David wrote about this story last month. The incident which prompted all of this started in March when a trans student who identifies as male entered the boys locker room at Stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County, Virginia. The female student recorded a video in which several boys could be heard asking why a girl was present in the boy's locker room.
The school handed out a 10-day suspension to two of the boys after concluding they had engaged in sex-based harassment of the female student, a Title IX violatoin which would remain on their permanent records.
Parents of the male students pushed back on those claims, saying their sons had responded the way any teenage boy would at finding a girl in the boys' locker room. Last month the parents appealed that decision and threatened to sue the school district.
The families of two Loudoun County students who were found to have violated the district's Title IX policies filed an appeal and threatened a lawsuit on Wednesday.
The students were suspended for 10 days after being found responsible for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination.
The suspension was set to start next Monday, but is now paused because of the appeal. The families said their sons are being wrongly punished, and it was their children's privacy that was violated.
This week, the parents of those boys did file a lawsuit against LCPS and a judge quickly put a hold on their suspension.
...families of the two students filed a lawsuit against the school district seeking to overturn the suspensions....
The lawsuit, filed by conservative legal groups America First Legal and Founding Freedoms Law Center, also seeks to stop the Loudoun district from allowing students to use facilities such as bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity, rather than only their sex. The complaint says the other student “appeared as a female,” and should not have been allowed to use the boys’ locker room at Stone Bridge High School — an assertion repeated by the Education Department...
The parents’ complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alleges Loudoun County Public Schools violated the students’ First Amendment rights. They claim, in part, that the district discriminated against them as Christians because the third boy, who is Muslim, did not face the same discipline...
On Tuesday evening, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, who was appointed by former president Bill Clinton (D), granted the parents’ motion seeking to temporarily end the student’s suspension. The student is permitted to return to school on Wednesday, per the order.
One of the students found guilty of discrimination has moved out of the state but the other was allowed to return to school today while the case plays out. Also yesterday the Department of Education concluded that LCPS had violated Title IX, essentially the inverse of the conclusion reached by the district.
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department)’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that Loudoun County Public Schools (Loudoun County) violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) by discriminating against male students on the basis of sex. OCR concluded that Loudoun County failed to respond as required by Title IX to reports of sexual harassment in the boys’ locker room at a Loudoun County school and retaliated against male students by failing to treat the parties equitably during its grievance and investigative process.
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.
“Loudoun County’s adherence to radical gender ideology has repeatedly placed its students in harm’s way. First, Loudoun’s policy of allowing students to occupy intimate facilities based on ‘gender identity’ rather than biological sex violates Title IX, compromises safety, and infringes upon the dignity and privacy interests to which students are entitled. Second, Loudoun County failed to treat allegations of sexual harassment equally: it promptly investigated a female student’s complaint but quickly dismissed and failed to [meaningfully] investigate two of its male students’ complaints of sexual harassment,” said 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.”
Loudoun County has already said it has not intention of complying with the federal demand to have students use the bathrooms that match their sex. So this is going to wind up in court and there's a chance that Loudoun and other counties could have federal funds pulled. Stay tuned.
🚨New: Loudoun County Public Schools claims two boys who questioned why a girl was using the boys locker room sexually harassed and discriminated against the female student who identifies as a boy. The boys’ parents say this should alarm everyone.
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) August 18, 2025
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