay out of social issues and overall let the kids whatever they want with their identity. Youngkin, please stay in your lane you dingus.


In Favor of revised rules

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

As a parent, I have the ultimate responsibility for my children's well-being. Any efforts that inhibit my ability to support my children or that inhibit my communication with them is improper and detrimental.


I support.

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<p> Support wholeheartedly.  </p>


A return to more rational thinking.  Adopt the new policy!

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Parents should be informed about what's going on with their child.  The school is there to teach, not fill a parental role and steer kids toward what have become ideological positions.  Requiring use of the correct bathrooms and locker rooms will ensure the safety and privacy of girls by keeping boys out.  There have already been problems with this in Virginia and we shouldn't be creating the situations for further exposing girls and putting them in danger.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Schools are no place to stage an opportunist political flame war. These are real people. Trans rights are human rights. </p>


Trans policy

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<p>This policy is cruel to all children and young people. It proves my point that as a general rule, Republican  policies are based on cruelty and control over others—especially helpless people. This policy must go </p>


Support Kids and Their Family Support System


SUPPORT FOR GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN AGAINST ANONYMOUS COMMENTS.

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<p>WE fully support Gov Youngkin's common sense policy for VA. VOTERED2022 </p>


I DON'T SUPPORT TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

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<p>I do not support this policy it harms our rights. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS </p>


By supporting parents you ARE supporting all children

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<p>Especially the trans children before they do irreversible damage. Thank you for having the foresight to craft this policy. </p>


Oppose! Protecting students is critically important

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<p>Students learn best when they are in an environment where they feel safe, seen, and understood. </p>


Strongly oppose this dangerous bigotry

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<p>This policy has nothing to do with parental rights and everything to do with fostering hate.  Every person, regardless of age, has a right to privacy. Having school staff out students to family is not only a violation of students' rights but is endangerment of children. When a child is outed and then physically or mentally harmed by family the governor should be charged with abuse. Further, recognizing and addressing someone with their preferred name and pronoun infringes on no one's religious freedom. Treating people with respect is advocated in all religions I know of. A person who disagrees with another's life choices doesn't have the right to claim religion, only bigotry.  Even if religion was a valid excuse for this bigotry their right hold their religious beliefs does not trump the individuals right to self expression.  In regards to bathrooms and locker rooms, I assume stalls are still a thing so no valid reason to deny a person the right to use the correct on for their identity.  This systemic child abuse cannot be allowed to go into force. </p>


Strongly Support

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<p> Strongly Support this.  </p>


Youngkin's policy will increase the suicide rate of children in Virginia

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Transgender Students should be protected, and what Youngkin has put in place does exactly the opposite. Bullying and Christo-Fascist policies do not belong in our schools-separation of church and state. I think that its horrible to curtail the rights of children in our state under the pretense of "protecting them"  or "parents rights" when really they are catering the entire public school system of Virginia to one small group of right wing parents, not the kids themselves or even the reality of the diverse world we live in.

It is important to note that Transgender youth are at a much higher risk for Suicide and mental Illness for many reasons, and if these rules continue to be enforced, that risk and the rate goes up. This statistic is heartbreaking and can already be measured in states (Florida and Texas) who have enacted similar bans on children who just want to be themselves, and as a result many of these children decide to end their lives rather than live in a world where their right to exist is maliciously being legislated against. A horrible reality that the current policy is reinforcing.

Try to Imagine what it must be like under this policy as a transgender student. Your friends, mentors, coaches: the people who help guide and inspire you in your formative years literally wouldn't be allowed to let you be yourself and treat you the way you would want to be treated. These people they trusted and relied on as a resource, their friends and even people in their support system who they are emotionally reliant on would be forced, under the penalty of the state, to deny their existence, police their gender, police their name, and even police which bathroom they use.


Strongly Oppose

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Trans rights are human rights. I don’t understand what good would come of this legislation.


Teachers are Suicide Prevention for LGBTQ Youths Living in Hostile Families

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<p>This is why people leave this state, because they do not feel like their rights are secure. Many parents are outright transphobic. I grew up gay in a homophobic family. You know who were the most supportive adults in my life? TEACHERS. Teachers were part of my suicide prevention. Tying their arms behind their backs to help trans kids growing up in hostile families is a human rights abuse. Period. </p>


Thanks for letting Parents be Parents again!

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I support the VDOE policy change to allow parents to decide if names/pronouns should be changed at school. Parents should not relinquish their right to parent their kids when they send them to school. It is not the school’s job to raise my children, it’s mine. If my son needs support, I will give it to him and the counselor can relay that to me. The current policy encourages a divide between parents and children. I fully support this policy.


I support the Governor’s transgender policy

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<p>I completely support Governor Youngkin’s policy on transgender students. It about time parents, and not teachers or school administrators, parent their own children. I believe there are way too many teachers and school administrators who are trying to convince and brainwash students to be either transgender or gay. If one cannot drink alcohol until 21, how can they decide something as important and life changing as being transgender when they are not yet adults? It’s about time someone with common sense is making the appropriate policy for our children. Thank you Governor Youngkin. </p>


trans rights are human rights

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y’all are disgusting if you think stripping someone of their human rights will benefit our society. trans rights are human rights!!!!!!!


Support for Youngkin!

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


let people be themselves man

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like fr this isnt ok :(


Strongly oppose.


Strongly Oppose

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<p>As a parent, I take the job of raising and educating my children very seriously.  I do not, however, OWN my children.  Their bodies and their identities are their own.  While I strive to make sure they feel supported in who they are, it is THEIR CHOICE how and when to reveal such personal information about themselves to their teachers, peers, and communities, not mine.  Teens and young adults are extremely aware of who they are inside, and the thought that I would know my child better than they know themselves is ridiculous.  Making teachers legally responsible for outing children to their parents is even more abhorrent, both for the child and the teacher.  That is so far out of bounds for what an educator is called and trained to do I can't even imagine it.  Please don't take Virginia backwards - it will most certainly cost lives.  </p>


Strongly opposed

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I strongly oppose this anti-trans model.


Strongly Oppose


Thank you for standing up for parents

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<p>Thank you for supporting parents against the scare tactics and policies that will rob our children of their livelihood. Anyone who opposes this policy clearly hasn’t read it. </p>


Proudly support!

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Thank you, Governor Youngkin, for this life-saving and child-affirming legislation. We are talking about children. Can someone please explain me why children need to be telling their gender confusion to any other than parents? It's sad that we even need this commonsense legislation, but nonetheless, glad it's here.


STRONGLY OPPOSED

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If COVID didn’t put these kids back 5 years, this absurd policy surely will.

Gender is a social construct. Instead of keeping trans kids terrified at schools, try educating yourself and read a book.


Fully support Governor Youngkin

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I fully support Governor Youngkin's initiative to prevent school districts from removing parents from important decisions regarding their children, especially when it comes to LGB issues and gender identity disorders (i.e. "trans").  Several of the school districts in Virginia, including my local one of Fairfax County, are engaged in a "war" on young women by trying to allow males to use female bathrooms and changing rooms.  This has to be stopped to protect our young women.  As happened recently in Loudon County, the results of pursuing these radical and dangerous political agendas can be great harm to our children.  We elected Governor Youngkin for a reason, and that's to provide adult supervision to our school districts, like Fairfax and Loudon, that are currently administered by woke fascists and alt-leftists.


Comments concerning new schoo guidelines

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I just want to note that I am in favor of the new school guidelines.  Restroom use should be by biological sex, and children should not be referred to by pronouns denoting a gender other than their biological sex without parental consent.


If you support this as a parent you are being selfish

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You are NOT thinking about your child’s best interests or happiness. You are only thinking about what you want. You don’t have a right to control everything in your child’s life. This will hurt them if they are trans or even considering that they might be


Strongly support

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


Parental Rights

"The Code of Virginia reaffirms the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated. Empowering parents is not only a fundamental right, but it is essential to improving outcomes for all children in Virginia. "  Hear, Hear!!!
"Transgender" is based on an idea that everyone has a "gender identity."  There is zero scientific proof that this exists.  None.  Any claim that there is does not stand up to simple, basic scientific scrutiny.
Therefore, allowing children to claim an identity of being the opposite sex (no sex at all), particularly without parental involvement and consent, is encouraging children to pursue something without any foundation in objective reality.  Any child who wishes to do so deserves lots of love and compassion rooted in truth.
Here is the truth: the word Gender does not mean what people think it means.  This is what it means:
Gender: (noun) the classification of words, or the class to which a word belongs by virtue of such classification, according to the sex of the referent (natural gender) or according to arbitrary distinctions of form and syntax (grammatical gender). Modern English has few traces of grammatical gender, but Latin nouns all have [grammatical] gender, masculine, feminine or neuter, often contradicting natural gender. Adjectives and articles have gender insofar as they change form to agree with the noun they qualify
(The New Lexicon Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English language” Canadian Edition published in 1988)Informally, the word  has been used euphemistically in place of the word  Sex (male / female), but use of a word and meaning of a word are not the same thing.  therefore, there is no such thing as "transgender."  it is a euphemism at best, a lie at worst.  or as one commentator put it "it's an ad campaign."

Thank you for considering my contribution this important discussion.

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"The Code of Virginia reaffirms the rights of parents to determine how their children will be raised and educated. Empowering parents is not only a fundamental right, but it is essential to improving outcomes for all children in Virginia. "  Hear, Hear!!!

"Transgender" is based on an idea that everyone has a "gender identity."  There is zero scientific proof that this exists.  None.  Any claim that there is does not stand up to simple, basic scientific scrutiny.

Therefore, allowing children to claim an identity of being the opposite sex (no sex at all), particularly without parental involvement and consent, is encouraging children to pursue something without any foundation in objective reality.  Any child who wishes to do so deserves lots of love and compassion rooted in truth.

Here is the truth: the word Gender does not mean what people think it means.  This is what it means:

Gender: (noun) the classification of words, or the class to which a word belongs by virtue of such classification, according to the sex of the referent (natural gender) or according to arbitrary distinctions of form and syntax (grammatical gender). Modern English has few traces of grammatical gender, but Latin nouns all have [grammatical] gender, masculine, feminine or neuter, often contradicting natural gender. Adjectives and articles have gender insofar as they change form to agree with the noun they qualify

(The New Lexicon Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English language” Canadian Edition published in 1988)

Informally, the word  has been used euphemistically in place of the word  Sex (male / female), but use of a word and meaning of a word are not the same thing.  therefore, there is no such thing as "transgender."  it is a euphemism at best, a lie at worst.  or as one commentator put it "it's an ad campaign."

Thank you for considering my contribution this important discussion.


COMPLETELY SUPPORT

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<p>Parents are a children’s best advocate. They know their kids bear. No information should be kept from them. We need to protect our children against those who would choose to manipulate them in their own agenda. </p>


Protect Students

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There are often time when a students gender identity and partner preference is in opposition to the beliefs of their parents. It should be in the interest of the department of education to consider the student as a whole person and protect the from harm, especially if that harms comes from their home.

The language in the current proposed guidance that reverse to gender identity as a belief is damaging to transgender individuals. Being transgender is how you are created. Sometimes the gender identity and the physical gender don’t match. That is ok.

Schools should be a safe place for students to grow and learn. They shouldn’t have to worry if truly being themselves at school and their gender identity will get them in trouble at home.


VERY strongly support

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Keep the kids safe thank you


You barbarians really like ignoring science and violating human rights it seems.

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Why is it that you Barbarians always like to go the wrong path? As if we trans people don't have enough mental health issues stemming from gender dysphoria already, now they can't even be respected and use the bathroom. This resembles the persecution of black people during the 20th century.

I fully expected this situation from the worst country in the west.

I was indoctrinated to hate the US when I was young but now I'm starting to harbor dislike for the US. What a backward country, would never want to be American no matter how rich or militarily strong, the civil structure is a rotten mess.


Fully support! This will help youth and families

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<p> Thank you for putting forth these ideas! It will be great for our youth and families!  </p>


STRONGLY Oppose

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Listen to ALL parents. Not just the ones who voted for you. Do more to love and protect these children rather than putting them in harms or their own way.


Transgender students are human beings! New law is a disgrace

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New law is dishonorable and a disgrace. Transgender students want to learn and focus on education and be the best they can be without being forced to come out or be striped of basic human rights!  shame on the governor! You need to reflect on what the long term consequences will be!


STRONGLY OPPOSED, SHOCKED, AND DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED

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I consider myself a moderate voter in the Commonwealth of Virginia and am simply baffled, caught off guard, and saddened by the sudden, sweeping, and harmful new Guidelines put out by the Youngkin Administration. Simply put, what on earth good do you think these policies will achieve? How and why would taking away protections for kids be a worthwhile use of your time and efforts as Governor, when there are far more important and destructive factors impacting us in the Commonwealth? This feels like a cheap shot at checking boxes on the "Campaign Promises" list. I understand that you fairly and legitimately earned your Honored seat to serve as our Governor by promising parents more input and power into their children's education, but this isn't what the majority of parents voted you in office to do. They wanted your Administration to ensure that schools weren't shut down and mask mandates were put in place due to the Coronavirus. These new guidelines make you look like a mean-spirited bully focused more on pleasing your perceived voter base at the detriment of the same children and teens you pledged to protect. Shame on you.


Has to have an Exception Clause for Protecting Kids Who Would Be Harmed by Parents

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<p>I'm not sure how it can be done, but there needs to be a way to protect at risk kids from abusive parents built into the new law.  Surely, there must be a way to support the transgender, etc communities without shutting out the parents.  It can't be an either/or situation.  Bathroom/shower facilities are an easy problem to resolve....just have some designated as unisex.  </p>


I strongly support this


I strongly oppose this new guidance

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<p>I strongly oppose this new guidance registering LGBTQ students in schools. Trans kids should be allowed to use the bathroom and play on the team the reflects their gender identity and no teacher should be required to out or cause emotional damage to their students by putting or deadnaming them. </p>


Trans people are proplr

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Trans rights are human rights. Trans people exist and need to be allowed to exist as they are. Full stop.

Oh, and Youngkin and his ilk are disgusting.


Trans rights are Human Rights. Keep your religious bigotry in your church and away from kids.

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I am a 46 year old parent of two older kids, one in college and another a senior in high school. I am a former US Marine who was injured in combat in the middle east back in 97-98. I am an electrical engineer, a public servant, and a former elected union director of over an 800-member union. I also happen to be a transgender woman. My identity is one of the least interesting things about who I am, but it doesn't prevent me from being a contributing member of society, a great parent, a civil servant or a respectable member of society.

Anyone with half a brain cell knows that the attack on trans rights has little to do with your concern for the well-being for children, and is entirely a dog whistle to appease your bigoted base.  You are exploiting a marginalized community for political gain and we see right through your nonsense. The children of today see your actions for what they are and it pretty much guarantees the end of your party in the future so keep it up. Your actions are memorializing the fact that to be a conservative is to be hateful, bigoted, and without an ounce of character.

I used to be a conservative, but the party left me behind when it left conservatism for fundamentalist fanaticism.


Transgender Policy

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<p>I am opposed to Governor Youngkin’s proposed policies cy on transgender students. I believe in inclusivity which enriches all of our lives and experiences. </p>


Comments regarding new school guidelines

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I just want to note that I am in favor of the new school guidelines.  Restroom use should be by biological sex, and children should not be referred to by pronouns denoting a gender other than their biological sex without parental consent.


Heartbreaking

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Our children deserve to be loved and respected in schools. School should be a safe place for children; allowing this sort of hate and discrimination takes away that safe space and outs our children at risk. Please reform.


I just want to note that I am in favor of the new school guidelines.  Restroom use should be by biological sex, and children should not be referred to by pronouns denoting a gender other than their biological sex without parental consent.


Support the Governor's position.

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<p>Thank you Gov. Youngkin for returning some sanity to our schools. </p>


Protect Trans Youth

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Being trans is a normal variation of being human. Trans youth need to be safe seen and supported. As the parent of a trans person I know how some struggle. Studies show trans youth are at high risk for suicide and also studies show that using correct pronouns and names and having access to bathrooms/locker rooms greatly reduces their risk.

Why be the bullies when you have a chance to make the world a better place?


STRONGLY OPPOSE. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

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Transgender youth should be respected and feel safe inside schools. As a trans student, it's already scary enough. The fact that there has to be a question over if I should be able to feel safe inside my own school is severely messed up. Nicknames are okay but because I'm not in the majority I can't be called my preferred name? Your pronouns are okay because you're "normal" and I'm not? You can use the bathroom you identify with but I, a minor, could hurt someone? I just want to use the bathroom I feel comfortable in, and I see nothing wrong with that. This is going to cause mental health in trans students to decline and CAUSE SUICIDES. Stop being ignorant. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.


This change does NOT protect children at all

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<p>Gov Younkin stop trying to push your religious beliefs on us. Your hate has no place here </p>


A True Governor of the People

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Great Job Governor Youngkin you were elected because of your understanding of Virginians. Your common sense leadership is what Virginia and the country needs right now.


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<p> I strongly support this - this is common sense  </p>


Strongly Oppose

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Children, in order to become the fully functional adults we teach them to be require nothing but our full support. Doing so means allowing students with diverse gender identities be fully supported and affirmed, lest we contribute towards the abuse hurled at LGBTQ+ youth, much less our transgender youth who this bill targets.


Oppose making schools bully trans students

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Over my 20 years of teaching, I've had students who were being bullied by their transphobic parents, forcing them to wear their hair in a gender conforming style, forcing them to participate in gender conforming activities, forcing them to wear gender conforming clothes, make-up, and accessories, and only referring to them by their dead names. Because of the policies that were in place, or lack thereof, the parents could not force me and their other teachers to be a participant in their transphobic abuse. The governor's new policy would use schools and teachers as a transphobic weapon against vulnerable children because the current law fails to classify transphobic and homophobic behavior by parents against their children as the abuse that it is. You know the famously high rates of suicide and homelessness among trans youth? Those risks aren't inherent with being trans; they are the direct result of having hostile and dismissive families and communities.

If this proposed policy was really about parents' rights, then schools would be soliciting and enforcing other parental wishes. For example, if Muslim parents required their daughters to wear hijab, then the schools would have to force the daughters to do so at school when some of them take the hijab off on the bus and hide it in their backpacks. If Muslim parents required their teen children to strictly fast during Ramadan, schools should then prevent some of their kids from accepting and eating snacks from their friends or buying food from the cafeteria or vending machine. If vegan families required their children to only eat vegan foods, then schools should monitor their food selections. If an evangelical family required their daughters to wear skirts of a certain length and never put on make-up, schools should then check on the wardrobe, faces, and fingernails of these students and report violations to parents. But of course that's not going to happen because parental rights is just the excuse.

It's not even really about gender conformity. If it was, then the schools should have to contact home for every boy who wears a pink shirt, every girl with a name like Daniela who wants to be called Danny, and every guy whose hair grows passed his ears. We won't be doing that, either. Because this policy is plain and simple about bullying trans kids. That's it.

The governor said he was for schools and for teachers during his campaign, but the first chance he gets, he tries to orient schools into an impossible situation in his culture war. He doesn't have a way to actually improve the schools or keep the teachers in their classrooms, so he's distracting his voters with transphobic slight of hand. Very slick, and very sick.

You know who can't sue the state? A trans kid with a hostile or dismissive parent. It's "safe" for politicians to pick on them because they're the most vulnerable in our society with the least protection. Shame on you, Governor Youngkin. You won't make me bully trans kids. I reject your tranaphobic policy.


FULLY SUPPORT THIS POLICY THANK YOU

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Thank you for keeping parents informed on their child's mental well being just as you do with physical well being! Thank you for protecting our girls in sports. Full Support!


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


Support this


Support

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<p>I support these model policies for our children. Children should focus in being educated on subjects that will impact their education future, not which bathroom makes them feel comfortable.  </p>


Strongly Oppose

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<p>Please please reconsider this. Please do not take away the protections of our transgender students. This is a terrible step backwards and the repercussions are unimaginable for our students and the state of Virginia! </p>


I support

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<p> This is not something that should be pushed in schools. No little girl should have to feel uncomfortable because men can go into same restrooms as them. If we allow this than in the future pedophiles will be able to demand same rights and that is unacceptable!  </p>


Strongly Oppose - This is evil


Strongly oppose!

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<p>Please oppose this! </p>


How can anyone support this?

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<p> I'm not a parent</p>


Strongly support parental rights

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<p>Parents are the best protectors of their child and their child's best interests. </p>


Strongly oppose

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<p>Why would you want to hurt children so bad School is hard enough let him be the gender they are. Trans rights are human rights. This kind of thing makes school dangerous not only for the students but for the teachers think about having to report this to some parent and what that will go through and also there's no longer safe space for kids to be themselves. </p>


I Fully Support This

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<p> I fully support the model policies you have put in place. Schools have zero right to indoctrinate kids with their woke garbage. They also have zero right to pressure kids to change their identities and take drugs without telling the parents. Thank you for standing up for the rights of parents. These policies are long overdue.  </p>


Strongly oppose.


Don't make their lives worse or more complicated

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Children with trans gender issues need to have a safe haven at school.  Until they are ready to include their parents and others in their confidences, a teacher or counselor may be the only adult resource available.  These adults should not be turned into 'snitches' who would be compelled to break the student's trust.  They have a hard enough time as it is without taking this away from them.  I am strongly opposed to these plans you have presented.


Support

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<p> Agree on these policies. Support fully.  </p>


STRONGLY OPPOSE. This is so harmful to trans kids.

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<p>This is frankly disgusting that you would try to put this law into place. This is detrimental to young people and their privacy and you’re putting power into the hands of people who may or MAY NOT support their children s best interest </p>


Strongly oppose - this bill is indoctrination

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<p>According to you, teaching a child to think for themselves is indoctrination, but forcing them into the box that makes you comfortable is not. Okay, fascists. Please - keep your religious indoctrination away from the queer youth who most likely don’t care what you want. You’ve already proven time and time again that you don’t care about them - it’s time for you to let them live their own lives without your hateful bigotry being spewed in their faces. </p>


Strongly Support Parent Choice

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<p> Thanks Governor Youngkin. I support parent choice in our schools. It’s our children and our tax dollars</p>


DeSantis 2024 strongly support


Fully support!!!

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<p> Our family fully supports this! Thank you Youngkin!  </p>


I strongly oppose this

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I strongly oppose this bill. It is a threat to the safety of queer students across the state.