‘Chaos and Abuses’: Virginia Lawmakers Warned Against Resolution Constitutionalizing ‘Gender Identity’

Alliance Defending Freedom is urging Republicans in the Virginia Legislature to vote against a Democrat-introduced resolution that would inject “gender” into the state Constitution, deeming it distinct from sex.

The Marriage Amendment, which includes gender provisions, eliminates the state’s current definition of marriage—between one and one woman—to recognize same-sex marriage.

Deeming “gender” or “gender identity” as distinct from sex paves the way for “chaos and abuses,” warns Greg Baylor, a senior counsel at the religious liberty law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, in a Jan. 14 letter to Virginia’s Republican legislators.

“Men invade women’s sports and women’s locker rooms,” Baylor writes. “Public school bureaucrats withhold information about a child experiencing gender confusion from parents and even fire teachers who refuse to lie about a student’s sex. Activists sue doctors who object to pushing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on vulnerable kids.”

The resolution passed the state House and is expected to soon come to the Virginia Senate floor. It establishes that Virginia cannot “deny the issuance of a marriage license to two parties contemplating a lawful marriage on the basis of the sex, gender, or race of such parties.” (Read more from “‘Chaos and Abuses’: Virginia Lawmakers Warned Against Resolution Constitutionalizing ‘Gender Identity’” HERE)

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