"Students at nearly 100 different Virginia public schools are staging walkouts Tuesday to protest new policies from Governor Glenn Youngkin that require schools to obtain parental consent before allowing students to adopt new gender identities at school. The protests are being organized by the Fairfax County-based Pride Liberation Project, which says it is the "only student-led organization advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights in Virginia."
Nicole Neily, the president of the parent activist group Parents Defending Education, ripped the planned walkouts as a coordinated stunt by Virginia Democrats in a statement to the Washington Examiner. Neily's organization has strongly supported the Youngkin administration's new policies. "For me, this is clear: The Virginia Democrats are coordinating using high school kids to push their agenda," she said.
Youngkin's model policies, released earlier this month, entirely overhaul how school districts must respond to students who wish to identify as a gender other than their biological sex. The "Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools" will require all public schools to obtain written parental consent before they are permitted to accommodate a child's desired name and gender identity. The new policies will force school districts that had previously committed to facilitating social gender transitions for students without parental notification or permission to obtain parents' written permission first."
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