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'This is war': In texts, U-Va. board members plot with Youngkin, decry DEI
WP EXCLUSIVE
‘This is war’: In texts, U-Va. board members plot with Youngkin, decry DEI
Texts messages reviewed by The Post offer an unfiltered account of University of Virginia board members as they grappled with major debates at the flagship school in Charlottesville.
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 a.m. EST Today at 11:07 a.m. EST
10 min
The Rotunda on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
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 messages reviewed by The Washington Post.
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‘This is war’: In texts, U-Va. board members plot with Youngkin, decry DEI
Texts messages reviewed by The Post offer an unfiltered account of University of Virginia board members as they grappled with major debates at the flagship school in Charlottesville.
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 a.m. EST Today at 11:07 a.m. EST
10 min
The Rotunda on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
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 messages reviewed by The Washington Post.
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