Fairfax Schools now designates TWO months for celebration of LGTBQIA+: October is “LGBTQIA+ History Month” and June is “Pride Month”. In 2015, the School Board assured parents that the addition of “gender identity” would have no observable impact on students. An inordinate amount of time and money is spent on promoting this agenda.
There has been a battle over the treatment of “transgender” students in Virginia. In 2021 under Governor Ralph Northam, guidelines were promulgated and and FCPS developed its policy based on the principles embraced in that document. (According to Equality Virginia, an LGBTQ advocacy group, only 14 of Virginia’s 132 school districts adopted the 2021 VDOE guidance under Northam. Eight school boards partially adopted it and nine school boards rejected it.)
FCPS policy allows students to determine their “gender identity” with or without the parents’ knowledge and/or consent. FCPS policy allows students to access facilities (bathroom, locker rooms, etc.), activities and services compliant with their stated gender identity. It further provides for disciplinary actions against students and personnel who do not support and comply with the stated gender identity, referring to legal (baptismal) names as “dead names” if a student decides to socially change the name for gender identity purposes, and “misgendering” if a student or staff member refers to a “gender expansive” individual with a pronoun that does not conform with the student’s “gender expansive identity”.
FCPS has been vocal about its rejection of current revised guidelines which require parental involvement VDOE MODEL POLICIES ON ENSURING PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGINIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS published on July 18, 2023. In September 2023, the FCPS’ High School Principals wrote a letter to students, parents, staff, etc. expressing their opposition to the proposed Model Policies “We, the High School Principals of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), are writing to ensure every student, faculty and staff member, parent and guardian know that we understand the angst amongst our LGBTQIA+ students, staff, and community caused by the recent proposed model policy from the Virginia Department of Education.” This is a recurring theme. FCPS School Board Member Karl Frisch told the Washington Post: “This is about making sure that our students, who are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders right now because of what’s happening in Richmond and across the country (emphasis added), can come into our school buildings every single day and focus on what’s important: learning,” Parents Out of Exile responded “Did FCPS principals even read model policy before issuing letter to their communities?”
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