Elon Musk has accused him of “trying to sell out” from questions about transgender students who stepped into the Virginia governor’s race to attack Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger and accessing bathrooms and locker rooms that fit their gender identity. Musk shared a post about X highlighting Spanberger’s response to WJLA reporter Nick Minock. He asked if he supports “biological men who use women’s locker rooms and bathrooms and say they are women who compete in female sports.”
Spanberger said attempts by the future Virginia Governor or the Trump administration to impose a bathroom ban could violate the fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision of the 2020 fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to enable transgender students in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to use bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The former lawmaker also pointed to tensions between the binding court ruling that the U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly refused to overturn, and the Department of Education, which is pressing schools, including five districts in northern Virginia, to restrict locker room access based on student biological sex.
“situation [as] This lawsuit is truly one of them. In Virginia, four cases have been settled or reviewed here in Virginia in previous Gavin Rim cases related to bathroom use. And in fact, the argument is [that] Spanberger said that clearer guidance should be needed regarding the binding assessment of the Title IX executive order for what was a court decision.
She then said, “But the real impact here is once again that the Trump administration is taking the dollar away from Virginia.
“As a candidate for governor, a key priority for me is to ensure that we have the best public schools in the entire country. And the reality is that the president who comes after Virginia, whether the education system is between 12 and 12 years old, whether it’s our public universities, whether it’s harmful to Virginia, our ability to educate our children, and our ultimate economy.
“Spanberger clearly tries to solve the problem by embarrassingly supporting the boys in girls’ sports and blaming the president,” Musk writes to X.
The billionaire has a history of intervening in campaigns, often heavier on the X he owns, attacking the “left” on a daily basis. He sometimes invested financially in Republican candidates. Most notably, Donald Trump’s reelection in 2024 and Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Simel lost earlier this year. Democrats sought to exploit the low recognition ratings of masks by portraying Republicans as funding with impure motivated by wealthy elites.
A Spanberger spokesman rejected Musk’s claim in a statement from Fox News, saying the former lawmaker is the mother of three daughters in a Virginia public school and a former federal law enforcement officer who investigated child predators.
“Nothing is more important than the safety of all children in Virginia,” the spokesman said. “Ultimately, Abigail believes these are decisions between parents and local schools. She believes politicians need to stop politics in Virginia’s public schools.”
Meanwhile, WJLA reporter Nick Minnock repeatedly pushed Spanberger over and over whether he would personally support trans students in making gender-affirming bathrooms and locker rooms available. She has avoided answering primarily.
By covering his interactions with Minok’s Spanburger It’s attracting attention She previously criticised Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin for introducing a “model policy” that blocks transgender students from bathrooms and locker rooms that do not suit biological gender.
At the time, Spanburger accused Youngkin of “target”.[ing] “Get political points” from “vulnerable children.” Just as conservative districts previously rejected the trans-friendly policies that had progressed under former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, several democratic school districts have refused to adopt the policy.
Minnock’s employer, WJLA, is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting Group. It was criticized To push politically biased narratives and right-leaning stories points.
Spanburger answered a similar question from Lynchburg’s ABC affiliate Alexia Stan Bridge wsetalso owns Sinclair. Stanbridge asked a commercial for Republican rival Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to respond to the commercial after accusing the company of “allowing men in the girls’ sports, bathrooms and locker rooms.”
In response, Spanberger said until recently, Virginia “was making decisions based on fairness, competitiveness and safety, with individuals, ones, schools, principals, parents and coaches. She showed she likes to return to that system after receiving decisions based on the unique circumstances of each student.
Stanbridge followed up and asked if all trans women would adageically support the bill, down to women’s bathrooms and sports. Spanberger responded that he would support the bill “implementing clear provisions that provide input capabilities for many regions based on competitiveness, based on the type of sport, and based on the age of the child.” She reiterated that the previous process for determining eligibility appears to be working and that the region should return to it.
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