Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Virginia Department of Health
 
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State Board of Health
 
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5/11/25  9:06 pm
Commenter: Kelley

Please Protect Our Girls
 

Please protect our girls by limiting girls' sports and spaces to biological females only.  My daughters deserve to feel safe in areas where they should have the expectation of privacy.  Teens girls already have to navigate feeling confident in their changing bodies as they go through puberty; my girls would feel vulnerable and unsafe in restrooms or locker rooms with biological males.   Their emotional health matters as does their right to physical safety.  Girls' sports should be reserved for biological females so that there is a level playing field.  With males typically having larger lungs, having a heart with greater mass, cardiac output and wider blood vessels, and having greater muscular strength (among other biological differences), it is unreasonable to have biological males competing in girls' sports.  It is disheartening to see biological females in various sports lose top rankings to biological males who are effectively "stealing" those awards from them after years of effort and training.

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