Fri Feb 10, 2023 – 5:15 pm EST
RICHMOND (LifeSiteNews) — The Virginia House of Delegates recently passed two bills which aim to ban keeping child “gender transition” from parents and prohibit men from competing in women’s sports.
The Republican-led House approved two pieces of legislation on Tuesday. HB 2432, also known as “Sage’s Law,” requires school officials aware of any evidence that a child is experiencing gender confusion to discuss the matter with at least one of the child’s parents. HB 1387 seeks to ban biological men and boys from competing in sports designated for women and girls within the public school system. Both bills will now advance to the Democrat-controlled Senate.
HB 2432 “requires the Board of Education to include in its guidelines for making such contact criteria to assess whether students have begun to self-identify as a gender different from their biological sex and criteria for notification of and discussions with parents of students self-identifying as a gender different from their biological sex.”
Additionally, the bill would bar counselors, social workers, and psychologists within the school system from “encouraging
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