A Glenn Youngkin win would be a complete disaster for trans people both in Virginia and nationally, Katelyn Burns writes.
Anjali Nair / MSNBC; APOn Tuesday, Virginia residents will go to the polls to elect state legislators and decide who will be the next occupant of the governor’s mansion. The race between Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former governor of the state, and Republican Glenn Youngkin has been closer than expected, with a bitter cultural battle taking center stage in the campaign.
While much of the attention has gone to the nationalized moral panic over critical race theory, which explores America’s history of slavery and racial inequality and which conservatives have defined as teaching any history that might make white people look bad , the race has also revolved around bathroom access for trans students. What most people don’t realize is that the race will likely decide the future of trans rights as a political issue in the United States for the foreseeable future.
That’s not to say that the Loudoun County school board hasn’t made major missteps along the way. They denied that any student had been attacked in a girls bathroom, and school administrators also let the attacker transfer to another school in the district while awaiting trial, where he assaulted a second girl, in a classroom. For that, the board should be rightfully condemned, but the trans community — nor its fight for basic human rights — had nothing to do with the attack.
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