Youngkin will block schools from accommodating transgender students

[Anonymous]

Read the actual document issued by Youngkin.

Not the filtered news articles.

Your outrage should be tempered significantly after reading what Youngkin's decree actually says.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The data suggest taking steps to create an affirming home or school environments could be crucial suicide-prevention tools. The report found that fewer than 1 in 3 trans and nonbinary youth felt affirmed in their gender at home, and LGBTQ youth who felt high social support from their family reported attempting suicide at less than half the rate of those who felt low or moderate social support. The survey found that LGBTQ youth who reported their school to be LGBTQ-affirming also reported lower rates of attempting suicide. “Sometimes people look at a broad social trend like this, and they think about laws that need to change, policies that need to change, and those do need to happen,” Paley says. “But every single person has the ability to create a different experience for the young people in their life.”

https://time.com/6173081/suicidal-thoughts-lgbtq-youth/

We are in very liberal northern virginia where almost every house has one of those rainbow in this house we believe signs.

Parents here are not sending their kids to conversion camp for being gay or trans. They are throwing them parties.

There is no reason for schools to hide this kind of information from parents.

Read the actual document.

Not the filtered through bias media summaries.

It is a well thought out document.

I care about all the kids in Va. Not just the ones in liberal parts of the state.

This is 2022.

The vast majority of parents, even the rural areas, are not these horrible monsters like the trans lobby wants people to believe.

And the minority? Those kids are collateral damage so you don’t have to be uncomfortable?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would want to know if my kid was, say, throwing away all her lunch at school and not eating, because this would be a sign of an eating disorder. I’d want to know if my kid was being bullied or being a bully to someone else. Why can’t I also know if my kid is demanding to be called a different name and pronouns at school as well? It’s wrong to keep this information from parents when kids spend a lot of their waking hours at school. It’s still a parenting issue, not just a schools issue.

I hope you see that the order is MUCH more than that, but the answer is obvious: trans kids get abused by their parents all the time when they find out. Look at the stats; they are horrifying. A absurd number of trans kids wind up homeless. Many teachers want those kids to feel safe around them.

+1, teachers can protect children as well, it literally part of our job. Some parents are closed-minded A$$HOLES, why would I encourage student harm/fear? The kids who want their parents to know have already told them. If your child is trans and you don’t know, then your child is afraid of you.

I think most people are aware of the high rate of suicides, but if you don't know your kid is transgender, and the school won't tell you that either, then you don't know what to look out for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The data suggest taking steps to create an affirming home or school environments could be crucial suicide-prevention tools. The report found that fewer than 1 in 3 trans and nonbinary youth felt affirmed in their gender at home, and LGBTQ youth who felt high social support from their family reported attempting suicide at less than half the rate of those who felt low or moderate social support. The survey found that LGBTQ youth who reported their school to be LGBTQ-affirming also reported lower rates of attempting suicide. “Sometimes people look at a broad social trend like this, and they think about laws that need to change, policies that need to change, and those do need to happen,” Paley says. “But every single person has the ability to create a different experience for the young people in their life.”

https://time.com/6173081/suicidal-thoughts-lgbtq-youth/

We are in very liberal northern virginia where almost every house has one of those rainbow in this house we believe signs.

Parents here are not sending their kids to conversion camp for being gay or trans. They are throwing them parties.

There is no reason for schools to hide this kind of information from parents.

Read the actual document.

Not the filtered through bias media summaries.

It is a well thought out document.

I care about all the kids in Va. Not just the ones in liberal parts of the state.

This is 2022.

The vast majority of parents, even the rural areas, are not these horrible monsters like the trans lobby wants people to believe.

And the minority? Those kids are collateral damage so you don’t have to be uncomfortable?

You clearly haven't read the order and are just relying on click bait headlines.

[Anonymous]

what if your boss insisted on calling you by a name you hated? And, if you're a woman, refereed to you as he? Would you just say "okay, I will now go about following your instructions to the best of my ability?" Adults get upset when they name is misspelled, for goodness sake. There is no way a teacher of adolescents could do this and effectively teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would want to know if my kid was, say, throwing away all her lunch at school and not eating, because this would be a sign of an eating disorder. I’d want to know if my kid was being bullied or being a bully to someone else. Why can’t I also know if my kid is demanding to be called a different name and pronouns at school as well? It’s wrong to keep this information from parents when kids spend a lot of their waking hours at school. It’s still a parenting issue, not just a schools issue.

I hope you see that the order is MUCH more than that, but the answer is obvious: trans kids get abused by their parents all the time when they find out. Look at the stats; they are horrifying. A absurd number of trans kids wind up homeless. Many teachers want those kids to feel safe around them.

+1, teachers can protect children as well, it literally part of our job. Some parents are closed-minded A$$HOLES, why would I encourage student harm/fear? The kids who want their parents to know have already told them. If your child is trans and you don’t know, then your child is afraid of you.

I think most people are aware of the high rate of suicides, but if you don't know your kid is transgender, and the school won't tell you that either, then you don't know what to look out for.

At some fcps middle schools nearly half of the girls are trans right now.

Most of their parents have no idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By not keeping gender and name changes secret from student parents? Just a thought.

Huh? Why shouldn't parents be responsible for knowing what their children are doing? Why should a teacher have to report that a kid wants to be called by a nickname etc. This is putting teachers way too much in the policing role--a high school teacher has hundreds of kids, by the letter of this law if Johnathon wants to be called John teachers could be culpable for not informing the parents. This is ludicrous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By not keeping gender and name changes secret from student parents? Just a thought.

Huh? Why shouldn't parents be responsible for knowing what their children are doing? Why should a teacher have to report that a kid wants to be called by a nickname etc. This is putting teachers way too much in the policing role--a high school teacher has hundreds of kids, by the letter of this law if Johnathon wants to be called John teachers could be culpable for not informing the parents. This is ludicrous.

Have you read the order?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The governor is putting sane policies in place. Good for him.

As between Glenn Youngkin and Robert Rigby setting policy on this issue in FCPS, I'll go with Youngkin.

He has taken on the left-wing crowd that has been trying mightily to turn public schools into instruments of progressive social change. They've jumped the sharks; parents got a taste of it when their kids were learning remotely; and they plan to assert their own primary responsibility for their kids when schools try to shut out parents and hold themselves out as "safe spaces" that may turn out to be anything but.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The data suggest taking steps to create an affirming home or school environments could be crucial suicide-prevention tools. The report found that fewer than 1 in 3 trans and nonbinary youth felt affirmed in their gender at home, and LGBTQ youth who felt high social support from their family reported attempting suicide at less than half the rate of those who felt low or moderate social support. The survey found that LGBTQ youth who reported their school to be LGBTQ-affirming also reported lower rates of attempting suicide. “Sometimes people look at a broad social trend like this, and they think about laws that need to change, policies that need to change, and those do need to happen,” Paley says. “But every single person has the ability to create a different experience for the young people in their life.”

https://time.com/6173081/suicidal-thoughts-lgbtq-youth/

We are in very liberal northern virginia where almost every house has one of those rainbow in this house we believe signs.

Parents here are not sending their kids to conversion camp for being gay or trans. They are throwing them parties.

There is no reason for schools to hide this kind of information from parents.

Read the actual document.

Not the filtered through bias media summaries.

It is a well thought out document.

I care about all the kids in Va. Not just the ones in liberal parts of the state.

This is 2022.

The vast majority of parents, even the rural areas, are not these horrible monsters like the trans lobby wants people to believe.

And the minority? Those kids are collateral damage so you don’t have to be uncomfortable?

You clearly haven't read the order and are just relying on click bait headlines.

I just looked at the 20 page order and don’t see how kids will be protected.

Care to point me to a specific page and educate me?

[Anonymous]

I am f'ing disgusted. My child is impacted by this with regard to the locker room. They were given a private place to change and now that is not required. WTAF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:By not keeping gender and name changes secret from student parents? Just a thought.

Huh? Why shouldn't parents be responsible for knowing what their children are doing? Why should a teacher have to report that a kid wants to be called by a nickname etc. This is putting teachers way too much in the policing role--a high school teacher has hundreds of kids, by the letter of this law if Johnathon wants to be called John teachers could be culpable for not informing the parents. This is ludicrous.

When does your kid get to have a say? This isn’t teachers vs parents. This is about a future adult gaining control over themselves. This is about a future adult gaining independence. Kids have always shortened their names even when parents have said they want their kid to be called by their full name. Kids will give their friends nicknames etc. you can’t control everything in your child’s life. They need to have some choices in order to become
Functional adults.

[Anonymous]

The numbers show this is definitely a mental health, fad, peer pressure related issue. Knew some kids who were gay back in the 80s, but not one single trans person. Perhaps they stayed hidden, but still not aware to this day of one person from my class transitioning. Perhaps there were a couple, but looking at the numbers today you can tell something is up. This fad nature of this will do harm to the kids who actually are trans.

And parents are ultimately responsible for their children, so the school/government should not be keeping this from the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am f'ing disgusted. My child is impacted by this with regard to the locker room. They were given a private place to change and now that is not required. WTAF.

That is not the case.

Read the text.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The numbers show this is definitely a mental health, fad, peer pressure related issue. Knew some kids who were gay back in the 80s, but not one single trans person. Perhaps they stayed hidden, but still not aware to this day of one person from my class transitioning. Perhaps there were a couple, but looking at the numbers today you can tell something is up. This fad nature of this will do harm to the kids who actually are trans.

And parents are ultimately responsible for their children, so the school/government should not be keeping this from the parents.

Yeah it’s funny how the school closure supporters will screech and squeal about how “schools aren’t parents or child care, you’re responsible for your kids” and then when it comes to being informed about their teen daughter’s mental health, it’s suddenly not ok and a huge breach of confidence.

Pick a lane, people!