Fairfax teacher asks students to walk out in protest of Gov. GlennYoungkin's transgender policy
The teacher, a history and social studies instructor at West Potomac High School in Alexandria, Virginia, said in an email to students that the new policies, which require schools to obtain a written parental request before treating a student as a new gender identity, were discriminatory to the"LGBTQIA+ community."The email, which was obtained by the parent activist group Parents Defending Education, says that the Pride Liberation Project is organizing a student walkout on Sept.
"In the draft [policies], it states the staff should use the name that appears in the official record and use the pronouns that are appropriate to the sex that appears in the official record," the email says."The policy as written may cause students to be outed given the parameters." In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Parents Defending Education Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi said the teacher was engaging in"blatant political activity" and did not understand that teachers are"hired speech."
"It is not their role to pressure students to attend school walk-outs to protest policy changes by a Governor or state Department of Education," she said.
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