FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Most of the students who took part in recent walkouts across Virginia were just there to skip class and didn’t care about the cause of protesting the state’s new transgender student policies, according to an activist debrief recording obtained by The Epoch Times.
On Sept. 16, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) released the new transgender student guidelines, whose 30-day public comment period began on Sept. 26. According to the new policies (pdf), public schools can’t affirm a student’s gender without parents’ written requests. In addition, bathroom and locker room use is to be based on students’ sex, defined as the biological sex at birth. Student sports participation should be sex-based as well, unless federal laws require otherwise.
