In order to justify allowing men in women’s locker rooms and avoid angering the transgender activists who make up the Democratic base, Abigail Spanberger is pretending that it is impossible to know who Title IX protects.

Spanberger’s campaign to become the next governor of Virginia has been dogged by her support of counties such as Fairfax County allowing men (even convicted sex offenders) to use women’s locker rooms to change. Spanberger has tried to keep this issue as far away from herself as possible, first arguing that counties should be able to do what they want and now arguing that this is all the federal government’s fault.