- THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON - GELLER REPORT - Josh Christenson - JUL 5, 2022 -
A Virginia school district is prohibiting teachers from consulting parents when students as young as kindergarten-age switch genders at school.
Fairfax County Public Schools is instructing teachers and administrators to forgo parents' permission when a student requests to use a bathroom or locker room associated with his or her so-called gender identity, according to screenshots of a mandatory faculty training module obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The district will also allow schoolchildren without parental consent to change their names and on its virtual learning portal "identify as male, female, or nonbinary." Teachers could not proceed with the "Supporting Gender-Expansive and Transgender Youth" training until they checked the correct boxes, regardless of their personal beliefs.
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Fairfax County Public Schools did not respond to a request for comment. A county teacher said it was unclear what penalties teachers face for refusing to comply.
The teacher training module is the latest instance in which a public school board has implemented controversial policies without parental consent. A New Jersey public middle school forced students to watch a video about hormone treatment without notifying parents beforehand, the Free Beacon reported in March. Parents have informed the Free Beacon their children "socially transitioned" to another gender at school without their knowledge.
The news comes as parents nationwide have agitated for more oversight of public education. A Fairfax County School Board meeting in June saw dozens of parents turn out to oppose handbook rules that suspend students starting in fourth grade for using the wrong pronouns to refer to gender-nonconforming classmates. The school board adopted the handbook amid parents' objections that the rules violate the First Amendment by compelling speech.
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