Posted on 09/22/2026 7:20:45 AM PDT by DFG
Critics, including parents of athletes, expressed outrage Friday after Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's administration quietly shut down a rulemaking process that would have required school sports to be divided by sex.
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.
"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, I’m furious that protecting the privacy, safety, and opportunities of Virginia’s 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 else’s political agenda."
Taylor focused on maternal and children’s issues during her time in Richmond and was the target of 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, don’t tell anyone, and ignore them if they ask about it," he told Fox News Digital.
Former Ball State basketball player and Indiana state Rep. Michelle Davis added that Spanberger appears to be "taking Virginia backwards."
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Yeah, she’s a ‘moderate’ alright..................
Represents the Washington DC City-State turning them very northern. End the death penalty, end Southern rules, be a Northern state. This is the future of Democrats. Rest of State can’t speak.
Perverts and commies are part the democrat's Big Tent of horrors....
Is she really a woman?
The vile woman just went back to the standard rat playbook. Run as a common sense moderate then take the mask off after the election knowing the media will do all it can to obscure the betrayal. It is being used all over the country once again.
Yeah well you assholes voted for her and every Democrat is the same. Remember that come November 3rd!
Given the scale of election fraud in the Northern Virginia counties, I doubt that we actually did.
WTH is wrong with separate facilities for boys and girls/men and women. This shit is sickness. I don’t want to be around men in a locker room.
Outraged! Yes, outraged!!Btw, where we having lunch?
Braindead liberal VA Gov Spanberger sparks outrage after sneakily ending Gov Youngkin-era women’s sports protections. She quietly shut down rulemaking to require school sports to be divided by sex.
We need laws that penalize govt officials, state
agencies and the tax-paid workers that facilitate this.
Call Congress
US Capitol switchboard
(202) 224-3121.
Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TTY/TTD Comments: 202-456-6213
Send a letter to the White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
You were warned and you voted for her anyway. Embrace the suck of your own making. I have stopped feeling sorry for these people who vote for these people.
Five really good male basketball players should claim they are females and go to a small Division 1 school and win the NCAA Final 4 Basketball tournament for women. They should do it 4 years in a row. That will end this foolishness.
“Abigail. Abigail.”
The Democrats keep promoting LGBTQ+
and the stupid keep voting for them
“”The Democrats keep promoting LGBTQ+
and the stupid keep voting for them””
***
Yes, stupid. But ofttimes evil comes off as stupidity (or insanity). Perhaps they are merely ‘taken over’ and brainwashed by evil. Just as it is written... in these end times (scales).
I think we are supposed to pray for them. I’m having a hard time with that, however. So I just ask God to “help us ALL”. It’s easier that way.
DEMOCRAT TURNOUT IS ALMOST CONSTANT
No matter what idiotic policies they promote, their voters turn out and vote every election.
ELECTIONS ARE WON OR LOST -SOLELY- ON GOP TURNOUT
You’re not incorrect
Which is why the TDS gang is doing nothing
but helping the Democrats
Democrats are going to promote TDS as
much as they possibly can
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