Sage’s Law, HB 2432, recently passed in the Virginia House of Delegates on a strict party-line vote with 50 Republicans voting for it, 48 Democrats against it, and 2 abstentions. Should this bill pass into law, it would mark a hard-won victory against the left’s agenda of teaching radical gender ideology in public schools and hopefully reverse a trend that has wreaked havoc on families and children across the country.
With Sage’s Law, the state legislature seeks to redress this misguided, harmful trend by codifying what should be obvious and beyond any serious debate: Parents are the primary caregivers for their children and should be involved in their children’s care. Passage of this legislation is imperative because schools are usurping parents’ roles and interfering with the care of their children by intentionally concealing information about their children’s desire to “transition” genders, often with tragic consequences. In the horrific case of Sage, for whom the legislation is named, a Virginia high school’s deliberate concealment of a girl’s newly asserted transgender identity from her parents triggered a sequence of events that led to her becoming prey to sexual predators.
Her mother’s courageous testimony before the Virginia House of Delegates Education Committee in favor of Sage’s Law can be seen here.
Sage’s Law would require school officials who learn that a student is self-identifying or desiring a so-called gender identity different from the student’s sex (gender incongruence) to contact at least one of the student’s parents. Further, the school would be required to
