I live in Chesterfield County and I oppose Petition 432.

This petition is not about locker rooms. 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. 

I am someone who is apart of the LGBTQ+ & have Transgender friends. All I want for them is to be able to live their lives happily & free with the same equality as a cisgender person. They are not harming others or bothering anyone else but yet are viewed as a threat is crazy when there are more worst threats out here. Even crazier is the fact that the REAL threats out here are CISGENDER PEOPLE but nothing is done about that. Always worried about the wrong things.

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.