Independent Women’s Voice recently launched a campaign to stand up for women by exposing the anti-female agenda of former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is now running for Virginia governor. Spanberger is often positioned as a centrist, but her record shows otherwise.
Despite thousands of women and girls being forced to compete with men in women’s sports, losing roster spots and playing time and suffering injuries — including in our state of Virginia — Spanberger continues to oppose measures to ensure that women’s sports are for women only. While in Congress, Spanberger voted to allow men in women’s sports. Spanberger voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023, landing Spanberger a failing grade on the Riley Gaines Stand with Women Scorecard.
This scorecard is a first-of-its-kind resource that tells every person who stands with women and who does not. It lets women and all voters know who wants to protect women’s physical safety, scholarships, funding, and emotional well-being.
Our multifeature campaign includes radio ads airing across the state through iHeartRadio, highlighting Spanberger’s failure to stand with women and her vote against protecting women’s sports — an issue that more than 80% of swing voters say they support (yet Spanberger is against). Independent Women’s Voice is also organizing a series of opinion editorials from local women.
Independent Women Features, our grassroots storytelling and original journalism arm of Independent Women, has published various stories on the devastating consequences of the influence of leftist ideologues like Spanberger in Virginia schools.
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