<p>Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin on Sunday defended the parents&#8217; rights policy he instituted in his state.</p>
<p>Appearing on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Youngkin stood by the new regulations affecting transgender students, which emphasize parents&#8217; rights in making decisions about their child&#8217;s gender identity. Youngkin stressed that parents have authority over their child&#8217;s upbringing and said the policy empowers them.</p>
<p>&#8220;[P]arents have a fundamental right to be engaged in their children&#8217;s lives,&#8221; Youngkin said. &#8220;And, oh, by the way, children have a right to have parents engaged in their life. And we needed to fix a wrong&#8230;children don&#8217;t belong to the state. They belong to families. And so, in these most important decisions, step one has to be to engage parents, not to the exclusion of a trusted teacher or an adviser, but to make sure that parents are involved in their children&#8217;s lives.&#8221;</p>
<p>The governor also said that his policy would make accommodations for students if the parents decided that identifying them by their trans identity is best for their child.</p>
<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re not saying is that there is no accommodation,&#8221; Youngkin said. &#8220;What we&#8217;re saying is, parents have to be engaged in that decision. And if a child and their parent, along with administrators and teachers, choose to have accommodations for that child, they will be granted.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If parents actually want their child to be able to change a pronoun or their name or use a bathroom, if parents choose that, then, legally, that&#8217;s what the schools will do,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>However, Youngkin stressed that the policy would keep biological males out of girls&#8217; sports.</p>
<p>&#8220;I do believe that it&#8217;s unfair for girls to have biological boys play sports with biological girls. There are sports with segregated &#8212; with segregated sexes for those sports. And those &#8212; those sports should be honored that way&#8230; Again, there&#8217;s a commonsense approach here to this. And I do think we have to respect girls as well here.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Republican <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovernorVA</a> Glenn Youngkin defends a new Virginia school policy requiring students to use bathrooms or join sports teams based on biological sex and not gender identity. <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNSotu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/TOYOd00bcp">pic.twitter.com/TOYOd00bcp</a></p>
<p>&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1579101121414631427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Youngkin introduced the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-replaces-democrats-mandatory-transgender-policy-with-parents-rights-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new policy</a> in September after the Virginia Legislature passed a law in 2020 mandating public schools adopt policies consistent with a document created by former Democratic Governor Ralph Northam&#8217;s administration called <a href="https://doe.virginia.gov/support/gender-diversity/transgender-student-model-policies.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools</a>. Youngkin&#8217;s administration overhauled the policy guidelines in the document, putting far more emphasis on parents&#8217; rights and involvement, especially as it relates to their child&#8217;s gender identity.</p>

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