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The northern Virginia transgender lavatory saga notched one other controversy Friday with the discharge of emails from Arlington County, Virginia, faculties concerning correspondence board members obtained from serial intercourse offender Richard Kenneth Cox.
Cox, 58, was thrust into the nationwide highlight after Virginia’s Fairfax County Democratic prosecutor Steve Descano declined to prosecute Cox for fees of perversion in girls’s locker rooms whereas neighboring Arlington County, Virginia, arrested him in 2024 on related offenses which he has confronted in court docket in October.
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, lambasted information that Cox — who recognized himself as a transgender lady named “Riki” in emails to Arlington, Virginia, faculties concerning issues about utilizing services at its semi-public aquatic middle — was allegedly capable of prey on younger ladies within the Washington suburb.
“This ‘lady’ — baby predator Richard ‘Riki’ Cox — repeatedly used a ladies’ locker room and uncovered himself to younger ladies,” Earle-Sears mentioned in a Friday assertion. “Abigail Spanberger thinks he has the appropriate to be there.”
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Mugshot of intercourse offender Richard Kenneth Cox. (Arlington County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Fox Information Digital reached out to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Spanberger to substantiate whether or not she opposes or helps Virginia insurance policies that enable transgender females born as males to make use of girls’s services and didn’t obtain a reply.
Freedom of Info Act (FOIA) requests filed by ABC Information’ Washington affiliate returned emails between faculty officers after Cox despatched a prolonged message to at least one member. Arlington faculties (APS) enable individuals to make use of the services matching their desired gender id.
“I notice that is very quick discover however the situation simply occurred on Friday October 25 (2024) and I want your assist earlier than I do know who to vote for. I’m a member of the LGBT and particularly transgender group,” Cox wrote to board member Kathleen Clark.
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The report famous that Clark could not have identified the sender — “Riki Cox” — was a registered intercourse offender, Richard Ok. Cox. A college board official instructed the ABC affiliate Clark additionally was responding in her non-public capability and that as quickly as Duran acknowledged a intercourse offender had been current on faculty property he took corrective motion.
“At no time did we knowingly admit a intercourse offender into our aquatics services,” the official mentioned.
Cox, who beforehand was reported to be residing out of his van at one level, mentioned transgender individuals are “disproportionately homeless” and should depend on county services like pool locker rooms to bathe.
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Arlington, Virginia, a direct suburb of Washington, D.C., is seen on a hazy afternoon. (iStock by way of Getty Photos)
“However let me be clear that this isn’t solely a chance to be clear however to be and really feel a part of the group. Nonetheless, solely due to complaints of a transgender individual within the locker room, Washington-Liberty Swimming Pool made a rule that folks utilizing the bathe however not the pool should use the one, remoted locker room away from everybody else, like they’re some sort of freak or one thing,” Cox wrote.
Cox mentioned he as soon as thought-about voluntarily utilizing the unisex room however that he “wished to really feel like a part of the group” and that complainants needs to be those pressured to be apparently ostracized to the one-person bathe.
Cox mentioned a number of individuals operating for college board positions claimed to be pro-LGBT however that Cox wished to see who could reverse the varsity district’s locker room resolution to apparently maintain their guarantees.
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“RSVP please and thanks,” Cox mentioned.
A second electronic mail reported by the ABC Information affiliate from Cox to the board attested that Cox felt that obvious stress for Cox to complete showering in the primary locker room once more despatched “the message {that a} transgender individual is a freak and I suppose not regular and exquisite like everybody else.”
Clark later responded, in accordance with the affiliate, telling Cox she hoped he didn’t obtain “transphobic statements” from employees through the incident and may be capable of use the showers and altering rooms Cox is most snug utilizing.
Cox, who has a sex-offender rap sheet going again to the George H.W. Bush period in northern Virginia faces at the least 21 fees, in accordance with public court docket data considered by Fox Information Digital earlier in October.
The fees associated to visits to high school services in addition to a personal gymnasium in Barcroft, Virginia.
As of January, the Arlington County, Virginia, authorities board was working with the county faculty board on formulating responses to Cox’s incidents on the pool, the activist group Defending Schooling instructed Fox Information Digital.
Cox, nevertheless, was individually banned from the premises following his arrest, in accordance with reviews.
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Arlington, Virginia, Superintendent Francisco Duran instructed a Washington Put up reporter that the district follows state legislation and federal Fourth Circuit authorized precedent requiring anti-discrimination protections based mostly on gender id and intercourse in locations of “public lodging.”
Defending Schooling Vice President Sarah Parshall-Perry mentioned in a press release that as an Arlington, Virginia, resident and legal professional, she was “aggrieved and incensed” by the incident.
