Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R-VA) office called out Fairfax County Public Schools, the commonwealth's largest school district, after its superintendent decided to defy the governor's transgender policy.
On Tuesday, FCPS Superintended Michelle Reid sent a message to district families vowing to continue its practice of using"chosen names and pronouns" for children claiming transgender identity, as well as allow them to use restrooms, locker rooms, and other facilities that do not correspond to their sex.Bathroom policy has been of heightened concern in Virginia since 2021, when a boy wearing a skirt was able to use the girls' restroom and rape a student in next-door Loudoun County.
“The law requires the Virginia Department of Education to provide model policies and requires school boards to adopt policies consistent with those provided by the Department," Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter told the Washington Examiner."The Fairfax County Public Schools policies diverge from VDOE model policy guidance and perpetuate a false notion that FCPS knows what's better for a child than a child's parent.
New policies require facilities like restrooms and locker rooms, as well as gender-specific activities like sports, to be separated by the student's biological sex. All of the Old Dominion's 133 school districts are required to adopt policies consistent with the new guidance.However, FCPS claims its persistence on the transgender issue is permissible under federal and state anti-discrimination laws.
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