Virginia implemented new anti-transgender policies for schools, but Fairfax County Public Schools will not comply with them. The new policies go against federal law by restricting bathroom access for transgender students and allowing teachers to ignore using students’ chosen names and pronouns. Studies show that affirming policies help transgender students feel safer and have better educational outcomes. FCPS affirmed its commitment to protecting transgender students and allowing them to fully participate as their authentic selves. The policies have faced opposition from residents, students, and civil rights groups who argue they violate nondiscrimination laws and harm transgender youth. Superintendent Reid echoed that affirming policies are critical to providing quality education for all students. Overall, the new state policies have ignited debate around balancing students’ welfare with claims of parental rights.
This the key problem in the Democratic Party right now, the onboarding of new people into the functioning of the party usually comes in the form people working on campaigns. The problem is that the campaigns with the most money, and thus the most ability to onboard new people in to the party system, are those mediocre bland candidates that do nothing to threaten large companies and rich individuals, so the bulk of new people coming in to the party for the past 30 years have been people who think such candidates are a good choice.
So now all the people with meaningful influence with in the party structure are people adverse to actually popular candidates. People who think “despite the poor poll numbers, we should continue to run candidates that look pretty and do a little as possible, because the average voter doesn’t want change, and we should seek to undermine any candidate that suggest otherwise as they may hurt our standing with the key “moderate” voter base”