“I don’t know what these policies are going to mean for the people I love and for myself.'
Students at Colgan High School in Prince William County, Virginia, on Sept. 27, 2022in Virginia on Tuesday participated in walkouts to protest a proposed policy put forward by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that would heavily restrict the rights of transgender students in public schools., parents would be given the decision-making power about whether their “child expresses a gender that differs with their child’s sex while at school" and what pronouns their child uses at school.
Ranger Balleisen, a 17-year-old high school student in Fairfax County, Virginia, remembers feeling “dread” when they first heard about the new proposals.“The knowledge that I wouldn’t be safe in a school, and in a school system, in a state that I thought I could be safe in was terrifying,” they added. “So I started organizing that evening. We started planning the walkout at my school.”
Balleisen’s school walkout took place on Tuesday morning. “It went really well,” they said, adding that hundreds of students participated. “Today’s walkout and seeing all the other schools' walkout photos from today across the state has really made me believe that we can do this.”Ranger Balleisen speaks to students in Fairfax County, Virginia, during a school walkout in protest of anti-trans policies on Sept.
“So often in issues around education, students are excluded from the conversation, especially queer students,” 17-year-old Casey Calabia, who helped organize and participated in the walkout on Tuesday, told BuzzFeed News. “Getting this opportunity to have people listen to what we have to say, all across Virginia, is really imperative to making sure that we are not excluded from conversations that will quite literally change our day-to-day lives.
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