Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin directed the state’s Board of Health to take steps to protect sex-segregated spaces and activities.
Similarly, in Texas, Governor Abbott recently signed the Texas Women’s Privacy Act into law, protecting girls and women in locker rooms, showers, bathrooms, prisons and domestic violence shelters.
Here’s what happened in these states.
Virginia
The Family Foundation, a Focus on the Family-allied public policy group, explained the governor’s executive action in a press release:
“In a major victory for women and girls across the Commonwealth, Governor Glenn Youngkin today issued Executive Directive 14, instructing the State Board of Health to promulgate regulations protecting the health and safety of females in sex-separated spaces and activities.”
In his executive directive, the governor stated what prompted the order, “Students of both sexes have made high profile complaints about both harassment from students of the opposite sex within intimate spaces such as locker rooms, which threatens the health and safety of students, and the inclusion of biological males in girls’ athletic competitions, which is a clear violation of Title IX.”
He pointed to specific instances where privacy and safety were violated.
“Most recently, a complaint sent to USED [U.S. Education Department] alleges that on September 2, 2025, a biological male was watching girls change in a Fairfax County Public Schools girls’ locker room. …
“Additionally, more than a dozen witnesses have testified in a case involving a male Tier III sex offender who exposed and sexually gratified himself in front of female children in female locker rooms within schools and fitness centers in Northern Virginia.”
Governor Youngkin directed the Board to draft regulations that:
- Prevent biological males from participating in organized female-only athletic teams and competitions in Virginia.
- Prevent biological males from using designated female spaces where females are likely to be in a state of undress.
Texas
In September, Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 8, the Texas Women’s Privacy Act. The House passed the measure with a vote of 86-45, while the Senate voted 19-11 in favor of the law.
SB 8 defines male and female by their normal reproductive capacity, then it requires individuals to use sex-segregated facilities based on their sex.
According to Texas Values, a Focus on the Family ally, the law makes it clear “that women and girls are protected in their sex separated spaces like showers, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters, and prisons.”
The pro-family organization had been fighting since 2017 to pass legislation to keep sex-segregated spaces based on biological sex, not on an individual’s made up notion of their “gender.”
Texas Values’ Director of Government Relations Mary Elizabeth Castle applauded the new law, saying:
“Today, Texas made a historic move in making sure that no woman or little girl has to look over her shoulder with fear when she is in the locker room, restroom, or shower because a man has been allowed to wrongfully enter that space.”
“I thank Governor Abbott and other state leaders for being strong in passing the Texas Women’s Privacy Act before the calendar year is over. Our Texas legislature has made the message loud and clear: You don’t mess with Texas women and their dignity.”
The Daily Citizen applauds Virginia and Texas for taking steps to protect people – boys and girls, men and women – from those with wrong-sex confusion who insist they are the opposite sex. Gender ideology doesn’t change the truth that there are only two sexes – male and female.
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