Spanberger Appoints Kellen MacBeth to Virginia LGBTQ Board After May 22 Pick

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 18

Kellen MacBeth, a prominent Northern Virginia LGBTQ activist, was appointed on May 22 to Virginia’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board, which advises the governor on policy priorities affecting LGBTQ residents.
MacBeth previously led Equality Arlington, which backed school policies letting transgender students use bathrooms matching their gender identity and opposed efforts to roll back those protections.
The appointment puts a visible advocate on a board that cannot make law but can issue recommendations, identify concerns and shape future legislative or executive decisions.
Spanberger made the pick after campaigning as a moderate, declining to endorse broad statewide rules on transgender athletes or access to female-only spaces and instead favoring case-by-case local decisions.
The move lands in a still-heated Virginia debate over school bathroom and locker-room policies, sharpened by recent federal scrutiny of Loudoun County Public Schools.