Purpose:‍ ‍The bill would make it illegal to provide gender transition procedures to minors in Virginia. It also prohibits the use of public funds for gender transition procedures for minors.

Key details

• Defines gender transition procedures to include treatments such as surgeries or certain medical interventions intended to change a minor’s sex characteristics.

• Makes it unlawful for a person or healthcare provider to perform or provide these procedures to minors.

• State funds cannot be used to pay for gender transition procedures for minors.

In Other Words:‍ ‍SB411 would ban medical gender transition treatments for people under 18 and prevent taxpayer money from funding those treatments in Virginia.

Why It’s Good:‍ ‍Protecting children, who are the most innocent and vulnerable among us, should be the highest priority of our society. SB411 aims to protect minors from making permanent medical decisions before they are fully mature and able to understand the potential consequences of life-altering actions. Procedures intended to change sex characteristics will have long-term physical and psychological effects with no long-term studies supporting unfounded claims that they improve outcomes for patients or reduce suicidality.

Waiting until adulthood ensures that individuals are able to receive mental health care, grow out of episodes of social contagion, and make more informed choices. The bill also helps to ensure medical caution when dealing with complex issues involving youth development. Making it law would prioritize the safety and long-term well-being of minors.

Current Status:‍ ‍SB411 was killed in committee by Senate Democrats.

Purpose:‍ ‍HB614 would require Virginia public schools to include the contributions, perspectives, and experiences of historically marginalized communities in history and social science instruction. The goal is to ensure that classroom materials provide a more comprehensive and inclusive view of history.

Key details

• Requires history and social science standards and instructional materials to include the experiences of groups such as racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants and refugees, women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people from different socioeconomic or religious backgrounds.

• The Virginia Board of Education must update Standards of Learning (SOL) and instructional guides to include this content during future revisions.

• The content must be age-appropriate, historically accurate, and integrated across grade levels, rather than limited to specific months or special observances.

• By the 2028–2029 school year, SOL history assessments would include questions related to these communities’ contributions and experiences.

In Other Words:‍ ‍HB614 would expand upon existing curriculum that already highlights contributions by historically marginalized communities to include leftist ideological materials and instruction on transgenderism.

Why It’s Bad:‍ This bill will require schools to emphasize certain social or political perspectives in history classes that include leftist ideology on transgenderism. Curriculum decisions should remain primarily with local school boards, parents and teachers, rather than being directed by state law. The bill will also lead to disputes about which groups or viewpoints must be included in lessons. Schools should focus on teaching core historical facts without adding new statewide curriculum requirements that touch on highly controversial and potentially dangerous topics such as transgenderism.

Public schools in Virginia are currently underperforming and already failing to educate our children to an adequate degree. So ask yourself, will adding this requirement do more to prepare your child for life in the real world, or not?

Current Status:‍ ‍HB614 has passed the Virginia House of Delegates and is now awaiting consideration in the Virginia Senate before going to Governor Spanberger.

Purpose:‍ ‍SB563 would give parents of public-school students the right to opt their children out of certain school instruction or activities that include topics such as gender identity, sexual orientation, transgenderism, or drag-show-related content. Schools would be required to make reasonable accommodations for students during the opt-out period so they are not penalized.

Key details

• Parents could opt their child out of lessons, readings, discussions, presentations, assemblies, or other school activities that include those topics.

• Public schools would have to provide alternative arrangements for the student during that time.

• High-school students who are 18 years old could request the opt-out themselves.

In Other Words:‍ ‍SB563 proposed allowing parents to opt their children out of certain school lessons related to gender identity or sexual orientation.

Why It’s Good:‍ SB563 strengthens parental rights in education by allowing parents to decide what topics their children are exposed to in school. Issues related to gender identity, transgenderism and sexual orientation can be controversial and dangerous. They should be discussed according to a family’s values and beliefs. The bill also ensures students are not punished academically when their parents choose to opt them out of certain lessons. This approach respects family choice while still allowing schools to teach their regular curriculum.

Current Status:‍ ‍SB563 was killed by Democrats in the State Senate Education and Health Committee.

Purpose:‍ ‍HB359 would set rules for private schools that receive public money for student tuition (for example, through vouchers or similar programs). The bill requires those schools to meet “accountability” and “nondiscrimination standards” similar to public schools while giving the state government power to control private school curriculums.

Key details

• Students attending private schools using public funds must take Virginia’s Standards of Learning (SOL) tests.

• Participating private schools must receive “accountability ratings” from the Virginia Board of Education.

• Schools cannot discriminate in admissions, enrollment, discipline, or programs based on factors like race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, language proficiency, or socioeconomic status. (Federal and state law already prohibits this).

• Schools with very low “accountability ratings” could be barred from enrolling new publicly funded students for several years.

In Other Words:‍ ‍HB359 is designed to block school choice and the use of school vouchers by financially disadvantaged families who wish to send their children to private schools. It is also designed to give the Democrat-controlled state government the power to manipulate private school curriculums to include their desired ideological views.

Why It’s Bad:‍ place heavy regulations on private schools that accept public funding. Critics argue that requiring private schools to follow the same testing and accountability rules as public schools may reduce their independence and unique educational approaches. They also worry the added requirements could discourage private schools from participating in programs that help families afford tuition. Opponents believe parents should have more educational choice without increased government control over private institutions.

Current Status:‍ ‍HB244 has passed the House but is still being considered in the Senate committee, so it has not become law yet.

Purpose:‍ ‍HB531 is often called a “born-alive infant protection” bill. It requires doctors who attempt to terminate a pregnancy to provide the same medical care to an infant born alive after the procedure as they would to any other newborn at the same stage of development. It also requires the provider to take reasonable steps to transfer the infant to a hospital for medical treatment.

Key details

• Healthcare providers must use the same level of skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of a baby born alive after an attempted abortion as they would for any other newborn.

• The infant must be immediately transferred to a hospital for further medical care.

• A provider who fails to provide this care could face a Class 4 felony and professional disciplinary action.

• Hospitals must also create protocols for treating such infants and report failures to provide care.

In Other Words:‍ ‍HB531 would require doctors to provide full medical care to babies born alive after an attempted abortion.

Why It’s Good:‍ It would protect fully formed babies from being murdered, or left to die, after they were successfully born following an attempted abortion. It would ensure that any infant born alive after a medical procedure receives immediate medical care and equal protection under the laws of the United States of America. Although it is still a human life immediately following conception, once a baby is born alive and is no longer physically connected to their mother doctors would be legally obligated to follow their ethical responsibility to treat that infant the same as any other human being. This bill aims to clarify that healthcare providers must take steps to preserve the life and health of the child. Again, it reinforces protections for vulnerable newborns and ensures consistent medical standards for all living human beings.

Current Status:‍ ‍HB531 was killed by Democrats in the House Health Subcommittee, who despicably seek to make abortion legal all the way up to and including immediately after birth.

Purpose:‍ ‍HJR1 (House Joint Resolution 1) and SJ1 (Senate Joint Resolution 1) propose an amendment to the Virginia Constitution that would establish a new “right to abortion,” including decisions about contraception, pregnancy and the ability to end the life of a child up to and including immediately following birth.

What the amendment would do:

• Add a new section to the Virginia Constitution stating that every individual (presumably a woman) has the “right to abortion.”

• Protect a woman’s decisions related to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, abortion, “post-birth abortion,” miscarriage management, and fertility treatments.

• Allow the state to “regulate abortion” in the third trimester, but not if it is needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant individual (again presumably a mother) or if the child is not “viable.”

In Other Words: It would make abortion (the systematic murdering of children) legal up to and including immediately after birth.

Why It’s Bad: We are talking about legalizing murder so long as the one being killed is unwanted and either in the womb or very recently born. In Virginia each year, there are an average of 35,000-40,000 babies killed in the womb through abortion. That’s 40,000 innocent lives destroyed before they had the opportunity to open their eyes, hold out their tiny hands, or feel the warmth of their mother’s smile.

We cannot mince our words or hide behind euphemisms like “reproductive freedom.” We have become a society that celebrates and seeks to legalize a continued holocaust on the most innocent and vulnerable among us. Since 1973, more than 63 million abortions have occurred in the United States, and the total continues to increase each year as more babies are injected, dismembered, and ultimately thrown into garbage bags as “medical waste.”

If Virginians don’t vote to stop HJR1 & SJ1 it will become law and more babies will die.

Current Status:‍ ‍HJR1 and SJ1 have passed the Virginia legislature and will be decided by voters in the November 2026 statewide referendum. To stop them from becoming law, we must go out in November and Vote NO.

Purpose:‍ ‍SB1324 makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor (12 years in prison and $2,500 fine) for someone who is not authorized by the facility to intentionally block, obstruct, or interfere (hand out pamphlets, pray, peacefully protest) to/with people entering or leaving an abortion facility.

In Other Words: The goal is to prevent anti-abortion advocates from exercising their First Amendment rights on public property outside of abortion facilities, and keep them from interrupting the abortion industry that has claimed the innocent lives of over 63 million babies since 1973.

Why It’s Bad: It would it limit free speech and peaceful protest in public spaces. Creating buffer zones will restrict people from expressing their views or offering counseling on public sidewalks, which are traditionally protected spaces for First Amendment activity. It will also be enforced unevenly and be used unconstitutionally to silence specific viewpoints against the murder of babies. Furthermore, federal laws against malicious harassment and the blocking of entrances to abortion facilities already exist.

Current Status:‍ ‍This bill was vetoed by Governor Youngkin in 2025, but is expected to be re-introduced in the 2027 session.

Purpose:‍ ‍HB612 is a law that sets up a voter referendum to amend the Virginia Constitution regarding marriage. The amendment would remove the old constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and replace it with language stating that two adults can marry regardless of sex, gender, or race.

In Other Words: Rather than simply remove the existing, unenforced amendment to the Virginia Constitution regarding marriage, Democrats seek to insert transgender language into the Virginia Constitution.

Why It’s Bad:‍ ‍Most citizens of Virginia would not have a problem with removing the existing, unenforced amendment in the Virginia Constitution regarding marriage. However, replacing the amendment with the Democrat proposed language would permanently change the Virginia Constitution’s definition of marriage and reinforce the highly controversial and dangerous ideology of transgenderism. Constitutional amendments should be used sparingly and only for issues with broad, long-term consensus among constituents.

Current Status:‍ ‍The bill passed the Virginia General Assembly and was approved by the governor. We will vote on the issue on the November 2026 ballot, where Virginia voters will either approve or reject the proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution.

Purpose:‍ ‍The Equality Virginia Bill Tracker is a resource created by the organization Equality Virginia to monitor legislation in the Virginia General Assembly that affects LGBTQ+ people.

In Other Words:‍ ‍It’s a tool that tracks and explains Virginia legislation affecting LGBTQ+ rights and shows whether the organization supports or opposes those bills. The current focus of the organization behind the tracker is the promotion of transgender ideology in Virginia.

Why It’s Bad: Some legislation the group supports could expand government involvement in areas like education or healthcare to include highly controversial and dangerous transgender ideology.

Current Status:‍ ‍Equality Virginia is actively engaging with representatives of the Virginia General Assembly to create legislation that would support transgender surgical procedures for minors as well as the incorporation of transgender ideology in schools at all grade levels.