Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is moving swiftly and quietly to dismantle protections for girls sports put in place by her Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin, reigniting a battle over biological males competing against female athletes in Virginia schools.
According to Gateway Pundit, Spanberger campaigned as a centrist, but her actions in office have aligned squarely with the hard-left wing of the Democrat Party. The pattern is familiar: once Democrats regain power, they resume the same radical policies voters thought they had rejected in 2024.
FOX News reports that Spanbergers administration abruptly halted a Youngkin-era rulemaking process that would have required school sports to be separated strictly on the basis of biological sex. The quiet termination of this effort has infuriated parents and lawmakers who see it as a direct attack on fairness, privacy, and safety for girls.
The move to end protections for scholastic sports based on sex is the latest development in the debate over whether biological males who identify as transgender should compete in girls sports. Critics argue that this is not a matter of inclusion, but of erasing the hard-won gains of womens athletics in favor of an ideological agenda.
My jaw dropped when I saw the news, former Del. Kim Taylor, R-Petersburg, told Fox News Digital on Friday. As a mom of a daughter, Im furious that protecting the privacy, safety, and opportunities of Virginias girls has somehow become controversial.
Governor Spanberger had a chance to stand up for women and girls, and instead she turned her back. Our daughters should never be asked to sacrifice their privacy or a fair playing field for someone elses political agenda. Taylor, who focused on maternal and childrens issues in Richmond, was even targeted with an assassination threat during her unsuccessful re-election bid last year.
Del. Wren Williams, R-Stuart, called the move classic Spanberger. Say one thing, do another, dont tell anyone, and ignore them if they ask about it, he told Fox News Digital.
Democrats have made it abundantly clear that public opposition to biological males in girls sports will not deter them from advancing transgender policies in schools. If given any opening, they will go right back to this at their first opportunity, and voters who care about womens sports, parental rights, and basic fairness should, as the original warning put it, count on it.
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