Thread by @KDansky

Thread about VA county school policies on GI.

I received an email from an anonymous woman in VA today. I am sharing it here, with permission, with minor clarity edits. (I cannot vouch for its veracity.)

By "piece on Loudoun County," she means a blog post from yesterday. 1/14

"I'm not on twitter (my account got locked in 2019 and I deleted it) so I can't contact you that way... 2/14

I read Ovarit and I saw your piece about Loudon County and the same thing is happening in Albemarle County VA where we had a school board meeting last night 8/12/21 to vote on the same transgender policy... 3/14

In the past parents would get an email with the zoom link to view the meetings but they sent out nothing in advance... 4/14

They are using some kind of loophole to keep school board meetings on zoom/Livestream only and NOT available for the public to attend in person. They opened up to public comments on 8/9 and nobody knew about it... 5/14

There's a group here called Citizen Care care-acps.org that has gotten some local press but nothing like Loudon County. Our county is 80% white, outside Charlottesville, suburban/rural, central Virginia... 6/14

For the record, I am a transplant, mixed-race, from the north. It is a one size fits all policy getting pushed through and we have no voice. The school board, superintendent (Matt Haas) and principals like Beth Costa are all-in for this, and parents have no say... 7/14

Everything is woven into the curriculum. Parents are now no longer sent home information about Family Life Education (sex ed) and the opt-out forms... 8/14

No opting out, FLE is now tied to SOLs (testing, so kids will have to absorb and parrot back gender stuff in order to pass their state-mandated tests)... 9/14

Parents have to come into the school during school hours and request to look at them in person esb.k12albemarle.org/attachments/c7… ... 10/14

I am the breadwinner in my family of 4. Going public with my views will cost me because my industry is woke... 11/14

I had a slot to speak but chickened out so I tried to get my husband to use my link to comment during the Livestream but it had to be with my email. Anyway, he got kicked off. Most of the comments were critical of the policy which will probably pass anyway... 12/14

I am usually much more coherent but I can't contain this feeling of helplessness... 13/14

I have two kids in this school system and every day another mother tells me her girl is transing. My son is special needs. We moved to this area for the schools and now we are mired in this. This is all being done by stealth. 14/14