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Republican candidates lost across Virginia on Tuesday night, including losing to a Democrat who fantasized about murdering Republicans and their children. But one silver lining popped up in a most unexpected place: Infamous Loudoun County elected a school board member opposed to transgender ideology.
Amy Riccardi just unseated trans-crazed incumbent Arben Istrefi, who recently voted in favor of keeping Policy 8040, which allows students to use restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex and requires the use of “preferred pronouns” to start grooming children into pursuing irreversible medical “transition” procedures.
Loudoun County Public Schools’ (LCPS) “transgender” policies have led to the rape of a high school girl, a cover-up of that rape in order to advance gender ideology, and the unjustified suspension of two boys who felt uncomfortable with a female in their locker room.
Those two boys are now fighting in court because they voiced their discomfort.
As Riccardi pointed out, students in LCPS are required to accommodate these gender-confused students at every turn and forced to simply accept opposite-sex individuals invading their spaces.
“LCPS has a policy they put in place, and it is what it is right now and the politics of this, six members of the School Board have dug in on this policy multiple times now, including my opponent, and I’m not comfortable with boys in girls’ locker rooms,” she stated on the campaign trail in October. “I’m not comfortable with boys in girls’ sports or girls’ bathrooms.”
Riccardi will be one of two members of the LCPS board who appear to have a reasonable view of the “transgender” issue, joining Deana Griffiths, who has said the rest of the board is “using your tax dollars to violate the law and push ideology” in its fight with the Trump administration over their “transgender” policies.
The Trump administration proceeded with suspending or terminating federal funding for LCPS, along with four other Virginia school districts, earlier this year.
While Riccardi and Griffiths can work in tandem to expose LCPS’s dangerous policies, a majority of the board is continuing to make it their life’s work to ensure that all female students in the district are in danger when they are at school.
Despite the fact that Riccardi won, Virginia will now have to contend with Democrats who support forcing gender ideology on children and allowing trans-identifying students to invade opposite-sex spaces and sports in all three statewide elected positions.
Gov.-Elect Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., has consistently refused to state her position on the issue, but it is already clear she stands.
Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
