Registered sex offender Richard K. Cox, who identifies as transgender, used Fairfax County’s “inclusive” policies to gain access to girls’ locker rooms — a story we’ve covered for the past couple of weeks. Nick Minock, a Virginia reporter whose excellent reporting first drew attention to the case, recently received via public records request a video of Cox explaining to police why he should be allowed into women’s locker rooms. Watch it here.

“My civil rights as a transgender person allows me to use a public facility, including the restrooms or changing rooms that identify with my gender,” Cox said in the video. “So them pulling up my information on the sex offender registry and using it to stop me from exercising my civil rights as a transgender person is a criminal misuse of the sex offenders registry.”

Believe what he’s saying: Sick sexual predators can, and will, exploit so-called inclusive policies.

Even though Arlington Public Schools’ policy allowed Cox to stand naked in a high school pool’s women’s locker room and harass young girls — all because he identified as trans — the district has so far refused to amend its policy.