{"id":1681019,"date":"2022-10-10T06:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1681019"},"modified":"2022-10-10T06:39:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:39:45","slug":"this-is-not-controversial-va-gov-youngkin-defends-parental-rights-policy-to-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-not-controversial-va-gov-youngkin-defends-parental-rights-policy-to-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Is Not Controversial&#8221; &#8211; VA Gov. Youngkin Defends Parental Rights Policy to CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-is-not-controversial-va-gov-youngkin-defends-parental-rights-policy-to-cnn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1681019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin on Sunday defended the parents\u2019 rights policy he instituted in his state.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Youngkin stood by the new regulations affecting transgender students, which emphasize parents\u2019 rights in making decisions about their child\u2019s gender identity. Youngkin stressed that parents have authority over their child\u2019s upbringing and said the policy empowers them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[P]arents have a fundamental right to be engaged in their children\u2019s lives,\u201d Youngkin said. \u201cAnd, oh, by the way, children have a right to have parents engaged in their life. And we needed to fix a wrong\u2026children don\u2019t belong to the state. They belong to families. And so, in these most important decisions, step one has to be to engage parents, not to the exclusion of a trusted teacher or an adviser, but to make sure that parents are involved in their children\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also said that his policy would make accommodations for students if the parents decided that identifying them by their trans identity is best for their child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re not saying is that there is no accommodation,\u201d Youngkin said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re saying is, parents have to be engaged in that decision. And if a child and their parent, along with administrators and teachers, choose to have accommodations for that child, they will be granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf parents actually want their child to be able to change a pronoun or their name or use a bathroom, if parents choose that, then, legally, that\u2019s what the schools will do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, Youngkin stressed that the policy would keep biological males out of girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe that it\u2019s unfair for girls to have biological boys play sports with biological girls. There are sports with segregated \u2014 with segregated sexes for those sports. And those \u2014 those sports should be honored that way\u2026 Again, there\u2019s a commonsense approach here to this. And I do think we have to respect girls as well here.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This is not controversial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovernorVA<\/a> Glenn Youngkin defends a new Virginia school policy requiring students to use bathrooms or join sports teams based on biological sex and not gender identity. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNNSotu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TOYOd00bcp\">pic.twitter.com\/TOYOd00bcp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1579101121414631427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Youngkin introduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginia-replaces-democrats-mandatory-transgender-policy-with-parents-rights-manifesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new policy<\/a> in September after the Virginia Legislature passed a law in 2020 mandating public schools adopt policies consistent with a document created by former Democratic Governor Ralph Northam\u2019s administration called <a href=\"https:\/\/doe.virginia.gov\/support\/gender-diversity\/transgender-student-model-policies.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools<\/a>. Youngkin\u2019s administration overhauled the policy guidelines in the document, putting far more emphasis on parents\u2019 rights and involvement, especially as it relates to their child\u2019s gender identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin on Sunday defended the parents\u2019 rights policy he instituted in his state.Appearing on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Youngkin stood by the new regulations affecting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}