A Virginia transgender registered sex offender told officers that banning him from a public facility violated “civil rights” on charges of allegedly revealing himself in a woman's locker room. .
Videos obtained by ABC7 News Staff Richard Cox, 58, showed he was facing police on Nov. 16 outside the Oak Montrek Center in Fairfax County. This came a day after Fairfax County began the process of banning Cox from all county REC centers when he discovered his rap sheet.
In a police agency cam footage released on February 16, Cox said that using his name on the sex offender register is “criminal misuse” of the law equivalent to banning black people from public facilities. He claimed that.
“They don't agree to exercise your civil rights, so they then try to take criminal action… By way of example, when they don't want black people in a particular place, they can't help but I called the police and said, “Hey, we asked this guy to leave,” you guys realized it was because he was black,” Cox told police on footage. Ta.
Richard Cox has been accused of exposing herself to a woman's toilet. (Fox News Digital)
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ABC7 News reported that most court documents list Cox as a man, but Cox identifies him as a transgender woman and claims that he should be allowed in the women's toilet. did.
“My understanding of the sex offender register. They are concerned about my history and that's why they ban me, and understanding sex offender registers is “It's a tool used to prevent all sorts of future criminal offences,” Cox argued. “Now, my civil rights as a transgender person allow me to use public facilities such as toilets and changing rooms that identify with my gender. My ID is a Virginia woman. You can see that she is perceived as a woman.”
“So it's not a criminal offence to exercise my civil rights,” Cox continued. “So, to pull out my information about sex offender registration and stop using it to exercise my civil rights as a transgender person is a criminal misuse of sex offender registration. Using that registry, someone had criminal offences, I wasn't doing it.”
Cox argued that taking him out of the woman's bathroom was a violation of his “civil rights” as a trans person. (Getty Images)
“I'm just exercising civil rights, and I'm totally opposed to it. And they're criminally using sex offender registration against me, which is decided by the judge. You should do it.”
No criminal charges were filed for the case despite police officers confronting Cox.
The video comes months after Virginia mother Jen McDougal and her 9-year-old daughter reported seeing Cox naked in the middle of a locker room in Arlington, Virginia in September. McDougal described the incident as a “nasty and scary” moment in “Fox & Friends.”
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McDougal said at the time that staff told her there was nothing they could do about Cox's position as a “transgender” individual.
Cox is currently facing more than 20 charges on Arlington. This comes after police discovered multiple cases in which Cox allegedly exposed himself to women and children at another fitness center and high school. A preliminary hearing has been set for March.
Cox is facing a preliminary hearing on the allegations in Arlington, Virginia, but was not charged with the cases that took place in September and November. (istock)
Fox News Digital reached out to Fairfax County for comment.
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