Virginia’s Board of Health took the next step in a regulatory process meant to restrict transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports or using certain facilities designated for women and girls.

On Thursday, the board approved to publish a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action that would create new regulations “to prevent biological males from participating in organized female-only athletic teams and competitions in Virginia, and to prevent biological males from using designated female spaces where females are likely to be in any state of undress.”

Gov. Glenn Youngkin subsequently issued an executive order Thursday directing the board to “heed the call of common sense and immediately take all necessary steps” to create the regulations.

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