Fri Aug 25, 2023 – 4:36 pm EDT
RICHMOND (LifeSiteNews) — The Virginia Attorney General’s Office issued a legal opinion Thursday stating that Virginia’s biology-based standards for gender issues in public schools are legally binding on school districts that have resisted adopting them.
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.
Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) indicated earlier this month that it will not adopt the policy, prompting a rebuke from the governor, who said this week that the “law is very clear” on the matter, and that districts have no choice but to “comply with the law and stop thinking that they know more than parents.”
The issue has been complicated by the fact that, while Virginia law requires public school districts to abide by VDOE model policies, a lack of clear enforcement
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