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Title: Ugly anti-trans ad starts running in Virginia just before governor election
Post by: Jessica_Rose on October 17, 2025, 12:53:59 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on October 17, 2025, 12:53:59 PM
Ugly anti-trans ad starts running in Virginia just before governor election
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/ugly-anti-trans-ad-starts-running-in-virginia-just-before-governor-election/
Alex Bollinger (17 Oct 2025)
Supporters of the anti-LGBTQ+ Virginia gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R), are doubling down on anti-LGBTQ+ hate in support of her campaign by releasing a new, more extreme ad attacking her opponent for supporting trans rights.
Earle-Sears was under fire last week for saying at a debate that she doesn't believe that firing people just for being gay is a form of discrimination. This comes after her long opposition to marriage equality, as well as a resurfaced statement from her prior congressional campaign that being gay is an "immoral lifestyle choice."
"She'd allow boys to play girls' sports and shower in girls' locker rooms... naked," the voiceover in the ad, paid for by the conservative Restoration of America PAC, says, referring to the Democratic candidate in the race, Abigail Spanberger. The ad shows a picture of an underage boy without clothes on.
The claim is based on Spanberger's support for the Equality Act, which she voted for when she was in Congress. The Equality Act would expand federal civil rights protections to include LGBTQ+ people, but it did not address the issue of trans student-athletes. Moreover, the issue Earle-Sears is referring to is not supporting "boys" in girls' sports, but allowing trans girls to participate in sports as their gender.
The ad then says Spanberger is "all in on horrifying gender mutilation and irreversible sterilization of children," which is also not true. Gender affirming genital surgery is not performed on minors, and more common forms of gender-affirming care for young people, like puberty blockers, are reversible. Moreover, the Democrats' position on gender-affirming care isn't that everyone should be subjected to it but that it should remain a choice between patients, their families, and their doctors.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/ugly-anti-trans-ad-starts-running-in-virginia-just-before-governor-election/
Alex Bollinger (17 Oct 2025)
Supporters of the anti-LGBTQ+ Virginia gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R), are doubling down on anti-LGBTQ+ hate in support of her campaign by releasing a new, more extreme ad attacking her opponent for supporting trans rights.
Earle-Sears was under fire last week for saying at a debate that she doesn't believe that firing people just for being gay is a form of discrimination. This comes after her long opposition to marriage equality, as well as a resurfaced statement from her prior congressional campaign that being gay is an "immoral lifestyle choice."
"She'd allow boys to play girls' sports and shower in girls' locker rooms... naked," the voiceover in the ad, paid for by the conservative Restoration of America PAC, says, referring to the Democratic candidate in the race, Abigail Spanberger. The ad shows a picture of an underage boy without clothes on.
The claim is based on Spanberger's support for the Equality Act, which she voted for when she was in Congress. The Equality Act would expand federal civil rights protections to include LGBTQ+ people, but it did not address the issue of trans student-athletes. Moreover, the issue Earle-Sears is referring to is not supporting "boys" in girls' sports, but allowing trans girls to participate in sports as their gender.
The ad then says Spanberger is "all in on horrifying gender mutilation and irreversible sterilization of children," which is also not true. Gender affirming genital surgery is not performed on minors, and more common forms of gender-affirming care for young people, like puberty blockers, are reversible. Moreover, the Democrats' position on gender-affirming care isn't that everyone should be subjected to it but that it should remain a choice between patients, their families, and their doctors.