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.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ full speech to the Arlington School Board on their transgender locker room and bathroom policies ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/azGB4LlKJX
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) August 22, 2025
A group of protesters had gathered outside the meeting to demonstrate in favor of letting boys into girls’ spaces and endangering young women. My Townhall colleague Corey Inganamort confronted some of them; one protester blew on a whistle and revealed herself to be the most annoying human being on the planet.
A bunch of looney boomers are protesting @winwithwinsome appearing at tonight’s Arlington school board meeting and advocating for child mutilation and for Richard Cox to be able to expose himself to girls.
I couldn’t keep my mouth shut 🤷 pic.twitter.com/OzPpRuFGkO
— Corey Inganamort 🪚🌴🪚 (@TheBirdWords) August 21, 2025
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.”
🚨OMG—Winsome Sears (a black, female running for Virginia governor) held a rally in VA tonight.
This old, white, liberal was spotted holding an incredibly racist sign that reads:
“Hey Winsome – if trans can’t share your bathroom, then BLACKS can’t share my WATER FOUNTAIN.” 😱 pic.twitter.com/aKU68FnyCU
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 22, 2025
Classy, huh? But we wouldn’t expect anything less from the party that brought us slavery and Jim Crow.
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Earle-Sears appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday to address the controversy:
This is nonsense. And my opponent will not come forward and say anything. And then last night, you saw that they equated bathroom opportunities with me being Black in America. And here I am, second-in-command in– of the– a former capital of the Confederacy. Me, the immigrant, whom they say, as Democrats, they love more than anybody. Me, a black woman who they say they love, as Democrats, more than anybody. This is insane.
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.
Earle-Sears’ opponent, Abigail Spanberger, didn’t address the issue until nearly lunchtime on Friday.
As I said yesterday, the sign displayed in Arlington last night was racist and abhorrent.
Many Virginians remember the segregated water fountains (and buses and schools and neighborhoods) of Virginia’s recent history. And no matter the intended purpose or tone and no matter how…
— Abigail Spanberger (@SpanbergerForVA) August 22, 2025
Anytime a Democrat says that Republicans want to put black people back in chains or bring back Jim Crow, we should respond by showing them that sign. It’s time to throw their true colors back in their faces.
Democrats love to accuse Republicans of wanting to drag America back into Jim Crow, but when push comes to shove, it’s their own activists who spew the ugliest racism. Just ask Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears.
Her response? Calm, strong, and rooted in truth.
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