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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vell Rives is gross. No way I'd fall for his spiel. The people who are voting for him are either Trump-Youngkin accolytes - even if they won't admit to it out loud - or they are not very bright. [/quote]

I’m Middle Eastern. I voted Democrat all my life and hate Trump. I’m sick of Arlington Democrats getting involved in what is supposed to be a non-partisan position. I will be voting for Rives because of that. Also democrats have lost their mind on the trans issue.[/quote]

Do you have school-aged children with trans friends? The Republicans are the ones who have lost their minds; trans kids and their families have just been going along, living their lives in Arlington until Republicans freaked out.

(I'm not saying life is easy for trans kids, to be clear. But none of the nightmare scenarios Rs are squawking about had any basis in reality)[/quote]

Middle eastern poster here. There are no republicans running in Arlington. No democrats have lost their minds. I support kids being able to identify with the gender they are most comfortable with. I support trans kids being able to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. What I do not support is the right of schools to hide a student’s gender identity from their parents. That’s absolutely insane. As a parent, I have the right to know if my child is suddenly identifying with a different gender than their gender assigned at birth, no ifs and buts. [/quote]

If you are someone your kid feels safe telling, they will tell you.

And I hope you work every day to be that parent.

But a child's wellbeing is more important than your feelings. [/quote]

Again its very simple. The parent has the right to determine what is in their own child's well being.  So I decide the child's well being, not the school. Just like I have the right to make the determination on the most mundane of things - i.e. whether my child can go on a field trip. I should have the right to know/determine whether my child is being treated as the gender opposite to their gender assigned at birth. This is a dangerous slippery slope - imagine  the reverse - if conservatives were in power and we had [b]no rights as parents[/b]?  That's why I'm also against the portion of Youngkin's guidance where teachers, against the child's parents wishes, have the right to refer to a student by pronouns corresponding to that student's gender assigned at birth even if the parents want the opposite. Again this infringes on parental rights because in the end it should be up to the parent, not the teacher.  Now there are situations where teachers suspect abuse and there are laws for that. Teachers are mandated reporters.[/quote]

Calm down. No one is taking away all parental rights. We are talking about letting schools set the rules for how students are treated AT SCHOOL. If you want your kid to come home and dress a certain way, respond to a certain name, and do whatever else you think is appropriate for the gender you believe they are, you can still do that.

At first I thought you were a parent who was hurt by the thought that your kid wouldn't tell you important things. But the harder you hammer away at this, the more you seem like a parent who will badger your kid into compliance. No wonder you think they won't tell you things. Why would they? You don't listen.[/quote]

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