Students at nearly 100 Virginia middle and high schools on Tuesday planned to walk out in protest of the state’s reversal of transgender protections that put decisions on students’ identities and preferred names at school exclusively in the hands of their parents.
The guidelines, released Sept. 16 by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration, require students to use restrooms, pronouns and names based on their official school record. It limits sports teams to gender assigned at birth, and it tightens parental notification requirements.
