Transgender bathroom policies — and their precipitating controversies — at two Virginia public school districts are taking center stage in the contentious gubernatorial face-off between GOP Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger .

The school policy in Arlington County, an affluent Northern Virginia area, allowed a serial sex offender, who identifies as transgender, to access the girls’ locker rooms repeatedly and allegedly expose himself to children.

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In neighboring Loudoun County , the school district’s transgender policy led t

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