"The policy bars recognition of a student's affirmed name or gender identity in official records, restricts bathroom access, overnight travel accommodations, and participation in sex-segregated activities based on sex assigned at birth, and limits any deviation from those rules to cases in which parents provide written permission, while still prohibiting any changes to a student's legal sex or name in school records."
"Just days before LGBTQ+ ally, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, is set to replace Virginia's anti-trans Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, when she is sworn in on Saturday, a rural school board has adopted a sweeping new policy restricting transgender students, while simultaneously continuing to block a proposed middle school Gender and Sexualities Alliance. The board's moves prompted emotional warnings from students, parents, and educators who say the decisions could deepen bullying, isolation, and suicide risk for LGBTQ+ youth."
"The adoption came as the board in the fall also refused to allow non-curricular clubs at the middle school level, halting efforts to create a Gender and Sexualities Alliance at King George Middle School, a peer support group that multiple students and parents argued would provide a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth in a district where they say harassment and fear already shape daily school life."
On January 7, the King George County School Board adopted Policy JBB, requiring staff to refer to students only by the name and pronouns on the student's record and prohibiting recognition of affirmed names or gender identities in official records. The policy restricts bathroom access, travel accommodations, and participation in sex-segregated activities based on sex assigned at birth, and allows deviations only with parents' written permission while forbidding changes to legal sex or name in school records. The board also refused to allow non-curricular middle-school clubs, blocking a proposed Gender and Sexualities Alliance. Students, parents, and educators warned the measures could deepen bullying, isolation, and suicide risk for LGBTQ+ youth.
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