Perturbed over “woke” district policies that have allowed two female students to be sexually assaulted by a “gender fluid” male, students in Loudoun County, Virginia, staged a walkout of classes on Wednesday to make their displeasure known about policies, which allow transgender, nonbinary, and gender-fluid students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that they feel line up with their gender of choice.
Somewhere between 50 and 100 students walked out of classes at Woodgrove High School, asking that the school district to reconsider Policy 8040, which was originally passed in 2021. Policy 8040 states that “Students shall be allowed to use the facility that corresponds to their consistently asserted gender identity. While some transgender students will want that access, others may want alternatives that afford more privacy. Taking into account existing school facilities, administrators should take steps to designate gender-inclusive or single-user restrooms commensurate with the size of the school.”
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, commended the students who walked out, for “standing up, saying you are not respecting our privacy and our safety.”
Youngkin also reminded the public just how to change a school board that they feel might be working against student interests, telling Fox News, “The entire Loudoun County school board is up for election on Tuesday and I encourage the Loudoun County voters to get out and make your voice heard, because it’s time to elect a new school board in Loudoun County.”
The current school board consists of Denise Corbo, Atoosa Reaser, Harris Mahedavi, Ian Serotkin, Tiffany Polifko, John Beatty, Jeff Morse, Erika Ogedegbe, and Brenda Sheridan. Morse and Beatty voted against Policy 8040.
“We are not required to adopt this policy,” Morse said at the time. “Many people across the state have rejected it. I won’t support it for the way it is written today.”
While up to 100 students participated in the walkout, they were disappointed that more didn’t protest the policy.
“It should be the entire school [walking out],” an unnamed student told WJLA.
Male students were protective of the female students.
“I would like to be able when I get off football practice and go put my pads away and change [to] not feel uncomfortable with other genders in there watching me,” one male student told WJLA. “I feel that girls feel the same way about the situation. How would you feel if you were a female changing with a male?”
One female student, who confided to WJLA that she no longer uses the school restroom because of the policy, said it was a “massive safety risk” that the district won’t “do anything about.”
“We express these concerns and they ignore us and write us off as right-wing crazies,” the young woman said. “We’re not crazy. We just don’t want to be in danger on a daily basis in this building. I think it’s people finally stepping up and just being sick of it. We’re sick of being here and just being completely ignored. I stopped using them [the bathrooms] because I don’t know what’s going to happen to me in there. And people can be like, ‘Oh, well, that’s paranoid.’”
But the sexual assault of two girls in the district by the same “gender fluid” boy proves that she’s not being paranoid.
The Loudoun County School Board has faced criticism for its apparent tone-deafness after a female student was sexually assaulted by a male student who claimed he was “gender fluid” at Stone Bridge High School in 2021. The “gender fluid” young man was barred from returning to Stone Bridge and transferred to another Loudoun County high school, Broad Run High School, where he was arrested for sexually assaulting another girl.
The father of the original assault victim garnered national attention when he was arrested for disrupting a school board meeting later in 2021. Youngkin would eventually pardon him.
“We righted a wrong. He should’ve never been prosecuted here,” Youngkin told Fox News. “This was a dad standing up for his daughter and just to remind everyone, his daughter had been sexually assaulted in the bathroom of a school and no one was doing anything about it.”
The family is now suing the school district for $30 million.
Instead of doing the logical and correct thing and protecting its female students, especially considering the two sexual assaults in the district, The Loudoun County School Board has opted to gain far-left-wing brownie points. Now, even the students themselves are saying, “enough is enough.”
