Virginia’s trans youth could be navigating reinstated public-school restrictions regarding their gender identity next month after Gov. Glenn Youngkin released new “model policies” on Friday.
found a Virginia school board guilty of violating the 14th Amendment when it blocked a transgender student from using the bathroom of his gender identity, the new rule could face similar litigation.
They could be restricted to programs and extracurricular activities that match the sex they were assigned at birth.the new guidelines state that when it comes to “any school program, event, or activity, including extracurricular activities that are separated by sex, the appropriate participation of students shall be determined by sex.”
There’s one exception: Personnel can call the student by their preferred name if they have written consent from their parents instructing the school to do so. But even then, according to the updated guidelines state, teachers would not be required to follow the parents’ instructions, if they feel it violates their right to free speech.
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