Overview

• A photo showed a protester outside an Arlington County School Board meeting holding a sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then Blacks can’t share my water fountain,” during discussion of transgender bathroom rules.
• The protester, who was not identified, told FOX5 the message was intended as satire to provoke conversation about prejudice.
• Leaders from both parties condemned the sign; Democratic nominee Abigail Spanberger called it “racist, abhorrent and unacceptable,” joining statements from Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares.
• Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears denounced the sign as “disgusting” and featured it in campaign messaging while criticizing Spanberger’s response as insufficient.
• The meeting unfolded as the U.S. Department of Education maintains funding restrictions on five Northern Virginia districts over Title IX findings, and as Loudoun County’s suspensions of two students in a locker-room dispute remain temporarily lifted pending appeal.