Virginia Gov. Youngkin reversed schools' transgender protections. Students plan to walk out.

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ARLINGTON, Va. — Students at nearly 100 Virginia middle and high schools on Tuesday planned to walk out 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.

What's in the policy: 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 record. It limits sports teams to gender assigned at birth, and it tightens parental notification requirements.

The bigger picture: The walkouts are part of greater nationwide youth pushback to an uptick in anti-LGBTQ policies in schools, including Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay Bill" and bans in 18 states against transgender athletes participating in sports that match their gender identity.

What does Youngkin's education policy reverse?

Last year, Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's administration instituted model policies that protected transgender and other LGBTQ students at school. The guidelines released this month, called The 2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students in Virginia's Public School, revises those Department of Education guidelines.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/virginia-gov-youngkin-reversed-schools-transgender-protections-students-plan-to-walk-out/ar-AA12i6n8

[RKP5637]

1. Excellent!!! The governor is a damn fool.

[Deminpenn]

2. Liz Cheney thinks Youngkin is doing a good

job. Her only quibble is that he's going to AZ to campaign for Lake.

[GreenWave]

3. Got elected on CRT lie. Son illegally tried to vote twice.

I think he also had to do with a dumb down the textbooks in Texas to export to the Gunshine State.

[Initech]

4. Please, Christian right, explain to me again how you're the party of freedom?

I'll wait.