Girls Sports

Loudoun County Schools Defy Education Department Over Multiple Title IX Violations

The Loudoun County School Board voted to defy a U.S. Department of Education order to stop violating Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funds.

As a result, the school district could lose almost $46 million in federal funding, LoudounNow reported.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that five Northern Virginia school districts violated Title IX by allowing “students to access intimate, sex-segregated facilities based on the students’ wholly subjective ‘gender identity,’” as the Daily Citizen reported just two weeks ago.

But the Loudoun County School Board chose to pursue woke ideology and violate students’ rights rather than comply with the federal law and the OCR’s demands.

The districts’ Title IX violations began in 2021 when the board, over the objections of many parents, voted 7-2 to pass Policy 8040, “Rights of Transgender and Gender-Expansive Students.”

The policy was implemented after the state’s education department published “Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools,” which required that schools allow students to participate in sports and access locker rooms and restrooms “in a manner consistent with their gender identity.”

Schools were also mandated to “incorporate regular education about transgender students into staff professional development and training.” It was considered “verbal harassment” for teachers and other students to intentionally use names and pronouns not consistent with a student’s “gender identity.”

The state guidelines trampled on parental rights, stating, “If a student is not ready or able to safely share with their family about their gender identity, this should be respected. There are no regulations requiring school staff to notify a parent or guardian of a student’s request to affirm their gender identity.”

Loudoun’s Policy 8040 followed those guidelines. They’ve been a disaster for the district, teachers, parents and students.  

Shortly after the policy was implemented, the district lost a lawsuit to Tanner Cross, a teacher who was suspended for opposing it at a school board meeting. Cross had said,

“I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them regardless of the consequences. I’m a teacher, but I serve God first and I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it’s against my religion. It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God.”

Even worse, the policy opened girls restrooms to boys who claimed to be female. A skirt-wearing “gender fluid” boy then sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the girls restroom at Loudoun’s Stone Bridge High School.

Loudoun County Schools Superintendent and Board dragged the girl’s father out of a board meeting, tried to cover up the incident and transferred the boy to another school – where he assaulted a second girl.

Also at Stone Bridge, a female student, identifying as transgender, recorded boys in a male locker room questioning her presence, with “one student expressing that he felt ‘uncomfortable’ about the situation,” Fox News reported.

Even though it is against the law to record in a locker room, the boys were investigated “for allegedly violating Policy 8040.”

The district’s transgender policy also violates new guidance from the Virginia Department of Education, which rescinded the 2021 transgender guidance and replaced it with “Model Policies on Ensuring Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools.”

The new guidelines call for schools to respect parental rights and the safety and privacy of all students.

Despite a free-speech lawsuit, parental opposition, sexual assaults, invasion of students’ privacy by members of the opposite sex, violating state guidance, and now the threat of losing federal funding, the Loudoun County School Board stubbornly clings to Policy 8040.

At some point, you would think common sense and concern for the welfare of all students would prevail.

As the Department of Education’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said when charges were brought against the district,

“It’s time for Northern Virginia’s experiment with radical gender ideology and unlawful discrimination to come to an end. OCR’s investigation definitively shows that these five Virginia school districts have been trampling on the rights of students in the service of an extreme political ideology.”

Related Articles and Resources

Department of Education Launches Multiple Investigations Into Title IX Violations

Department of Education: Schools Embracing DEI Will Lose Funding

Department of Justice Launches Title IX Task Force to Protect Women’s Sports

DoEd Finds Northern Virginia School Districts Violated Title IX

‘Equipping Parents For Back-To-School’ – Updated Resource Empowers Parents

Irate Parents Excoriate Loudoun County Schools Superintendent and Board Over Sexual Abuse Coverup

New Education Secretary Linda McMahon: ‘Send Education to the States’

Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting Women’s Sports and Spaces

Virginia School District Ignores Parents’ Opposition, Implements ‘Gender Identity’ Lessons

What’s Your School District’s ‘Transgender’ Policy?

Young Girls Shouldn’t Have to Be Brave

Our friends at Prager U, an organization founded to help educate and point students to truth, recently posted a video of a young girl speaking before a school board in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

At issue was the district’s “trans inclusive” policies – a politically correct term for rules and regulations pertaining to the sexually confused.

We don’t know the student’s name, but this young teen is seen addressing a group of what appears to be mostly middle-aged adults.

“Now you guys are probably thinking, ‘Well, I’m not going to listen to her because she’s what, a middleschooler?’” the girl begins. “Well, I’m on the student council and those younger kids who probably weren’t brave enough to be here, I’m afraid for them.”

Why?

“I don’t want them to have to walk into the bathroom and see someone of the opposite sex in there,” she testified. “That’s not right. That’s not how it’s supposed go. I know most people are like, ‘Well, that’s not a way it’s supposed to go.’”

In response to her testimony, Prager U posted, “She’s brave and we’re proud of her.”

This young woman certainly acted in a courageous manner and made a valiant case regarding the dangerous and foolish policy of allowing boys to go into girls’ bathrooms or locker rooms.

But this young girl shouldn’t have to be brave, at least not in this way. 

This middleschooler shouldn’t have to be standing up to the bullies, testifying before a board of adults who should know better and who should have intervened long before this youngster was placed in a position where she felt compelled to push back against the wickedness.

The “trans” issue in schools has been hotly debated for years now. Thanks to common sense policies from the Trump administration, progress against the danger has been made, but the lunacy still lives on in areas where radicals have wrested control.

Attention is often paid to the practical side of the outrageousness – who can use what bathrooms and where, who can compete in what sports and when. But not enough attention has been focused on what these battles have done to the hearts and minds of the otherwise well-adjusted young people caught in the crosshairs.

The loss of innocence has been widespread and profound. Childhood is brief enough. These radical prevaricators who are determined to upend norms and redefine reality are stealing and corrupting fleeting moments from our children and forcing the young to bear the heavy burden of issues they’re unprepared and ill-equipped to encounter.

That young Wisconsin girl shouldn’t have to be brave. She should be protected and shielded from the cultural insanity. She should be allowed to focus on the evolution of her studies and sports or other extracurricular activities, not on the politics of a destructive cultural revolution.  

When you steal a child’s innocence and thrust them into a cultural conversation surrounding sexual deviance, you’re robbing not just the child, but everyone else, too. That’s because thanks to the carefree days of childhood, young people dream, and those dreams take root, and those roots can run deep and produce wonderful fruit years into the future.

Yet, short-circuit childhood, force children to “grow up” early by filling their minds with perversion and nonsense, and you potentially lose those fertile and innocent  fields of development. Rush childhood and you run the risk of ruining adulthood, too.

Young girls and boys need courage and bravery, but better to learn to first be brave by falling asleep in the dark, jumping off a high diving board, or reciting a poem in front of a class. Childhood bravery should not involve testifying before a school board about the dangers of boys in girls’ bathrooms.

And let’s face it: this type of bravery is only needed in youth today because of the cowardice of adult school board members who refuse to protect the very children they’re directed and called to serve.

Image from Shutterstock

State AGs Call on NCAA to Restore Women’s Sports Records

In a powerful moment of legal unity, a coalition of 27 attorneys general issued a formal letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) calling on the body to restore records and honors to female athletes that were displaced by men competing in women’s sports.

The effort marks a pivotal moment in the cultural debate swirling around “LGBT” policy and a shift back to commonsense protections for female athletes.

The letter demands the NCAA reinstate “all championships, titles, wins, awards, records and other recognitions that were wrongfully awarded to male athletes competing in NCAA women’s category events.”

Signatories argue that the NCAA’s past policy, which allowed men to compete in women’s sports, undermined the purpose of Title IX, which guarantees equal opportunities for women in education and athletics.

The attorneys general (AGs) contend:

“There is no doubt that the women forced to compete against biological males in female events were impacted negatively and unfairly disadvantaged.”

The letter recognizes the significant policy change the NCAA made in February, limiting female sports to students “assigned female at birth only,” following an executive order to keep men out of female sports, and urges them to extend that policy to practice as well.

The AGs note a February letter from the U.S. Department of Education to the NCAA and its member institutions urging the organizations to “restore to female athletes all records, titles, awards, and recognitions wrongfully credited to male athletes.”

Over 500,000 college athletes are impacted by NCAA policies, and these AGs maintain that the NCAA has not done enough to repair the damage caused by their policies.

The AGs contend, “The NCAA should take this step for former athletes to preserve the integrity of Title IX and show your support for the women harmed by years of bad policy.”

Attorneys general of the following states signed on to the letter: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming.

To date, the NCAA has not issued a public response.

Related Articles and Resources

Allowing ‘Transgender Women’ to Compete Against Biological Women in Sports is Anti-Woman

Addressing Gender Identity with Honesty and Compassion

The Journey Back to My True Identity

What is ‘Gender Identity’

Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting Women’s Sports and Spaces

How Science and Faith Can Defeat Gender Ideology – Part One

DoEd Finds Northern Virginia School Districts Violated Title IX

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found that five Northern Virginia school districts violated Title IX by allowing “students to access intimate, sex-segregated facilities based on the students’ subjective ‘gender identity.’”

As previously reported by the Daily Citizen, the investigation began in February after America First Legal filed a complaint into the “transgender” policies of the Northern Virginia school districts: Alexandria City, Arlington, Fairfax County, Loudoun County and Prince William Country.

The OCR  “issued a proposed Resolution Agreement to the Divisions [school districts],” the agency announced in a press release. Each district must agree and comply within 10 days or risk imminent enforcement action, including referral to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The school systems must take the following actions:

  • Rescind the policies and/or regulations that allow students to access intimate facilities based on their “gender identity” rather than their sex.
  • Issue a memorandum to each Division school explaining that any future policies related to access to intimate facilities must be consistent with Title IX by separating students strictly on the basis of sex, and that Title IX ensures women’s equal opportunity in any education program or activity including athletic programs.
  • Adopt biology-based definitions of the words “male” and “female” in all practices and policies relating to Title IX.

In a press release, America First Legal touted the victory, with Senior Advisor Ian Prior stated, “Each of these school districts has spent years bowing to the altar of transgender ideology while ignoring the law, common sense, and the concerns of its students and their parents.”

“A male student in these school districts can wake up, claim to be ‘gender expansive or transgender,’ and then have a pass to use female locker rooms and restrooms. If the female students are uncomfortable sharing those locker rooms and restrooms with that male student, it is the female students who must make alternative arrangements. That is sex discrimination.”

The OCR justified the inquiry into the districts based on their violation of Title IX and numerous incidents of inappropriate behavior by males in sex-segregated spaces, “The investigation was based on complaints alleging that the Divisions have similar anti-discrimination policies pertaining to “transgender-identifying” students, which violate the sex-based protections of Title IX.”

The Divisions are also the subject of several lawsuits, informal complaints, and reports, which allege that students in the Divisions avoid using school restrooms whenever possible because of the schools’ policies, and that female students have witnessed male students inappropriately touching other students and watching female students change in a female locker room. 

There are many egregious examples of Northern Virginia schools embracing radical “gender ideology,” including:

  • The Fairfax County School Board adopted a policy to punish students who “maliciously misgender” or “deadname” other students.
  • A “gender fluid” male student, dressed in a skirt, entered a girls restroom at Stone Bridge High School and sexually assaulted a ninth grade girl, in Loudoun Country. The district lied about the incident and moved the boy to a different high school – where he assaulted another girl.
  • “A registered child sex offender was charged with indecent exposure and other charges in late October 2024 after he was accused of exposing his genitals in a girls’ locker room at an Arlington high school,” reported ABC News. The outlet added that the district “allows people to use locker rooms and bathrooms of their choice based on gender identity – not biological sex.”
  • Loudoun County Public Schools spent almost $2 million on books that deal with “diversity” – including books that teach children as young as kindergarten about homosexuality and transgenderism.
  • The Virginia Department of Education adopted policies requiring schools to obtain written permission from parents before treating their children as transgender, but Fairfax, Alexandria, Prince William County and Arlington school districts stated they would not comply.

It’s not just girls whose privacy and dignity are under threat from “transgender school policies.” At Stone Bridge High School, a female student, identifying as transgender, recorded boys in a male locker room complaining about her presence there.

Fox News reported, “It is illegal to record inside locker rooms,” but instead of investigating the girl, Loudoun County Public Schools investigated the boys for allegedly violating the school’s transgender policy, which was adopted in spite great opposition from parents.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares are now investigating the school district.

It’s good news that the Department of Education is working to enforce Title IX and protect girls and women’s – and boys – sex-segregated spaces. The agency’s acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said of the recent charges against these five school districts,

“It’s time for Northern Virginia’s experiment with radical gender ideology and unlawful discrimination to come to an end. OCR’s investigation definitively shows that these five Virginia school districts have been trampling on the rights of students in the service of an extreme political ideology.”

Related Articles and Resources:

Department of Education Launches Multiple Investigations Into Title IX Violations

Department of Education: Schools Embracing DEI Will Lose Funding

Department of Justice Launches Title IX Task Force to Protect Women’s Sports

Education Department Finds UPenn Violated Title IX & Women’s Rights

Education Department Warns Colorado: Children ‘Do Not Belong to Government’

‘Equipping Parents For Back-To-School’ – Updated Resource Empowers Parents

Fairfax School Board Votes to Suspend Students for ‘Maliciously Misgendering’ Other Students

Irate Parents Excoriate Loudoun County Schools Superintendent and Board Over Sexual Abuse Coverup

New Education Secretary Linda McMahon: ‘Send Education to the States’

Trump Ends Radical Indoctrination, Promotes Education Freedom

Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting Women’s Sports and Spaces

Virginia School District Ignore Parents Opposition, Implements ‘Gender Identity’ Lessons

What’s Your School District’s ‘Transgender’ Policy?

Image from Shutterstock.

California Interscholastic Federation ‘Gender Diversity Toolkit’ Reveals Extent of Radical ‘Transgender’ Participation Policies

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) allows boys nearly unrestricted freedom to play girls sports and change in girls’ locker rooms, a “gender diversity toolkit” for coaches reveals.

The only criteria? The male student must “most consistently express himself” as a girl (whatever that means).

It’s no secret CIF and the California Department of Education allow students to participate in sports consistent with their subjective “gender identity,” rather than their biological sex. The Department of Justice sued them for it last week, alleging the policy violates Title IX protections against sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions and activities.

But the true extent of CIF’s “gender inclusion” policy is hidden in the “Gender Diverse Youth Sport Inclusivity Toolkit,” an online guide helping coaches integrate “transgender” and “nonbinary” players.

Thus far, the rules primarily apply to boys interested in joining girls teams.

Here’s what the Daily Citizen uncovered.

Male students can participate in girls sports with no objective criteria.

CIF does not require male athletes submit any proof of gender confusion to play in girls sports.  The toolkit claims asking for such evidence not only violates “transgender” students’ privacy but levies “arbitrary and discriminatory” requirements against them.

The document references a policy brief from the California School Board Association (CSBA), which prohibits school officials from soliciting documentation of a student’s “gender-related identity” unless they have “credible information” indicating the identity is false.

The brief does not clarify what constitutes such information. In Lucia Mar Unified School District, two girls publicly alleged a male teammate acted inappropriately in the girls’ locker room.

He remains on the girls team.

Students can switch “identities” and teams at will.

The toolkit says students that switch “gender identities” may be allowed to participate on a girls team one semester and a boys team the next.

CIF’s “Philosophy of Gender Identity Participation,” as articulated in the toolkit, allows athletes to play on teams consistent with their gender identity or “the gender most consistently expressed.”

This addition, which is not included in CIF’s bylaws, allows students significant room to change their “gender identity.” The toolkit normalizes such changes, telling coaches:

A student’s understanding of their gender identity may take some time to fully discern. They may understand the gender they are not but still need to discover the gender that they are.
Students can change their “gender identities” based on factors like their “confidence.”

One of the Frequently Asked Questions included in the toolkit asks how coaches should determine what sports league a “nonbinary” student should join.

In this case, CIF instructs coaches to allow the student to “select the gendered team on which they feel most comfortable participating.” The policy allows the student to consider factors like “established camaraderie with fellow athletes, personal safety and privacy concerns.”

CIF allows the student to change their “selected gender,” so long as the change “is a result of a deeper understanding of their gender identity.”

It’s unclear how coaches can make this determination without asking for documentation but, regardless, it’s not a hard and fast requirement. The toolkit reads:

A student may have other reasons for changing their gender identification and those can be considered with an emphasis on optimizing the athlete’s confidence, safety and privacy.
While any student may ask for a private space to change, coaches are not allowed to preemptively move a boy to a separate changing area.

The toolkit instructs coaches to accommodate students that ask for a private space to change. However, it stops coaches from assigning “transgender” students a separate changing area unless they ask for it.

“No student should be forced to use an all-gender facility such as a staff bathroom simply because they are trans or gender diverse,” it reads, calling such actions discriminatory.

CIF encourages coaches to prepare girls for a boy to join their team.

The toolkit encourages coaches to mentally prepare girls to accept a male on their team and in their locker room in the name of sportsmanship.

“There is no need to wait for the arrival of a trans athlete to begin conversations with team members about the value of inclusion,” the toolkit reads, continuing:

Any team would benefit from the articulation of, and expectations surrounding, good sportsmanship values.

In another section articulating CIF’s expectations of students, it associates accepting “transgender” athletes with “being gracious winners and losers,” “being a team player,” and “having a supportive and encouraging attitude towards yourself and others.”

“Communication of these expected practices are what builds the foundation for any unexpected situation, including the welcoming of a new trans teammate,” the toolkit concludes.

In this way, CIF enlists coaches in rewiring girls’ perceptions of their own physical boundaries. The University of Pennsylvania tried the same trick in 2022,  when Lia — formerly Will —Thomas joined the women’s swim team.

When athletes like Paula Scanlon expressed discomfort changing in front of Thomas, UPenn officials allegedly offered them therapy to “become more comfortable sharing previously sex-segregated spaces with members of the opposite sex.”

CIF will not tell parents when a “transgender” athlete joins their child’s team.

Perhaps most alarmingly, CIF will not, as a rule, inform athletes and their parents when a boy joins a girls team unless he gives officials explicit permission.

This is consistent with the way CSBA instructs schools to “balance” a “transgender” student’s “right” to conceal their “gender identity” and other students’ right to privacy — just issue a blanket disclosure about the state’s “gender inclusion” policies at the beginning of each year.

CIF’s “Gender Diverse Youth Sport Inclusivity Toolkit” offers boys every incentive to assume a female or “nonbinary” “gender identity.” Meanwhile, female athletes have no guarantee of privacy or equal athletic opportunity, and no recourse in the event of sexual assault and harassment.

Unfortunately, CIF isn’t alone. Public school systems across the country are adopting similar policies, to the unmitigated detriment of students and families.

To learn more about problematic school policies in other states, click on the links below.

Additional Articles and Resources

DOJ Lawsuit Describes California Department of Education’s Infuriating Treatment of Girls

Feds Sue California Department of Education, Interscholastic Federation for ‘Illegal Sex Discrimination’

UPenn Will Strip ‘Lia’ Thomas of Medals, Apologize to Female Athletes

Yes, Girls Care When Boys Take Their Trophies

California Sues DOJ Over ‘Transgender’ Athlete Ban

Feds Pressure California After Boy Wins in Girls Track and Field Championship

Girls Sports Coaches are Incentivized to Recruit Men — Parents Shouldn’t Let Them

Department of Justice Launches Title IX Task Force to Protect Women’s Sports

Girls Shouldn’t Apologize for Protesting Boys in Girls Sports

Trump Signs Executive Order Protecting Women’s Sports and Spaces

President Trump: ‘There are Only Two Genders: Male and Female’