A 17-year-old transgender student confronted Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on the state’s transgender bathroom policy Thursday night during a CNN Town Hall.
Youngkin’s administration released guidelines in September that requires students use the bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities based on their biological sex. The new guidelines were a reversal of previous Virginia policies, which allowed students to use bathrooms based on their preferred sex.
“Gov. Youngkin, your transgender model policies require that students play on the sports teams and use the restrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth,” the student asked during the town hall. “Look at me, I am a transgender man. Do you really think the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me?”
