Things Are Getting Interesting in Virginia

Also a male neo-Nazi is being housed in a women’s prison in Germany

August 25, 2025

I recently had reason to revisit a video, released in November of last year, titled, “Sisters Are Watching You.” It concerned the German self-ID law, which passed on May 17, 2024, and went into effect on November 1.

A few weeks before it went into effect, German women called on women around the world to join their protest against it. They asked feminist sisters to show their solidarity and protest at 12:10, local time, on November 1. The main message was that it was too late to prevent self-ID in Germany, but not in other countries.

“Self-ID” refers to a law or policy that allows anyone to be acknowledged as a member of the opposite sex strictly on the basis of their say-so. Germany’s self-ID law is now being used to justify the housing of a male neo-Nazi in a women’s prison, beginning August 29. He was convicted and sentenced in 2023 for extreme right incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. These days, he calls himself a woman, and the German government thinks that’s just fine. This is him:

To be clear, I am not okay with a man being housed in a women’s prison under any circumstances. I don’t care how many “facial feminization” surgeries he’s had (worth a Google, if you don’t know what that is, or you could ask Dylan Mulvaney). I don’t care whether he’s had his genitals removed. No men should be housed in a women’s prison ever, under any circumstances. But self-ID is the worst, because it literally allows any man (including this guy) to be recognized as female on the basis of his say-so.

The US doesn’t have a federal self-ID law in place like Germany’s (though not for lack of trying on the parts of Presidents Obama and Biden and Congressional Democrats). That would change if Congress decides to pass the so-called Equality Act, which would redefine sex to include “gender identity” for all purposes under US civil rights law. But plenty of states have similar laws in place that effectively do the same thing.

The 10-minute video (which, again, is here) is really worth a watch if you have time. It’s incredibly inspiring for those of us who care about the global fight to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls. I’m not really capable of watching it without crying.

But this post is about Virginia, where in one county boys are being allowed to use the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, in another county boys are being punished for questioning the presence of a girl in the boys’ locker room, and the Lieutenant Governor has said, “Enough!” (all in the middle of a tight gubernatorial race).

Things could get very interesting. Read on to learn more.

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