I am proud to be a neighbor to the high school kids in Virginia who are . . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . protesting GuvnerMotherfuckerYunkin's great idea to stand on the necks of those who are members of the LGBTQ community.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-students-protest-youngkins-proposed-transgender-policy-walk-out-of-schools/3167335/

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Students streamed out of their classrooms to decry the model policies unveiled earlier this month. If adopted by school districts, the policies would require parental signoff on the use of any name or pronoun other than what's in a student's official record. They say participation in certain school programming and use of school facilities should be based on a student's biological sex, with modifications offered only to the extent required under federal law.

“We decided to hold these walkouts as kind of a way to ... disrupt schools and essentially have students be aware of what’s going on,” said Natasha Sanghvi, a high school senior and member of the Pride Liberation Project, which helped organize the resistance effort.

Sanghvi said the existing, more permissive state policies, which were adopted under former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's administration, had been powerful in helping students feel affirmed in their identities at school. The new ones made public earlier this month, she said, have the potential to harm “every single queer student in the state of Virginia.”

More than 90 schools were set to participate, including 59 in Northern Virginia, and thousands of students were expected to join the demonstrations.

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[Demovictory9]

1. Kick 🦵

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. These young people are standing up for their classmates.

These young people make me smile. Tell them thank you for being great young people

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Kick

I just saw one of them on msnbc she was fabulous!

[Bev54]

4. The kids today are learning to be much more vocal and active than their parents

I feel like the activism has skipped a generation, and they are taking the reins from their grandparents.

[Paladin]

5. And a child shall lead them... (nt)

[Lonestarblue]

6. Republicans seem to love tormenting kids.

Trump and his minions tried their best to persecute migrant kids, and now Republicans in many states are trying persecute LGBTQ kids, especially trans kids. Abbott’s policy in Texas has led to several degrading and disgusting investigations of families with trans kids for child abuse, forcing them to hire lawyers and some of them to move out of the state entirely.

This event in Louisiana was reported by The Guardian this week, and it shows just how sick and sadistic Republicans and the religious right really are. It isn’t enough that the religious right hates women and wants to take away all their rights, now they are preying on defenseless children.

“More than 2,000 public school students in Louisiana were told earlier this week that they were going to a college fair. They were then shuttled to what parents later deemed a sexist and transphobic church event which left many of the students traumatized.

On Tuesday, more than 2,100 high school seniors from the East Baton Rouge parish school system – which serves residents of Louisiana’s capital – were taken to the local Living Faith Christian Center under the promise that they would receive college and career advice, as well as free food.
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Organizers separated the students by their assumed gender once they got to the event, according to Brittney Bryant, a teacher and mother of a transgender student who also attended the event.

“Boys were instructed to go outside while the girls were left in the church for ‘girl talk’. My transgender child was discriminated against for walking out. I stayed and listened to the discussion. They talked about rape, forgiving the offender in life, suicide, prayer leadership, and many more dark controversial topics. We had females in the bathrooms crying due to the topics of discussion,” Bryant, who acted as a chaperone for the event, later wrote on Facebook.“

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/25/louisiana-school-college-fair-transphobic-church-event-students-say