Posted on 08/24/2025 4:25:03 AM PDT by T Ruth
On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-Va.) attended a school board meeting in Arlington County, Va., where she spoke during public comment about the school system’s transgender bathroom and locker room policies.
She said:
Here's the truth: there are two sexes, boys and girls, and for generations we've understood this, that they deserve their own sports teams, their own locker rooms, their own bathrooms. That's not discrimination, it is common sense. But here in Arlington, the trust between parents and schools is being broken.
When girls lose their privacy, when boys are punished for speaking plain truth, when parents are silenced for simply asking questions, that's not education, that's indoctrination. You are one of the five NOVA school districts who have been found in violation of Title IX.
Title IX was written to protect biological girls' spaces and opportunities on the basis of biological sex, not gender identity. And by refusing to reverse your reckless policies, you are failing our daughters and risking losing millions of dollars in funding our children. This is not theoretical.
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One protester held up an egregiously racist sign in which she compared sensible bathroom and locker room policies to separate drinking fountains for black and white people in the pre-civil rights era. The sign read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then blacks can’t share my water fountain.”
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Classy, huh? But we wouldn’t expect anything less from the party that brought us slavery and Jim Crow.
Earle-Sears appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday to address the controversy:
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The idea that a black woman could run for governor in the state that was the capital of the Confederacy is testimony to the promise of freedom that America offers. And her opponents meet her with abject racism.
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is she still a NeverTrump?
She’s really trailing in the poles. She needs more money behind her & Youngkin needs to be putting out ads supporting her. I think they both spend too much time doing national tv stuff and not enough local tv coverage of issues.
I do wish she had said something like: “It was the Democrat Party that instituted separate drinking fountains for white and black. It was the Democrat Party that instituted the poll tax to deprive blacks of voting. It was the Democrat Party that flocks to join the Klu Klux Klan to this day. So don’t talk to me about trans rights to mix up sex organs in the same locker room or bathroom.
Heard her entire speech on a podcast, wish the entire GOPe cabal was like that. This country could certainly use it.
Winsome has some great things to say, IMHO.
She finally found the ‘issue’. Hope she sticks to it
is she still a NeverTrump?
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She did come out early in the 2024 election cycle and said she didn’t think Trump was the direction the country needed. She changed her tune and supported Trump, likely because of the fate of Bob Good.
Still going to be tough to overcome.
She’s Trey Gowdy without the hair product, Crenshaw, without the patch, and Roy without the dork. But being in the Marines makes her anti Trump bs okay. Get lost Winny.
Boys and girls....collude. switch teams. Girls forfeit or tiktok dance in unison, boys play as violently as possible, giving refs all they can handle. Make the entire system collapse. The coaches will quit. Nobody will attend. Make the system collapse.
Don’t make pretenses of being silly, behaving as the other gender in mock. Respect the other gender. Just announce you are opposite reality and join the other team en mass to honor them. Be very serious. Ask the other gender to do the same, for their own sake, for the next two seasons: for the future of society. And consider losing big. Drop the ball, so to speak, everywhere. Make each event less than utterly unwatchable and both a waste of time and school resources, money.
It is called protest in force and demonstrating the obvious.
She could also point out that it's the younger generations who will be paying for all of this if we don't reel spending in. Repatriating our offshored jobs will go a long way towards accomplishing that in the long run.
Good points but too many words. Voters respond to quick phrases. Dems will run on “Affordability” and “Our Democracy”.
Promising voters they can have their cake and eat it too can win. ( don’t forget to include TDS “Two Minute Hate”)
?? We WANT Sears to win
I doubt it. Younlin has been working with Trump on this and other issues and it looks like Winsome is as well.
She is closing in on Spanberger and this issue is helping her. Besides, Spanberger has ads out now proudly announcing her background as a CIA agent. While some in Northern VA may see this as a plus, most sane people do mot want a CIA plant as their governor.
Look at the alternative. I’m fine with Winsome in comparison.
Good points.
There are a lot of independents in Virginia that should be her target group for swinging over while reinforcing the Republican base. Her heritage could be turned into an asset with the independent voter if done correctly
She needs to run the same campaign that got Youngkin elected and that she’ll continue the work he’s done. I think most people agree with the changes he’s made & are sorry he has to leave.
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