Virginia school districts support for transgender students' rights in governor's race spotlight

A move this week by the Loudon County, Virginia, school board to continue to support allowing transgender children to use facilities that do not match their biological sex is front-and-center in the state's gubernatorial election.

"This is absolutely unacceptable," Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee for governor in this year's election, said in a Fox News Digital interview on Thursday. "Our girl children are simply not safe. Are we erasing women now?"

The Justice Department in President Donald Trump's administration is demanding that Loudon County's school district repeal the policy, and is threatening to pull $50 million in federal funding if the school board doesn't act by Friday.

But the school board, at a meeting Tuesday evening, voted 6-...