Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears joined dozens of protestors demanding justice for Stone Bridge High School boys suspended for reporting a girl filming them in the boy’s locker room.
Loudoun County Public Schools ruled the boys committed sexual discrimination when they expressed discomfort with a girl filming them inside the boy’s locker room. The girl, who says she identifies as a boy, has been using the boy’s locker room.
LCPS handed down a 10-day suspension ruling that the two of the three boys committed sexual harassment when the underage minors reported being filmed inside the locker room.
Reports are that the third boy was exempted from punishment because he was a Muslim and thus protected from being filmed by girls in his locker room.
“We will now have no choice but to pursue swift legal action,” said Josh Hetzler, senior legal counsel for Founding Freedoms Law Center. “The boys have done nothing wrong.”
Hetzler is representing the boys in a federal lawsuit.
“Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the insanity to stop,” Earle-Sears told a crowd gathered to defend the boy’s rights and object to cameras inside locker rooms. “Our kids deserve better. Our schools must do better”
Earle-Sears’ comments specifically targeted her opponent, Abigail Spanberger. Spanberger has gone on record supporting cross-gender access to locker rooms but has not specifically commented on the locker room filming of underage boys.
“Abigail is a girl-mom,” Earle-Sears said. “Raised by a nurse. And STILL denies basic biology. She supports radical gender ideology—having men change next to young girls in locker rooms. No normal parent wants this for their kids.”
Spanberger has been endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that has advocated to remove gender protections in bathrooms. HRC has not commented on the rights to film inside children’s bathrooms.
Loudoun4All and Equality Loudoun are among organizations defending the girl’s decision to film boys inside the locker room. (RELATED: Stewart Whitson Signs “Stand With Women Commitment”)
“We know through a title IX preceding that this young person wasn’t doing anything wrong, they were actually the victim,” said Candice Tuck, executive director of Equality Loudoun.
“[We’re] absolutely floored that they came back and branded my son responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination with no solid evidence whatsoever,” said Renae Smith, one of the parents whose son was suspended. “We’re talking about scarring him for life by a biased process that’s supposed to protect fairness, but it’s shocking. It’s wrong, and it should terrify every single parent.”
Both Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares have launched an investigation into LCPS’s sexual discrimination policies. The district announced that it would not comply with the US Department of Education’s policies protecting private gender spaces.
Community members have held multiple protests and leaders have spoken out in support of the boys’ privacy. (RELATED: Spanberger Blasted for “Anti-Woman” Record in New Ad Campaign)