I live in Albemarle Cty and I oppose Action 4905.

The Board of Health has no business labeling groups of people harmful based on who they are. 

There are real public health issues facing women and girls in Virginia, like domestic violence, maternal health, and poverty. Don’t let this hateful petition distract from your important mission to protect the health and promote the well-being of ALL people in Virginia.

Across our races, backgrounds, and genders, we all deserve to be treated fairly. There is a nationwide effort by some politicians and interest groups to force transgender people and LGBTQ+ people out of public life. These political attacks harm us all, whether we’re gay or straight, transgender or not, because they foster discrimination and distract us from the real problems we face. Among those are the praying need to have stronger public health programs in rural and urban Virginia.  Why are you expending energy over something that involves perhaps at most 0.1% of Virginians when 1/4 of the population under age 65 is on Medicaid or the ACA and cuts to the federal budget are going to cause premiums to go up and rural hospitals and clinics to close? 

Mark

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