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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration has proposed new policies for the state’s schools regarding how they treat transgender students, including restricting which bathrooms they can use and which pronouns they may go by.
The Virginia Department of Education released its 2022 Model Policies online Friday, effectively rolling back the work of Youngkin’s predecessor, Democrat Ralph Northam. The new rules will effected the more than 1 million children enrolled in the state’s public school system.
The revamped rules explicitly state that students must only use bathrooms and locker rooms associated with the sex assigned to them at birth. If a student wants to participate in a sport or other extracurricular activities, they must, again, only participate in teams that align with the sex assigned at birth.
Further, the legal name and sex of a student can’t be changed “even upon written instruction of a parent or eligible student” without an official legal document or […]
Why did Virginians elect MAGA Youngkin? The answer is simple. Millions of Democrats stayed away from the polls in November of 2021, and did not vote! Perhaps complacent that Trump was now out of office, Virginia Democrats lazily couldn’t bring themselves to vote in a non-presidential election. Republicans, however, drinking deep from Fox News, fell for Youngkin’s ridiculous claims that elementary school pupils were being taught “critical race theory”. All fired up from propaganda, MAGAs voted, and Youngkin won. Moral of the story: if we wish to preserve democracy, Democrats must vote in every election, even in non-presidential years.