{"id":1781971,"date":"2022-12-20T17:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781971"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:04:24","slug":"virginia-democrats-fight-to-abolish-single-sex-bathrooms-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-democrats-fight-to-abolish-single-sex-bathrooms-in-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Democrats Fight To Abolish Single-Sex Bathrooms in Public Schools"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fvirginia-democrats-fight-to-abolish-single-sex-bathrooms-in-public-schools%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=1781971&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--><p>Virginia Democrats are fighting to abolish single-sex bathrooms in public schools and keep parents in the dark when their children assume different genders at school.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on the state legislature&#8217;s rules commission in a 5-4 vote on Monday rejected Gov. Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s (R.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doe.virginia.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/36603\/638059383089400000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan<\/a> to protect same-sex spaces and increase parents&#8217; role in education. If the plan is adopted, administrators and teachers would have to seek parents&#8217; consent before referring to children by different names or pronouns. The plan would also preserve sex-specific sports teams, locker rooms, and bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The vote is the latest attempt by Virginia Democrats to block Youngkin&#8217;s transgender policies. Delegate Elizabeth Guzm\u00e1n (D.) in October floated a bill designed to counter the governor&#8217;s policies, which would make it a crime for <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/crisis-in-the-classroom\/lgbtq-students-parents-schools-education-child-protective-services-felony-glenn-youngkin-jason-miyares-lesbian-gay-transgender-charges-virginia-sexual-orientation-gender-identity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parents<\/a> to ignore their children&#8217;s chosen name, pronouns, or sexual orientation. School districts in liberal enclaves across the state have pledged to flout Youngkin&#8217;s plan if implemented.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Youngkin said the governor did not support the commission&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The commission&#8217;s vote was largely formal. The model policy, which was introduced in September, will be finalized by Virginia&#8217;s Department of Education and does not require legislative approval. The policy improves upon guidelines put in place last year by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/northam-racism-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disgraced former Virginia governor Ralph Northam<\/a> (D.), which mandated that schools abide by names, pronouns, and bathroom choices that correspond with a student&#8217;s perceived gender.<\/p>\n<p>The state Education Department is &#8220;in the process of reviewing more than 71,000 public comments&#8221; before the state superintendent announces the final version, according to a spokesman. He did not give a timeline. Education Secretary Aimee Guidera on Monday testified in support of the policy before the commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children do not belong to the state,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They belong to families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have not made use of the rules commission since they won a majority in the General Assembly in 2020. Republican delegate Chris Head noted that the commission&#8217;s chairman gave left-wing groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and Equality Virginia the chance to testify while limiting parents&#8217; groups to brief public comments.<\/p>\n<p>Parents&#8217; groups weren&#8217;t &#8220;afforded the opportunity to be a part of the official presentation here as was afforded the other folks,&#8221; Head <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlenSturtevant\/status\/1604937515278151681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;So discrimination is fine for the other side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democratic senator R. Creigh Deeds, who chairs the commission, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that he &#8220;did not in any way limit&#8221; the presentations of either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Democrats are fighting to abolish single-sex bathrooms in public schools and keep parents in the dark when their children assume different genders at school.<br \/>\nThe post Virginia Democrats Fight To Abolish Single-Sex Bathrooms in Public Schools appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":875502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[10687,10686,4092,3685,4004,3799,3735,10688,5468],"class_list":["post-1781971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-abolish","tag-bathrooms","tag-beacon","tag-democrats","tag-fight","tag-public","tag-schools","tag-single-sex","tag-virginia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781971","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}