Virginia students protested the reversal of transgender protections requiring them to use restrooms, pronouns and names based on their school records.
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More than 1,000 students walked out of Virginia middle and high schools Tuesday, organizers said, leaving class in protest of the state's reversal of transgender protections that put decisions on students' identities and preferred names at school exclusively in the hands of their parents.
The guidelines, released Sept. 16 by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration, require students to use restrooms, pronouns and names based on their official school records. It limits sports teams to gender assigned at birth, and it tightens parental notification requirements.
"Revoking (transgender protections) now would be like dialing back the clock. It'd be like telling students, 'we don't really care, you're not really who you believe yourself to be,'" Andrea-Grace Mukuna, 16, told USA TODAY on Tuesday at John R. Lewis High School in Springfield, where more than 100 of her peers walked out for a protest on the football field.
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Ahhh shat up!
Nobody watches the Looney Tunes anymore.
School is a place of learning. Teachers don’t need to concern themselves with who you are. It doesn’t matter.
@Alan Eiler bruh that’s like saying race/ethnicity is a cult, you look goofy 💀
@Jay Kanta yeah gender is made up bs
@Jay Kanta nope! Had a beer with my neighbors who are gay. They are good dudes in my book!
@Keon Green ahhhhh bruh…. turning into a race thing? Thats a race baiting in its finest… got no issues with either as I have good friends of the family that are black. 🍻to ya
@Jay Kanta Gender is a social construct. The social construct is that your biology determines your gender, there’s only 2 genders and you’re either one or the other and you can’t change your gender 🙂
Keep Biological Men out of Women’s Sports. Period end of conversation!
Without smartphones there would have been zero walkouts. Always remember: social media is not your friend.
The walkouts were great! If smartphones helped to organize them, so much the better.
Tell that to the protesters in Iran right now. Or the 2020 Hong Kong protests.
Walkouts are a pretty old school feature of protests so no. Same as handwritten signs and megaphones, which young activists also still employ for some reason.
The groomer parades because they want more attention.
But who cares about actual problem like our borders or inflation instead let’s get a vote
Well, I guess it goes without saying, I don’t really believe that they really believe who they are in the first place.
School is tough enough, leave personal desires at home, that includes teachers. Teach, that’s all, period.
Yea so LET KIDS LEARN stop making RULES to DIVIDE THEM!!!
These kids cant even comprehend the
Difference between male & female 🤦
Why bother going to school?
They should be shackled and forced to do manual labor.
Too funny!
How do you categorically protect a trans student? A student is a student regardless of their chromosomes. Trans is just a group term. Like if you lived alone on an island, no one there to Identify you, so no need to identify as. Right? So it only works in a group context . But again , there’s nothing distinct to be protected. The reason its problematic is because rich parents or young adults threaten others with legal charges if they refuse to pretend to agree with someone being a gender which they believe them not to be. Do they not realize that that is problematic? Threatening legal charges against someone’s belief? The lawyers and judges who defend it are the real threat. Great use of that law degree, using it to bully other people for being logical. We’re all real proud of ya 🫠
Sad state of confusion our country is in.
Put shackles on them and make them do manual labor.
I am transphobic but I want to learn how to become even more transphobic. Help please
Just a clue that most kids your age used to understand. You don’t get everything you want, and you aren’t entitled to have your way at the detriment of others.
The white kid in front on the thumbnail looks like governor Youngkin, maybe he’s his son or relative. And he’s not in this video.
GOP sure has lots touch, these young folks are future VOTERS lol