Virginia School Districts May lose Federal funds For Allowing Boys In Girls Bathrooms
"Five Virginia school districts are in the mess around and find out phase of the Trump Administration-- only 3 weeks into the Trump Administration. They risk losing all federal funds shortly", says Eugene Delgaudio president of Public Advocate.
The U.S. Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into five Virginia school districts that allow boys to use girls' facilities like restrooms and locker rooms, moving one step closer to revoking their federal funding.
The Education Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed to America First Legal (AFL) that it is investigating Loudoun, Fairfax, Arlington, and Prince William Counties, as well as the City of Alexandria, for violating allegedly Title IX civil rights law meant to protect women and girls at school. AFL filed a formal complaint about the far-left Washington, D.C., suburb school districts in early February.
"Executive Order 14190 reaffirms the fact that our civil rights laws prohibit Federal taxpayer funds & [from] directly or indirectly support[ing] or subsidiz[ing] Title IX violations, including the instruction, advancement, or promotion of gender ideology," Reed D. Rubinstein, AFL senior vice president, said in a press release. "The leftists who run northern Virginia's schools act as if they are above the law, with the power to indoctrinate children to view their parents and their biological reality as enemies to be blamed in violation of Title IX and lawful Presidential Orders. However, Federal civil rights laws apply even in northern Virginia, and it seems a reckoning is coming."
Along with Title IX, the complaint cited an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 29 called "Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling." Following that order, the Department of Education officially reinstated the first Trump administration's 2020 regulations to protect girls in school. That move revoked the Biden administration's attempted overhaul of Title IX, which put girls in school at risk every day by essentially mandating districts allow boys to use their facilities so long as they claimed to be girls.
The school districts in Northern Virginia, which serve some of the largest populations of students in the commonwealth, are notoriously defiant and completely consumed by gender theory, critical race theory, and a dedication to conducting far-left social and academic experimentation on children. If the Department of Education finds them violative of Title IX and they continue to be defiant, the districts are poised to lose federal funding.
"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," Ian Prior, AFL senior advisor, said. "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."