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Virginia Gov. Signs Executive Order Barring Males Out of Female Spaces

Articles | October 6, 2025 | by Catholics for Catholics

After some recent controversies of males in female locker rooms, the Republican Governor said enough is enough.

By Catholics for Catholics

Prompted by a series of recent controversies concerning biological males in women’s locker rooms, the Governor of Virginia has announced a new executive order that prohibits males in female spaces.

The move is seen as a reaction to scandals that keep on plaguing Virginia’s public schools, according to LifeSiteNews.com. Youngkin is the state’s Republican Governor.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Directive Fourteen instructs the Virginia Board of Health to “immediately take all necessary steps to promulgate regulations to ensure the health, safety, privacy, dignity, and respect of all individuals, especially women and girls, within legally permissible sex separated and sex specific spaces and activities, overriding irresponsible, unsafe, and unhealthy local policies.”

Unambiguously, these novel regulations are meant to bar biological males from female- exclusive athletic teams and competitions, and to prevent them from entering female spaces “where females are likely to be in a state of undress,” such as showers, locker rooms and restrooms.

According to LifeSiteNews, Youngkin’s order was prodded by various recent polemics, citing two cases of males stalking girls as they changed in locker rooms. Loudoun County Public Schools also suspended two male high-school students this summer who objected to having a gender-confused female student in their locker, a move that was condemned by the U.S. Department of Education as a Title IX violation and blocked by a federal judge.

“Since day one, this administration has worked to protect the fundamental rights of all Virginians,” the order says. “These fundamental rights intrinsically require the assurance of health and safety for all individuals. Through collaboration with our federal partners, this administration is fighting tirelessly to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex and to protect the civil rights of our citizens under the constitutions of our commonwealth and nation …”

“It is an embarrassment and a tragedy that certain individuals continue to turn a blind eye to these clear violations of the law and of the health, safety, privacy, dignity, and respect of these students. This must stop,” the order adds.

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