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Lynchburg School Board votes to adopt new transgender policy

Lynchburg City Schools, sheriff’s office await new city budget

The Lynchburg School Board voted Tuesday evening to adopt a new transgender student policy.

The policy passed, with a 6-3 vote.

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The policy says students should use bathrooms or locker rooms based on their sex assigned at birth, unless their parents opt-out to give their child access to a “sex-separated” facility.

As we’ve previously reported, Gov. Youngkin and the Virginia Department of Education released these guidelines last summer, and asked school boards across the Commonwealth to adopt them, but it wasn’t a requirement.


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