The U.S. Department of Education yesterday announced that its Office for Civil Rights has found that the Louden County, Virginia, public schools violated Title IX in its handling of dueling complaints from a transgender male (referred to in DE's announcement as a "female") and from two cisgender males. The complaints allege sexual harassment in the boy's locker room. The County allows students to use locker rooms based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex.
According to DE's Release:
... [T]he female student recorded audio and video of two male students. This led the female student’s parent and the two male students’ parents to file Title IX complaints with the school.
The Department said in part:
OCR’s investigation revealed a sex-based double standard: Loudoun County failed to meaningfully investigate complaints of sexual harassment by two male students concerning the presence of a member of the opposite sex in male-only intimate spaces yet thoroughly investigated the female student’s sexual harassment complaint about the boys....
Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “We urge Loudoun County to abandon its reliance upon post-modern ideology and instead embrace the requirements of law by coming into compliance with Title IX. The Trump Administration’s dedication to equal protection under the law is unwavering, and we will not permit rogue localities to defy that principle.” ...
