Doing so puts the school districts at risk of losing federal funds.
The group Protect the Public's Trust filed the complaints. Michael Chamberlain is the organization's director.
He said his organization sent letters to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
The letters addressed “what we perceived to be violations of Title IX, and as emphasized in the executive order from President Donald Trump, that allows the federal government to withhold funding from schools that allow boys to compete in girls' sports, and, and to use girls' privacy spaces, so we filed those complaints against two districts in Ohio: Dayton School District, and Three Rivers School District."
He explained school leaders in these districts were caught on camera saying they had no problem keeping male student's true identities a secret if those students wanted access to girls' private spaces.
At Dayton, Administrative Assistant for the Athletics Department Mauryce Neal said “we do have transgenders that do participate in our area.” She also agreed to keep the information about the prospective transgender student’s status “in house” and not inform other parties,” Accuracy In Media reported.
At Three Rivers, a district administrator told AIM that if a male student’s birth certificate is changed to female, the student “will be entered as female. No one will know the difference.”
AIM staff members posed as parents in acquiring the video.
"We're attempting to get the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights to investigate the school districts and make sure that they're complying with the law, complying with the provisions of Title IX, which was designed to protect women and make sure that women had equal access to opportunities in schools that receive federal funding. Part of that is that boys shouldn't be playing in girls' sports, and boys shouldn't be able to access girls' privacy spaces,” Chamberlain said.
He also pointed out these are now the fifth and sixth school systems in Ohio his team has filed these complaints against.
“It’s hard to believe that these are just lower-level employees going rogue, that this isn't something that's more systemic in the school systems, and so, we think it's something that really needs to be addressed."
