HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — The Hanover County School Board voted 5-2 to approve a new bathroom policy for transgender and non-binary college students.

The new policy has transgender and non-binary college students apply to the varsity board to be granted permission to make use of a special rest room or locker room. For loos, this utility would come with a required request together with different elective paperwork.

The faculty board could ask for a pupil assertion, a guardian assertion, a signed doc from a physician or counselor, disciplinary and legal data, and knowledge associated to the privateness of different college students.

Those with previous permission won’t should reapply.

The coverage was offered by the varsity board earlier this month after it was crafted in a year-and-a-half of closed periods. The board stated the coverage was largely put collectively by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) that the board has been consulting.

The newly-adopted coverage comes following a lawsuit and the district not having a selected coverage to guard transgender college students regardless of a Virginia regulation that went into impact final summer season requiring faculty districts to undertake state insurance policies. Those insurance policies state colleges can’t use strategies that might out college students to oldsters or query the best way they establish.

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The new coverage has been a hotly mentioned matter, with neighborhood members being vocal on each side of the subject. In an August 16 assembly, an unruly viewers almost compelled the varsity board to clear the room throughout their assembly.

In that assembly, mother and father involved in regards to the coverage stated it was unfair and that it punishes college students by making them leap by way of hoops, criminalizes them and outs them.

“We’re disappointed. We expected the result we got tonight,” one assembly attendee stated.

“Who are you to decide if someone is trans enough to use the bathroom that will keep them safe?” one other attendee stated.

On the opposite aspect, these in assist of the coverage counseled the varsity board for making a coverage that they consider protects all youngsters.

“I do support the decision. I feel like it encompasses parental rights,” one other attendee stated.

“I think what we saw tonight was an effort to make sure every single student was protected,” one other neighborhood member stated.

Prior to the ultimate vote, faculty board member Robert Hundley requested the board so as to add an modification to take out the a part of the coverage the place the board might presumably ask for legal data.

This was voted down.

The newly-approved coverage will go into impact from this level ahead.

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