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The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), joined by 39 other gender justice, sexual assault survivor, and civil rights organizations, submitted a comment strongly opposing the Virginia Department of Education’s 2022 model school rules. Where adopted, these proposed rules would require schools to engage in unlawful discrimination against transgender and nonbinary students. The letter emphasizes connections between rules that seek to punish LGBTQI+ youth for existing and the enforcement of sex stereotypes and body policing that harm all girls and women in school, especially trans girls, queer girls, and Black and brown girls. NWLC was joined in this comment by:
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia
Virginia National Organization for Women (NOW)
Advocates for Youth
American Association of University Women
American Humanist Association
Athlete Ally
CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers
Clearinghouse on Women’s issues
Education Law Center PA
End Rape on Campus
Equal Rights Advocates
Equality California
Family Equality
Feminist Majority Foundation
FORGE, Inc.
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Gender Justice
Gender Spectrum
GLSEN
Inclusion Playbook
interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth
Legal Momentum, the Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund
LGBT Tech
Minority Veterans of America
National Black Justice Coalition
National Center for Transgender Equality
National Center for Youth Law
National Council of Jewish Women
National LGBTQ+ Bar Association
National Women’s Political Caucus
Oasis Legal Services
People for the American Way
Physicians for Reproductive Health
SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change
The Advocacy Institute
The Sikh Coalition
The Trevor Project
Union for Reform Judaism
Women’s Law Project