Loudoun County Public Schools has suspended two male students for 10 days after a Title IX investigation concluded the pair committed sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination by objecting to a female student who identifies as male using the boys’ locker room and filming them with a phone, according to documents cited by local media. The incident occurred at Stone Bridge High School at the start of the new academic year. School officials have not disclosed any disciplinary action against the student who recorded inside the locker room, a practice barred by district policy. Civil-rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon said she is reviewing the case and called the district’s response “very wrong.” Loudoun officials earlier described reports about the investigation as “false and misleading,” but have not commented publicly on the latest sanctions. The controversy comes as Loudoun and other Northern Virginia districts risk losing federal aid for refusing to follow an April executive order from President Donald Trump that requires schools to maintain sex-segregated restrooms and locker rooms. The funding threat has intensified debate over how Title IX applies to transgender students.
this is absolutely crazy. Punishing boys because they don’t want to change in front of girls??? I thought we were done doing this! https://t.co/h2NJIVqbOW
This demented county school system is punishing the boys who were filmed without their knowledge or consent inside their locker room by a trans student https://t.co/0WCQIbDGgB
🚨 BREAKING: Loudon County Virginia school is now SUSPENDING two boys just because they opposed sharing the locker room with a biological female, who was pretending to be a boy. WTF? ASSISTANT AG HARMEET DHILLON will now go after them: "This is very wrong — and it WILL NOT https://t.co/sEquEcbqt2