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MEDIA ADVISORY

Dr. James J. Fedderman, President of the Virginia Education Association, made the following statement on Gov. Youngkin’s revised guidance for model policies regarding the treatment of transgender students in Virginia’s public schools:

The VEA unequivocally condemns these dangerous new guidelines put out by the Youngkin administration targeting LGBTQ+ students. The policies if implemented would no doubt threaten the safety and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ students and set their recent civil rights gains back in Virginia. You don’t have to look further than the disproportionate LGBTQ+ youth suicide and homeless rates to understand the immeasurable emotional and physical harm outing vulnerable students to certain parents would cause. This policy targets an already marginalized student group, offers no measurable benefit, and is simply cruel. The Youngkin administration is pulling from the Massive Resistance playbook to target a marginalized student group under the guise of “parental rights”.