Fierce protests as US districts vote through transpositive guidelines

Police in riot gear, hired security personnel and roadblocks.

It is an unusually large security effort for a school board meeting in a prosperous American small town.  

The August 10 meeting in Ashburn, Virginia is controversial as a vote is being held on a policy document for equal treatment of transgender people across the school district.  

- I'm worried about my children's safety.

Please do not vote through the proposal, a mother appeals to the school board before the vote.

Christian teachers consider themselves offended

The school board meetings are usually open to the public.

But since the last meeting ended in a violent riot with several police interventions, the school board has decided to let in only one and one from the public to express their opinions.  

- You are violating my religious rights as a Christian, says one of the teachers of the schools concerned who announces his dismissal in front of the TV cameras. 

But despite the fierce protests, the school board votes through the proposal with seven votes to two.

This gives all schools in the district new guidelines that students who are transgender people should be allowed to decide which pronoun they should be addressed with.

They should also be allowed to participate in sports activities together with the gender group they identify with. 

- They try to brainwash our children.

They teach them that all whites are racists and that there is no gender.

We must resist, Scott Mineo shouts, and there is a resounding applause from protesters.

Several show their support

There is also a group of parents on site at the school board meeting who show support for the proposal.  

- If it is indoctrination to teach children to treat all other classmates fairly and decently, then I am for indoctrination, says Julia Holcom who wears a purple t-shirt in support of transgender rights.  

The school riot in Loudoun County has attracted attention throughout the United States.

It has been described as a starting shot for how the US Cultural War took over the school world.  

In many other parts of the United States, Republican politicians are campaigning to ban teaching that the country's institutions today bear traces of slavery or racial segregation.