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U-Va. board member text messages reviewed by The Washington Post were obtained through Virginia's Freedom of Information Act by Richmond-based author Jeff Thomas. MUST CREDIT: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
Jan 16, 2026

‘This is war’: In texts, U.Va. board members plotted with Youngkin, decried DEI

As Republican leaders moved to root out what they have criticized as liberal ideology at the University of Virginia, some conservative appointees to its board texted privately about ending “chemical and surgical mutilation” for transgender youth at its hospitals and undoing “regimes of racial classification” in its classrooms, according to nearly 1,000 pages of text […]

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Feb 14, 2025

UVA Health resumes gender-affirming care after federal judge’s order

Updated Feb. 15 A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order that suspended President Donald Trump‘s Jan. 28 executive order banning gender-affirming medical care for people under the age of 19, impacting patients and hospitals across the country, including in Virginia. Trump’s original order — as well as Virginia Attorney Gen. […]

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