Governor Youngkin Signs Executive Order to Keep Males Out of Female Spaces in Virginia

Calvin Freiburger : Oct 8, 2025
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The order was spurred by a number of recent controversies in Virginia pertaining to biological males in female locker rooms.

(Richmond, VA) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has issued a new executive order to crack down on males in female spaces, in response to scandals that continue to plague Virginia public schools. (Screengrab image: via X)

Executive Directive Fourteen instructs the Virginia Board of Health to "immediately take all necessary steps to promulgate regulations to ensure the health, safety, privacy, dignity, and respect of all individuals, especially women and girls, within legally permissible sex separated and sex specific spaces and activities, overriding irresponsible, unsafe, and unhealthy local policies."

Specifically, these new regulations are to exclude biological males from female-specific athletic teams and competitions, and to exclude them from female spaces "where females are likely to be in a state of undress," such as locker rooms, restrooms, and showers.

The order was spurred by a number of recent controversies, citing two instances of males watching girls change in locker rooms. This summer, Loudoun County Public Schools also suspended two male high-school students who objected to having a gender-confused female student in their locker, a move that was condemned by the US Department of Education as a Title IX violation and blocked by a federal judge.

"Since day one, this administration has worked to protect the fundamental rights of all Virginians," the order says. "These fundamental rights intrinsically require the assurance of health and safety for all individuals. Through collaboration with our federal partners, this administration is fighting tirelessly to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex and to protect the civil rights of our citizens under the constitutions of our commonwealth and nation."

"It is an embarrassment and a tragedy that certain individuals continue to turn a blind eye to these clear violations of the law and of the health, safety, privacy, dignity, and respect of these students. This must stop," the order adds... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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