America First Legal last week announced that a motion for emergency relief was granted by a federal judge to block an LCPS student’s suspension.
Two boys at the district’s Stone Bridge High School were bothered that that a female student was in their locker room. When they complained, the boys were suspended.
One of the boys has since left the school district.
The judge’s motion was granted in a federal lawsuit against LCPC for wrongfully suspending the student due to supposed Title IX violations. The court will decide on Friday whether this temporary restraining order will turn into a longer preliminary injunction.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Education posted a press release that announced LCPS was, by its interpretation, in violation of Title IX. The department’s Office of Civil Rights concluded in their investigation that LCPS failed in responding to sexual harassment reports in the male locker room. Among other things, the DOE’s agreement with LCPS requires the district to rescind the two boys’ suspension.
“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,” says Craig Trainor, of the Civil Rights office. “The Trump Administration’s dedication to equal protection under the law is unwavering, and we will not permit rogue localities to defy that principle.”
LCPS’s 8040 policy is the center of the problem, incorporating “Rights for Transgender and Gender-Expansive Students.”
The two boys expressed discomfort that a biological female was in the men’s locker room, reported Fox News. The district found the boys guilty of sexual harassment and suspended the teens for 10 days. A video of the boys complaining about the female inside their locker room was taken by the girl.
Geary Higgins is the U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 30th District, which includes parts of Loudoun County, and a former Loudon County supervisor and school board member. He spoke with Jody Hice on Washington Watch about the situation between the two boys and LCPS.
“They ruled that the school board, in their decision to suspend these young men, did not consider the young men's case at all. They only considered the woman's case. They put a stay on it. They also questioned the overall policy, generally speaking,” Higgins said.
Higgins mentions that the school is using taxpayer money to defend their cases in court.
“One of the ironies of this is there were three young men involved, and one of those young men was exonerated or not prosecuted under the Title IX complaint,” reveals Higgins.
Previously reported by AFN, that a Muslim student was left out of the prosecution. While dropping the charges against him, the schools continued the sexual harassment case into the two Christian boys.
Higgins hoped that the school would drop their pursuit of radical gender ideology after the determination from the Department of Education, but that was not the case.
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“They had a chance a couple of weeks ago to withdraw that policy and to withdraw these actions against these two young men, but I just don't see it happening,” states Higgins. “I've been to the school board to speak on numerous occasions, and I think parents should show up and certainly voice their concerns, but I think it's fallen on deaf ears.”
Critics point out a double standard in the district’s sex-based investigations. The school failed to investigate the male students’ sexual harassment complaint, which was a girl in the boy’s locker room, but they investigated the biologically female student’s complaint regarding sexual harassment from the boys.
There’s also the Muslim-Christian angle.
“I think that's for the courts to sort out, but it appears that way. If you're going to look at the whole incident, it would seem to me that you would look at the story of the young men and the young lady that was in the boy's locker room,” says Higgins.
The result led one of the boy’s family to move out of state so that their son would not be branded by a sexual harassment court case.
Higgins thinks it’s ludicrous that the school and district court originally had no problem making the decision that these young men were Title IX violators.
“I think that this recent decision is telling, to that extent, because that judge [federal] has determined that they (LCPS) were not operating properly with their policy. So, I think it speaks volumes of the excuses, frankly, that the school board has made,” states Higgins.
