I live in Chesterfield County and I oppose Action 4905.

The Board of Health has no business labeling groups of people harmful based on who they are. 

There are real public health issues facing women and girls in Virginia, like domestic violence, maternal health, and poverty. Don’t let this hateful petition distract from your important mission to protect the health and promote the well-being of ALL people in Virginia.

Across our races, backgrounds, and genders, we all deserve to be treated fairly. There is a nationwide effort by some politicians and interest groups to force transgender people and LGBTQ+ people out of public life. These political attacks harm us all, whether we’re gay or straight, transgender or not, because they foster discrimination and distract us from the real problems we face. 

Rhetoric like this blatant disregard for other’s humanity, does nothing to protect cisgendered women and girls. It only serves to provide cover for those who would use these stupid and insipid guidelines to police the bodies. We’ve seen cisgendered women and girls harassed in public places and being accused of being transgender based on everything from short hair, to body shape, to clothing. Indeed the “we can always tell” crowd have proven time and again that indeed they cannot. So how about we stop spending so much time thinking about what is in other people’s pants and focus on the enumerate actual issues that desperately require attention. 

This proposed regulation has nothing to do with the health of Virginians and everything to do with discrimination. No one should face discrimination because of who they are. Trans people have always been here, and always will be. Trans people cannot and will not be erased