Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order on Oct. 2 directing the state’s Board of Health to set regulations that will prevent males from participating in female-only sporting events, or using spaces such as locker rooms “where females are likely to be in a state of undress.”
He cited several recent incidents, including the suspension of two young men who questioned why a female student was in the boys’ locker room, and another where a male was watching female students change clothes in the girls’ locker room. In addition, more than a dozen witnesses testified after a male sex offender allegedly exposed himself in front of female children in school locker rooms in Northern Virginia, said the governor.
“It is an embarrassment and a tragedy that certain individuals continue to turn a blind eye to these violations of the law and of the health, safety, privacy, dignity, and respect of these students,” Youngkin wrote. “This must stop.”
That law, enacted over five decades ago, prohibits sex-based discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding.
The policy gives parents the right to decide “what names, nicknames, and/or pronouns, if any, shall be used for their child by teachers and school staff while their child is at school,” or whether the child is allowed to participate in “any counseling or social transition at school that encourages a gender that differs from their child’s sex.”
The group found that, since the mid-1980s, women had lost over 1,900 gold medals, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money, to transgender-identifying men.
“The goal, really, is to bring to light just one piece of the loss that American [women]—and women in general—have experienced due to transgender ideology,” Penny Nance, the organization’s CEO, told The Epoch Times in August.
“This is just talking about gold medals; we didn’t get into all the trophies, and the records and the scholarships, and the many different ways that women have been wronged.”
