VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin REVERSES Woke School Policies. Bathroom Must Match Birth Certificate. Alternative Pronouns Can't Be Forced

[Jim H - VA USA]

My Governor, working for the majority...

Virginia's GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin REVERSES woke school policies of his Dem predecessor: Trans students must use bathroom matching birth certificate and teachers can't be forced to use alternative pronouns​

• The Virginia School board reversed woke policies in a new model that requires Trans students to use restrooms matching their birth certificate
• Gov. Glenn Youngkin enacted new policies after his Democrat predecessor allowed students to choose which restrooms to use based on gender identity
• Teachers are also not required to enforce gender pronouns in the classroom in accordance with their First Amendment right to free speech
• The new policies 'reflect the Department’s confidence in parents to prudently exercise their fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Virginia Constitution to direct the upbringing, education, and control of their children,' the guidelines state

'The Department hereby withdraws the 2021 Model Policies, which shall have no further force and effect, and hereby provides these 2022 Model Policies, which are effective immediately,' the new policy reads.

Schools were also required to allow students to participate on sports teams based on their gender identity and required teachers to call students by their preferred pronouns.

The previous guidelines were enforced by the school board last year after Northam and other legislators passed anti-discrimination legislation in 2020 - and pushed educators to adopt specific LGBTQ policies for student protection.

Youngkin's guidelines walk back Northam's 2021 policies that required public schools to develop rules to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that corresponded with their gender identity.

Virginia's GOP governor REVERSES woke policies on trans students

Glenn Youngkin will ban students from using bathrooms and other single-sex facilities that don't match their paperwork.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

My Governor, working for the majority...

Virginia's GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin REVERSES woke school policies of his Dem predecessor: Trans students must use bathroom matching birth certificate and teachers can't be forced to use alternative pronouns​

• The Virginia School board reversed woke policies in a new model that requires Trans students to use restrooms matching their birth certificate
• Gov. Glenn Youngkin enacted new policies after his Democrat predecessor allowed students to choose which restrooms to use based on gender identity
• Teachers are also not required to enforce gender pronouns in the classroom in accordance with their First Amendment right to free speech
• The new policies 'reflect the Department’s confidence in parents to prudently exercise their fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Virginia Constitution to direct the upbringing, education, and control of their children,' the guidelines state

'The Department hereby withdraws the 2021 Model Policies, which shall have no further force and effect, and hereby provides these 2022 Model Policies, which are effective immediately,' the new policy reads.

Schools were also required to allow students to participate on sports teams based on their gender identity and required teachers to call students by their preferred pronouns.

The previous guidelines were enforced by the school board last year after Northam and other legislators passed anti-discrimination legislation in 2020 - and pushed educators to adopt specific LGBTQ policies for student protection.

Youngkin's guidelines walk back Northam's 2021 policies that required public schools to develop rules to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that corresponded with their gender identity.

Virginia's GOP governor REVERSES woke policies on trans students

Glenn Youngkin will ban students from using bathrooms and other single-sex facilities that don't match their paperwork.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Here are the policies, followed by some selections of text....

https://doe.virginia.gov/support/gender-diversity/2022-model-policies-on-the-privacy-dignity-and-respect-for-all-students-town-hall.pdf

As required under the Act, the Department developed and issued the guidance that took effect on March 4, 2021. The Department hereby withdraws the 2021 Model Policies, which have no further force and effect, and hereby provides these 2022 Model Policies, which are effective immediately.

B. These 2022 Model Policies reflect the Department’s confidence in parents to prudently exercise their fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Virginia Constitution to direct the upbringing, education, and control of their children. This primary role of parents is well established and beyond debate. Empowering parents is essential to improving outcomes for children.

C. These 2022 Model Policies adhere to the First Amendment. The First Amendment forbids government actors to require individuals to adhere to or adopt any particular ideological beliefs. Practices such as compelling others to use preferred pronouns is premised on the ideological belief that gender is a matter of personal choice or subjective experience, not sex. Many Virginians reject this belief. Additionally, the First Amendment guarantees religious freedom and prohibits compelling others to affirm ideas that may be contrary to their personal religious beliefs.

...

G. Student participation in sex-specific school activities and events and use of school facilities.

1. For any school program, event, or activity, including extracurricular activities that are separated by sex, the appropriate participation of students shall be determined by sex. [School Division] shall provide reasonable modifications to this policy only to the extent required by federal law.

2. Overnight travel accommodations, locker rooms, and other intimate spaces used for school-related activities and events shall be based on sex. [School Division] shall provide reasonable modifications to this policy only to the extent required by federal law.

3. Students shall use bathrooms that correspond to his or her sex, except to the extent that federal law otherwise requires. See Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, 972 F.3d 586 (2020)

4. Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available in accessible areas and provided with appropriate signage, indicating accessibility for all students.

H. Athletics
1. For any athletic program or activity that is separated by sex, the appropriate participation of students shall be determined by sex. [School Division] shall provide reasonable modifications to this policy only to the extent required by federal law.

 

[whitehall]

The key phrase "teachers can't be forced".

 

[night_son]

My Governor, working for the majority...

Virginia's GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin REVERSES woke school policies of his Dem predecessor: Trans students must use bathroom matching birth certificate and teachers can't be forced to use alternative pronouns​

• The Virginia School board reversed woke policies in a new model that requires Trans students to use restrooms matching their birth certificate
• Gov. Glenn Youngkin enacted new policies after his Democrat predecessor allowed students to choose which restrooms to use based on gender identity
• Teachers are also not required to enforce gender pronouns in the classroom in accordance with their First Amendment right to free speech
• The new policies 'reflect the Department’s confidence in parents to prudently exercise their fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Virginia Constitution to direct the upbringing, education, and control of their children,' the guidelines state

'The Department hereby withdraws the 2021 Model Policies, which shall have no further force and effect, and hereby provides these 2022 Model Policies, which are effective immediately,' the new policy reads.

Schools were also required to allow students to participate on sports teams based on their gender identity and required teachers to call students by their preferred pronouns.

The previous guidelines were enforced by the school board last year after Northam and other legislators passed anti-discrimination legislation in 2020 - and pushed educators to adopt specific LGBTQ policies for student protection.

Youngkin's guidelines walk back Northam's 2021 policies that required public schools to develop rules to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that corresponded with their gender identity.

Virginia's GOP governor REVERSES woke policies on trans students

Glenn Youngkin will ban students from using bathrooms and other single-sex facilities that don't match their paperwork.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Excellent move and intention but I wonder how long it will last? The true hell of woke sociopathy is that most often its ideological policies are implemented on the down-low without the law making process involved, and then take years of haggling in legislatures to kill. In some ways woke is the perfect poison.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

The key phrase "teachers can't be forced".

The way it should be.

My pronoun is Ultra Mega Macho MAGA. Should be optional.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

Excellent move and intention but I wonder how long it will last? The true hell of woke sociopathy is that most often its ideological policies are implemented on the down-low without the law making process involved, and then take years of haggling in legislatures to kill. In some ways woke is the perfect poison.

I would expect some woke school districts like Fairfax to challenge or at least try to ignore it if they can.

Many districts ignored his order making masks optional in schools statewide, IIRC.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Fairfax and some of those northern Va Counties have lost they damn minds.

And you know why too don't you Jim H - VA USA

16 of those counties have been engaging in Voter Fraud for decades we have come to find out.

 

[Dekster]

Excellent move and intention but I wonder how long it will last? The true hell of woke sociopathy is that most often its ideological policies are implemented on the down-low without the law making process involved, and then take years of haggling in legislatures to kill. In some ways woke is the perfect poison.

I think there may already be case law in Virginia going the other way. Maybe out of Gloucester

 

[two_iron]

Youngkin - promises made, promises kept.

And he's not a Trump guy which really burns the shitlibs....

 

[scruffy]

Hey libbies - told ya.

 

[Delldude]

Biggest part of the revised legislation:

The new policies 'reflect the Department’s confidence in parents to prudently exercise their fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Virginia Constitution to direct the upbringing, education, and control of their children,' the guidelines state

 

[ColonelAngus]

Moving forward, lets just have individual bathrooms. I am ok that.

 

[WEATHER53]

My eye doctor got very irritated I would not confirm what pronoun I want to be called.

 

[SeaMajor7]

"I identify as..." is the same EXACT thing as "I pretend to be..."

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

My eye doctor got very irritated I would not confirm what pronoun I want to be called.

The last time I donated blood, they asked me

"What gender do you identify with today?"

I LOL'd, since when you look at me, it's quite obvious and unquestionable, as far as I knew. Plus, "today???" The nurse replied that she had to ask.

 

[Delldude]

My eye doctor got very irritated I would not confirm what pronoun I want to be called.

My pronouns are Yo', Dude, and Bro.

"I identify as..." is the same EXACT thing as "I pretend to be..."

I've identified as a woman when the mens room at the bar was full.

 

[WEATHER53]

My eye doctor got very irritated I would not confirm what pronoun I want to be called.

He defended it by saying he had to prevent insulting anyone.
I suggested that he use the default notion that I am what I look to be
After 5 minutes I got another doctor.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

He defended it by saying he had to prevent insulting anyone.
I suggested that he use the default notion that I am what I look to be
After 5 minutes I got another doctor.

You should have asked the doctor if today's examination was going to change if you said she/her.

 

[basquebromance]

this is why Youngkin won. i call him The Common Sense Governor

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[EvilCat Breath]

The transgendered are mentally ill and their illness is growing and spreading the more they are accommodated.