Several school districts in Virginia said they would be rejecting Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's model policies requiring students to use bathrooms and pronouns that match their biological sex.
ACPS said they are still reviewing the new policies to ensure they are following state and federal law, but remain committed to upholding thethat was adopted back in 1996 – a policy that has identified gender identity as a protected class since 2013. "We have reviewed the model policies and determined that our current policies and policy implementation procedures that protect the rights of our transgender students will stay as is," Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Francisco Durán wrote in a statement last week.
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