Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, says she thinks the Virginia High School League and the NCAA should decide their own policies on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports.
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor, backs President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to prohibit transgender athletes from playing in girls’ or women’s sports.
The VHSL reasserted in a statement on Thursday that it will not ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports, barring a change to state law.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
