Progressives on Fairfax County’s board of supervisors voted last week to define Easter Sunday as Transgender Visibility Day. The statement goes far beyond the alleged goal of promoting gender ideology protesters and transgender people as seen. Christians are also being told by members of the board that they are unimportant as they turn one of their most sacred days into a party of an ideology that defies the church’s guiding principles.
Unfortunately, Chairman Jeff McKay, a Democrat, paid lip support to the importance of advocating all components when the table passed the solution. He asserted that as an elected official, standing up for all the people we represent may be our spiritual duty. Not just the people we like or who we disagree with.
There are many other days that Transgender Visibility Day could have been observed if McKay and another committee members had taken a serious interest in expressing their intention to represent components.
Members of the board also abused their arbitrary choice to squander Easter as an opportunity to honor the governing body’s ideological uniformity. All nine Democrats present at the meeting voted in favor of the estimate, but they complained that a committee member was absent to vote. Pat Herrity, a Republican, good did not want to antagonize Christians who feel that their holy time is being desecrated.
Herrity’s presence appears to have been intolerable to James Walkinshaw, a Democrat. When Walkinshaw said, “I’m looking forward to the day when we have a whole floor for this statement, and that day did come, I’m looking forward to the day when we have a whole floor for this proclamation, and that day did come,” he suggested full groupthink on the board of supervisors. One method or the other, that day will come”.
The solution seems superfluous in Fairfax County, aside from the incompatibility of Transgender Visibility Day being observed on Easter this time. In northwestern Virginia, there is no awareness issue for the transgender activist area. However, it does seem to have a narcissistic issue. For instance, the Fairfax County School Board has designated October as LGBT History Month and June as LGBT Pride Month. The area gets two full weeks of event in our district’s schools. Apparently, that just wasn’t enough.
Fairfax County Public Schools’ plans coincide with the union’s commitments. Fairfax County’s individuals have been bombarded with polls since the start of the school year that ask them about their adjectives and gender identity for the past few years. Transgender flags are displayed in numerous county rooms. District leaders are also pushing to include gender identification training in the family life education curriculum starting in the third grade after mandating preferred nouns. How much more “visible” does a team need to be?
One can’t help but feel that Fairfax County officials’ timing was deliberate. In Fairfax County, Democratic-endorsed regional authorities have attacked Easter several times before. The Fairfax County Public Schools’ spring break has historically been set aside for the Easter holiday in previous decades. But in 2021, the university committee made some socially filled changes to the state’s calendar that included the willful “decoupling” of spring break from Easter. For a number of reasons, it was inappropriate and economically difficult, and it had to change the decision.
I agree with McKay that elected officials should do their best to advocate “all people they represent, not just the people they like or the people that they agree with”. Ideally, McKay and other members of the state’s school board’s board of supervisors will work harder to advance Christian rights in their area.
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora is a source for the Washington Examiner, a family in Fairfax County, Virginia, an artist, a part of the Coalition for TJ, and the Fairfax book leader of the Independent Women’s Network.
