Youngkin orders rules on sports, locker rooms

Published October 4, 2025 2:30pm ET



(The Center Square) – What started with a petition from three female athletes is now pushing bathroom policies to the state level.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered Virginia’s Board of Health to begin writing new rules on sex-separated sports and facilities to “heed the call of common sense.”

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