I live in Loudoun County, 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. 

This is a blatant attempt to force government control on all women, banning anyone who is even perceived as trans is a dangerous precedent, there are plenty of stories from all across the nation where women have been harassed because people thought they were trans. If this goes through that will only harm Virginians, what good comes from segregating these spaces? This would just cause harm to trans Americans who are already harassed and killed simply for being trans.