A bill known as “Sage’s Law,” a Republican-backed effort to require public schools to inform parents if their child has indicated they are a different sex than what was given at birth, is set to be voted on this week in Virginia’s General Assembly .
The bill is facing headwinds with the Democratic majorities in the Virginia House and Senate. The legislation previously failed in last year’s Virginia General Assembly.
In January, Virginia state Sen. John J. McGuire, a Republican representing District 10, reintroduced the bill that would provide parents with greater oversight into their children’s lives at school and increase transparency in public education.
Senate Bill 37 states that “each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee to (i) as soon as practicable, inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor (a) expresses to any individual who is employed in such school that such minor is experiencing gender incongruence, as defined in the bill, or (b) requests that any such employee participate in social affirmation of such minor’s gender incongruence or the transition of such minor to a sex or gender different from the minor’s biological sex while at school.”