As a Virginia parent, I oppose the proposed Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia's Public Schools.  I urge the Virginian government to reject the proposal.  Any proposal based on the erroneous definition of gender as a set of "social, psychological, and emotional traits" as opposed to a biological fact is bound to be harmful for children of all sexual persuasions.  There are already ample laws on the books to prevent bullying of transgender children, from the Virginia Anti-Bullying Law and Virginia Values to the federal Civil Rights Act and Title IX.   The vast majority of Virginia public school kids will not be sexually active till the later years of high-school.  The "Model Policies" would force confusing discussions on children too young for sexual preference to be a material fact in their lives.  Childhood is difficult enough, especially with the Virginian government's failure to open schools during 2020 in a timely manner, without pushing a radical agenda on them, dressed up in the guise of promoting their welfare.  In addition, the "Model Policies" inappropriately erode parents' rights to be informed on major decisions taken about their children at school, and involved in those decisions, relative to their tax-payer funded public education of their children.  For these and other reasons, I oppose the "Model Policies", which are neither "model" nor necessary, given the many existing protections to transgender children already existing.