Overview

• Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears attended the Arlington County School Board meeting and criticized the district’s policy allowing students to use facilities matching their gender identity.
• Supporters of transgender students gathered outside the meeting, while a Townhall-affiliated commentator helped organize a counterprotest.
• A protest sign invoking Jim Crow–era language went viral and drew condemnation from Republicans and Democrats, and the woman seen with it told FOX5 she intended satire.
• The board session followed reports circulated by local and partisan outlets that a man described as a convicted sex offender used a girls’ locker room after claiming to be transgender.
• Conservative coverage also reported threats of federal funding cuts tied to the district’s stance, though no specific federal agency was cited in those accounts.