Despite Virginia’s new policy that now requires parental consent for gender affirmation by schools, and bathroom and locker rooms assigned by biological gender, a school board member says there is still a long way to go to give parents back their full rights.
Victoria Manning, a Virginia Beach school board member, is urging people to pay attention to school board elections to ensure that parents win the current fight for rights over what their children are taught in school and the environment in which they are taught.
“We still have an uphill battle here. We have a Department of Education that stands with parents, but we have many local school boards who don’t. So people have to pay attention this November, and pay attention to who’s on the ballot and make sure that you elect people who are going to stand shoulder to shoulder with parents,” Manning said during a Sept. 19 interview with NTD’s Capitol Report….