The religious right is crowing they won the Virginia governor’s race by sowing fear of trans people

Religious right activists turned out to storm a school board meeting to protest calling students by their name and demand pupils not be taught something that isn’t offered in the district.
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Religious right organizations and evangelical leaders are bragging that they are responsible for Republican Glenn Youngkin’s election in this week’s Virginia gubernatorial race.

Youngkin beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe in a campaign that centered around opposition to transgender civil rights and ginned up outrage over “critical race theory,” a school of legal thought about systemic racism not taught in Virginia grade schools.

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Youngkin used the dog whistle of Critical Race Theory to make racism an issue in the campaign. He pledged to ban abortion. He came out against marriage equality. 

But most of all, Youngkin made schools the main theme of his campaign. It wasn’t just Critical Race Theory, which Youngkin pledged to remove from schools, even though it’s not taught in any public schools. Youngkin also ran his campaign on the backs of transgender students, unsurprising for a man who called trans girls…

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