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WaPo: Virginia will block schools from accommodating transgender students
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Anonymous
+1 My kids want to call their teachers by their first names. It's in my rights as a parent to allow this. Teachers have to do as they are told. |
Anonymous
Ohhhh, maybe they can build a new room for all the kids who have complete jerks as parents. Your child could go there😁 |
Anonymous
Really? The kids are different biological sexes but now have switched genders. |
Anonymous
There could be a shared genetic disposition that is expressed with some shared environmental factors. Endocrine disrupters in the water supply or food chain. We don’t know. We have family friends with 4+ transgender teens/young adults in the extended family as well as three gay adults (including family matriarch). |
Anonymous
| I don't agree with all these policies, but the notion that telling parents that their child is experiencing a gender identity crisis and wants to adopt a new gender identity is cruelly "outing the child" can also be interpreted as "not allowing the school to make major life decisions affecting a minor without parental knowledge." Which is a bad thing... If my boy decides to be a girl at school (or vice versa), and the school wants to go along with it, as a parent I not only *should* know about it before the school "transitions" my kid, but I should *have the right to know about it.* The only exception I can see is if the school has a genuine reason to believe that revealing this information would put the child in danger, and by danger I don't mean "parent will be resistant to the gender change" but abuse and the like. |
Anonymous
If your kid wants to be called something different at school, that’s hardly a major life decision. The school isn’t going to give them hormones or buy them a dress. |
Anonymous
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How many actually read the policy at the link PP shared?
https://doe.virginia.gov/support/gender-diversity/2022-model-policies-on-the-privacy-dignity-and-respect-for-all-students-town-hall.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3tWKpjhFCia_8iecD906HN3L83ko3-4cc9QBjEKR4eZtSe85g8HDSrMg8 Actual policy starts on page 17. Rest is background. I do not like the one part about letting teachers say what they want but do think schools have brought this on themselves by not letting teachers with legitimate objections find some other workaround to use like a last name. Aside from that though I like this and I’m a moderate Dem. Trans kids deserve respect but they do not deserve to turn the entire school upside down to get it (eg trans girls using girls locker rooms and bathrooms and sports teams). Single person stalls are an entirely appropriate route instead and the policy says this should be used. Dems, let’s do ourselves a favor and NOT pounce all over this just before and election! There is a lot here most families will like and defending all the current practices makes Ds look entirely out of touch. |
Anonymous
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Teachers who respect and are kind to trans kids will still be kind. I don't think this takes away that ability, nor do I think those teachers will do anything cruel because of this policy.
Teachers that are going to dead name or misname trans kids probably weren't going to be their allies anyways. This may even make it easier to identify those teachers. Is this good? No. But I hope trans kids can still find some supportive teachers at school (though the numbers be region dependent). |
Anonymous
| I’m a moderate Democrat who supports this. Those of you who are up in arms about this policy are either blind at what is going on in our middle and high schools with an overwhelming number of kids claiming to be trans or non-binary or are brainwashed by the far left. These issues are pushing people to vote for people like Youngkin. Rather than call us transphobes, why not listen to our concerns? The left has no idea what’s going to hit them with a red wave if they go on like this. |
Anonymous
+1 I will not contribute to the high rates of suicides and attempted suicides by students who are shamed and blamed for who they truly are. These people claim they are doing this for the kids, but I'm sorry - unless you work with students day in and day out you don't know what kids in general are going through. |
Anonymous
Newsflash: you are not a moderate Democrat. |
Anonymous
Yeah and who cares? If 9th graders want to go by a different name and wear shapeless sweatshirts, what difference does it make? It’s either a phase, in which case humor them and get on with our lives, or it’s not a phase, in which case it’s important to take it seriously. |
Anonymous
Right? What a joke! |
Anonymous
This. I have a right to know what’s going on at school. That’s all the legislation says, fundamentally. |
Anonymous
The idea that you think it’s ok for school to change a child’s gender behind the parent’s back is NOT a moderate position. |