Bad news! Here is the news from our parent organization.

Late last night, just after midnight in a still-packed room, after four hours of public comments from over 100 speakers, the Stafford County School Board narrowly voted 4 – 3 to approve two nondiscrimination policies that elevate “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to a special protected class, ignoring the cries of an overwhelming number of concerned parents in attendance. The policies give the district’s Superintendent virtually unlimited latitude to interpret and implement them as he sees fit – including the use of bathrooms, showers, and changing facilities – without any control or approval by the Board.

Adding insult to injury, the Board voted 4-3 against a motion to allow the Board’s legal Memo from their attorney to be made available to the public for the sake of transparency. The four members clearly have something they don’t want the public to know, since the Chairwoman revealed that she was voting against the policy because she agreed with the legal advice the Board was given! (continued here (familyfoundation.org))

Here are a couple of other sources.

• UPDATED: Stafford School Board passes nondiscrimination policy that would protect transgender students and staff, among others (fredericksburg.com)
• Stafford school board votes in support of transgender revisions to nondiscrimination policies (catholicherald.com)