ACTION: Fairfax School Board

The Issue

Schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, are indoctrinating middle school children with “gender identity” ideology. Trans-activists and the NAACP are currently putting pressure on the school board to adopt a uniform policy affirming the “gender identity” of trans-identified students. Currently, each school in the system handles issues involving trans-identified students on a case by case basis.

What You Can Do

Email and/or call school board members telling them NOT to adopt a uniform policy affirming the “gender identity” of trans-identified students and providing them with alternative resources (script and contact info below).

Email Script

Dear Fairfax County School Board member,

I am gravely concerned about FCPS adopting a uniform policy that affirms the “gender identity” of trans-identified students and about FCPS teaching a curriculum based on “gender identity” ideology. “Gender identity” is an amorphous term that has no factual basis in science or biology. We expect you to educate children with sound science, not ideology.

Instead of adopting a uniform policy that affirms the “gender identity” of trans-identified students, I urge you to use this guide in school policy: Transgender Trend Resource Pack for Schools: Supporting Gender Non-Conforming and Trans-Identified Students in School. Page 4 of this guide states: “We provide research‑based evidence and alternative strategies which will help teachers to best support not only the child who identifies as transgender but all children who defy gender and sex-role stereotypes.”

This Resource Pack provides a compassionate and inclusive guide which encompasses not only the needs of trans-identified and gender non-conforming students, but all students. It was written for schools in the UK, but the principles and research-based information are universal and readily applicable to US schools.

Encouraging “transition” in students is dangerous and can cause life-long physical harm. I and some of my colleagues plan to notify several local news outlets that this is happening in Fairfax County, and encourage them to expose this. Parents deserve to know what their children are being taught.

Phone Script

Hello,

I am [NAME, LOCATION, IF YOU ARE A PARENT OF FCPS STUDENT]

I am gravely concerned about FCPS adopting a uniform policy that presents “gender identity” as fact.  “Gender identity” has no factual basis in science or biology and affirming it as fact can lead to life-long physical and medical harm to students.

Instead, I urge you to use the Transgender Trend School Resource Pack. This guide provides compassionate and inclusive approaches which encompass not only the needs of trans-identified and gender non-conforming students, but all students.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Target(s)

Copy and paste this email string into your email message to send a message to all of the board members simultaneously:

jane.strauss@fcps.edu, sandy.evans@fcps.edu, pat.hynes@fcps.edu, dapalchik@fcps.edu, klcorbettsan@fcps.edu, tdkaufax@fcps.edu, megan.mclaughlin@fcps.edu, elizabeth.schultz@fcps.edu, tawilson1@fcps.edu, Karen.KeysGamarra@fcps.edu, Ryan.McElveen@fcps.edu, ilryong.moon@fcps.edu

Or call/email them individually:

DRANESVILLE DISTRICT Jane K. Strauss Voice Mail: 571-423-1087 E-mail: jane.strauss@fcps.edu

MASON DISTRICT Sandy S. Evans   Vice Chairman Voice Mail: 571-423-1083 E-mail: sandy.evans@fcps.edu

HUNTER MILL DISTRICT Pat M. Hynes Chairman Voice Mail: 571-423-1082 E-mail: pat.hynes@fcps.edu

PROVIDENCE DISTRICT Dalia A. Palchik Voice Mail: 571-423-1070 E-mail: dapalchik@fcps.edu

MOUNT VERNON DISTRICT Karen L. Corbett Sanders Voice Mail: 571-423-1086 E-mail: klcorbettsan@fcps.edu

LEE DISTRICT Tamara Derenak Kaufax Voice Mail: 571-423-1081 E-mail: tdkaufax@fcps.edu

BRADDOCK DISTRICT Megan O. McLaughlin Voice Mail: 571-423-1088 E-mail: megan.mclaughlin@fcps.edu

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT Elizabeth L. Schultz Voice Mail: 571-423-1080 E-mail: elizabeth.schultz@fcps.edu

SULLY DISTRICT Thomas A. Wilson Voice Mail: 571-423-1085 E-mail: tawilson1@fcps.edu

AT LARGE Karen Keys-Gamara Voice Mail: 571-423-1091 Karen.KeysGamarra@fcps.edu

AT LARGE Ryan L. McElveen Voice Mail: 571-423-1089 Ryan.McElveen@fcps.edu

AT LARGE Ilryong Moon Voice Mail: 571-423-1090 ilryong.moon@fcps.edu

You can also post on the board’s social media pages:

https://www.facebook.com/fcpsva/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/fcpsva/about/