Virginia Democrats are using the power of the legal system to protect a transgender sex offender from being prosecuted for his crimes. The policy is in line with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger’s views.
Democratic leaders in Fairfax County, the largest county in Virginia, have repeatedly refused to prosecute Richard Cox, a man who has allegedly regularly exposed himself to women and girls in the girls’ locker rooms at two high schools and a recreation center. Cox is being charged for his crimes in Arlington County, where a detective testified he had child pornography and a Fairfax County children’s swim class schedule on his phone.
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Neither Fairfax County police nor Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano has tried to bring charges against Cox, who has made himself a regular in women’s spaces and at children’s events at Fairfax County recreation centers. This is not a series of simple misunderstandings, either: Cox is a registered Tier III sex offender under Virginia law, which is the “most serious” of sex offender categorizations. He is legally barred from being within 100 feet of a child day program.
Cox has gotten away with all his crimes in Fairfax County because the Democrats who run it have decided that anyone who even claims to be transgender should be given special privileges and immunities from the law. Cox claims to be a woman, so Fairfax has allowed him to torment women and girls in girls’ locker rooms, and has seemingly decided not to enforce any of his sex offender restrictions out of fear of “stigmatizing the transgender community” or some such nonsense.
This is the mainstream position of the Virginia Democratic Party. Spanberger, who is currently leading Republican state Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in the polls, supports allowing Cox into women’s spaces. Spanberger has repeatedly demonstrated this with her votes in Congress, and she continues to advocate the “local ability” of counties like Fairfax to run a two-tier justice system for transgender sex offenders and everybody else.
The Virginia elections later this year will be a referendum on the Cox case. If Virginians accept the Fairfax County position that transgender sex offenders are above the law, they will vote for Spanberger. If they think that position is unacceptable, the only solution is to vote against statewide Democrats such as Spanberger, who view Fairfax’s policies as the “tolerant” position on the issue.