Mon Sep 18, 2023 – 5:31 pm EDT
AMHERST COUNTY (LifeSiteNews) — Another school district in Virginia has voted against adopting the state’s biology-based standards for gender issues in public schools, underscoring the challenge facing the state in the absence of clear enforcement mechanisms.
Under Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has promulgated a model policy that requires students to be addressed by their legal names and actual sex, as well as to use biological sex to determine which bathrooms, lockers, or athletic teams they are allowed to access. Left-wing hostility to the policy in Roanoke County Public Schools recently caught the attention of the Biden administration Justice Department.
WSET reports that the Amherst County School Board voted 6-1 against the Youngkin policy and to instead retain its current policy, which says simply that the board is “committed to nondiscrimination with regard to membership in any category protected under federal or Virginia law. This commitment prevails in all of its policies and practices concerning staff, students, educational programs and services, and individuals and entities with whom the Board does business.”
“After speaking with our legal counsel, it is in the best interest
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