A protester holding a sign with an image of Richard Cox, a man convicted on child sex charges, appeared Sunday at a campaign stop for Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger in Annandale. The protester sought to criticize Spanberger’s stance on allowing transgender students to use school bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The issue that made Cox the “poster boy” hit the campaign trail again in Virginia, as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears continued to press Spanberger to state whether biological men should only use men’s bathrooms.
A protester appeared in front of Spanberger’s campaign bus during a Sunday stop in Annandale, an upper-middle-class suburb about halfway between Fairfax and Washington.
“Abigail supports men in girls’ locker rooms,” the sign read, and the camera panned to him for a few moments before a Spanberger employee appeared to talk to the press about how the candidate would leave the house she was visiting.
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A protester in Annandale, Va., holds a sign depicting sex offender Richard Cox.
The employee mentioned the “narrow streets” that the bus would have to navigate on its way out.
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A Fox News reporter at the scene said staff did not want the protesting man to continue being recorded.
Cox was scheduled to go on trial Monday in neighboring Arlington County on more sex-crime charges as Fairfax’s Democratic-elected prosecutor was criticized for refusing to vigorously prosecute Cox on similar charges in his pending case.
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Cox, who was born male and has a sex-offense rap sheet dating back more than 30 years, recently began identifying as female and complained to Arlington school district officials that he was rejected for choosing to use the bathroom in the school’s aquatics center.
During the only debate in Norfolk in October, Earle-Sears repeatedly pressed Spanberger to take a stand on the issue and explain her refusal to call on scandal-plagued attorney general nominee Jay Jones to step down.
“If your little girl came home and said she was forced to undress in the locker room with her biological boy, what would you say? She’s crying. What would you say?” Earle-Sears told Spanberger, who ignored the question.
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“Abigail Spanberger voted for the so-called Equality Act. That vote says a grown man can walk into your daughter’s dressing room naked, and if she’s uncomfortable, she’s the problem,” the Republican said in an October statement citing Spanberger’s congressional record.
“Virginia, our daughters are not the problem, politicians like Abigail are.”
Spanberger said in September that Virginia “has a process where schools, parents, administrators, coaches make individual decisions based on fairness, competitiveness and safety when a child can or cannot play a sport.”
When asked about Cox, Spanberger spokeswoman Libby Wiet told The Federalist that the sex offender is “a predator who should be in prison.”
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“Abigail is a parent of three daughters in Virginia public schools and a former federal law enforcement officer who has pursued child predators, and nothing is more important to her than the safety of Virginia’s children,” said Wiet.
Elections on Tuesday.
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