Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the infamous Virginia school district that covered up the rape of a student in order to advance gender ideology, has once again proved its school board and administrators belong in prison.
Last week, the school district decided to suspend two male Stone Bridge High School students for sexual harassment and sex-based discrimination because they were uncomfortable sharing their locker room with a female student who claimed to be a male.
The suspension is ten days along with a no-contact order, meaning the two males are not able to be in any classes with the female. The male students will also need to partake in a corrective action plan.
“They’re going to have to follow what Loudoun County says, what they believe is right, and what goes against other people’s beliefs, or what we believe is right,” Seth Wolfe, the father of one of the boys, said.
In May, LCPS opened a Title IX investigation into the two boys after the female student filmed them saying they were uncomfortable with her being in their private space. The female student is allowed under district policy 8040 to use the restroom of her choosing because she says she is actually a male.
Attorney General Jason Miyares, R-Va., found the school district to have used the Title IX process in a retaliatory, discriminatory, and illegal manner, and ultimately referred the district to the federal Departments of Education and Justice for further investigation.
The move is the latest in what Thomas Jefferson might call a “long train of abuses and usurpations” that point to a deliberate attempt to establish absolute tyranny. The district has been defined by its rape cover-up, insisting that boys and girls share intimate spaces, forcing everyone to comply with “preferred pronouns” or face repercussions, adherence to critical race theory, and much more of the ideological poison that reached a fevered pitch in 2020.
The high school that the persecuted male students attend is the same one where the violent rape and subsequent cover-up occurred some years ago.
LCPS’s administrative history and persistent miscarriages of justice are proof, in other words, that nearly all the leadership of LCPS are no longer fit to serve in their positions, and that the only recourse adequate to respond to the harm they have forced upon students and families is prison time.
At the same time LCPS started its Title IX investigation, the school district was also one of five districts in Northern Virginia to be under investigation by the federal government for violating Title IX based on policies like 8040. That investigation is different than the one requested by Miyares.
The Department of Education found all five school districts to be in violation of Title IX in July for continuing to allow students who claim to be “transgender” to use the restroom of their choice, as opposed to the one aligned with their sex.
In the video of the Stone Bridge High School incident, boys can be heard discussing the presence of a female in their locker room: “Why is there a girl? I’m so uncomfortable there is a girl,” one said.
“A female, bro, get out of here,” another responded.
Filming inside a locker room is clearly against district policy, but the female student who did so only received an in-school suspension.
In fact, LCPS told the parents of the boys that her filming inside the locker room did not “violate his privacy in any way.”
LCPS also refused to give the parents of the two male students the video about which they were being investigated, forcing them to submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
At the time, Wolfe said, “I have a daughter that’s in high school as well, and if there was a male in there videotaping her in the locker room, I would have issues. … If it’s my son and there’s a female in the locker room videotaping, I have issues.”
“Loudon county leadership needs a lecture on the law, apparently, because those running the schools can’t seem to stop violating it,” Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president and legal fellow at Defending Education, told The Federalist. “Not only have the schools flouted federal law, federal guidance, and the Constitution — but they’ve turned all 3 on their heads in pursuit of some mad social experimentation agenda. Boys uncomfortable with the presence of a natal female in their bathroom have every right to complain and be heard.”
Loudoun County School Board member Deana Griffiths, one of only two endorsed by the Republican Party (the seats are officially nonpartisan), said that situations like this would not happen if the school board would just recognize the reality that “boys and girls are biologically different.”
“LCPS students deserve their own private, secure spaces, particularly in bathrooms and locker rooms,” Griffiths said. “Recognizing biological differences isn’t discriminatory; it’s common sense, and it’s essential for protecting the dignity and safety of all children.”
And yet, most members of the school board continue to fight tooth and nail to ensure that intimate spaces like restrooms and locker rooms are accessible to those who claim at any given moment that they are the opposite sex than they really are.
After LCPS and the four other districts — Fairfax, Prince William, Arlington, and Alexandria City — were found in violation of Title IX and “trampling on the rights of students in the service of an extreme political ideology,” the Department of Education attempted to enter a resolution agreement with them in an attempt to change their policies.
On Friday, all five districts rejected the resolution agreement, with Loudoun leading the way with a 6-3 vote against the agreement.
“Unsurprisingly, the 4 remaining school districts under investigation by the Department of Education for violation of Title IX through their blind commitment to trans-inclusive private spaces that should be reserved for girls, have defied the federal government and refused to comply with its requests,” Parshall Perry said in a statement. “These districts have long engaged in discrimination against girls in favor of trans-identified boys, but the Department of Education is done countenancing intransigence.”
LCPS was one of the national leaders in endangering students with their transgender policy, going so far as to cover up the violent rape of a female student by a male student in a skirt several years ago, as mentioned above.
Now, as the Department of Education confirmed to The Federalist, the federal government has started proceedings seeking the “suspension or termination of federal financial assistance” in all five districts over its unwillingness to follow federal civil rights law.
Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
