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2. Department of Education finds Loudoun County Schools in violation of Title IX 

In a statement published Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that its Office of Civil Rights had determined that Loudoun County Public Schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, had violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX requires schools that receive federal funding to provide equal opportunities for women and girls in education. 

Loudoun County’s violation of Title IX stems from two male students who filed a complaint over the school district allowing a trans-identified female to enter the boys’ bathroom. Loudoun County Public Schools declined to investigate the complaint and instead suspended the male students while probing a complaint filed by the trans-identified female student accusing the male students of sexual harassment. 

“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,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. 

According to Trainor, “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.”

Trainor urged Loudoun County to “abandon its reliance upon post-modern ideology and instead embrace the requirements of law by coming into compliance with Title IX,” vowing that “the Trump Administration’s dedication to equal protection under the law is unwavering.”

The Department of Education has ordered Loudoun County Public Schools to rescind the suspensions of the male students, issue an apology letter for failing to investigate Title IX complaints, inform students and parents of the district’s intention to promptly investigate Title IX complaints going forward, and provide district staff with training related to Title IX.