RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - Governor Glenn Youngkin has issued an executive directive instructing the Virginia Board of Health to draft new regulations on women’s sports and sex-separated spaces.

The order calls for two rules: one to prevent biological males from competing on female-only sports teams, and another to restrict them from entering locker rooms or other areas where women and girls may be undressed.

Youngkin said the move is meant to protect the “health and safety of women and girls” and comes in response to what he described as unsafe and irresponsible policies.

Recent controversies have fueled the debate. Parents in Fairfax County filed a federal complaint after a male student who identifies as female allegedly entered a girls’ locker room. Separately, the U.S. Department of E

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