Cultural lunacy must not dictate removal of a family's right to full control of their child's education.
Children suffering from mental illness, such as gender dysphoria should be assisted with all resources Virginia can muster to help families, specific to quality healthcare resources. Educators have a responsibility to warn law enforcement if abuse is suspected, so mechanisms are in place for teachers, counsellors, bus drivers and school officials to partner in keeping our precious children safe.
All children are afforded many benefits in the Commonwealth including the expectation of personal safety and access to a decent education.
Integrating special needs children into the general population compromises the education of all students specific to our long held tenets of freedom of expression and the inevitable disruption we love to tolerate. For instance, autistic students are enrolled in special classes, with teachers better prepared to handle aggressive behavior and/or self harm tendencies.
Is the legislature prepared to acknowlege trans-kids as requiring special accomodations as a protected class?
Certainly, if all that were involved was a new bathroom in every school we could remodel the buildings. But inclusion violates the privacy of the general 2 gender population, while separate-but-equal stinks of unwanted attention for a fragile mentally ill young person. Not the intended or desired outcome the student hopes for, I'd opine.
In closing, parents must not be replaced by teachers; in fact, in practice or in secret.