Overview

• Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears attended Thursday’s Arlington County School Board meeting to oppose policies allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms by gender identity.
• A protester outside held a sign equating bathroom rules to segregated water fountains, drawing condemnation from leaders in both parties, including Democratic nominee Abigail Spanberger.
• Earle-Sears released a campaign ad Friday featuring the sign and pressing Spanberger on gender-policy questions, while continuing to accuse her of avoiding the issue.
• Arlington is among five Northern Virginia districts that the Trump administration says risk losing federal funds for keeping gender-identity access policies in place.
• Reporting identified We of Action Virginia, an Indivisible-affiliated group, as helping organize the rally and traced Indivisible’s funding to major dark-money networks, while the local group said the sign-holder was not affiliated with it.