Op-ed by Vice President Margot Heffernan: Virginia Feminists REsist the Gender Borg
Published August 19, 2025 in Bacon’s Rebellion.
Loudoun County Public School District in Virginia has been in the headlines since 2021 for sexual assaults, student walkouts, parent protests, and prosecuting boys who complained about a girl in their locker room filming them. The district is facing $50 million in federal funding cuts due to their persistent refusal to protect girls in particular, allowing anyone who says they’re a girl into locker rooms, bathrooms, sports, etc.
Our Vice President Margot Heffernan penned this op-ed for Bacon’s Rebellion.
Virginia Feminists Resist the Gender Borg
t’s a dangerous time to be a woman, a female, regardless of age. I’ll tell you why: “Transgenderism,” the grand ideology that has corrupted virtually every corner of our society is a straight up threat to everyone, but especially to women and girls.
It is a lie, a hoax, a jacked-up scam promoted by medical societies and corporations alike, a dangerous scheme that goads the most vulnerable into believing that their troubles are caused by a misalignment between one’s sex and a mythical “gender identity.”
And, no, Virginia, Loudoun County has not gotten the message. In fact, the commonwealth represents a microcosm of the problem writ large as scandal after scandal brings more real-world harm to women and girls each day in Loudoun and four other counties that define northern Virginia.
Hysterical? Overblown? Hyperbole you say? No, no, and no again.
When Governor Ralph Northam released the original set of “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools” in 2021, red flags were raised by those concerned about women’s rights and private spaces. These policies crush the material reality of human biology by elevating the illusory concept of gender over sex.
A boy or a man could now “self identify” as female within the state school system just like that. It was only a matter of time before real harm was done.
It came to pass of course when two young women were sexually assaulted in different Loudoun County High Schools by a male student named Hunter Hecker. In the privacy of their own public bathrooms, circa 2022.
Just. Like. That.
