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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Echoing some PPs, I am open to voting for any candidate, no matter the party endorsement.

Issue that I care the most about: the quality of academics at FCPS. (Doing something about the lack of quality.)

Caveats: 
*I do not care about punishing people who closed the schools during the pandemic. Move on. 
*I will NOT vote for someone who makes a priority of creating a hostile environment for LGBTQ kids. 
(And for those who make assumptions about me based on this statement: I have ordered the two books mentioned and will read them with an open mind. But even if I find them wholly inappropriate, I cannot imagine making two books in high school library shelves into a catalyst issue. I haven't read every post but, from what I have, this thread has covered: a couple controversial books, a proposed but not implemented plan to refer to kids by their "gender assigned at birth," and the notion that referring to gay people at all might be considered in elementary school as reference to sex and therefore inappropriate. I am by no means a political activist nor a nutty liberal, but any candidate who underlines these three points as their big identifying issues has lost me.)

Please tell me which candidates are genuinely invested in working to raise academic standards without emphasizing those particular gender/sexuality points.[/quote]

We have at least one boy at our FCPS high school who now use both the boys and girls bathrooms in the same day, because his gender changes by the minute depending on who know what, probably to follow specific girls into the bathroom.

Girls parents have complained and other boys have spoken up, but the principals hands are tied.

It is not "punishing" transgender kids when schools communicate with parents.  If the parents are informed and signed off on their kids trans status, then we will finally have reasonable gatekeeping to protect the actual trans kids and to prevent other kids, possibly predator kids, from exploiting the current open door bathroom and locker room policy.

Trans kids as a group are particularly at risk for exploitation, abuse, trafficking or worse by strangers on the internet, far more than from their parents.  Getting their parents informed should be the priority of FCPS, as should following the very reasonable governor's policy.

Instead, FCPS actively hides the information from parents, and pushes them towards unvetted, unsupervised, adult internet strangers via sanctioned forums like the trevor project, or towards that ffx lunatic who has been publicly telling minor children to run away from their families to live with him and his friends if their parents don't "affirm" their new gender or if they don't want to share their trans status with their parents.  With open predators like him, why would FCPS not want to get the parents informed as quickly as possible?[/quote]

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