Virginia’s education department has finalized a new rule requiring all public schools to get parental permission before cooperating with students who want to identify as a different gender.
The new policies released on Tuesday bar schools from accommodating a student’s request to start going by a different name or pronoun at school unless the child’s parent provides the school with written permission. The policies also require students to play on the school sports teams and use the school bathrooms that match their biological sex.
“All children in Virginia deserve to have a parent engaged in their life and to be treated with dignity and respect,” Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, said of the new policies.
