A chorus of furious parents rallied at a Virginia school last night in protest over proposed changes to rules that include punishing children for ‘maliciously misgendering’ their trans classmates if they accidentally refer to them by their old names.
The Fairfax County school board is still deliberating whether or not to implement the punishments for kids at Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church, Virginia.
It would make ‘deadnaming’ – the act of referring to a trans person with the name they used before they transitioned – a suspendible offense.
The board is also deliberating mixing boys and girls in sex education classes.
Parents say it is ‘too much too young’ and that some of the materials they are being shown are ‘pornographic’.
At a meeting in Virginia last week, the parents held up signs that read ‘concerned parents are ‘not terrorists’ and ‘we the parents have had enough’.
